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
@thegautamkamath
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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
. I gave my perspective (really, the perspective of Radiya-Dixit et al. https://
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. -
Future Fund crisis threatens NeurIPS ML Safety workshop grants
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"…there are many committed grants that the Future Fund will be unable to honor." The #NeurIPS2022 ML Safety Workshop (
https://
neurips2022.mlsafety.org) had an eye-watering $100k of awards for best papers and AI risk analyses. Given all the turmoil, I presume these are getting the axe? -
Graduate School Application Guide: SOP and Recommendation Letters
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Many students are confused when applying to grad school. Who to ask for letters, writing SoP, etc. Some resources on SoP: https://
let-all.com/assets/slides/
How-to-COLT-Boaz.pdf
… (
@boazbaraktcs
) and https://
let-all.com/assets/slides/
How-to-COLT-Yisong.pdf
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@yisongyue
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University of Waterloo Algorithms Complexity Group Seeking Postdocs
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The University of Waterloo Algorithms & Complexity group is searching for postdocs! Please see instructions here: https://
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Differential Privacy in 2020 US Census: Key Concerns
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For those who haven't kept up, Aloni Cohen (
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OpenReview Verification Launch Without Cost
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Just noticed this green check on @openreviewnet
, in the Author Console OpenReview verified baby, and it cost $0 Your move, @elonmusk
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