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bwaber

@bwaber@hci.social

Media Lab Visiting Scientist, he/him, Senior Visiting Researcher @ Ritsumeikan, Co-Founder of Humanyze, former Senior Researcher @ HBS, author of People Analytics. Most days I'll also post a list of academic talks on AI, management, law, corporate governance, psychology, anthropology, ethics, and similar topics that I've listened to throughout the day (see #AcademicRunPlaylist for examples)

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It was a relaxing start to the long weekend, which meant I had a bunch of time to listen to talks for my #AcademicRunPlaylist! (1/11)

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First was an engaging panel on antitrust as an agent for change at Cristina Caffarra's antitrust conference with Sarah Cardell, Benoît Coeuré, Nuno Cunha Rodrigues, John Newman, and Aviv Nevo. There's great detail on recent cases undertaken by various authorities, as well as insight into how they view antitrust evolving moving forward https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5nQ-1drW58 (2/11)

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Next was an interesting talk by Guillaume Sartoretti on learning cooperation in large robotic multi-agent systems at the GRASP Lab https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61RKzhRy0yE (3/11)

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Next was an excellent discussion on how to shape the AI industry with Daron Acemoglu and @erikbryn (👋). These are two of the foremost economic thinkers in the space, and while some of the AI hype was still present there are many important ideas raised here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ssJtZk4fcA (4/11)

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Next was a great talk by Michael Whinston on whether regulators should focus on overall concentration or its change in horizontal mergers at the Mannheim Centre for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4QOJfv_srU (5/11)

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Next was an extremely informative panel on the interaction between big business and politics in Latin America at the @stiglercenter with Aldo Musacchio and Ben Schneider. There's incredibly rich historical context here and how state owned and private conglomerates have influenced political development in the region and how successful companies have navigated shifting regimes. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GumuAyXPSHU (6/11)

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Next was a nice talk by Uta Schönberg on the effects of changes in business taxation on firms, workers, and local labor markets in Germany at the CEPR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIWP3LV48m4 (7/11)

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Next was an excellent talk by Katherine Coffman on stereotypes and belief updating at . Coffman investigates gender gaps in beliefs and belief updating and through experiments shows that while feedback can be effective it doesn't completely close gaps in well-documented differences between male and female estimations of ability. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKTvMyGcyoU (8/11)

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Next was a fantastic talk by @rtushnet on trademark law in a time of doctrinal shifts at Duke. Tushnet clearly articulates why and how trademark law is different from copyright law, how recent judicial shifts in the US are impacting trademark law, and considers how drunk one would have to be to mistake a bottle of Jack Daniels for a parody dog toy. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmeK6j4wrkM (9/11) #law #trademark #US

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I can't believe they gave my kids a snow day, but at least it made WFH extra challenging! Also it gave me an excuse to listen to some talks for my to cool off! (1/10)

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First was an incredible conversation with Sanmi Koyejo on the illusion of LLM "emergent behaviors" on the TWIML podcast. Koyejo takes an absolute hammer to the poor statistical framing of these behaviors through a variety of experiments. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTTE8Dp1gNo (2/10)

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Next was an important talk by Shaolei Ren on designing environmentally responsible AI, explicitly integrating water usage and replenishment into optimization functions at the UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZiCHnGP2yY (3/10)

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Next was an interesting talk by @seongkook on bringing physical objects into the digital world at @hcil_umd https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vr1Ma_VYPbQ (4/10)

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Next was an excellent talk by @ananny with an account of the sociotechnical nature of algorithmic errors and the implications for practitioners and policy makers at UCI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thMQR8I2oyA (5/10)

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TIL this bonkers fact about the Japanese real estate bubble. The Nikkei is finally, almost 35 years later, nearly back to its all time high https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_asset_price_bubble

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News and updates from our first year of work at the Workers’ Algorithm Observatory https://medium.com/the-workers-algorithm-observatory/fairfare-is-1-and-growing-6e5ae8781477

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@andresmh This is incredible work

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Another packed day for me, but I was able to spend a bunch of it with these guys and still catch some talks for my ! (1/10)

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First was an informative talk by Keiko Honda on Japan and ESG at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. Honda provides a good intro to ESG more generally and deep insight into how ESG investing is developing in Japan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVVWcmdhAQY (2/10)

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Next was an intriguing talk by Christian Binz on using a variety of datasets to map product innovation networks at the Alliance Manchester Business School https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85s76wRNCJk (3/10)

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Next was an incredible talk by Brian Cheung on understanding recent progress in AI at MIT CBMM. This is a beautiful breakdown of the factors that are primarily responsible for recent progress (namely compute and data), and why changes in the configuration of these two factors likely drive a lot of the methodological choices we make and what is deemed an "effective" learning approach. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9YPVpeyctU (4/10)

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Next was an interesting talk by Yufei Tian on using commonsense knowledge base grounding to improve commonsense in language models at the USC Information Sciences Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTIKszPDzDk (5/10)

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Next was the popcorn-worthy discussion of the dynamite January US jobs report with friends of the playlist @aaronsojourner, Seth Harris, and Alicia Modestino at the Burnes Center for Social Change. There's a lot of parsing the numbers here to identify some potential future areas for concern, but make no mistake: this is a ridiculously strong labor and economic market https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRtqkELuaCY (6/10)

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Next was a nice short talk by Won Kyung Do on using soft optical tactile sensors for robotic dexterity at Stanford University https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QC7XsSipAU (7/10)

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Next was a great talk by @dhadfieldmenell on the challenge of specifying goals for algorithmic systems at the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society. Hadfield-Menell goes through many compelling projects here, and I particularly liked his study examining what happens when algorithms can only view some of the factors that humans are optimizing for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJfGiA8R4hM (8/10)

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Last was an important talk by Joshua Miele on disability-inclusive design and driving disability equity through open source at the University of Washington https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzAsBykLqrY (9/10)

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Wrapping up, the MIT Shaping the Future of Work Initiative also posted videos from their kickoff event today, including the excellent panel on the role of worker representatives in the direction of technology with Kathy Cramer, Liz Shuler, Kathleen Thelen, and E. Glen Weyl (also if you stick around for the Q&A you'll see a question from yours truly 🙂) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccVjGEjFHlM (10/10)

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