Intersectional/Interdisciplinary ML research @datascicolumbia. Physics PhD. Passionate about responsible, empowering, ethical tech. Always stay humble and kind.
Happy to be in my favorite space at NeurIPS! To me, AI is political and my queerness is political and @QueerinAI holds space for me to embrace that rather than trying to suppress it. Beautiful discussions about community building in research and the world.
Iβm heading to Vancouver for NeurIPS! Iβll be speaking at the ML4PS workshop, the Regulatable ML workshop, and the Symmetry and Geometry workshop! Will share more details but my favorite part is always chatting with folks so please hmu if youβd like to grab coffee or a drink!
I'm speaking at three very exciting events this week! First up today, the Columbia and New York State Conference on Cyber Regulation and Harmonization at Columbia | SIPA. I'll be presenting our research using customized AI models to identify, extract, and categorize 1/
Leaning into the Nobel Prize excitement, I'm very excited to share my new piece in Nature Reviews Physics @NatRevPhys exploring how physics data and approaches can help us develop more trustworthy AI (read for free here!) rdcu.be/dWfr3 1/
In the paper I explore the ways field specific norms, the structure of academic science, publishing incentives, and industry funding and research structures impact the kinds of questions we ask, the results the value, and the way we communicate them in the AI research space.
Omg finally I can share my new paper on AI hype and its origins in and relationships to the research community! Iβve been working on this for over a year and Iβm so happy it was accepted to this years @AIESConf. arxiv.org/abs/2408.15244
We do students a disservice when we pretend that science exists in some weird place outside of society and itβs not done by humans. That doesnβt mean you need to have a specific political agenda in your class but to imagine yourself, your classroom, and your students as divorced
is not the same thing as preaching YOUR political opinions in class. Choosing to pretend that science does exist in a vacuum and youβre excused from acknowledging any other context because you consider yourself a purely technical person IS political.
Respectfully, reminding your students that science doesnβt exist in a vacuum (itβs done, evaluated, funded, shared, and utilized by humans who do not function like robots and do have politics) and they should think about that that means for them, their work, and their communities
Sweet interview with @NYASciences! So happy to be able to share my beliefs about the importance of REAL interdisciplinary collaborations for building actually beneficial and trustworthy AI nyas.org/ideas-insights/blogβ¦
Very excited to finally be putting my years of thoughts on the relationship between physical sciences, ai, and ethics into a real paper! It was great to finally get to publish with @AstroVivi and our other fab coauthors!
The slides are linked at the end of that treat, but unfortunately no recording :( I also have a paper in review about this now that Iβd be happy to share a preprint of with you if youβd like!
Wow thank you so much for the kind words, and again to the #EuCAIFCon organizers for inviting me to speak on this important subject that is core to so much of my research and scholarship!
Beautiful, painful, and hopefully piece from one of my favorite writers, @annehelen! Science and humanities academia are different in some ways, but similar in so many. This is why I try to give my students the realistic advice that I never got. open.substack.com/pub/anneheβ¦