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4 Ways AI Safety Efforts Could Learn from Experiences with Social Media
AI Safety efforts need to focus on solutions sooner rather than later. Greater online privacy, control, experimental transparency, and use of trust…
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Ravi Iyer
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Fear Speech Shows the Limits of Moderation
Recent research suggests that "Fear Speech" is often more common and problematic than hate speech, yet is difficult to address with content moderation.
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Ravi Iyer
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Clarification on why we use AI Generated Images
We apologize for not being clearer on our intention.
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Ravi Iyer
Announcing Our 2023 Dissertation Award Winners
Please join us in congratulating Sakshi Ghai, Gordon Heltzel, Julia Spielmann, Do The Khoa, Jens Paschmann, & Nirajana Mishra as winners and honorable…
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Ravi Iyer
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Better Metrics for a Healthier Society
We need to incentivize technologists and tech companies to do more than growth hack. One solution is to invest in public measures of long term value…
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Ravi Iyer
Regulate Design, not Speech
Recent legislation and court cases over the future of online social platforms often focus on regulating speech. Regulating value alignment through…
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Ravi Iyer
When should companies optimize for engagement?
A recent Wall St. Journal article provides more evidence that removing ambiguous engagement signals like comments and shares from civic algorithms can…
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Ravi Iyer
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The True Path to Fewer "regretted user minutes" on Twitter in 2023
Musk's declared objective function for Twitter is likely to approximate time spent. Optimizing for highly valuable experiences would be a better path…
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