AIM's 2nd round of TTK hiring - building up to 30 - is up! 📅 Ddl 12/22/25 🔬 Accessibility & Learning, plus Sustainability & Social Justice 🧑‍🏫 Associate/Full Prof* 🔗 umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en… *Assistant-level candidates: apply to departments, mentioning AIM in a cover letter

🚀Introducing 𝐆𝐔𝐈𝐃𝐄-𝐋𝐋𝐌: A reporting checklist for using LLMs in behavioral & social science ✅GUIDE-LLM is a reporting checklist designed by 80 experts to improve transparency, reproducibility & ethical accountability of LLM-based research 📄llm-checklist.com

Best consideration is Mar 27, so get your postdoc applications in in the next week or so!

After operating in stealth for the last 18 months @rhodaai , we’re excited today to finally show the world what we’ve been working on. We believe we’re on a path to physical AGI with the launch of our brand new foundation model, the Direct Video Action (DVA) model.

Come join @trails_ai as a postdoc at @UofMaryland (and work w folks at GW, MSU & Cornell) to conduct research and scholarship focused on approaches to AI that advance trust and trustworthiness with a great group of colleagues! 🌐 go.umd.edu/trails-postdoc-sp… 🗓️ Summer/Fall 2026 start

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AIM's 2nd round of TTK hiring - building up to 30 - is up! 📅 Ddl 12/22/25 🔬 Accessibility & Learning, plus Sustainability & Social Justice 🧑‍🏫 Associate/Full Prof* 🔗 umd.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en… *Assistant-level candidates: apply to departments, mentioning AIM in a cover letter

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. go.umd.edu/1yvy

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: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36869…

📌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: trails.gwu.edu/trailscon-202… Sponsorship details at: trails.gwu.edu/media/556

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

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? Uncertainty communication has been promoted as a desirable feature of ML models, but it remains unclear what benefits it provides beyond fostering human trust. We may be among the first to demonstrate the positive effects of uncertainty communication on human decision-making. You can read our paper now: arxiv.org/abs/2402.16973 and check out our demo: navigation.umiacs.umd.edu/ex…

🚨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 microsoft.com/en-us/research… 🧵

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 haldaume3.bsky.social. 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) chronicle.com/article/a-seco…