+100. When will we stop questioning generalizability of studies done in Global South? When are we going to value working with communities in the Global South?

Pleasantly surprised at how effectively Trevor Noah explains of what AI can and cannot do at Microsoft Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit #nonprofitsummit. "AI is not doing the thinking. It's the experts who have already done the thinking..."

This was a fun collaboration with some amazing students UW iSchool Allen School and with Monojit Choudhury from MBZUAI. Checkout the tweet thread from Preetam Dammu summarizing our findings about subtle harms in #LLMs and how they manifest for caste vs. race. Responsibility in AI Systems & Experiences (RAISE)

At #ICWSM2024? Be sure to catch @shruti_ph from presentation of our work done UW iSchool this Wed at 11am. Nicely timed research as we are right in the midst of the Indian elections! Paper pdf here: arxiv.org/pdf/2401.03533

If you are #FAccT2024, don't miss @wolferobert3 talk today at the 10:10am session on "When LLMs are being deployed". The work highlights the ways fact-checking orgs are using generative AI and the challenges that prevent further adoption. UW iSchool facctconference.org/static/papers2…

This was a fun talk to hear #facct2024 on Evaluation of LLMs' Humour Alignment with Comedians, which essentially ended with "We need more HCI methods" :-) arxiv.org/abs/2405.20956

Robert presenting this right now! @wolferobert3 #FAccT2024

Applied Social Media Lab Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society “Information Sharing and Content Framing across Multiple Platforms and Functional Roles That Exemplify Social Processes of Online Hate Groups” by @shruti_ph and Tanu Mitra examines how traditional, offline hate groups use Facebook and Twitter/X to create an online ecosphere of hate,

The @UW_iSchool is hiring this year! Tenure track open area, tenure track LIS, teaching track data science, teaching track LIS. Come join us in the bustling, drizzly, booming Pacific Northwest! ischool.uw.edu/about/jobs/fac…

2️⃣ Unveiling Covert Harms in LLM Conversations 📍 Brickell | Nov 14 | 10:30-12 PM 🔗 aclanthology.org/2024.emnlp-mai… (W/ Hayoung Jung, Anjali Singh, Monojit Choudhury, Tanu Mitra) Excited to explore these topics together – please join us at our sessions! #EMNLP2024 #EMNLP (2/2)

Recommender systems can learn from how r\ifyoulikeblank users solicit recommendations from each other. Our ACM CSCW paper led by momen shows unique recommendation forms (e.g., a movie that captures Lofi hip-hop vibe) w\ Donghan, Jelson, Tanu Mitra doi.org/10.1145/3687041

Interested in Human-AI Alignment research and want to workshop the complex and evolving challenges in this space? Consider submitting your work at our interdisciplinary #ICLR2025 workshop ICLR 2026 & #CHI2025 SIG. bialign-workshop.github.io/#/ Deadline Feb 15th.

Happening now in Zillow Commons, UW campus - our Winter RAISE exposition event. If you are nearby, do attend. raise.uw.edu

Starting right now in our RAISE event Ece Kamar keynote on AI agents. So much to learn in this fast moving field! UW iSchool Allen School

🚀 BiAlign 🚀 Thrilled to announce that 72 papers have been accepted to our Bidirectional Human-AI Alignment workshop at #ICLR2025 & #CHI SIG! 🎉 Huge thanks to 80+ reviewers for their invaluable contributions! 🙏 ICLR 2026 ACM CHI Conference 📜 Accepted Papers: Check them out:

Woohoo! Congrats Hayoung! Such a well deserved award. It was a treat to work with you all these years and I can’t wait to see all the awesome things you are going to do next in your PhD journey!

Figuring it out what’s it like attending the largest ACL conference. Also returning to attend my first ACL as a faculty. The last one I attended was almost half a decade ago as a PhD student #ACL2025NLP

China leading the way for ACL submissions while United States witnessing a significant drop from last year #ACL2025