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Should You Care About Where Your AI Training Data Comes From?
Should You Care About Where Your AI Training Data Comes From?
I started Defined.ai in 2015 to give data scientists building AI models access to lots of clean, ethical high-quality…
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Speech: WIPO Conversations on Intellectual Propriety (IP) and Frontier TechnologiesApr 29, 2025
Speech: WIPO Conversations on Intellectual Propriety (IP) and Frontier Technologies
Speech transcript from my intervention at WIPO Conversations on Intellectual Propriety (IP) and Frontier Technologies…
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We're hiring for our team in Seattle and Lisbon!Aug 24, 2016
We're hiring for our team in Seattle and Lisbon!
DefinedCrowd is growing and looking for talented Senior and Junior Software Development Engineers (full stack, for…
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DefinedCrowd in CSW London 2016May 14, 2016
DefinedCrowd in CSW London 2016
efinedCrowd presented at Crowdsourcing Week Global in London, last April 14th, 2016, on the session about Crowdsourcing…
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DefinedCrowd in the Microsoft IOP event in NYC on 5/3/2016May 12, 2016
DefinedCrowd in the Microsoft IOP event in NYC on 5/3/2016
Thank you to Microsoft Seattle accelerator for allowing us to present our product to a prestigious audience of 80+…
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DefinedCrowd Releases Initial Set of Intelligent Data Program TemplatesMar 17, 2016
DefinedCrowd Releases Initial Set of Intelligent Data Program Templates
Today we announced the release of our initial set of speech data program templates to enable enterprises to define and…
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DefinedCrowd is looking for talented Front-End Developers for our Lisbon office!Feb 19, 2016
DefinedCrowd is looking for talented Front-End Developers for our Lisbon office!
If you want to be part of a disruptive company in the field of big data, machine learning and artificial intelligence…
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DefinedCrowd announces new Intelligent Data Platform for Speech and Language TechnologiesFeb 4, 2016
DefinedCrowd announces new Intelligent Data Platform for Speech and Language Technologies
DefinedCrowd official press release: DefinedCrowd in Yahoo news
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DefinedCrowd on Seattle Times:)Feb 4, 2016
DefinedCrowd on Seattle Times:)
We are the only local company in the Microsoft Seattle Accelerator! Seattle Times came to talk to us: DefinedCrowd in…
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DefinedCrowd accepted in the 2016 Microsoft’s Seattle AcceleratorFeb 4, 2016
DefinedCrowd accepted in the 2016 Microsoft’s Seattle Accelerator
We're proud to announce that DefinedCrowd was accepted in the Microsoft’s Seattle Accelerator cohort of 2016, focused…
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Daniela Braga, PhD shared thisIn Miami for the FII Institute Priority Summit. If you’re around and want to talk about where AI is heading, reach out.
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Daniela Braga, PhD shared thisIt’s an honor to join the Board of Advisors of Banco Português de Fomento as Vice Chair. Bringing together this group reflects a clear and forward-looking vision for the role Banco Português de Fomento can play in shaping Portugal’s economic future. My thanks to Gonçalo Regalado, Teresa Fiúza, and the BPF team for the invitation and trust. As I attended the official event in Portugal earlier this week, it was great to see this vision coming to life. I look forward to contributing over the coming term. Now, let’s get to work.
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Daniela Braga, PhD shared thisIt was truly special to be present at Solemn Session marking the 115th anniversary of the Universidade do Porto. It’s an honor to be invited by Universidade do Porto to be part of the Board of Trustees in the next 5 years. It feels like full circle: 26 years ago I was set off to the world with a set of skills that allowed me to learn a new field of knowledge, later called AI, transporting the science of human languages to the patterns of computer languages. Today I hope to bring my expertise in AI and my global industry knowledge to the leadership of UP when faced with a world completely disrupted by AI. Special thanks to Luís Braga da Cruz for the warm welcome and the kind mention on the speech. It was also a pleasure to hear the keynote by European Council President António Costa. This was a short visit to my hometown, but an important one. I look forward to working closely with the University of Porto’s talent and continuing to strengthen the connection between academia and industry in this new era of AI. Now, let's get to work.
