The same day I talked about the growing discontent over AI, protesters in front of a major AI conf / trade show in Montreal made it quite clear public trust is.. rather thin. Now (yesterday) is the time to regulate.
NEW: The Walrus senior editor Samia Madwar speaks with @Maroussia_____, assistant professor in law and AI at Queen’s University and IVADO visiting scholar, about what really makes AI dangerous and how to hold the humans behind it accountable. https://t.co/ld5Nojr8bn
Who shapes AI — and who lives with its impact? AI governance expert Maroussia Lévesque joins Queen’s Law as an assistant professor July 1 to examine power and accountability in AI.
Read more: https://t.co/bar5XnPjk1
#QueensLaw@queensuResearch@Maroussia_____@ColleenFlood2
Montreal deep tech scene is getting hot!! Many recent hires of Cohere, Mistral, Periodic Labs, Poolside are all based in Montreal. And now, AMI will have an office here 🔥
It's a no-brainer, though. @Mila_Quebec has the highest concentration of deep learning expertise with interdisciplinary connections.
Thanks to recent US regulation changes on immigration, no more brain drain! Let's build more in Canada!
Larry Page & Sergey Brin had the PageRank paper (the algorithm behind Google Search) rejected. A reviewer called it “disjointed.”
Geoffrey Hinton's Dropout was rejected for being “too simple.”
I often feel the academic peer review is like a random process, especially when a paper is very innovative and changes the paradigm; it often looks "wrong" to reviewers in the old paradigm.
It was an honour to address the Permanent Council on the challenges and opportunities of #AI for democracy, and the role human rights. Thank you for the invitation.
Observations by the Artificial intelligence (AI) governance doctoral researcher at @Harvard_Law Maroussia Lévesque @Maroussia_____ on the future implementation of the Work Plan of the Voluntary Group for the Follow-up of the Inter-American Democratic Charter
In a breaking world, books are a labour of love. After 6 years, #TheWallsHaveEyes is (almost) here! It is a global story of border surveillance, where your body is your passport and matters of life and death are determined by algorithm.
📖May 21st https://t.co/tjt0tQ40nQ
This is the desert of the real.
In our open letter, we call for a 2 month global pause on the deployment of #GenAI and diffusion models to give everyone a chance to get up to speed with Jean Baudrillard's "Simulacra and Simulations."