Anyone at #facct2025 want to go to the acropolis this afternoon?

Announcing our keynote speakers for #FAccT2025! 🎉

Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Brown)
Nathalie Smuha (KU Leuven)
Kristian Lum (Google DeepMind)
Molly Crockett (Princeton)

And the plenary panel will be on “Pathways of Change and the Future of Responsible AI"

I’d be really interested to know more about how airlines pick which movies to include in their onboard catalogues and why Almost Famous makes the cut 100% of the time.

I would pay actual money to have a conversation about something that isn’t US politics or AI and at no point brings those topics up. Wanna talk about the Roman Empire? Let’s go. Paw Patrol? Great. Your latest sourdough recipe? Amazing. Just please, a nice weekend break from politics and AI.

Has anyone built a utility to automatically export your following list from other social networks and search here for the same handle?

I’ve been trying to find a service that helps you go over various homeowners insurance policies and talk through which is best for me. Surely this must exist, but…

I’m hiring a research engineer to join my team at Google DeepMind to work on AI evals. Please pass the job ad on to anyone who might be interested!

boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...

Note: it is a fixed term, 12 month contract.

Bayesians!
Are you a member of ISBA? Are you into applications in the Social Sciences?

We are starting a new ISBA section on Bayesian Social Sciences. This requires a petition, signed by at least 30 ISBA members. You can add your name here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I hear we’re doing the thing over here now.