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Laura Weidinger: Ethical Risks, Harms, and Alignment of Large Language Models

The Gradient: Perspectives on AI

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How Do We Measure How Ethical AI Is?

What I really focus on is analysis and measurement, which is maybe not what you expect when people talk about AI ethics. How do we know if one system's better than another system when we've succeeded? And usually these kinds of questions are addressed very far downstream. We don't really have a kind of application that you can study in the real world by embedding user studies or something like that. So it's really about doing analysis at this more upstream stage where we try to say, well, a language model, for example, that is fine-tuned in this way or that way... Which of what are the likely implications this might have for a further downstream kind of effect?

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