Luciana Benotti
@lucianabenotti.bsky.social
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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
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📢MARK YOUR CALENDARS!🗓️
The Summit of AI in Latin America (SALA, formerly RIIAA) is happening in Quito, Ecuador, March 9-12, 2026, at USFQ!
Want to attend and apply for travel grants? Do so here before October 1st:
forms.gle/PgYUQ2urGNTs...
More details in thread 👇🏾🧵
The Summit of AI in Latin America (SALA, formerly RIIAA) is happening in Quito, Ecuador, March 9-12, 2026, at USFQ!
Want to attend and apply for travel grants? Do so here before October 1st:
forms.gle/PgYUQ2urGNTs...
More details in thread 👇🏾🧵
September 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM
📢MARK YOUR CALENDARS!🗓️
The Summit of AI in Latin America (SALA, formerly RIIAA) is happening in Quito, Ecuador, March 9-12, 2026, at USFQ!
Want to attend and apply for travel grants? Do so here before October 1st:
forms.gle/PgYUQ2urGNTs...
More details in thread 👇🏾🧵
The Summit of AI in Latin America (SALA, formerly RIIAA) is happening in Quito, Ecuador, March 9-12, 2026, at USFQ!
Want to attend and apply for travel grants? Do so here before October 1st:
forms.gle/PgYUQ2urGNTs...
More details in thread 👇🏾🧵
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We're building an amazing line up of speakers for the event, including Samy Bengio, @sashamtl.bsky.social Thamar Solorio, @lucianabenotti.bsky.social , and more to be announced soon!
September 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM
We're building an amazing line up of speakers for the event, including Samy Bengio, @sashamtl.bsky.social Thamar Solorio, @lucianabenotti.bsky.social , and more to be announced soon!
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In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world.
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world.
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Pls Repost!📢 Unsure about NLP Ethics? Hoping to attend #ACL2025? How about applying for a virtual registration subsidy? All 3? We hear you!✨Tutorial: Navigating Ethical Challenges in NLP✨🗓️Sun, Jul 27, 14:00–17:30 CEST📍@ Hall M, Vienna + 🌍Online (hybrid!) ethics.aclweb.org/tutorials/AC...
ACL 2025 Ethics Tutorial: Navigating Ethical Challenges in NLP - ACL Ethics
ethics.aclweb.org
May 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Pls Repost!📢 Unsure about NLP Ethics? Hoping to attend #ACL2025? How about applying for a virtual registration subsidy? All 3? We hear you!✨Tutorial: Navigating Ethical Challenges in NLP✨🗓️Sun, Jul 27, 14:00–17:30 CEST📍@ Hall M, Vienna + 🌍Online (hybrid!) ethics.aclweb.org/tutorials/AC...
It is this sunday!
📣 Excited that our C3NLP 2025 Workshop program is finalized — just one week to go! 🎉
Full program: c3nlp.github.io
Co-organized with @vinodkpg.bsky.social @sunipadev.bsky.social @lucianabenotti.bsky.social @yongcao.bsky.social @danielhers.bsky.social Laura Cabello, Ife Adebara, and Li Zhou. ❤️
Full program: c3nlp.github.io
Co-organized with @vinodkpg.bsky.social @sunipadev.bsky.social @lucianabenotti.bsky.social @yongcao.bsky.social @danielhers.bsky.social Laura Cabello, Ife Adebara, and Li Zhou. ❤️
May 3, 2025 at 2:12 AM
It is this sunday!
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In an attempt to preserve what remains of my sanity, I'm continuing to update the Academic Target Tracker map @elotroalex.bsky.social and I threw together last weekend. It includes info about academic workers who have been detained or had their visas revoked in recent weeks. You can find it here:
Academic Target Tracker - Google My Maps
A simple tracker for targeted international graduate students and faculty in American universities during the second Trump administration.
www.google.com
April 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
In an attempt to preserve what remains of my sanity, I'm continuing to update the Academic Target Tracker map @elotroalex.bsky.social and I threw together last weekend. It includes info about academic workers who have been detained or had their visas revoked in recent weeks. You can find it here:
'Like the unknowns accompanying the introduction of social media a generation ago, there has been limited research on AI’s academic merits and pitfalls for students."
