Victor Ojewale
@victorojewale.bsky.social
PhDing @BrownCS | Algorithm auditing & accountability | Understanding Algorithmic Systems | victorojewale.github.io/ | 9ja boy 🇳🇬
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Serena Booth (@reniebird.bsky.social) reflects on the challenge of collecting human preferences to steer AI systems and wonders if we are doing it all wrong. cntr.brown.edu/news/2025-11...
This is part 1 of 3 of CNTR researcher reflections on COLM 2025.
This is part 1 of 3 of CNTR researcher reflections on COLM 2025.
November 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Serena Booth (@reniebird.bsky.social) reflects on the challenge of collecting human preferences to steer AI systems and wonders if we are doing it all wrong. cntr.brown.edu/news/2025-11...
This is part 1 of 3 of CNTR researcher reflections on COLM 2025.
This is part 1 of 3 of CNTR researcher reflections on COLM 2025.
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Hi friends! After much thinking & doodling, I'm excited to share my new substack "Finding Peace in an AI-Everywhere World" 🌷 🌏
Here is the first article based on some reflections I had at COLM: michellelding.substack.com/p/who-has-th...
Here is the first article based on some reflections I had at COLM: michellelding.substack.com/p/who-has-th...
Who has the luxury to think?
Researchers are responsible for more than just papers.
michellelding.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Hi friends! After much thinking & doodling, I'm excited to share my new substack "Finding Peace in an AI-Everywhere World" 🌷 🌏
Here is the first article based on some reflections I had at COLM: michellelding.substack.com/p/who-has-th...
Here is the first article based on some reflections I had at COLM: michellelding.substack.com/p/who-has-th...
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Technologies like synthetic data, evaluations, and red-teaming are often framed as enhancing AI privacy and safety. But what if their effects lie elsewhere?
In a new paper with @realbrianjudge.bsky.social at #EAAMO25, we pull back the curtain on AI safety's toolkit. (1/n)
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22872
In a new paper with @realbrianjudge.bsky.social at #EAAMO25, we pull back the curtain on AI safety's toolkit. (1/n)
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22872
arxiv.org
October 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Technologies like synthetic data, evaluations, and red-teaming are often framed as enhancing AI privacy and safety. But what if their effects lie elsewhere?
In a new paper with @realbrianjudge.bsky.social at #EAAMO25, we pull back the curtain on AI safety's toolkit. (1/n)
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22872
In a new paper with @realbrianjudge.bsky.social at #EAAMO25, we pull back the curtain on AI safety's toolkit. (1/n)
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22872
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💡We kicked off the SoLaR workshop at #COLM2025 with a great opinion talk by @michelleding.bsky.social & Jo Gasior Kavishe (joint work with @victorojewale.bsky.social and
@geomblog.bsky.social
) on "Testing LLMs in a sandbox isn't responsible. Focusing on community use and needs is."
@geomblog.bsky.social
) on "Testing LLMs in a sandbox isn't responsible. Focusing on community use and needs is."
October 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
💡We kicked off the SoLaR workshop at #COLM2025 with a great opinion talk by @michelleding.bsky.social & Jo Gasior Kavishe (joint work with @victorojewale.bsky.social and
@geomblog.bsky.social
) on "Testing LLMs in a sandbox isn't responsible. Focusing on community use and needs is."
@geomblog.bsky.social
) on "Testing LLMs in a sandbox isn't responsible. Focusing on community use and needs is."
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Read our full opinion abstract here: cntr.brown.edu/news/2025-09...
Testing LLMs in a sandbox isn’t responsible. Focusing on community use and needs is.
cntr.brown.edu
October 9, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Read our full opinion abstract here: cntr.brown.edu/news/2025-09...
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Hi #COLM2025! 🇨🇦 I will be presenting a talk on the importance of community-driven LLM evaluations based on an opinion abstract I wrote with Jo Kavishe, @victorojewale.bsky.social and @geomblog.bsky.social tomorrow at 9:30am in 524b for solar-colm.github.io
Hope to see you there!
Hope to see you there!
