Tesla is being hit with $329m in damages for a crash in which the human driver says he knew Autopilot wasn't self-driving. This is super important, because it shows that Autopilot's design and marketing can induce inattention even when drivers consciously know they are supposed to pay attention.

📣 Exceptional resource alert from
@ucblaborcenter.bsky.social: a database of U.S. union bargaining provisions related to workplace tech. laborcenter.berkeley.edu/negotiating-...

Workers need a voice in how tech is utilized in the workplace— and here are 175 blueprints for what that looks like

There’s a lot of evil stuff. But these few sentences are a result of wild corruption, and would remove any guardrails against AI systems being used for massive civil and humans rights abuses on an unimaginable scale. Call your congresspeople, and scream about it in the streets.

I’m in this article along with other @uaw4121.bsky.social members to explain what’s happening to grad student researchers in the US right now.

It’s not looking great for us, and it’s looking even worse for America.

So: In 2017, Congress made this happen:

NIH: Proposed 22% cut --> 9% increase
NSF: Proposed 11% cut --> 4% increase
NOAA: Proposed 16% cut --> 4% increase

Obviously, 2025 is not 2017. A lot is diff now. But still:

💰 Congress, not WH, sets budgets.

📞 Public support & calls to Congress matter.

I wrote a post on how to connect with people (i.e., make friends) at CS conferences. These events can be intimidating so here's some suggestions on how to navigate them

I'm late for #ICLR2025 #NAACL2025, but in time for #AISTATS2025 #ICML2025! 1/3
kamathematics.wordpress.com/2025/05/01/t...

Excited to announce our #NAACL2025 Oral paper! 🎉✨

We carried out the largest systematic study so far to map the links between upstream choices, intrinsic bias, and downstream zero-shot performance across 131 CLIP Vision-language encoders, 26 datasets, and 55 architectures!

Faculty at the University of Washington, please sign, and please help us spread the word!

Link the letter is below.

🤩 If you made it this far, thanks for reading! Be sure to also check out our research paper which quantified the risks these systems pose to different gender, race, and intersectional groups! (6/6)

arxiv.org/abs/2407.203...

✅ Applicants should also be aware of when AI is being used to screen their materials and if it was used for adverse actions. These rules already apply for things like background checks, why not AI screening too? Let's empower people by making AI screening consensual and transparent! (5/6)

🔀 We also found that audits looking at gender and race in isolation might not capture the true societal harms for intersectional groups. We need to clarify hiring discrimination regulations to account for intersectional harms and apply those standards to audits to understand risk and impact. (4/6)

🏛 There has been some great legislation coming out of New York City and Colorado requiring auditing of these tools. These could be improved by empowering third parties to conduct audits instead of relying on self-reporting and not exempting systems with humans in-the-loop! (3/6)

⚠️ Current approaches to debiasing models aren't enough! We still don't know how protected characteristics are signaled in resumes or used by automatic screening tools, so we will need help from regulators, model developers, and users to make these tools work for everyone. (2/6)

🗞️ Hot off the press! 🗞️
@aylincaliskan.bsky.social and I wrote a blog post about how to make resume screening with AI more equitable based findings from our work presented at AIES in 2024. Major takeaways ⬇️ (1/6)

www.brookings.edu/articles/gen...

Urgently reposting! University leadership need to actively check the SEVIS database every day (studyinthestates.dhs.gov/sevis-help-hub). Ask your chair to commit to it.

Yesterday, UW discovered 9 visa cancellations & only found out b/c they ran a status check. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Co-Director @aylincaliskan.bsky.social and Faculty Associate @emilymbender.bsky.social were recognized by @brookings.edu for being an important (un)Hidden Figures in AI.

www.brookings.edu/articles/rec...

“Many of these men fancied themselves to be a cut above the [women] programmers who came before, and they often perceived COBOL as inferior and unattractive, in part because it did not require abstruse knowledge of underlying computer hardware or a computer science qualification.”

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

UW’s @techpolicylab.bsky.social and I invite applications for a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher position in "AI Alignment with Ethical Principles" focusing on language technologies, societal impact, and tech policy.

Kindly share!
apply.interfolio.com/162834
Priority review deadline: 3/28/2025

Show up to tell the Trump administration: our research and our jobs need funding, not freezes!

RSVP here: www.labor4highered.org

One concrete thing everybody can do to support federal workers is participate in (and spread the word about) the February 19 Save Our Services day of action

bit.ly/SOSaction

The Responsibility in AI Systems & Experiences at UW is excited to host a Winter research exhibition on Feb 29 in Seattle. Info about our keynote speaker, accepted posters and a link to RSVP are on the event page now! www.raise.uw.edu/winterexposi...

Nice article explaining unwanted bias in hiring stemming from the use of artificial intelligence with extensive quotations from @kyrawilson.bsky.social and Moninder Singh. www.ibm.com/think/news/a...

#geekwire - #AI overwhelmingly prefers white and male job candidates in new test of resume-screening bias
#Blackmen fared the worst with the models preferring other candidates nearly 100% of the time.
www.geekwire.com/2024/ai-over...