Edgar Dobriban Wins Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize

Edgar Dobriban has received the 2024 Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize. Dobriban receives the award “for deep, fundamental, and wide-ranging contributions to mathematical statistics and statistical machine learning."

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How to Improve AI Fairness in an Unfair World

Designers of artificial intelligence (AI) systems are still figuring out how to emulate — and improve on — human decision-making. One big challenge: how to support human decision-making while also maintaining fairness and objectivity. This was the topic of a recent MIT IDE seminar presented by Hamsa Bastani.

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The Science of Designing Ethical Algorithms: Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth on Ethical AI

In 2019, Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth published The Ethical Algorithm: The Science of Socially Aware Algorithm Design. Rather than rehash the social ills caused by AI-powered systems, Kearns and Roth’s book enumerates technical improvements to the algorithms that increasingly govern our lives.

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The YouTube Algorithm Isn’t Radicalizing People: Why User Choice Matters on Social Media

A new study from Duncan Watts' Computational Social Science Lab finds that the YouTube recommendation system is less influential on users’ political views than is commonly believed.

Communication
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Responsible AI in the Generative Era

Michael Kearns joined the TWIML AI Podcast to discuss the new challenges to responsible AI brought about by the generative AI era, and his learnings and insights from the intersection of his real-world experience at AWS and his work in academia.

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AI and environmental challenges

The growth of artificial intelligence is impossible to ignore, but how does it intersect with climate and the environment? Cary Coglianese and Benjamin Lee weigh in on the roles AI may play.

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Electrical and Systems Engineering
Law
Political Science

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Aaron Roth: Pioneer of fair algorithms

Congratulations to Aaron Roth, who received the Hans Sigrist Prize, endowed with 100,000 Swiss francs, at the University of Bern's 2023 Dies academicus.

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Responsible AI in the wild: Lessons learned at AWS

Real-world deployment requires notions of fairness that are task relevant and responsive to the available data, recognition of unforeseen variation in the “last mile” of AI delivery, and collaboration with AI activists, write Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth for Amazon Science.

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Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth at a chalkboard

How Apple Can Catch Up in the Generative AI Race

“Apple is obviously a well-resourced tech company capable of competing in any arena it sets its mind to do so,” said Michael Kearns in an interview with AI Business. "I think the main question is how long it takes and how it fits with their current business model."

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Benefits and risks of AI | 42 years caring for Fairmount Park’s trees

AI is increasingly a part of our lives: it can beneficial, like using a smart speaker - and risky, like deep fakes becoming more difficult to distinguish from reality. Cary Coglianese and Michael Kearns help us understand what artificial intelligence is, where it came from, and where it is going.

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Law
Political Science

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News

Edgar Dobriban Wins Peter Gavin Hall IMS Early Career Prize

How to Improve AI Fairness in an Unfair World

The Science of Designing Ethical Algorithms: Michael Kearns and Aaron Roth on Ethical AI

The YouTube Algorithm Isn’t Radicalizing People: Why User Choice Matters on Social Media

Responsible AI in the Generative Era

AI and environmental challenges

Aaron Roth: Pioneer of fair algorithms

Responsible AI in the wild: Lessons learned at AWS

How Apple Can Catch Up in the Generative AI Race

Benefits and risks of AI | 42 years caring for Fairmount Park’s trees