Gods and Robots In this episode of the podcast we shake things up! Neil is on the guest side of the table with his partner Rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner to discuss their upcoming project Gods and Robots. Katherine is joined on the host side by friend of the show professor Michael Littman. See... See More Episodes arXiv Whitepapers When Benchmarks are Targets: Revealing the Sensitivity of Large Language Model Leaderboards Large Language Model (LLM) leaderboards based on benchmark rankings are regularly used to guide practitioners in model selection. Often, the published leaderboard rankings are taken at face value - we show this is a (potentially costly) mistake. Under existing leaderboards, the relative performance... Dialect prejudice predicts AI decisions about people's character, employability, and criminality Hundreds of millions of people now interact with language models, with uses ranging from serving as a writing aid to informing hiring decisions. Yet these language models are known to perpetuate systematic racial prejudices, making their judgments biased in problematic ways about groups like African... Foundation Model Transparency Reports Foundation models are critical digital technologies with sweeping societal impact that necessitates transparency. To codify how foundation model developers should provide transparency about the development and deployment of their models, we propose Foundation Model Transparency Reports, drawing upon... More featured content News Articles Replacing frontline workers with AI can be a bad idea — here’s why AI Alone Won’t Solve the Problem of Antibiotic Resistance Stay in the loop. Subscribe to our newsletter for a weekly update on the latest podcast, news, events, and jobs postings. E-mail Leave this field blank ‘How’s the Air?’ Using AI to Track Coal Train Dust To excel at engineering design, generative AI must learn to innovate, study finds NZ police are using AI to catch criminals – but the law urgently needs to catch up too A method to interpret AI might not be so interpretable after all Finger-shaped sensor enables more dexterous robots Is AI in the eye of the beholder? Navigating the risks and benefits of AI: Lessons from nanotechnology on ensuring emerging technologies are safe as well as successful World’s biggest bat colony gathers in Zambia every year: we used artificial intelligence to count them More news