Rally against attacks, funding cuts and free speech attacks at the University of California, Berkeley.Credit: Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle/Getty
In February, I came to know that a National Science Foundation flagged off to investigate the federal government, along with more than 3,000 such grants, along with the funding of my US laboratory, because according to the American Senate Commerce Committee, it was “”.Promotion diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) or advanced new-marksist class war,
I admit that I am not sure what the “new-Marxist” means. I am a mathematics stupid, not an ideology. I began in 2009 as a physics head at Stanford University in California, which was entered by the theoretical elegance of the variance principles and the remanian manifolds. After all, whatever happened in Artificial Intelligence (AI) in my chosen field was not political. I learned, at the age of 20, that my mother, my grandfather and I all made a genetic mutation, compared to other ethnic groups is more common in people with Ashkanazi Jewish dynasty, which meets the greater risk of cancer. As I struggled to deal with Black News, I found one of the few things that made me feel better was a scientific paper that used the AI model.1Suggesting fully new directions for research.
This letter was a revelation for me; This hoped me that I can protect my family and myself with AI. I wrote to the researcher, who led the study, Daffne Kolar asked if I could work in his laboratory. And when he wrote back, the New Year’s Day, I knew that AI research would define the rest of my life. Neo-Marksism did not come out.
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The AI models are extraordinary, but they can also fail for some groups of people: if a model is trained only on data from men, for example, it can perform poorly when looking at women. So an important component of my work is creating the AI model that works for everyone. Researchers in my region ensure that algorithms do not reduce the risk of cancer for black people2That speech-recognition system understands you, whether you talk with a Texon tone or New York pronunciation3They are not blind to pedestrians with self-driving cars with dark skin4And that health care models perform well in both rural and urban parts of the United States5,
This is this aspect of my work that probably branded me as a potential neo-marksist by the Commerce Committee. But the pole shows that Many people share my concerns about AI biasAnd hundreds of AI experts have recently signed Open letter To confirm this concern. More broadly, ensuring that technologies work for everyone, there is not a controversial idea: why we test drugs on diverse population and use crash-test dummy of different sizes.
I will not move
In weeks since my grant, many students and colleagues have asked me what I will do. Here are two things that I will not do.