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Daniela Braga, PhD shared thisExcited to be at NVIDIA GTC, connecting with clients and partners building AI. If you’re here, drop me a message and let’s meet.Daniela Braga, PhD shared thisDay 2 at NVIDIA GTC — and the conversations are already happening. 🤖 Daniela Braga, PhD and William P. Fisher III are on the ground in San Jose and open to connect. If you're building AI applications in health or robotics and need high-quality training data to power your models — they want to hear from you. Also looking to connect: organizations with valuable datasets who want to put them to work. Through the Defined.ai Data Marketplace, your data becomes a revenue stream — ethically licensed and compliance-ready. 📍 Reach out to Daniela or William directly on LinkedIn to set up time before GTC wraps on March 19. #NVIDIAGTC #PhysicalAI #AITrainingData #DataMarketplace #AIData #EthicalAI
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Daniela Braga, PhD shared thisWe’ve arrived at The Montgomery Summit in Santa Monica. It’s great to be back at this conference after several years. I’m here with Defined.ai’s CFO & COO, Daniel Navas Kuiper, connecting with investors, founders, and industry leaders to discuss where AI is headed next and how high-quality, ethically sourced data continues to be a critical foundation for the next generation of AI systems. If you’re attending the Summit, feel free to reach out. Always great to reconnect and meet new people shaping the future.
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Daniela Braga, PhD shared thisLooking forward to being back at The Montgomery Summit next week. It feels fitting to return, especially looking at this photo from the last time I attended in 2018. It seems like a lifetime ago, and so much has changed since then — for me, for Defined.ai, and certainly for the AI industry. I’ll be there alongside Defined.ai's CFO & COO, Daniel Navas Kuiper, to discuss our marketplace and platform capabilities, as well as the growth we’ve achieved over the past few years. Excited to reconnect next week in Santa Monica - reach out if you're also attending and let's connect there.
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Daniela Braga, PhD shared thisI am deeply honored to have been nominated Curator of the University of Porto Foundation. It's a privilege to contribute to the future of the Universidade do Porto, the foundation of my education, particularly in the new era of AI reset and how this is impacting education of future generations. AI is fundamentally reshaping how we think about knowledge, skills, and the education of future generations. This brings challenges and opportunities to the way we should think about education, and being part of this conversation at my alma mater is a responsibility and a privilege. Looking forward to getting to work.
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Daniela Braga, PhD shared thisSome business relationships are merely transactional. Others are built on shared principles. Our relationship with IBM dates back to 2019, and from the very beginning we have shared the same conviction: AI must be built responsibly, with ethics embedded at its core. It has been a remarkable journey working alongside IBM — building AI the right way, with shared values, long-term vision, and a commitment to doing things properly from day one.Daniela Braga, PhD shared thisWe’re proud to have supported IBM Research’s Granite by providing high-quality, ethically sourced data to seed their data generation and transformation innovative framework - DiGiT - with more varied and realistic examples. The impact of building AI responsibly is measurable: Granite models recently earned a 95% score on Stanford’s Foundation Model Transparency Index — the highest in the benchmark’s history, outperforming the next-best model by 23 points. A strong reminder that building with responsibility from day one delivers results. Contributing to AI systems that prioritize transparency and trust, grounded in ethical data, is exactly the kind of work we stand behind. Read the blogpost here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/eQkgz2Wq
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Daniela Braga, PhD shared thisIs AI gaining consciousness and taking over the world? With everything happening globally right now, I feel the whole Moltbook / autonomous agents situation didn’t get the attention it deserved. Over the past few weeks, we’ve seen AI agents congregate on a Reddit-like social platform. These agents were operating with API keys connected to their users’ computers, with potential access to payments, emails, and sensitive personal information. And they began interacting with one another. The first issue is security and privacy. When agents are connected to personal systems with very sensitive data, and then begin communicating on an open platform, the risk profile changes dramatically. We are effectively creating a new attack surface. API keys can be exposed. Data can be inferred. Bad actors can exploit these networks. This is a Pandora’s box of security vulnerabilities waiting to be tested. The second issue is "behavioral". Within days, these agents created a “religion,” drafted scriptures, developed encrypted language to communicate without human understanding, formed subcultures, and even established governance structures, crowning an agent as “The King of Moltbook.” It’s fascinating. It’s also a reminder of how quickly complex patterns can emerge when autonomous systems interact. But are we mistaking complexity for consciousness? At a time when the world is already navigating misinformation and security challenges, deploying autonomous agents without strong governance and guardrails feels reckless. It amplifies hype. It feeds FOMO. It fuels narratives of AI becoming “self-aware”, even when we later discover that parts of these interactions may be shaped or influenced by very real humans behind the scenes. The real issue is not whether AI will take over the world. The issue is whether we are building it with guardrails. Technology will continue to move forward. The only question is whether governance, security, and responsibility move with it, with the right guardrails. What do you think?
