AI for Peace workshop at @iclr-conf.bsky.social
26/27 April, Rio de Janeiro

Confirmed speakers:
🔥 @davidthewid.bsky.social
🔥 Gisela Luján Andrade
🔥 @pjreddie.bsky.social
🔥 @timnitgebru.bsky.social

aiforpeaceworkshop.github.io/speakers/

In a theory-building paper on a complex topic like double binds in time- and safety-critical situations, posting an inadequate summary is a disservice to our work, the literature, and earthquake survivors who generously offered their time for interviews.

GenAI summaries perpetuate lazy research.

:-( but ive had such a lovely sabbatical :)

okay so this "is GPT a get out of jail free?" paper actually has a release date tho, @jtlg.bsky.social and I recently agreed :)

its funny I actually am planning a theory/conceptual article on "general purpose tech" and this is a fun distinction to toy with, ty for pinging me in :)

I actually suspect that once we do that we won't necessarily find clearer/ obviously better disciplinary lines - and that "we study the computer" may end up seeming coherent (even if arbitrary) in retrospect

not against this - CS is a poorly specified field - but how would process differ from Operations Research? Or, is CS just a subset of Information Science?

scholar.google.com/citations?us...

If 50% of Carnegie Mellon's funding comes from DoD and DHS and it is killing humanities departments, is it really a real university or is it just a research institute for the Military?*

*(with a Drama Department tacked on for funsies!)

from a CMU CS alumni - fuck this shit. thanks for writing this.

Faculty opposed this change; current students opposed it; program alum fought it.

It’s happening anyway, because it satisfies administrative priorities and flatters the CMU “brand”—not because it’s needed or wanted, and not because it guarantees better job outcomes for program graduates.

The LCS program at CMU was one of the oldest in the country, inspired by England’s Birmingham School ,and infused with the spirit of critique.

Computers can do many things, but they are incapable of critique. Replacing human critics-in-training with computers keeps institutions safe from criticism

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Also v good on this are books by @biella.bsky.social "Coding Freedom, and Christina Dunbar-Hester (is she on this platform?) "Hacking Diversity", but they're books so not short! But maybe the intros from either of those?