Vered Shwartz
@veredshwartz.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at @cs.ubc.ca and @vectorinstitute.ai working on Natural Language Processing. Book: https://lostinautomatictranslation.com/
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November 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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✍️ Write a book review for Babel!
Review opportunities:
📗 Danny Bate - Why Q Needs U
📕 Rupert Gavin - Amorous or Loving?
📘 Vered Shwartz - Lost in Automatic Translation
📧 Get in touch at [email protected]
Review opportunities:
📗 Danny Bate - Why Q Needs U
📕 Rupert Gavin - Amorous or Loving?
📘 Vered Shwartz - Lost in Automatic Translation
📧 Get in touch at [email protected]
October 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
✍️ Write a book review for Babel!
Review opportunities:
📗 Danny Bate - Why Q Needs U
📕 Rupert Gavin - Amorous or Loving?
📘 Vered Shwartz - Lost in Automatic Translation
📧 Get in touch at [email protected]
Review opportunities:
📗 Danny Bate - Why Q Needs U
📕 Rupert Gavin - Amorous or Loving?
📘 Vered Shwartz - Lost in Automatic Translation
📧 Get in touch at [email protected]
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The recent UBC interview with Dr. Vered Shwartz (@veredshwartz.bsky.social), Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia and CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute, shares important reflections on how AI chatbots can influence users’ decisions and behaviour. 🤖💬
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Dr. Vered Shwartz, UBC professor of computer science and author of "Lost in Automatic Translation", on the potential for #AI chatbots to cause harm to users as well as potential safeguards for the future. @cs.ubc.ca
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Can AI persuade you to go vegan—or harm yourself?
Large language models are more persuasive than humans: UBC computer scientist Dr. Vered Shwartz discusses safeguards for the future of AI.
science.ubc.ca
November 5, 2025 at 4:23 PM
The recent UBC interview with Dr. Vered Shwartz (@veredshwartz.bsky.social), Assistant Professor at the University of British Columbia and CIFAR AI Chair at the Vector Institute, shares important reflections on how AI chatbots can influence users’ decisions and behaviour. 🤖💬
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🎙 In our new episode, we spoke with @veredshwartz.bsky.social (Assistant Professor of Computer Science at The University of British Columbia) and highlighted her book Lost in Automatic Translation: Navigating Life in English in the Age of Language Technologies. (1/7🧵)
October 31, 2025 at 4:09 PM
🎙 In our new episode, we spoke with @veredshwartz.bsky.social (Assistant Professor of Computer Science at The University of British Columbia) and highlighted her book Lost in Automatic Translation: Navigating Life in English in the Age of Language Technologies. (1/7🧵)
It was such a pleasure talking to Jekaterina and Malikeh about cultural biases in AI. Thank you for hosting me!
🎙️ New episode of Women in AI Research (WiAIR) out now!
We sit down with @veredshwartz.bsky.social (Asst prof and CIFAR AI Chair) to talk about the important challenge in AI — cultural bias. 🌍
#nlproc #wiair #wiairpodcast
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We sit down with @veredshwartz.bsky.social (Asst prof and CIFAR AI Chair) to talk about the important challenge in AI — cultural bias. 🌍
#nlproc #wiair #wiairpodcast
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October 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
It was such a pleasure talking to Jekaterina and Malikeh about cultural biases in AI. Thank you for hosting me!
I'm super excited to update that "Lost in Automatic Translation" is now available as an audiobook! 🔊📖
It's currently on Audible:
www.audible.ca/pd/B0FXY8VQX5
Stay tuned (lostinautomatictranslation.com) for more retailers, including Amazon, iTunes, etc., and public libraries! 📚
It's currently on Audible:
www.audible.ca/pd/B0FXY8VQX5
Stay tuned (lostinautomatictranslation.com) for more retailers, including Amazon, iTunes, etc., and public libraries! 📚
October 28, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I'm super excited to update that "Lost in Automatic Translation" is now available as an audiobook! 🔊📖
It's currently on Audible:
www.audible.ca/pd/B0FXY8VQX5
Stay tuned (lostinautomatictranslation.com) for more retailers, including Amazon, iTunes, etc., and public libraries! 📚
It's currently on Audible:
www.audible.ca/pd/B0FXY8VQX5
Stay tuned (lostinautomatictranslation.com) for more retailers, including Amazon, iTunes, etc., and public libraries! 📚
Come work with us!