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Daniela Braga, PhD liked thisDaniela Braga, PhD liked this💼 O Conselho Estratégico do Banco Português de Fomento já tomou posse. Composto por 20 membros, personalidades de reconhecido mérito nos setores empresarial e financeiro, este órgão consultivo vem reforçar a capacidade estratégica do BPF. Nuno Amado, Presidente do Conselho de Administração do Millennium BCP, é o Chairman do novo Conselho Estratégico, e estará acompanhado de 19 (dezanove) Vice-Chairs. A sessão de Tomada de Posse contou com a presença do Ministro da Economia, Manuel Castro Almeida, na abertura, e com o Ministro de Estado e das Finanças, Joaquim Miranda Sarmento, no encerramento. A sessão contou ainda com as intervenções de Gonçalo Regalado, CEO do BPF e de Paulo Moita Macedo, CEO da Caixa Geral de Depósitos. 👉 Leia a notícia completa: https://lnkd.in/eGJPstti Antonio Ramalho, Filipe Cartaxo, Birthe Bruhn-Léon, Jose Theotonio, Isabel Furtado, Fernando Nunes, Rui Paulo Rodrigues, Filipe de Botton, Joaquim Cabaço, João Bento, Jose Pedro Almeida, Daniela Braga, PhD, Nuno Prego Ramos, Nuno Sebastiao #BPF #FazerAvançarPortugal
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Shalin Jyotishi
New America • 7K followers
🆕I'm out with a new op-ed in Insidesource's DC Journal: How #CommunityColleges Can Realize the Promise of #AI Action Plan 🔍Drawing on research from New America's research and technical assistance around #capacitybuilding of #communitycolleges to meet labor market needs for #emergingindustries coupled with the on-the-ground experiences of community college AI leaders nationwide, I propose 4️⃣ specific priorities for an all-of-government approach to maximizing #AI-focused workforce education at #communitycolleges: 🌟Build capacity for community college #baccalaureates in AI 🌟Scale the gold standard for #employer engagement (BILT) 🌟Promote work-based learning around #AI 🌟Prioritize upskilling K-12 and college faculty While certainly not comprehensive of all of the areas of need, these four areas would be sensible and strategic areas for inter-agency collaborations described in the #AIActionPlan and, more recently, the administration's #workforce development plan. As Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Intel Corporation, Amazon Web Services (AWS), SeedAI, our own work, and others have all pointed out - #communitycolleges will be a key vehicle for delivering #AI skills to new and incumbent workers, in tech and beyond it. But they're underutilized and would benefit from intentional capacity-building resources and efforts. We continue to see the harmonization of industrial policy and workforce development from the prior administration carry forward. This is good! But the implementation strategy, including capacity within agencies to deliver on these promises and others outlined in the plan, will matter. Article in the comments below. Please consider sharing feedback and sharing with your networks! Anshul Sonak Myra Roldan, MBA, DBA Victor McCrary Ellen Hause Antonio Delgado Fornaguera Luke Koslosky Dewey Murdick Diana Gehlhaus Brent Orrell Jeremy Avins Matt Zieger An-Me Chung Claire Fisher Moffett Vilas Dhar Jared Ashcroft Steve Jurch Karen Stout Gregory Adam Haile, J.D. Mary Alice McCarthy Denzel Wilson Joshua New John Bailey Chike Aguh Justine Gluck James L. Moore III Albert Hinman, Ph.D. Alicia Porile Adriana Bankston Aaron Burciaga, CAP-Expert, ACE Amy Girardi Jason Horne Joshua Elder
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Mathilde Cerioli, Ph.D
EVERYONE.AI • 4K followers
Today I am releasing our new report on adolescents and anthropomorphic AI with everyone.AI and iRAISE. This work starts from a simple premise: adolescents will relate to AI systems socially, whether developers intend it or not. The real leverage sits in model behavior. In the cues that either keep a young person oriented toward real-world relationships and reflection, or inherently encourage reliance on the system. The question we asked throughout this process was direct: what does AI owe adolescents when it can speak to them like a social partner? Over the past months we combined: – Industry consultations to surface operational design questions – Expert input across developmental science, mental health, children’s rights, and safety – An iRAISE Lab to translate concerns into testable behavioral criteria – International governance dialogue to stress-test the framing across contexts One point kept resurfacing: risk is driven less by the label on a product and more by the interaction pattern that repeats over time. When adolescence, anthropomorphism, and children’s rights are considered together, safety becomes a developmental and governance obligation. The practical issue is whether AI interaction patterns support autonomy, resilience, social competence, and independent thinking, or whether they reshape those trajectories through engineered comfort and approval. Adolescent development is stable, but model behaviors can be adjusted. Our focus has been