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
There’s a Good Chance Your Kid Uses AI to Cheat
More students are hiding their secret weapon from parents and teachers, racking up top grades while AI chatbots do the work.
www.wsj.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:10 AM
'Like the unknowns accompanying the introduction of social media a generation ago, there has been limited research on AI’s academic merits and pitfalls for students."
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...
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It takes expertise to recognize expertise.
March 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
It takes expertise to recognize expertise.
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📌🇨🇱Si estás en Santiago o alrededores no te puedes perder las actividades abiertas a la comunidad que KHIPU tiene para ofrecer este año!!! Son gratuitas pero con capacidad limitada. Abrimos hilo 👇
March 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
📌🇨🇱Si estás en Santiago o alrededores no te puedes perder las actividades abiertas a la comunidad que KHIPU tiene para ofrecer este año!!! Son gratuitas pero con capacidad limitada. Abrimos hilo 👇
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EMNLP is currently seeking additional Senior Area Chairs (SACs). If you would like to help, please fill out this form, and share the link with others!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Volunteer to join EMNLP 2025 Senior Area Chair (SAC) Committee
Dear NLP Community,
Please use this form to express your interest in joining the EMNLP 2025 SAC committee. SACs will be responsible for overseeing the overall review process in their track, following ...
docs.google.com
March 1, 2025 at 4:26 PM
EMNLP is currently seeking additional Senior Area Chairs (SACs). If you would like to help, please fill out this form, and share the link with others!
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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How do we respond to these times of global disorder? We are offering £2,500 for discussion papers of around 4,000 words on this topical theme. Deadline for proposals: 14th April. Please pass on to interested networks
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/internationa...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/internationa...
February 28, 2025 at 4:50 PM
How do we respond to these times of global disorder? We are offering £2,500 for discussion papers of around 4,000 words on this topical theme. Deadline for proposals: 14th April. Please pass on to interested networks
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/internationa...
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/internationa...
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Y'all want people who're losing jobs and federal funding to advocate against philanthropists pouring in money? How do you think they'll feed themselves and families to fight for the future they want? Magically survive with no resources and become revolutionaries? Please get real.
February 28, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Y'all want people who're losing jobs and federal funding to advocate against philanthropists pouring in money? How do you think they'll feed themselves and families to fight for the future they want? Magically survive with no resources and become revolutionaries? Please get real.
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Finland is making a significant investment in the future of machine learning / artificial intelligence by hiring 20 professors (at various levels) www.ellisinstitute.fi/ellis-instit...
PI positions | ELLIS Institute Finland
ELLIS Institute Finland PI positions
www.ellisinstitute.fi
February 28, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Finland is making a significant investment in the future of machine learning / artificial intelligence by hiring 20 professors (at various levels) www.ellisinstitute.fi/ellis-instit...
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We are still looking for annotators! Please consider helping us out, either via filling out the form or sharing it more broadly 💜 Of course, selected annotators are financially compensated.
1/n UCLA NLP is researching how Black, LGBTQIA+, & women communities perceive and are affected by content moderation, as it relates to English-language social media content using reclaimed language. As part of this, we are recruiting annotators (forms.gle/KP6F9gDCo8Sk...) …
https://forms.gle/KP6F9gDCo8Skjs…
February 25, 2025 at 10:34 PM
We are still looking for annotators! Please consider helping us out, either via filling out the form or sharing it more broadly 💜 Of course, selected annotators are financially compensated.
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🔇 Will you be Rightscon in Taipei? If so, say hi, I'll be attending the conference in person for the first time & will be participating in these 2 sessions 👇🏼
All of them have to do with tech facilitated genocide. Such is the time we're in.