UBC Computer Science invites applications for up to two full-time tenure-track positions with the following priority areas: visualization, robotics, reinforcement learning, data management, and data mining. Applications are due Wed Dec 10, 2025. Learn more: www.cs.ubc.ca/our-departme...
October 27, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Come work with us!
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We’re excited to feature @veredshwartz.bsky.social , Asst Prof at @cs.ubc.ca, CIFAR AI Chair @vectorinstitute.ai, and author of lostinautomatictranslation.com, in the next @wiair.bsky.social episode.
October 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
We’re excited to feature @veredshwartz.bsky.social , Asst Prof at @cs.ubc.ca, CIFAR AI Chair @vectorinstitute.ai, and author of lostinautomatictranslation.com, in the next @wiair.bsky.social episode.
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People more influenced by advice from AI than fellow humans, UBC study finds
People more influenced by advice from AI than fellow humans, UBC study finds
Dr. Vered Shwartz, research lead and assistant professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia, said she wanted to quantify to what extent AI chatbots were persuasive after noticing an uptick in AI scams and the technology being used maliciously.
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October 4, 2025 at 2:30 AM
People more influenced by advice from AI than fellow humans, UBC study finds
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Theory of Mind can make LLMs better at dialogue: more strategic, goal-oriented, enabling long-horizon adaptation!
In our new paper, we introduce ToMA, a dialogue lookahead training framework that enables the LLMs to generate mental states that are maximally useful for achieving dialogue goals.🧵👇
In our new paper, we introduce ToMA, a dialogue lookahead training framework that enables the LLMs to generate mental states that are maximally useful for achieving dialogue goals.🧵👇
October 2, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Theory of Mind can make LLMs better at dialogue: more strategic, goal-oriented, enabling long-horizon adaptation!
In our new paper, we introduce ToMA, a dialogue lookahead training framework that enables the LLMs to generate mental states that are maximally useful for achieving dialogue goals.🧵👇
In our new paper, we introduce ToMA, a dialogue lookahead training framework that enables the LLMs to generate mental states that are maximally useful for achieving dialogue goals.🧵👇
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@veredshwartz.bsky.social author of ‘Lost in Automatic Translation’, explores the opportunities and pitfalls of language technologies, from automatic translation tools to large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. 🤖
Read the full interview 🔗 https://cup.org/4n8ilt4
Read the full interview 🔗 https://cup.org/4n8ilt4
September 23, 2025 at 3:51 PM
@veredshwartz.bsky.social author of ‘Lost in Automatic Translation’, explores the opportunities and pitfalls of language technologies, from automatic translation tools to large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. 🤖
Read the full interview 🔗 https://cup.org/4n8ilt4
Read the full interview 🔗 https://cup.org/4n8ilt4
I just published Are we expecting too much of LLMs? An analysis of prompts in NLP papers medium.com/p/are-we-exp...
Are we expecting too much of LLMs? An analysis of prompts in NLP papers
I’ve been having this uneasy feeling that we — as in the NLP community — are overly relying on LLMs to perform any text processing…
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September 3, 2025 at 2:15 AM
I just published Are we expecting too much of LLMs? An analysis of prompts in NLP papers medium.com/p/are-we-exp...
August 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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*SEM 2025 final call for ARR COMMITMENTS! Final chance to commit to *SEM 2025, co-located with EMNLP in Suzhou!! ARR COMMITMENT deadline is August 22, 2025. Give your strong-but-overlooked EMNLP paper the second chance it deserves! 😉 starsem2025.github.io/cfp
#NLP #NLProc
#NLP #NLProc
Call for Papers
Official website of the 14th Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics
starsem2025.github.io
August 21, 2025 at 3:23 AM
*SEM 2025 final call for ARR COMMITMENTS! Final chance to commit to *SEM 2025, co-located with EMNLP in Suzhou!! ARR COMMITMENT deadline is August 22, 2025. Give your strong-but-overlooked EMNLP paper the second chance it deserves! 😉 starsem2025.github.io/cfp
#NLP #NLProc
#NLP #NLProc
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Questions if Google Translate and ChatGPT will help us master foreign languages and better understand one another, or make language learning obsolete.
