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A speaker at the annual NeurIPS AI group discussion has drawn criticism — not for her judgment about AI , but for the agency she relate to a Taiwanese student .
Duringher keynote presentationon “ How to optimise what matters most , ” MIT Media Lab professor Rosalind Picard ( pictured above ) included a chute quoting an apology throw by a “ Formosan student who is now expelled from top university ” for using AI , with the student purportedly say , “ Nobody at my school taught us morals or values . ”
The coast also includes a distinction from Picard saying , “ Most Taiwanese who I know are true and virtuously upright . ”
Google DeepMind scientist Jiao Sunshared a photoof the slide on X , committal to writing , “ Mitigating racial bias from LLMs is a lot easier than removing it from humans ! ” Yuandong Tian , a research scientist at Meta , reposted Sun ’s input andadded , “ This is expressed racial prejudice . How could this happen in NeurIPS ? ”
In Q&A footage that wasalso shared on X , an attendee noted that this was the only time anyone ’s nationality was reference in Picard ’s presentation , suggested that it was “ a minute offensive , ” and urged her to remove the point of reference if she gave the presentation again — a proffer that Picard seemed to agree with .
Picard also apologized ina statementin which she expressed “ sorrow ” for mention the student ’s nationality .
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“ I see that this was unnecessary , irrelevant to the pointedness I was make , and caused unintended disconfirming association , ” Picard wrote . “ I excuse for doing this and feel very badly about the hurt that this incident has caused . I am check from this experience , and I receive idea for how to seek to make amends to the community of interests . ”
