Postdoc opportunity: work on supply side of access to digital finance with Francis Annan povertyactionlab.org/careers/postdo…

Funding: $5k-450k for research on supply side of digital finance in lower/middle income countries. refind-isser.ug.edu.gh/RFP/1st%20Call…

Thought provoking paper: how should we measure poverty when some households are poor part of the year?

We’re incredibly excited to hear our panelists discuss AI and Discrimination in Consumer Credit Markets TOMORROW! See you there Matthew Bruckner consumerfinance.gov Nikita Aggarwal Talia Gillis ted janger Student Borrower Protection Center Prof Pamela Foohey Daniel Björkegren nat hoopes Upstart FinRegLab Nizan Geslevich Packin @VijayVRaghavan FTC

NetMob is back this fall! A fun conference on learning from mobile phone network data

Are you doing a ecoomics-related PhD? Interested in AI/ML? Then apply to our Summer Institute in Machine Learning! Learn from awesome faculty Meet other like-minded students Get exposed to cool, new ideas bit.ly/3ZRvTxr (march 24 deadline)

This is a neat paper using ML to quantify differences in how women and men are treated in social situations (NBER presentations)

How could AI affect developing economies? I think through possibilities in a new post. dan.bjorkegren.com/blog/2023/03/a…

🔥 Workshop announcement🔥 "Social foundations for statistics and machine learning" Tutorial lectures, frontier talks & panel discussion! Tentative program: maxkasy.github.io/home/social_fo… All are welcome to attend in person or virtually! Registration: econresearch.fra1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9B…

Lots of AI opportunities: the Gates Foundation is providing grants of $100k for projects on LLMs from low/middle income countries gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/cata…

Clever way to assess representation in LLMs

Please share this opportunity! Microsoft & DataDotOrg are awarding funding & support to successful organisations around the 🌎 who are training teams on #generativeAI to drive #socialimpact. ⏳There’s a Q&A Session on July 12th and deadline for submissions is August 15th…

Working on AI for global development? Join us at the World Bank in May. 📅Submit your proposal to speak by Feb 25

Join us to talk AI and global development next week!

New paper: How can you tell if a transformer has the right world model? We trained a transformer to predict directions for NYC taxi rides. The model was good. It could find shortest paths between new points But had it built a map of NYC? We reconstructed its map and found this:

Excited to announce the NeurIPS 2024 workshop on Behavioral Machine Learning! Are you working on AI methods that incorporate models of human behavior? Submit a paper by Sept 10! We invite submissions across CS fields and the behavioral sciences. More: behavioralml.org