Kathleen Creel (@kathleenacreel) 's Twitter Profile
Kathleen Creel

@kathleenacreel

Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Computer Science @Northeastern. Machine learning & scientific knowledge; ethics of automated decision-making.

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Liam Bright (@lastpositivist) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I wrote a short story. I despair of publishing. It's too ponderous, I'm not a good enough writer to make it better. But still! I tried, and I hope it at least expresses something of myself. Please enjoy my Calvino fanfic, ravings on conventional geometry. liamkofibright.com/uploads/4/8/9/…

John Tasioulas (@jtasioulas) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🚨 JOB: Are you a moral philosopher interested in the ethics of AI? Here’s a 3 year post doc at The Institute for Ethics in AI in association with Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Deadline June 19th. We look forward to welcoming a new member to our group. Apply now! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

🚨 JOB: Are you a moral philosopher interested in the ethics of AI? Here’s a 3 year post doc at <a href="/EthicsInAI/">The Institute for Ethics in AI</a> in association with Corpus Christi College, Oxford. Deadline June 19th. We look forward to welcoming a new member to our group. Apply now! 

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…
Evan Dong (@evandongyx) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New paper in FAccT 2024 with Aaron Schein, Yixin Wang Nikhil Garg! Many discrimination auditing and electoral tasks use ML to predict race/ethnicity – by discretizing continuous scores. Can the discretization process cause bias in labels and downstream tasks? Yes!

New paper in FAccT 2024 with <a href="/AaronSchein/">Aaron Schein</a>, <a href="/yixinwang_/">Yixin Wang</a> <a href="/NikhGarg/">Nikhil Garg</a>! Many discrimination auditing and electoral tasks use ML to predict race/ethnicity – by discretizing continuous scores. Can the discretization process cause bias in labels and downstream tasks? Yes!
Alex Tamkin (@alextamkin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We're presenting Collective Constitutional AI at FAccT this year w/ Saffron Huang Divya Siddarth! I'm in Rio for the conference this week—reach out if you want to chat!

Severin Engelmann (@severinengelma1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Philosophers ACM FAccT! Seth Lazar and I are organizing dinner/drinks tomorrow evening (Wed, June 5). Let me know here if you're interested in joining and I'll send you a link to our Signal group! #FAccT24

Jonathan Birch (@birchlse) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I'm really pleased with this piece, which relates several of Taylor Swift's songs to the philosophy of grief, discussing them alongside Michael Cholbi's Grief: A Philosophical Guide. You can read it in Taylor Swift & Philosophy, out Sept. 6 (amzn.eu/d/03Hg5UgG).

I'm really pleased with this piece, which relates several of Taylor Swift's songs to the philosophy of grief, discussing them alongside <a href="/MichaelCholbi/">Michael Cholbi</a>'s Grief: A Philosophical Guide. You can read it in Taylor Swift &amp; Philosophy, out Sept. 6 (amzn.eu/d/03Hg5UgG).
Paulina Sliwa (@pasliwa) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Uni Wien is hiring a tenure track assistant prof in Applied Ethics – associated with the FWF Excellence Cluster Knowledge in Crisis. Come and be my colleague! Knowledge in Crisis jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-Tra…

Seth Lazar (@sethlazar) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Together with friends at Yale Law School (Scott Shapiro and Ketan Ramakrishnan) I’m organising a workshop on normative philosophy of computing, September 27-8. We’re looking for all kinds of analytical philosophical work on normative questions raised by computing. Not just AI ethics and

C Thi Nguyen (@add_hawk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This creates a distinctive new social harm: the possibility that you'll get shut out of *every* job search because your resume doesn't fit that one model.

C Thi Nguyen (@add_hawk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Kathleen Creel says: there are a bunch of different corporate products, but they're usually adaptations of one original model. Or even if they aren't, they're different models trained on the same base data set.

C Thi Nguyen (@add_hawk) 's Twitter Profile Photo

PS Kathleen Creel is a trained philosopher and software engineer who’s appointed as a prof in both phil and CS, and she has proposals for technical solutions to partially ameliorate these problems which are above my pay grade.

Kathleen Creel (@kathleenacreel) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Thank you C Thi Nguyen for this lovely thread! If people want to read more: - name artifacts paper by Vered Shwartz, Rachel Rudinger, & Tafjord: arxiv.org/abs/2004.03012 - our papers: bit.ly/algorithmiclev… arxiv.org/abs/2211.13972 arxiv.org/abs/2307.05862 arxiv.org/abs/2404.08592

David Colaço (@sadness_party) 's Twitter Profile Photo

My paper "On consistently assessing alleged mnemonic systems (or, why isn't immune memory "really" memory?)" has won the 2024 philosophy of memory essay prize.

rishi (@rishibommasani) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I will be at ICML M-F so let me know if you want to chat. These days I am thinking about data pricing for FMs, monitoring policy in several jurisdictions, and will soon be on the faculty job market. #ICML2024

Jonathan Birch (@birchlse) 's Twitter Profile Photo

🦀🐝🧠🤖 How should we make decisions when faced with systems of uncertain sentience? My new book The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI is available online for free at academic.oup.com/book/57949. Please download it! Just click on PDF to get a

🦀🐝🧠🤖 How should we make decisions when faced with systems of uncertain sentience? My new book The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI is available online for free at academic.oup.com/book/57949. Please download it! Just click on PDF to get a
Henry Taylor (@htaylorphil) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I seem to have made it into an Onion story! 'philosopher Henry Taylor told reporters Tuesday that his friends were constantly pitching him ideas for dilemmas' theonion.com/philosophers-f…

Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science (@umnmcps) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We’re welcoming in the start of a new semester today! Lots of great energy around. A reminder… registration is open for October's Philosophy of Science: Past, Present and Future conference. Join us in reflecting on the current state of the philosophy of science & its history