A couple corrections, resources, and parting thoughts on my thread about @StanfordAILab @StanfordHAI's Workshop twitter.com/BlancheMinerva/status/1429858134772834305
@StanfordAILab @StanfordHAI AI Ethics is not something invented in the past 10 years. It's something that tech companies have been finally compelled to pretend to care about in the past 10 years. A reading list of work that predates 2000.
twitter.com/BlancheMinerva/status/1429870544451670018?s=20
@StanfordAILab @StanfordHAI @jackclarkSF said his mention of mental health chatbots was inspired by WoeBot. The only study I found on WoeBot indicated it was on par with directing people to the NIMH website.
mental.jmir.org/2017/2/e19/
@StanfordAILab @StanfordHAI 1996: "Bias in computer systems" by Batya Friedman and Helen Nissenbaum performs case-studies of deployed technologies
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/230538.230561
@StanfordAILab @StanfordHAI Training GPT-3 is cheap, but public funding for AI is remarkably stingy compared to other sciences. If you can provide 5M in funding or access to 256 A100s with Infiniband interconnect I can release a 175B language model to the public this year. DM me.
twitter.com/BlancheMinerva/status/1429863327191154689?s=20
@StanfordAILab @StanfordHAI I think that's everything I wanted to remark on / correct. If I missed anything or you feel I misrepresented something you said don't hesitate to reach out.
@StanfordAILab @StanfordHAI I criticized @jackclarkSF for a framing that excluded work by #EleutherAI and @BigscienceW, but I missed the beginning of his talk and didn't realize he was talking specifically about orgs who had already produced 175B+ models.
twitter.com/BlancheMinerva/status/1429861103069237255?s=20
@StanfordAILab @StanfordHAI To follow-up on my mention that people had already written compelling things about the workshop framing and naming, you can find some threads below
twitter.com/BlancheMinerva/status/1429859178504409088
@StanfordAILab @StanfordHAI 1992: "Human issues in the use of pattern recognition techniques" by Alan Dix looks at the human context and consequences of using neural networks to do pattern recognition
alandix.com/academic/papers/neuro92/neuro92.html
@StanfordAILab @StanfordHAI If you want to learn more about red teaming AI, come hang out with @aivillage_dc on discord or follow all-stars like @rharang @ErickGalinkin @moo_hax @ram_ssk @ruchowdh
twitter.com/BlancheMinerva/status/1429872388339113985?s=20
@StanfordAILab @StanfordHAI @jackclarkSF @BigscienceW I also missed @percyliang's opening address which lauded #EleutherAI and @BigscienceW quite heavily right before @jackclarkSF spoke, and is something I know he agrees with from public and private conversations.
Discord link: discord.gg/xMK7fuu
@StanfordAILab @StanfordHAI @mer__edith on the politics of the workshop's framing
twitter.com/mer__edith/status/1427699822719651843
@StanfordAILab @StanfordHAI @emilymbender on content curation and issues with the concept of context-agnostic modeling.
twitter.com/emilymbender/status/1429817716458672135
1980: "Do Artifacts Have Politics?" by Langdon Winner is a classic piece that connects technology with politics and social power, and identifies two distinct ways in which computer systems and technologies can be political.
cc.gatech.edu/~beki/cs4001/Winner.pdf
@StanfordAILab @StanfordHAI @MadamePratolung on the politics of language and labels
twitter.com/MadamePratolung/status/1428392092124987393?s=20
While this blog post isn't quite as old, 2008's "Gay marriage: the database engineering perspective" is essential reading for anyone designing systems for categorizing humans
web.archive.org/web/20100221005910/http://qntm.org/gay
See also the 2015 same-sex marriage update: qntm.org/support
1998: "An Ethics For The New Surveillance" by Gary T. Marx discusses the ethics of data collection and technological surveillance
web.mit.edu/gtmarx/www/ncolin5.html
1994: "Thinking through Technology: The Path between Engineering and Philosophy" by Carl Mitcham contrasts and synthesizes "the engineering approach" and "the humanities approach" to critical analysis of tech and develops criteria for evaluating tech
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo3683920.html
1984: "The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age" by Hans Jonas is a critique of (then) modern technological utopianism grounded in "man’s duties toward himself, his posterity, and the environment."
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo5953283.html