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@ShirKi
Asst Prof @UConn_CSE | Director @rietlab | Founder @DisabledInCS. Erdős#=3. Married to @gonendh +2kids 🧠✡️♿🥄🦓🇮🇱🇺🇸🎨. Disclaimer: http://shorturl.at/wzTXY
I am delighted to share our position paper arguing that 'AGI' should not be taken as the north-star goal of #AI Research. Amazing work with @Borhane_B_H, @CGraziul, @struthious, @HananelHazan, @TaliaRinger, Margaret Mitchell and many others! Details of our paper in the RT'ed🧵
I’m thrilled to share new work arguing that the research community should stop treating AGI as a North-Star goal! Debates about AGI miss the forest for the trees.🧵
Please share with anyone who might be interested! #Philosophy #MoralAgents #MEReWorkshop #AIAlignment
👉 Apply here: forms.gle/cxfK3MHbY87Hct… This is a unique opportunity to contribute to computational philosophy while building connections across disciplines. Let's work together to advance machine understanding of ethics!
📅 Date: July 18, 2025 (11 AM - 5 PM EDT) 📍 Format: Virtual ⏰ Apply by: July 10th No pre-reading required! The application takes just 5-10 minutes & includes full workshop details + tentative schedule.
Who should join: - Philosophy PhD students - CS researchers working on AI alignment or NLP - Anyone passionate about the intersection of technology & moral reasoning This is about making AI systems better understand the complexities of ethics!
✅ Lightning talks - Share your work in machine ethics (5-7 min) & get feedback from an interdisciplinary community ✅ Build your network - Connect with researchers across philosophy & CS through structured discussions designed to spark new partnerships
What makes the MERe Workshop special: ✅ The Moral-KG Project - Help build the first large-scale dataset of philosophical arguments from ethics papers Your annotations will train AI models to better understand moral philosophy & create a knowledge graph of ethical reasoning
🤖 Calling all philosophers and AI researchers! Our team at @UConn_CSE's @RietLab is hosting a virtual workshop on Machine Ethics and Reasoning (MERe) on July 18, 2025. We're bringing together philosophy PhDs, CS researchers & AI folks to advance computational moral reasoning 🧵
I remember reading @waitbutwhy’s post about “Clinically Late Insane People” when it came out in 2015 and thinking “boy, he nailed it”. Today I read it & think: “Boy, I hope he got diagnosed with #ADHD by now.” So stigmatizing, in hindsight. waitbutwhy.com/2015/07/why-im…
Me: "o3, do the first chapter of Genesis as an IKEA instruction manual and show me the flatpack," "Fix the spelling" Me: "Now come up with an idea of what to do next" o3: "How about Genesis 2 - Garden Starter Kit?" Me: "Sure."
Don’t miss tomorrow's @DisabledInCS #DisabledInComputing meetup at #SDM25! Open to disabled, chronically ill, neurodivergent, and/or mentally ill folks; Allies welcome! RSVP forms.gle/o4NGkgxS1zc1ei… @fabriciomurai hosts! Friday, May 2, 12-1:20pm ET @ Panera Bread @ 350 Dulany St
.@ethanpsinger of the @nytimes showed thousands of US gov webpages were deleted in January. We used web archives to establish a baseline for prior presidential administrations. We show: current takedown rate 6-10x higher. ws-dl.blogspot.com/2025/03/2025-0… @WebSciDL
This weekend, we tracked the status of over 150 top government domains. We found over 8,000 pages that got taken down as federal agencies moved to satisfy Trump’s orders to remove topics like diversity initiatives and “gender ideology.” nytimes.com/2025/02/02/ups…
nearly 3 years later, this is still nowhere near solved.
With @ian_soboroff I am trying to come up with a solution for people with food allergies to be able to safely eat decent food at @TheOfficialACM conferences. #SIGIR2022
📣#LongCOVID Community: With recent news, we're now hearing NIH RECOVER-TLC research & AHRQ Long COVID clinic funding could also be at risk. So LCC is launching a rapid-response campaign NOW to make it easier to call Congress & ask for #NoLongCOVIDCuts 1/x bit.ly/NoLongCOVIDCut…
This is UMass Med School. UMass Amherst is somewhat different.
Very sad to hear that UMass is rescinding all PhD admissions for Fall 2025. This means there will be no new PhD cohort, and UMass will not have a graduating class that year. This is just unprecedented and I am so very sorry for all the affected students.
Most people complain that Academia is not efficient. Sure. Because wasting time is the most cost-effective low-hanging fruit, easy-to-deny way of resisting.
Am I the only one who hears "HR onboarding" as waterboarding?
I am a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. The president just illegally fired me. This is corruption plain and simple. My full statement:
📣Our work w/ @GoogleDeepMind "Topo Goes Political: TDA-Based Controversy Detection in Imbalanced Reddit Political Data" accepted #BeyondFacts25 @TheWebConf w/ @arvindh__a @karunakc_ @akshitwt @precogatiiith Balakumar, Jashn Arora, Manish Jain Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2503.03500 🧵👇
Our work at @precogatiiith may be of interest to @kaichen23 @ShirKi @gvrkiran @thomasfujiwara @jmhessel @abellogin @R_Ashwin @joyopal 🙏 to organizers @stefandietze @pavlos098 @trovdimi @preslav_nakov #TheWebConf2025