oh its not enough that you make sure not to pull the ladder up behind you when you get to where you going. there is so much more responsibility than that. so much we owe to those who came before us and those still to come.

the kid: my mommy is about to be a doctor and help ALOT of people oh no, actually its not that kind of doct- the kid: dont you do math? yes. thats right. the kid: does that math help ALOT of people? I mean maybe some people, idk if I would say al- the kid: see, I am right.

TODAY I had the true honor of joining Harvard SEAS Dean, committee members, faculty, graduate students, family, friends, and Ancestors at the superb doctoral defense by my former Africana Studies/Rites and Reason Theatre student and now Dr. Jamelle Watson-Daniels!

Congrats Jamelle Watson-Daniels !!

Identity will only be weaponized in this climate, in this moment. Don’t bring it up. Don’t mention it. Don’t engage in conversations signaling towards it. When it’s brought up, redirect to the strategy. Focus on policy. Focus on strengths. Focus on change. Get it done.

I’ll be at #ACL2024NLP 🇹🇭 in person and can’t wait to catch up with old friends and meet new ones! 🙂 I am presenting two papers: ➡️ Investigating the role of cross-modal projection in multimodal LLMs ➡️ A community-centric study on violence-provoking speech A short 🧵 (1/5)

The Algorithmic Fairness workshop is back at #NeurIPS2024 🎊 ‼️Now accepting submissions Topic: revisiting fairness metrics and evaluation in light of advances in LLMs and regulation 📄 2 tracks: Papers and Extended Abstracts ⏳ Deadline: Sep 12 CfP: afciworkshop.org/call-for-papers

🚀💡We're hiring interns for 2025 at FAIR @ AI at Meta Work on cutting-edge projects: social reasoning, alignment, interaction, multi-agent communication & more with text/multimodal LLMs. Apply now! 🔗metacareers.com/jobs/119904986…

🎊 The Algorithmic Fairness workshop #AFME2024 is one week away! #NeurIPS2024 📆 Join us Sat, Dec 14 for a day full of discussions on all things fairness and bias! Here is a preview of our amazing speakers Hoda Heidari, Kush Varshney कुश वार्ष्णेय, Sanmi Koyejo, Angelina Wang @angelinawang.bsky.social, Seth Lazar 👇

📆 AFME workshop: Sat, Dec 14 in room 111-112 Excited to bring you another opportunity for insightful discussion at the AFME workshop. 💬 Join us for roundtables on Fairness/Bias Metrics and Evaluation led by the amazing Angelina Wang @ ACL 2025 @angelinawang.bsky.social , Candace Ross, Tom Hartvigsen

Yesterday we celebrated the 5th edition of our #NeurIPS fairness workshop #AFME2024! Huge thanks to the incredible co-organizing team Awa Dieng Golnoosh Farnadi @NeurIPS2024 Nando Fioretto Jamelle Watson-Daniels! 🙌

In the physical world, almost all information is transmitted through traveling waves -- why should it be any different in your neural network? Super excited to share recent work with the brilliant Mozes Jacobs: "Traveling Waves Integrate Spatial Information Through Time" 1/14

Hi all! I am looking to recruit an intern for this summer at Sony AI. The researcher should have documented expertise in qualitative studies and an interest in studying how responsible AI is conducted within organizations. Feel free to share widely! tinyurl.com/hci-sony

I know internship hunting has been especially tough this year -- I hear you! 📢Great news: Our team at Microsoft Research (Microsoft Research) has opened up a few additional internship slots for this summer! We're seeking talented PhD candidates with experience in 🖼️Multimodality,

Today we're releasing Community Alignment - the largest open-source dataset of human preferences for LLMs, containing ~200k comparisons from >3000 annotators in 5 countries / languages! There was a lot of research that went into this... 🧵