And in something that has been a philosophical puzzler for me over the years, two U.S. states have a disagreement about whether the entity still exists, and one purported to need me to direct it that the entity doesn’t exist, which I can’t *because I no longer have authority.*
ETHICS
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Semmelweis Reflex: Why AI Safety Warnings Go Unheeded
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I’m guessing you’ve never heard of Semmelweis
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ICLR Experiments with AI Agents for Meta-Reviewing Peer Feedback
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ICLR 2025 is experimenting with an AI agent that leverages multiple LLMs to provide optional feedback on reviewer reports. It’s an interesting move—using LLMs to meta-review human reviews. Future of peer review?
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Standardize AI Model Naming Before AGI Arrives
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Solve the AI model naming problem before we get to AGI please.
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Academic Paper on AI and War Prevention at CHI
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Please send it over to anyone who will listen and can do something about it. Our people can’t afford another war. Our first academic paper on the topic will be presented at CHI in May:
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CHI Paper on AI Ethics Narrated by Exiled Ethiopian Journalist
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And if you do nothing else, please watch this short video narrated by Fasica, the lead author of the CHI paper, Nuredin Ali, and exiled Ethiopian journalist @ZekuZelalem
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Content Moderators’ Working Conditions: Understanding the Human Cost
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We collaborated with content moderators like @Fasica2025 to understand the horrific working conditions of moderators. Imagine your family going through one of the worst sieges in recorded history with nothing going in & out for 2 years,
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Content Moderation Ethics: Mental Health Crisis Amid Genocide
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and the longest continuous internet shutdown ever recorded & moderating genocidal content targeting your people. One moderator saw his cousin being murdered in a video routed to him. He wasn’t even allowed to take a short mental health break.
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Google’s Content Moderation Gap in Under-resourced Languages
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I told people @ Google about this & asked them to build language technology & have human moderation, in so-called "under-resourced languages” like Tigrinya. Although we were at Google, concerns sent to YouTube went into a void never to be acknowledged.
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VP’s Anonymous Letter and AI Hate Speech Moderation Claims
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The VP who sent an “anonymous” letter to HR telling me to retract my paper & setting the stage for my firing commented that plenty of work was being done in that arena. But contrary to his claims & Yann LeCun’s lies saying “95% of hate speech on Facebook is removed by ‘AI’,”