Third Workshop on Socially Responsible Language Modelling Research (SoLaR) 2025
COLM 2025 in-person Workshop, October 10th at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal, Canada
solar-colm.github.io
October 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Hi #COLM2025! 🇨🇦 I will be presenting a talk on the importance of community-driven LLM evaluations based on an opinion abstract I wrote with Jo Kavishe, @victorojewale.bsky.social and @geomblog.bsky.social tomorrow at 9:30am in 524b for solar-colm.github.io
Hope to see you there!
Hope to see you there!
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Towards AI Accountability Infrastructure: Gaps and Opportunities in AI Audit Tooling by @victorojewale.bsky.social @rbsteed.com @briana-v.bsky.social @abeba.bsky.social @rajiinio.bsky.social compares the landscape of AI audit tools (tools.auditing-ai.com) to the actual needs of AI auditors.
July 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Towards AI Accountability Infrastructure: Gaps and Opportunities in AI Audit Tooling by @victorojewale.bsky.social @rbsteed.com @briana-v.bsky.social @abeba.bsky.social @rajiinio.bsky.social compares the landscape of AI audit tools (tools.auditing-ai.com) to the actual needs of AI auditors.
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Very excited to see this piece out in @techpolicypress.bsky.social today. This was written together with @r-jy.bsky.social and Kate Elizabeth Creasey (a historian here at Brown), and calls out what we think is a scary and interesting rhetorical shift.
www.techpolicy.press/sovereignty-...
www.techpolicy.press/sovereignty-...
'Sovereignty' Myth-Making in the AI Race | TechPolicy.Press
Tech companies stand to gain by encouraging the illusion of a race for 'sovereign' AI, write Rui-Jie Yew, Kate Elizabeth Creasey, Suresh Venkatasubramanian.
www.techpolicy.press
July 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Very excited to see this piece out in @techpolicypress.bsky.social today. This was written together with @r-jy.bsky.social and Kate Elizabeth Creasey (a historian here at Brown), and calls out what we think is a scary and interesting rhetorical shift.
www.techpolicy.press/sovereignty-...
www.techpolicy.press/sovereignty-...
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Join us for the Eval Eval Coalition Social at @facct.bsky.social tomorrow Tuesday June 24th from 4-4:30 pm during the coffee break! We would love to have you join us and we look forward to seeing you there!! #FAccT2025 #EvalEval
June 23, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Join us for the Eval Eval Coalition Social at @facct.bsky.social tomorrow Tuesday June 24th from 4-4:30 pm during the coffee break! We would love to have you join us and we look forward to seeing you there!! #FAccT2025 #EvalEval
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I'm incredibly fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with this team. Truly one of the best collaborative experiences I have had to date (special s/o to our MVP @mkgerchick.bsky.social for leading this)!
Check out Marissa's talk on our paper "auditing the audits" if you're at #FAccT2025!
⬇️
Check out Marissa's talk on our paper "auditing the audits" if you're at #FAccT2025!
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Excited to be at #FAccT2025 and honored to see our work “auditing the audits” resulting from one of the first enacted AI laws in the U.S. received an honorable mention! I’ll be presenting this work on Wednesday at 11 AM Athens time: programs.sigchi.org/facct/2025/p...
June 23, 2025 at 12:51 PM
I'm incredibly fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with this team. Truly one of the best collaborative experiences I have had to date (special s/o to our MVP @mkgerchick.bsky.social for leading this)!
Check out Marissa's talk on our paper "auditing the audits" if you're at #FAccT2025!
⬇️
Check out Marissa's talk on our paper "auditing the audits" if you're at #FAccT2025!
⬇️
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The welcome event and first keynote are getting started! 🎉🦉
Our first keynote is by Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Brown University) @geomblog.bsky.social
"Are we winning yet? FAccT, AI governance, and the shape of what comes next."
#FAccT2025
Our first keynote is by Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Brown University) @geomblog.bsky.social
"Are we winning yet? FAccT, AI governance, and the shape of what comes next."
#FAccT2025
June 23, 2025 at 6:16 AM
The welcome event and first keynote are getting started! 🎉🦉
Our first keynote is by Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Brown University) @geomblog.bsky.social
"Are we winning yet? FAccT, AI governance, and the shape of what comes next."
