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Vector Institute Faculty Positions in AI/ML Ontario
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Career Transition: Assistant to Associate Role Changes
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What changed from assistant to associate? Is a lot more of your time taken up by things you don't want to do?
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ICLR 2023 Ethics Committee Responds on AI Ethics
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The voice of reason, finally… The #iclr2023 ethics committee responded.
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Open Reviewing Benefits Exposed at ICLR2023 Conference
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This #ICLR2023 reviewing process has really shown the benefits of open reviewing. Bad author and reviewer behaviours have been exposed. Flawed papers have been debunked by non-reviewers. And the science is democratized, for everyone to see, from day 1.
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Peer Review Standards: When Experiments Aren’t Required
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Very different context, but as an AE for @TmlrOrg
, I told the authors that, despite a reviewer asking for experiments, they weren't necessary (
https://
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Ethical Concerns: Forcing Researchers Into Political Discourse
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Review will probably be ignored. If change is needed, it should be done at the community level, not the paper level. Most harmful part is *forcing* authors to opine publicly on a charged political topic that many vulnerable folks (students, etc.) would prefer not to comment on
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Organizational AI adoption challenges and malicious threat mitigation
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Yeah, and don't get me wrong, this is very cool work! And I know you folks know these things. But
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Open Source AI Models and Regulatory Frameworks Need Society Agreement
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I'm also cautious about rogue model designers who don't play by the rules. At least for the time being, it seems like the community is very good at making open source alternatives to proprietary models. We'd need to agree as a society that certain things should be off limits.
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Model Designers and Users Share AI Safety Responsibility
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Definitely! With cooperation from model designers, there's hope. But like I said, if all the burden is on the users alone? Then I'm not so hopeful.
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Image Sanitization Safety Against Advanced AI Models
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Nice article by @KyleBarr5
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arxiv.org/abs/2106.14851): users sanitizing and releasing their own images seems hopeless. It may be safe today, but it probably won't be safe against a smarter model a year from now.