All of them have to do with tech facilitated genocide. Such is the time we're in.
February 21, 2025 at 12:50 AM
🔇 Will you be Rightscon in Taipei? If so, say hi, I'll be attending the conference in person for the first time & will be participating in these 2 sessions 👇🏼
All of them have to do with tech facilitated genocide. Such is the time we're in.
All of them have to do with tech facilitated genocide. Such is the time we're in.
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🚨 Do LLMs fall for spin in medical literature? 🤔
In our new preprint, we find that LLMs are susceptible to biased reporting of clinical treatment benefits in abstracts—more so than human experts. 📄🔍 [1/7]
Full Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.07963
🧵👇
In our new preprint, we find that LLMs are susceptible to biased reporting of clinical treatment benefits in abstracts—more so than human experts. 📄🔍 [1/7]
Full Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.07963
🧵👇
February 15, 2025 at 2:34 AM
🚨 Do LLMs fall for spin in medical literature? 🤔
In our new preprint, we find that LLMs are susceptible to biased reporting of clinical treatment benefits in abstracts—more so than human experts. 📄🔍 [1/7]
Full Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.07963
🧵👇
In our new preprint, we find that LLMs are susceptible to biased reporting of clinical treatment benefits in abstracts—more so than human experts. 📄🔍 [1/7]
Full Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.07963
🧵👇
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Totally unrelated to layoffs of highly qualified US federal employees, did you guys know that Korea has a whole website devoted to posting jobs for overseas research and professorial talent? No Korean-language knowledge necessary! global.hibrain.net?_hv=m
NETWORK FOR HIGH BRAIN(hibrain.net)
HIBRAINNET is a company that provides recruitment information for researchers in Korea, most of whom are high-level MBAs who want to become professors/researchers in most prestigious universities invi...
global.hibrain.net
February 15, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Totally unrelated to layoffs of highly qualified US federal employees, did you guys know that Korea has a whole website devoted to posting jobs for overseas research and professorial talent? No Korean-language knowledge necessary! global.hibrain.net?_hv=m
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Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
How a Canadian scientist and a venomous lizard helped pave the way for Ozempic - National | Globalnews.ca
In 1984, Dr. Daniel Drucker, an endocrinologist from the University of Toronto, discovered a hormone that helped pave the way for popular diabetes drugs such as Ozempic.
globalnews.ca
February 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic.
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
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New video 📽️ from me:
I had the privilege of being a keynote speaker at the International Association for Safe & Ethical AI.
I focused on solutions and ideas for moving forward.
They made it public, and here it is.
Enjoy, and hope it's helpful! 🤗
oecdtv.webtv-solution.com/embed-or-en-...
I had the privilege of being a keynote speaker at the International Association for Safe & Ethical AI.
I focused on solutions and ideas for moving forward.
They made it public, and here it is.
Enjoy, and hope it's helpful! 🤗
oecdtv.webtv-solution.com/embed-or-en-...
IASEAI’25 Safe & Ethical AI Conference (Plenary)
oecdtv.webtv-solution.com
February 8, 2025 at 2:45 PM
New video 📽️ from me:
I had the privilege of being a keynote speaker at the International Association for Safe & Ethical AI.
I focused on solutions and ideas for moving forward.
They made it public, and here it is.
Enjoy, and hope it's helpful! 🤗
oecdtv.webtv-solution.com/embed-or-en-...
I had the privilege of being a keynote speaker at the International Association for Safe & Ethical AI.
I focused on solutions and ideas for moving forward.
They made it public, and here it is.
Enjoy, and hope it's helpful! 🤗
oecdtv.webtv-solution.com/embed-or-en-...
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📣 Second Call for Papers! 🎉
We’re extending our CFP to February 6, 2025 ⏳—more time to submit your work on culture, society & NLP!
📍 C3NLP 2025 @ NAACL | Albuquerque, NM 🌎
📅 New Deadline: Feb 6, 2025
🔗 Workshop details: c3nlp.github.io
Submit now & join us! 📝✨
#NLP #C3NLP #CulturalNLP #NAACL2025
We’re extending our CFP to February 6, 2025 ⏳—more time to submit your work on culture, society & NLP!
