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NeurIPS keynote speaker apologizes for reference to Chinese student
A speaker at the annual NeurIPS AI conference has drawn criticism — not for her opinions about AI, but the way she referred to a Chinese student. During
During her keynote presentation on “How to optimize what matters most,” MIT Media Lab Professor Rosalind Picard (pictured above) included a slide quoting an excuse given by a “Chinese student who is now expelled from top university” for using AI, with the student supposedly saying, “Nobody at my school taught us morals or values.” Google DeepMind scientist Jiao Sun shared a photo of the slide on X, 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 comment and added, “This is explicit racial bias. “I see that this was unnecessary, irrelevant to the point I was making, and caused unintended negative associations,” Picard wrote.
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