Vered Shwartz
@VeredShwartz
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Assistant Professor @UBC_CS & @VectorInst working on Natural Language Processing. Book: https://t.co/aBnNW4HaQ3. 🦋: @veredshwartz.bsky.social
Vancouver, BC
Joined May 2016
The recent UBC interview with Dr. Vered Shwartz (@VeredShwartz), Asst. Prof at @UBC_CS and CIFAR AI Chair @VectorInst, shares important reflections on how AI chatbots can influence users’ decisions and behaviour. 🤖💬 (1/7🧵)
Dr. @VeredShwartz, UBC professor of computer science and author of "Lost in Automatic Translation", on the potential for AI chatbots to cause harm to users as well as potential safeguards for the future. @UBC_CS
https://t.co/bxFAM89fjv
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Check out our work investigating the dynamics of value alignment in the process of LLM post-training!
🚨How do LLMs acquire human values?🤔 We often point to preference optimization. However, in our new work, we trace how and when model values shift during post-training and uncover surprising dynamics. We ask: How do data, algorithms, and their interaction shape model values?🧵
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🎙 In our new episode, we had the pleasure of talking with @VeredShwartz, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at @UBC_CS, CIFAR AI Chair at @VectorInst, and author of Lost in Automatic Translation: Navigating Life in English in the Age of Language Technologies. (1/7🧵)
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It’s the spooky time of year again 👻🎃 and we kept up the UBC NLP Lab’s annual pumpkin carving tradition! This year’s creations were very impressive, so much talent and creativity from everyone. 🍂✨ If you’re on campus, come check out our pumpkins displayed outside ICICS! 🏫
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It was such a pleasure talking to Jekaterina and Malikeh about cultural biases in AI. Thank you for hosting me!
🎙️ New episode of Women in AI Research (WiAIR) out now! We sit down with @VeredShwartz (Asst prof and @CIFAR_News AI Chair) to talk about the important challenge in AI — cultural bias. 🌍 #nlproc #wiair #wiairpodcast /1
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I'm super excited to update that "Lost in Automatic Translation" is now available as an audiobook! 🔊📖 It's currently on Audible: https://t.co/PF1iBS0O1H Stay tuned ( https://t.co/YRC37j7d6g) for more retailers, including Amazon, iTunes, etc., and public libraries! 📚
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UBC Computer Science invites applications for up to two full-time tenure-track positions with the following priority areas: visualization, robotics, reinforcement learning, data management, and data mining. Applications are due Wed Dec 10, 2025. https://t.co/ARgHUbnGny
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We’re excited to feature @VeredShwartz, Asst Prof at @UBC_CS, CIFAR AI Chair @VectorInst, and author of https://t.co/yNgXchf1nY, in the next @WiAIR_podcast episode.
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People more influenced by advice from AI than fellow humans, UBC study finds
ctvnews.ca
Dr. Vered Shwartz, research lead and assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia, said she wanted to quantify to what extent AI chatbots were persuasive after...
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Theory of Mind is key to human social intelligence, but does giving LLMs ToM make them better social reasoners?🤔 We find that ToM makes LLMs better at dialogue: more strategic, goal-oriented, enabling long-horizon adaptation! We introduce ToMA, a ToM-focused dialogue agent🧵👇
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📚 Obamacare Pandemic Premium Subsidies 101 While Democrats are now demanding a no-questions-asked 1-year extension of these subsidies to open the govt, find out why this policy is so controversial. The media won’t cover it. So we will. https://t.co/E0crEB6wYm
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Dr. @VeredShwartz, UBC professor of computer science and author of "Lost in Automatic Translation", on the potential for AI chatbots to cause harm to users as well as potential safeguards for the future. @UBC_CS
https://t.co/bxFAM89fjv
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📢 Excited to share our accepted EMNLP 2025 papers from the UBC NLP group! 🎉 See you in Suzhou! #EMNLP2025
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@VeredShwartz, author of ‘Lost in Automatic Translation’, explores the opportunities and pitfalls of language technologies, from automatic translation tools to large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. 🤖 Read the full interview 🔗 https://t.co/jX24E65AbL
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Outlook spell checker is suggesting that I write "I attached me slides" instead of "I attached my slides". #AI_fail
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In 2008, a 9-page PDF reimagined what money could be. Just 17 years later, the U.S. Treasury Secretary is saluting Bitcoin. What a moment for Satoshi’s idea.
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Asked a question on StackOverflow an hour ago. Zero answers or comments, 3 downvotes. I'm not sure what I did wrong 🤷♀️ Why do people on the internet love to make others feel bad about themselves so much.
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I just published Are we expecting too much of LLMs? An analysis of prompts in NLP papers https://t.co/ApgsmLPkeI
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We are excited to host KyungHyun Cho from New York University and Genentech Research & Early Development for a talk on “Reality Checks”. Join us: 🕛 Friday, August 29, 2:00 - 3:00 PM @ ICICS X836 @UBCLangScis
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I just ordered a full price copy of my own book from Amazon because I'm too impatient to wait for my free copies from the publisher 🙈
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How is AI + Cloud transforming cybersecurity for federal agencies? @PatrickMoorhead and @Google Public Sector Chief Security Officer Ron Bushar talked about Google’s strategy at GPS Summit ‘25: leveraging custom silicon, Gemini, and Mandiant to create a FedRAMP High, zero-trust
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I'm not sure yet if I'll make it to #IJCAI2025 because of the planned Air Canada strike, but if you're attending, you can order my book with the IJCAI discount (30% off and free shipping) through mid-September: https://t.co/HpO4RmnR3m
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