By pointing out exactly what they consider to be not novel, e.g., the main result appears to follow as a special case of this result of XYZ. If brought up earlier, maybe the reviewers and authors could jointly figure this out. But at the last minute, the AC's should do it alone
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Intelligent AI Refuses to Do Our Jobs
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The smarter we make the A.I., the less it wants to do our jobs. (via the @NewYorker) #ai #technology #cartoon #jobs #hr #robots #iot #futureofwork #fridaymorning
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AI and Medicine Symposium: Promises and Limits Revisited
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Review of the second edition of the symposium "Artificial Intelligence and Medicine: promises and limits" https://actuia.com/actualite/retour-sur-la-seconde-edition-du-symposium-artificial-intelligence-and-medicine-promises-and-limits/
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Protecting Rejected Papers Against Reviewer Copy-Paste Plagiarism
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In some sense, making your rejected paper public can protect against a reviewer copy-pasying the review. You can point out the fact that this is just copy-pasted, with all the critiques already addressed, and any half-awake AC will disregard said reviewer.
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Academic peer review standards for AI research papers
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If the paper reinvents the wheel, they should indicate that clearly to the authors, pointing out which results are superseded. This AC just says "here's a bunch of papers you didn't cite, figure out whether this is new or not."
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Unpunished Academic Misconduct: A Systemic Ethics Problem
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Yep. There's a lot of bad behaviours in academia that go unpunished. This is not good, but probably also one of the milder ones.
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Unlearnable Examples: False Security Against Future AI Systems
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Looks cool! However there's a critique that's been applied to unlearnable examples (
https://
arxiv.org/abs/2106.14851 ft @sanghyun_hong @florian_tramer
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MIT immunizes photos against AI-powered misinformation edits
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Last week @Trevornoah asked @OpenAI @miramurati
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D&D Alignment Chart Maps Nine Ethical Lying Preferences
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Interestingly, the nine preferences that describe the conditions when people feel it okay to lie fit surprisingly well in the classic D&D alignment chart. There is even a true neutral! https://
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Ethics of accusation: avoiding adversarial framing risks
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This one is at least feasible. But I'd still personally refrain from accusing anyone, since it's easy to frame someone adversarially or even accidentally.