“What would an AI research & education mission that crossed the whole campus look like?” This is the question posed to me & a working group by @UofMaryland's Provost Rice summer'23. Now we’re announcing the answer: #AIMaryland, the AI Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland. >

TRAILS Director Hal Daumé (@haldaume3) joined "AI or Not" the podcast with Pamela Isom to talk about his shift from technical AI research to its societal impact—touching on governance, copyright, and the need for stronger regulations.

We created COALA, a visual analytics tool that helps understand how native & non-native English speakers write differently when writing together. Our findings can help build better AI writing assistants for teams. Related #CSCW paper:

📌NLI Improves Compositionality in Vision-Language Models is accepted to #ICLR2025! CECE enables interpretability and achieves significant improvements in hard compositional benchmarks without fine-tuning (e.g., Winoground, EqBen) and alignment (e.g., DrawBench, EditBench).

Please join us for: AI at Work: Building and Evaluating Trust Presented by our Trustworthy AI in Law & Society (TRIALS) institute. Feb 3-4 Washington DC Open to all! Details and registration at: https://t.co/BvSwDjdy7y Sponsorship details at: https://t.co/IAUBzkGoMG

Today is the registration deadline!

All AI systems make mistakes. 🧐 What if users could leverage AI flaws to understand it & take informed actions? 🚀 Our #CSCW2024 paper on Seamful XAI offers a process to foresee, locate, & leverage AI flaws—boosting user understanding & agency. But why should you care?⤵️ 1/n

If you're part of an AISIC organization (see https://t.co/n8BhriWETs) you are cordially invited to participate. Registration closes on Nov 27; details at https://t.co/6l2mTdrQpt If your org is interested in sponsoring, please contact me or Mallory Smith (info at above link).

We (@trails_ai) are thrilled to host the First Annual AI Safety Institute Consortium (AISIC) plenary meeting on Dec 3 in College Park. This is a *members only* in-person (w hybrid option) gathering where the AISIC task forces will update, and we'll discuss future efforts. >

New #emnlp2024 paper (oral presentation on Nov 12 (tomorrow), 12:15-12:30 Monroe): TL;DR: When a model fails, it can still guide a human to success. We show that uncertainty communication improves human decision making, in the context of navigation! Why is this exciting?

🚨New dataset + challenge #EMNLP2024🚨 We release ASL STEM Wiki: the first signing dataset of STEM articles! 📰 254 Wikipedia articles 📹 ~300 hours of ASL interpretations 👋 New task: automatic sign suggestion to make STEM education more accessible https://t.co/U2pky8fmxq 🧵

No AI system is perfect. Instead of hiding AI's flaws, what if we could leverage them to help users? Our #CSCW2024 paper on Seamful XAI shows exposing and leveraging AI weaknesses can improve user understanding & agency. w/ @mark_riedl @QVeraLiao @samirpassi @haldaume3

Moving over to b*sky. Find me at https://t.co/0D8GQpIm6x. I have no friends there yet - you could be the first! :)

"If former President Donald J. Trump and his running mate J.D. Vance win, they could use the federal government to remake higher education as we know it." 🧵The @chronicle lays out what's at stake: (1/x) https://t.co/XOB0IbsP8U

If you are concerned about imminent political threats to higher ed, this @AAUP report is a great place to understand what the blueprint will be in the coming years-- https://t.co/zQvzz6v9s6

I'm seriously concerned about attacks on (higher) education over the next 4 years. Restrictions on federal funding conditioned on universities playing ball is a very real possibility, among others. If you are in a US university and can join a union, please consider doing so!

You can find out more about AIM at https://t.co/JA5Bge7whx and you're welcome to reach out directly to me or email the address in the job ad with any questions! Please share with your network as we bring together experts to shape a just and more equitable future of AI.

Applicants can submit their materials at https://t.co/SqqGvFM0Tt. Candidates will have a primary appointment and tenure home within any department on campus and will hold a joint appointment in AIM. We value curiosity, collaboration, and the drive to push AI into new domains. >

The AI Interdisciplinary Institute at @UofMaryland (AIM) is hiring 40 new faculty members in all areas of AI, particularly: - accessibility, - sustainability, - social justice, and - learning; building on computational, humanistic, or social scientific approaches to AI. >

Covering diverse facets of natural language processing —from multimodal and multilingual systems to education and social science settings—researchers @ClipUmd have 21 papers accepted @emnlpmeeting! Congratulations to our researchers and see you next month in Miami! 😎 #EMNLP2024

1/ 🗞️🚨 Do great minds really think alike? 🧠🤖👨🏽‍🦱 We investigate Human-AI Complementarity in Question Answering using CAIMIRA, our item response theory based neural framework! w/ @haldaume3 @zhoutianyi @boydgraber Paper Link: https://t.co/DjXapBR1RZ #nlp #human #ai #irt #qa