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🚨NEW: @Amnesty research exposes how the Danish welfare authority, Udbetaling Danmark, is using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to flag individuals for social benefits fraud investigations, risking discrimination against marginalized groups. amnesty.org/en/latest/news…

New: Senator Ted Cruz is poised to chair the powerful Senate Commerce Republicans panel next Congress following today’s leadership election results. Top priorities include promoting job growth, boosting AI development, unleashing spectrum, Cruz told me and Lillianna Byington news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…

For Science Magazine, I wrote about "The Metaphors of Artificial Intelligence". The way you conceptualize AI systems affects how you interact with them, do science on them, and create policy and apply laws to them. Hope you will check it out! science.org/doi/full/10.11…

Yes truly Soylent is people too. businessinsider.com/ai-hiring-boom…

We are saddened to share the passing of CHM Fellow Thomas Eugene Kurtz, co-creator of the BASIC programming language and Dartmouth Timesharing System. Read more about his remarkable life and contributions on our blog: hubs.li/Q02Yh8Xq0

The FATE group at Microsoft Research NYC is now accepting applications for 2025 interns. 🥳🎉 For full consideration, apply by December 18 and include a cover letter. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/… Interested in AI evaluation? Apply for the STAC internship too! jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/…

Kaushik Basu Although there’s one version which says that because of the translator’s mistake, Zhou Enlai thought Kissinger was referring to the student protests of 1968.

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Interesting trend that might be new? Universities asking for a personal statement in addition to the research statement for Ph.D applicants. I wonder if this is a post-SFAA move to do an end-run around the proscription on direct AA moves.

Man plays piano music for rescued elephants to help reduce their anxiety

Second year Brown CS and CNTR PhD student Rui-Jie Yew was recently recognized as runner-up for Best Student Paper at the Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, and Society Conference AI, Ethics, and Society Conference (AIES) at the end of October with collaborators lucy qin and Suresh Venkatasubramanian (mostly in the sky now). cntr.brown.edu/news/2024-11-1…

The House’s 10-year ban on state AI regulation would wreak havoc on our country. The language is so broad that it could upend everything from state privacy law to contract law. It could even break the internet. I will do everything in my power to stop it. techpolicy.press/the-big-beauti…