#FAccT2025
Our first keynote is by Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Brown University) @geomblog.bsky.social
"Are we winning yet? FAccT, AI governance, and the shape of what comes next."
#FAccT2025
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It was an honor and a pleasure to deliver this keynote. And perhaps one of the hardest talks I've had to design.
The welcome event and first keynote are getting started! 🎉🦉
Our first keynote is by Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Brown University) @geomblog.bsky.social
"Are we winning yet? FAccT, AI governance, and the shape of what comes next."
#FAccT2025
Our first keynote is by Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Brown University) @geomblog.bsky.social
"Are we winning yet? FAccT, AI governance, and the shape of what comes next."
#FAccT2025
June 23, 2025 at 8:52 AM
It was an honor and a pleasure to deliver this keynote. And perhaps one of the hardest talks I've had to design.
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Please come see us at the RC Trust Networking Event!
You can sign up with the QR Codes around the venues and get some free drinks! 🙂↕️
#FAccT2025
You can sign up with the QR Codes around the venues and get some free drinks! 🙂↕️
#FAccT2025
Reminder that we have multiple social events happening this evening, all happening *outside* the conference venue!
Social: RC-Trust Networking Reception for the FAccT Community
Social: Generative AI Risks + Red-Teaming
Social: AI Workers' Inquiry
facctconference.org/2025/sociale...
Social: RC-Trust Networking Reception for the FAccT Community
Social: Generative AI Risks + Red-Teaming
Social: AI Workers' Inquiry
facctconference.org/2025/sociale...
June 23, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Please come see us at the RC Trust Networking Event!
You can sign up with the QR Codes around the venues and get some free drinks! 🙂↕️
#FAccT2025
You can sign up with the QR Codes around the venues and get some free drinks! 🙂↕️
#FAccT2025
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Reminder that we have multiple social events happening this evening, all happening *outside* the conference venue!
Social: RC-Trust Networking Reception for the FAccT Community
Social: Generative AI Risks + Red-Teaming
Social: AI Workers' Inquiry
facctconference.org/2025/sociale...
Social: RC-Trust Networking Reception for the FAccT Community
Social: Generative AI Risks + Red-Teaming
Social: AI Workers' Inquiry
facctconference.org/2025/sociale...
June 23, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Reminder that we have multiple social events happening this evening, all happening *outside* the conference venue!
Social: RC-Trust Networking Reception for the FAccT Community
Social: Generative AI Risks + Red-Teaming
Social: AI Workers' Inquiry
facctconference.org/2025/sociale...
Social: RC-Trust Networking Reception for the FAccT Community
Social: Generative AI Risks + Red-Teaming
Social: AI Workers' Inquiry
facctconference.org/2025/sociale...
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The deadline for proposing a social for #FAccT2025 has been extended! Get your proposals in by Wednesday, May 21.
facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial
Social Chairs will provide assistance for accepted socials with coordination, translation, suggested venues, + other logistics to support your event.
facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial
Social Chairs will provide assistance for accepted socials with coordination, translation, suggested venues, + other logistics to support your event.
May 16, 2025 at 2:02 PM
The deadline for proposing a social for #FAccT2025 has been extended! Get your proposals in by Wednesday, May 21.
facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial
Social Chairs will provide assistance for accepted socials with coordination, translation, suggested venues, + other logistics to support your event.
facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial
Social Chairs will provide assistance for accepted socials with coordination, translation, suggested venues, + other logistics to support your event.
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The deadline to submit proposals for #FAccT2025 socials is tomorrow, May 9th! Please send us your ideas!
Our call for #FAccT2025 socials is live!
If you have an idea for a social gathering, we'd love to hear about it. These could be in-person or virtual coffee meetups, lunch or dinner gatherings, happy hours, walks and hikes, and whatever other ideas you have!
facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial
If you have an idea for a social gathering, we'd love to hear about it. These could be in-person or virtual coffee meetups, lunch or dinner gatherings, happy hours, walks and hikes, and whatever other ideas you have!
facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial
Please help spread the word! Attending @facct.bsky.social 25 and want to host an in‑person or virtual social? Submit a short application to our Call for Socials to receive organizer support! facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial
We welcome socials based on both research topics and personal identities✨
We welcome socials based on both research topics and personal identities✨
May 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The deadline to submit proposals for #FAccT2025 socials is tomorrow, May 9th! Please send us your ideas!