Lost in Automatic Translation by @veredshwartz.bsky.social, Coming Soon
cup.org/45lmrI2
#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦 #AI #LLMs #ArtificalIntelligence
Lost in Automatic Translation by @veredshwartz.bsky.social, Coming Soon
cup.org/45lmrI2
#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦 #AI #LLMs #ArtificalIntelligence
August 15, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Questions if Google Translate and ChatGPT will help us master foreign languages and better understand one another, or make language learning obsolete.
Lost in Automatic Translation by @veredshwartz.bsky.social, Coming Soon
cup.org/45lmrI2
#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦 #AI #LLMs #ArtificalIntelligence
Lost in Automatic Translation by @veredshwartz.bsky.social, Coming Soon
cup.org/45lmrI2
#LangSky #Linguistics 🐦🐦 #AI #LLMs #ArtificalIntelligence
I'm not sure yet if I'll make it to #IJCAI2025 because of the planned Air Canada strike, but if you're attending, you can order my book with the IJCAI discount (30% off and free shipping) through mid-September:
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
August 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I'm not sure yet if I'll make it to #IJCAI2025 because of the planned Air Canada strike, but if you're attending, you can order my book with the IJCAI discount (30% off and free shipping) through mid-September:
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
www.cambridge.org/us/universit...
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Congratulations to Shruthi Chockkalingam, Seyed Hossein Alavi, Raymond Ng & @veredshwartz.bsky.social for receiving an Outstanding Paper Award at the Social Influence in Conversations (SICon) Workshop at the 2025 Association for Computational Linguistics Conference! #ACL2025
August 1, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Congratulations to Shruthi Chockkalingam, Seyed Hossein Alavi, Raymond Ng & @veredshwartz.bsky.social for receiving an Outstanding Paper Award at the Social Influence in Conversations (SICon) Workshop at the 2025 Association for Computational Linguistics Conference! #ACL2025
I just finished listening to the audiobook of "Empire of AI" by @karenhao.bsky.social (highly recommend!). The copyright statement in the credits explicitly mentions it's not allowed to use the book for training AI. I love it and will ask my producer to do the same 🙂
I just published "This book will not be used to train LLMs":
lostinautomatictranslation.com/blog/this-book-will-not-be-used-to-train-llms-1
lostinautomatictranslation.com/blog/this-book-will-not-be-used-to-train-llms-1
This book will not be used to train LLMs — Lost in Automatic Translation
Recently, AI companies have been negotiating with publishers about using their books to train LLMs. Some publishers reached out to ask authors for permission to license their books, offering some fo...
lostinautomatictranslation.com
July 27, 2025 at 5:38 AM
I just finished listening to the audiobook of "Empire of AI" by @karenhao.bsky.social (highly recommend!). The copyright statement in the credits explicitly mentions it's not allowed to use the book for training AI. I love it and will ask my producer to do the same 🙂
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“My main concern at the moment is the widespread adoption, reliance and trust in LLMs, despite a very serious technical limitation — the hallucination problem.”
@isaacphannay.bsky.social interviews "Lost in Automatic Translation" author @veredshwartz.bsky.social.
@isaacphannay.bsky.social interviews "Lost in Automatic Translation" author @veredshwartz.bsky.social.
AI May End Some Jobs. It Will Create Others | The Tyee
Computer science researcher Vered Shwartz says she’s taking AI hype with a grain of salt. A Tyee Q&A.
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June 25, 2025 at 1:05 PM
“My main concern at the moment is the widespread adoption, reliance and trust in LLMs, despite a very serious technical limitation — the hallucination problem.”
