David Brewster

phd student @harvard researching evolutionary dynamics

[Christine Webb @cwebb218]

TEDx talk just went live!

Let me know what you make of it 🐒

https://t.co/nmIw8fuEFA

[Thilo Hagendorff @ThiloHagendorff]

New paper in @NatureComms: while AI fairness research usually focuses on humans, we show that LLMs also discriminate against animals - a bias that has barely been studied so far. Thanks to my co-authors Monika Jotautaitė, @brewster_tw, and @LuciusCaviola.

https://t.co/hf6n2UFfXs

[Lucius Caviola @LuciusCaviola]

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Everyone talks about AI bias. We routinely test LLMs for racism, sexism, and political bias.

But what about biases that society itself largely accepts?

In our new Nature Communications paper, we studied one example: speciesism. 🧵

[Christine Webb @cwebb218]

My new book THE ARROGANT APE is an impassioned celebration of humility before the living world, leading us to a new understanding of other species—and ourselves. The book is available for preorder now and will go on sale September 2. https://t.co/GYWz2T32rr

[Quanta Magazine @QuantaMagazine]

A new mathematical framework demonstrates that new species tend to evolve in sudden, rapid bursts instead of through slow, gradual change. @buehlersciwri reports: https://t.co/iN9FqbmT7p

[New papers in Network Science @networkspapers]

PNAS Nexus: Maintaining diversity in structured populations
https://t.co/aBoO6xMC9M

[David Brewster @brewster_tw]

Our latest paper in @PLOSCompBiol establishes bounds for mutant fixation times on any population structure.

Joint work with @DrMANowak and Josef Tkadlec

https://t.co/klpKvM9mjv