📍 C3NLP 2025 @ NAACL | Albuquerque, NM 🌎
📅 New Deadline: Feb 6, 2025
🔗 Workshop details: c3nlp.github.io
Submit now & join us! 📝✨
#NLP #C3NLP #CulturalNLP #NAACL2025
C3NLP @ NAACL 2025
c3nlp.github.io
January 30, 2025 at 1:48 PM
📣 Second Call for Papers! 🎉
We’re extending our CFP to February 6, 2025 ⏳—more time to submit your work on culture, society & NLP!
📍 C3NLP 2025 @ NAACL | Albuquerque, NM 🌎
📅 New Deadline: Feb 6, 2025
🔗 Workshop details: c3nlp.github.io
Submit now & join us! 📝✨
#NLP #C3NLP #CulturalNLP #NAACL2025
We’re extending our CFP to February 6, 2025 ⏳—more time to submit your work on culture, society & NLP!
📍 C3NLP 2025 @ NAACL | Albuquerque, NM 🌎
📅 New Deadline: Feb 6, 2025
🔗 Workshop details: c3nlp.github.io
Submit now & join us! 📝✨
#NLP #C3NLP #CulturalNLP #NAACL2025
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I am so excited to share with you all the 2025 edition of our #AmericasNLP workshop!
Do not hesitate in submitting your amazing research paper on indigenous and low resource languages.
Submission deadline: March 7, 2025
turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/...
Do not hesitate in submitting your amazing research paper on indigenous and low resource languages.
Submission deadline: March 7, 2025
turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/...
January 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I am so excited to share with you all the 2025 edition of our #AmericasNLP workshop!
Do not hesitate in submitting your amazing research paper on indigenous and low resource languages.
Submission deadline: March 7, 2025
turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/...
Do not hesitate in submitting your amazing research paper on indigenous and low resource languages.
Submission deadline: March 7, 2025
turing.iimas.unam.mx/americasnlp/...
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🇩🇰 PhD Fellowship call for candidates who have a data science idea they'd like to pursue in Denmark
deadline: March 5
ddsa.dk/phdfellowshi...
I'd be happy to support an applicant interested in generalization/memorization, data attribution, synthetic text detection, or efficient approaches in NLP
deadline: March 5
ddsa.dk/phdfellowshi...
I'd be happy to support an applicant interested in generalization/memorization, data attribution, synthetic text detection, or efficient approaches in NLP
ddsa.dk
January 28, 2025 at 8:55 AM
🇩🇰 PhD Fellowship call for candidates who have a data science idea they'd like to pursue in Denmark
deadline: March 5
ddsa.dk/phdfellowshi...
I'd be happy to support an applicant interested in generalization/memorization, data attribution, synthetic text detection, or efficient approaches in NLP
deadline: March 5
ddsa.dk/phdfellowshi...
I'd be happy to support an applicant interested in generalization/memorization, data attribution, synthetic text detection, or efficient approaches in NLP
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Apropos of a co-panelist's remarks today:
If you're asking how do we get people to trust this technology, you're asking the wrong question.
Should be: How do we build technology that is trustworthy & sufficiently transparent so people can make informed decisions abt when to trust it.
If you're asking how do we get people to trust this technology, you're asking the wrong question.
Should be: How do we build technology that is trustworthy & sufficiently transparent so people can make informed decisions abt when to trust it.
January 25, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Apropos of a co-panelist's remarks today:
If you're asking how do we get people to trust this technology, you're asking the wrong question.
Should be: How do we build technology that is trustworthy & sufficiently transparent so people can make informed decisions abt when to trust it.
If you're asking how do we get people to trust this technology, you're asking the wrong question.
Should be: How do we build technology that is trustworthy & sufficiently transparent so people can make informed decisions abt when to trust it.