@isaacphannay.bsky.social interviews "Lost in Automatic Translation" author @veredshwartz.bsky.social.
@isaacphannay.bsky.social interviews "Lost in Automatic Translation" author @veredshwartz.bsky.social.
I'm using ACX to produce an audiobook (my publisher only does print and ebooks). I posted a text sample for narrators to audition. 80% of the auditions I got were from fake, AI narrators. 1/4
June 25, 2025 at 3:33 AM
I'm using ACX to produce an audiobook (my publisher only does print and ebooks). I posted a text sample for narrators to audition. 80% of the auditions I got were from fake, AI narrators. 1/4
I just published "This book will not be used to train LLMs":
lostinautomatictranslation.com/blog/this-book-will-not-be-used-to-train-llms-1
lostinautomatictranslation.com/blog/this-book-will-not-be-used-to-train-llms-1
This book will not be used to train LLMs — Lost in Automatic Translation
Recently, AI companies have been negotiating with publishers about using their books to train LLMs. Some publishers reached out to ask authors for permission to license their books, offering some fo...
lostinautomatictranslation.com
June 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
I just published "This book will not be used to train LLMs":
lostinautomatictranslation.com/blog/this-book-will-not-be-used-to-train-llms-1
lostinautomatictranslation.com/blog/this-book-will-not-be-used-to-train-llms-1
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Unexpected events grab human attention & push AI models beyond their training data. 🤔
How well do VLMs reason about these critical, novel scenarios?
🦢 Introducing Black Swan @ #CVPR2025 (Poster: Sun 10:30am #304)
Co-lead: @sahithya.bsky.social
w/ @veredshwartz.bsky.social
🔗 blackswan.cs.ubc.ca
How well do VLMs reason about these critical, novel scenarios?
🦢 Introducing Black Swan @ #CVPR2025 (Poster: Sun 10:30am #304)
Co-lead: @sahithya.bsky.social
w/ @veredshwartz.bsky.social
🔗 blackswan.cs.ubc.ca
Black Swan: Abductive and Defeasible Video Reasoning in Unpredictable Events
Black Swan: Abductive and Defeasible Video Reasoning in Unpredictable Events
blackswan.cs.ubc.ca
June 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Unexpected events grab human attention & push AI models beyond their training data. 🤔
How well do VLMs reason about these critical, novel scenarios?
🦢 Introducing Black Swan @ #CVPR2025 (Poster: Sun 10:30am #304)
Co-lead: @sahithya.bsky.social
w/ @veredshwartz.bsky.social
🔗 blackswan.cs.ubc.ca
How well do VLMs reason about these critical, novel scenarios?
🦢 Introducing Black Swan @ #CVPR2025 (Poster: Sun 10:30am #304)
Co-lead: @sahithya.bsky.social
w/ @veredshwartz.bsky.social
🔗 blackswan.cs.ubc.ca
Starting in a few minutes - we have an exciting line up of talks, posters, and a panel! Join us at room 104E. 🌍 #CVPR2025
Our VLMs4All workshop is taking place today!
📅 on Thursday, June 12
⏲️ from 9AM CDT
🏛️in Room 104E
Join us today at @cvprconference.bsky.social for amazing speakers, posters, and a panel discussion on making VLMs more geo-diverse and culturally aware!
#CVPR2025
📅 on Thursday, June 12
⏲️ from 9AM CDT
🏛️in Room 104E
Join us today at @cvprconference.bsky.social for amazing speakers, posters, and a panel discussion on making VLMs more geo-diverse and culturally aware!
#CVPR2025
🗓️ Save the date! It's official: The VLMs4All Workshop at #CVPR2025 will be held on June 12th!
Get ready for a full day of speakers, posters, and a panel discussion on making VLMs more geo-diverse and culturally aware 🌐
Check out the schedule below!
Get ready for a full day of speakers, posters, and a panel discussion on making VLMs more geo-diverse and culturally aware 🌐
Check out the schedule below!
June 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Starting in a few minutes - we have an exciting line up of talks, posters, and a panel! Join us at room 104E. 🌍 #CVPR2025