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So proud of Victor for attending his first CHI and presenting this work with such skill & confidence :)
It remains such a joy to be part of his academic journey!
It remains such a joy to be part of his academic journey!
Excited to present "Towards AI Accountability Infrastructure: Gaps and Opportunities in AI Audit Tooling" at #CHI2025 tomorrow(today)!
🗓 Tue, 29 Apr | 9:48–10:00 AM JST (Mon, 28 Apr | 8:48–9:00 PM ET)
📍 G401 (Pacifico North 4F)
📄 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
🗓 Tue, 29 Apr | 9:48–10:00 AM JST (Mon, 28 Apr | 8:48–9:00 PM ET)
📍 G401 (Pacifico North 4F)
📄 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
April 30, 2025 at 12:42 AM
So proud of Victor for attending his first CHI and presenting this work with such skill & confidence :)
It remains such a joy to be part of his academic journey!
It remains such a joy to be part of his academic journey!
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go check out our paper if you're at #CHI2025
Excited to present "Towards AI Accountability Infrastructure: Gaps and Opportunities in AI Audit Tooling" at #CHI2025 tomorrow(today)!
🗓 Tue, 29 Apr | 9:48–10:00 AM JST (Mon, 28 Apr | 8:48–9:00 PM ET)
📍 G401 (Pacifico North 4F)
📄 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
🗓 Tue, 29 Apr | 9:48–10:00 AM JST (Mon, 28 Apr | 8:48–9:00 PM ET)
📍 G401 (Pacifico North 4F)
📄 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
April 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
go check out our paper if you're at #CHI2025
Excited to present "Towards AI Accountability Infrastructure: Gaps and Opportunities in AI Audit Tooling" at #CHI2025 tomorrow(today)!
🗓 Tue, 29 Apr | 9:48–10:00 AM JST (Mon, 28 Apr | 8:48–9:00 PM ET)
📍 G401 (Pacifico North 4F)
📄 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
🗓 Tue, 29 Apr | 9:48–10:00 AM JST (Mon, 28 Apr | 8:48–9:00 PM ET)
📍 G401 (Pacifico North 4F)
📄 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
April 28, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Excited to present "Towards AI Accountability Infrastructure: Gaps and Opportunities in AI Audit Tooling" at #CHI2025 tomorrow(today)!
🗓 Tue, 29 Apr | 9:48–10:00 AM JST (Mon, 28 Apr | 8:48–9:00 PM ET)
📍 G401 (Pacifico North 4F)
📄 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
🗓 Tue, 29 Apr | 9:48–10:00 AM JST (Mon, 28 Apr | 8:48–9:00 PM ET)
📍 G401 (Pacifico North 4F)
📄 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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Excited to be presenting a new paper with @harinisuresh.bsky.social on the extremely critical topic of technical prevention/governance of adult AI generated non-consensual intimate images aka "deepfake pornography" at #CHI2025 chi-staig.github.io on 4/27 10:15-11:15 JST arxiv.org/abs/2504.17663 🧵
The Malicious Technical Ecosystem: Exposing Limitations in Technical Governance of AI-Generated Non-Consensual Intimate Images of Adults
In this paper, we adopt a survivor-centered approach to locate and dissect the role of sociotechnical AI governance in preventing AI-Generated Non-Consensual Intimate Images (AIG-NCII) of adults, coll...
arxiv.org
April 25, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Excited to be presenting a new paper with @harinisuresh.bsky.social on the extremely critical topic of technical prevention/governance of adult AI generated non-consensual intimate images aka "deepfake pornography" at #CHI2025 chi-staig.github.io on 4/27 10:15-11:15 JST arxiv.org/abs/2504.17663 🧵
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Extremely proud to finally launch the SRC Handbook: a project that I began with @geomblog.bsky.social and Julia Netter 1 year ago to bring topics of AI governance, privacy, and accessibility etc. into Brown's CS courses. We now have an interdisciplinary team of 22 students on product/research! 🌷
Can't believe we have survived an academic year: cntr.brown.edu/news/2025-04...
