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This means we apply data science using ML models to understand the world with other scientists, study and evaluate ML systems directly, and build tools to help data scientists to employ best practices. Most of our work right now focuses on fairness of automated decision making systems and some includes collaboration with other scientists.</p> <div class="section" id="news"> <h2>News<a class="headerlink" href="#news" title="Permalink to this heading">#</a></h2> <p>See the <a class="reference internal" href="news/"><span class="doc std std-doc">news page</span></a> for a more complete list.</p> <ul class="postlist-style-none postlist"> <li class="ablog-post"><p class="ablog-post-title">2024-10-30 : <a class="reference internal" href="news/2024-10-30-sff/">Funding from the Survival and Flourishing Fund</a></p> <p class="ablog-post-excerpt">We received funding from the <a class="reference external" href="https://survivalandflourishing.fund/sff-2024-recommendations">SFF Fairness Track</a> to fund work developing a benchmark for fair data-driven decision making with LLMs. We will develop a benchmark for both data analytics style decision-making and training fair models on data. Then we will assess state of the art AI systems engaging in these tasks across various levels of AI agency.</p> </li> <li class="ablog-post"><p class="ablog-post-title">2024-10-08 : <a class="reference internal" href="news/2024-10-08-ddf/">Dr. Brown is speaking in the Digital Defense Fund fall seminar series</a></p> <p class="ablog-post-excerpt">She is co-leading a session on AI basics titled, “Unmasking AI: the Mysteries and Magic of Artificial Intelligence”.</p> </li> <li class="ablog-post"><p class="ablog-post-title">2024-08-23 : <a class="reference internal" href="news/2024-08-23-nsbepdc/">Dr. Brown is presenting at NSBE PDC</a></p> <p class="ablog-post-excerpt">NSBE’s Professional Development conference is a venue for working professionals to skill up. She is presenting the <a class="reference external" href="https://ml4sts-outreach.github.io/profile/">building a portfolio website workshop</a> by invitation</p> </li> <li class="ablog-post"><p class="ablog-post-title">2024-03-29 : <a class="reference internal" href="news/2024-03-29-fireside/">Dr Brown will participate in the AI lab Fireside chat series</a></p> <p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><strong>title</strong> How to anticipate risks in AI-enhanced research</p> <p class="ablog-post-excerpt"><strong>abstract</strong> ML-powered AI is increasingly appearing in all areas of research. However, ML is still in many ways a research output, more of a prototype than a polished, reliable, product. Even commercially released systems, because they are software, can be released without the same rigorous testing that commercially available research equipment has been traditionally be subject to. In this talk, I will draw connections between the ML research process and potential risks in applied ML and use of commercial AI in research.</p> </li> <li class="ablog-post"><p class="ablog-post-title">2024-03-22 : <a class="reference internal" href="news/2024-03-22-nsbe50/">Dr. Brown will present a workshop at NSBE 50</a></p> <p class="ablog-post-excerpt">The workshop will be a hands on workshop to build a profile website using github pages.</p> </li> </ul> <div class="toctree-wrapper compound"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="section"> </div> </article>   <footer class="bd-footer-article"> <div class="footer-article-items footer-article__inner"> <div class="footer-article-item"> <div class="prev-next-area"> <a class="right-next" href="projects/" title="next page"> <div class="prev-next-info"> <p class="prev-next-subtitle">next</p> <p class="prev-next-title">Projects</p> </div> <i class="fa-solid fa-angle-right"></i> </a> </div></div> </div> </footer> </div> <div class="bd-sidebar-secondary bd-toc"><div class="sidebar-secondary-items sidebar-secondary__inner"> <div class="sidebar-secondary-item"> <div class="page-toc tocsection onthispage"> <i class="fa-solid fa-list"></i> On this page </div> <nav class="bd-toc-nav page-toc"> <ul class="visible nav section-nav flex-column"> <li class="toc-h2 nav-item toc-entry"><a class="reference internal nav-link" href="#news">News</a></li> </ul> </nav></div> <div class="sidebar-secondary-item"> <div class="tocsection editthispage"> <a href="https://github.com/ml4sts/ml4sts.github.io/edit/main/./index.md"> <i class="fa-solid fa-pencil"></i> Edit on GitHub </a> </div> </div> <div class="sidebar-secondary-item"> <div class="tocsection sourcelink"> <a href="_sources/index.md.txt"> <i class="fa-solid fa-file-lines"></i> Show Source </a> </div> </div> </div></div> </div> <footer class="bd-footer-content"> </footer> </main> </div> </div>  <script src="_static/scripts/bootstrap.js?digest=e353d410970836974a52"></script> <script src="_static/scripts/pydata-sphinx-theme.js?digest=e353d410970836974a52"></script> <footer class="bd-footer"> <div class="bd-footer__inner bd-page-width"> <div class="footer-items__start"> <div class="footer-item"> <p class="copyright"> © Copyright 2024, Sarah M Brown. <br/> </p> </div> <div class="footer-item"> <p class="sphinx-version"> Created using <a href="https://www.sphinx-doc.org/">Sphinx</a> 5.3.0. <br/> </p> </div> </div> <div class="footer-items__end"> <div class="footer-item"><p class="theme-version"> Built with the <a href="https://pydata-sphinx-theme.readthedocs.io/en/stable/index.html">PyData Sphinx Theme</a> 0.13.3. </p></div> </div> </div> </footer> </body> </html>

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