Op-eds
WIRED.
Red Teaming Improved GPT-4. Violet Teaming Goes Even Further
About how reducing harmful outputs isn't enough. AI companies must also invest in tools that can defend our institutions against the risks of their systems—and governence.
March 29, 2023
OneZero.
Platforms Are Still Flying Blind When It Comes to Societal Impact — Better Metrics Could Help
Shows how we can use metrics to better understand how platforms are impacting people and changing over time.
January 10, 2021
MIT Technology Review.
Making deepfake tools doesn’t have to be irresponsible. Here’s how.
Provides guidance for synthetic media tool developers, demonstrating how they can mitigate the potential for misuse. Suggests actions that academia, industry, government, media, and funders can take to incentivize this.
December 12, 2019
Bloomberg.
How to Stop Misinformation
An approach to threading the needle of privacy/encryption and protection against misinformation, focusing particularly on the context of India and WhatsApp.
January 25, 2019
Harvard Business Review.
Is Your Company Ready to Protect Its Reputation from Deep Fakes?
Why the business community should care about “deep fakes”, and why we all need to work together on mitigation.
November 8, 2018
The Washington Post.
Opinion : What’s worse than fake news? The distortion of reality itself.
High level overview of the societal impacts of advances in audio and video manipulation (“deep fakes”), and what can be done about it.
February 22, 2018
Selected Reports and Papers
Nature Machine Intelligence.
Advancing ethics review practices in AI research
December 14, 2023
NeurIPS Foundation Models for Decision Making Workshop.
Elicitation Inference Optimization for Multi-Principal-Agent Alignment
October 5, 2022
NeurIPS AI for Social Good Workshop.
The tension between openness and prudence in responsible AI research
December 14, 2019
The Thoughtful Technology Project.
Reducing malicious use of synthetic media research
Explores considerations relating to the malicious use of machine learning systems, and implications for potential release practices around such research.
July 27, 2019
Columbia Journalism Review.
What is credibility made of?
March 21, 2019
Center for Social Media Responsibility.
Iffy Quotient: A Platform Health Metric for Misinformation
October 10, 2018
Other Writing
Newsletter (Substack).
Governance of AI, with AI, through deliberative democracy
April 26, 2023
Medium.
The Path to Deepfake Harm
July 30, 2020
Medium.
Making Sense of Deepfake Mitigations
February 5, 2020
Alliance For Securing Democracy.
Deepfake Myths: Common Misconceptions About Synthetic Media
June 14, 2019
Tow Center for Digital Journalism.
What do we mean by “quality news?”
November 16, 2018
MisinfoCon.
Infrastructure against misinformation
June 5, 2017
Medium.
“Can we survive technology?”
June 1, 2017
Medium.
How to fix our news ecosystem
January 5, 2017
Medium.
Dying Journalism and Deadly Water
November 12, 2016