The CNTR celebrates its one-year-anniversary and launches the Socially Responsible Computing Handbook.
The horizon is wide open for Brown’s young and hungry Center for Technological Responsibility, Re-imagination, and Redesign (CNTR).
cntr.brown.edu
April 25, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Extremely proud to finally launch the SRC Handbook: a project that I began with @geomblog.bsky.social and Julia Netter 1 year ago to bring topics of AI governance, privacy, and accessibility etc. into Brown's CS courses. We now have an interdisciplinary team of 22 students on product/research! 🌷
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Our call for #FAccT2025 socials is live!
If you have an idea for a social gathering, we'd love to hear about it. These could be in-person or virtual coffee meetups, lunch or dinner gatherings, happy hours, walks and hikes, and whatever other ideas you have!
facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial
If you have an idea for a social gathering, we'd love to hear about it. These could be in-person or virtual coffee meetups, lunch or dinner gatherings, happy hours, walks and hikes, and whatever other ideas you have!
facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial
Please help spread the word! Attending @facct.bsky.social 25 and want to host an in‑person or virtual social? Submit a short application to our Call for Socials to receive organizer support! facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial
We welcome socials based on both research topics and personal identities✨
We welcome socials based on both research topics and personal identities✨
ACM FAccT 2025 Call for Socials
facctconference.org
April 22, 2025 at 9:15 PM
Our call for #FAccT2025 socials is live!
If you have an idea for a social gathering, we'd love to hear about it. These could be in-person or virtual coffee meetups, lunch or dinner gatherings, happy hours, walks and hikes, and whatever other ideas you have!
facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial
If you have an idea for a social gathering, we'd love to hear about it. These could be in-person or virtual coffee meetups, lunch or dinner gatherings, happy hours, walks and hikes, and whatever other ideas you have!
facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial
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Please help spread the word! Attending @facct.bsky.social 25 and want to host an in‑person or virtual social? Submit a short application to our Call for Socials to receive organizer support! facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial
We welcome socials based on both research topics and personal identities✨
We welcome socials based on both research topics and personal identities✨
ACM FAccT 2025 Call for Socials
facctconference.org
April 22, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Please help spread the word! Attending @facct.bsky.social 25 and want to host an in‑person or virtual social? Submit a short application to our Call for Socials to receive organizer support! facctconference.org/2025/cfsocial
We welcome socials based on both research topics and personal identities✨
We welcome socials based on both research topics and personal identities✨
Excited to be joining a great lineup of speakers at the Technical AI Governance workshop in Vancouver this summer
If you are working on AI governance, definitely consider submitting!
#ICML2025
If you are working on AI governance, definitely consider submitting!
#ICML2025
📣We’re thrilled to announce the first workshop on Technical AI Governance (TAIG) at #ICML2025 this July in Vancouver! Join us (& this stellar list of speakers) in bringing together technical & policy experts to shape the future of AI governance! www.taig-icml.com
April 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Excited to be joining a great lineup of speakers at the Technical AI Governance workshop in Vancouver this summer
If you are working on AI governance, definitely consider submitting!
#ICML2025
If you are working on AI governance, definitely consider submitting!
#ICML2025
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Is your #FAccT2025 paper draft accessible? This is important for both peer review and camera ready publications.
Check out this guide from CHI with tips for both Word and LaTeX users!
sigchi.org/resources/gu...
Check out this guide from CHI with tips for both Word and LaTeX users!
sigchi.org/resources/gu...
Accessibility guide for authors
Accessible submissions are essential to make your work readable by the greatest number of readers. This includes taking steps as you author your document, and making your submitted PDF accessible.
sigchi.org
January 6, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Is your #FAccT2025 paper draft accessible? This is important for both peer review and camera ready publications.
Check out this guide from CHI with tips for both Word and LaTeX users!
sigchi.org/resources/gu...
Check out this guide from CHI with tips for both Word and LaTeX users!
sigchi.org/resources/gu...