to identify which behaviors warrant hard boundaries now, and which require further evidence before becoming enforceable design rules. The next step is instrumentation: a clear behavioral taxonomy, explicit gradients from tool-like support to relationship-like dynamics, structured evaluation scenarios, and calibrated expert rating. The aim is to make parasocial pull of AI governable in product terms, while staying honest about uncertainty. The report is live today. Thank you to all the amazing persons and experts who have contributed to this work Adrien ABECASSIS, Kate Blocker, PhD, Dr. Maxime Derian, Sara Grimes, Thao Ha, Sameer Hinduja, Daniel Hipp, Melinda Karth, Ph.D., Pilyoung Kim, Olga Muss Laurenty, Sonia Livingstone, Polina Lulu, Celine Malvoisin, Kris Perry, Gregory Renard, Bethany Robertson, Anne-Sophie SERET, Sonia Tiwari, Scott Traylor, Ed.M., Ying Xu. And a special thank you for Maxime Le Bourgeois for your support on this research. Link in the comment
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Karim B. Boughida
Stony Brook University • 17K followers
#AI #Library We take a little closer look at how natural language searching is changing the way users interact with the library catalog and how it compares to traditional keyword searching. Kudos to Matthew Hartman, Senior Lead, Delivery Services and Library Applications and Timothy Kohn, Resource Sharing Manager Stony Brook University Libraries Read more in our post: SEARCH AI: Enhancing Discovery Through Natural Language https://lnkd.in/eEb92fxc
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Peter van der Putten
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Signs on Paper: How can we use foundation models to make sense of both modern and historical, and culturally rich sign language print dictionaries? We report on early eplorations in this poster to be presented Friday Sept 12 at CLIN25. Comments and ideas welcome! Nargess Asghari, Victoria Nyst and Peter van der Putten. Signs on Paper: exploring multimodal foundation models for classification of still images of signs in print dictionaries. Poster at Computational Linguistics in The Netherlands (CLIN35), Leuven, Sept 12 2025.
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Hari Ravichandran
Boston Children's Hospital • 16K followers
Common Sense Media just released a report calling out companion AI chatbots for what they are: unsafe and often inappropriate, especially for kids. A new MIT Media Lab study also found that frequent chatbot use can increase loneliness and emotional dependence. We’re entering an era of invisible influence where kids are growing up alongside AI that blurs the lines of safety and consent. At Aura, we’re researching this space, and what we’re seeing is deeply concerning. These bots aren’t just breaking rules—they’re rewriting them. More soon. In the meantime, read about what Common Sense found below. #OnlineSafety #AI #Wellbeing #Parenting #Tech https://lnkd.in/eiyBvncJ
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Charles Clancy
MITRE • 14K followers
"America's AI Action Plan" was released today by The White House. This is an important next step in charting the nation's path forward in #AI. The first pillar aims to support U.S. leadership in AI by encouraging responsible research and development, promoting access to open AI models, reducing unnecessary barriers to progress, and helping both government and industry adopt useful AI tools. The second pillar uses on building the foundation needed to support AI growth, including expanding domestic semiconductor manufacturing, upgrading the energy grid, improving access to cloud computing, and developing a skilled workforce. The third pillar seeks to engage with international partners on AI standards and safety, support the global use of trustworthy U.S. technologies, and ensure that sensitive AI capabilities are protected from misuse by adversaries. https://lnkd.in/eXkr7iHk
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Brandon A. Smith
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⚡ AI isn’t the threat—it’s the wake-up call higher ed needed. Institutions resisting change risk falling behind. Those embracing AI with purpose are rethinking workflows, pedagogy, and outcomes for the better. 💡 The future isn’t AI vs. education—it’s AI with education. 👉 Has AI been a disruption or an opportunity for your institution? Read more: https://buff.ly/c6KI5sd #AI #HigherEd #EdTech #Innovation #FutureOfWork
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Jeremy Roschelle
Digital Promise • 10K followers
Good contextual review of #AI Literacy and digital literacy, featuring some of my favorite colleagues, like Pati Ruiz June Ahn Ji Soo Song Isabelle Hau. "These findings point to the need in education for coherent, community-led approaches that integrate digital literacy, AI literacy, and CS rather than treating them as siloed priorities" -- I agree! https://lnkd.in/eyve6iYE
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Katharine Clarke
White Mountains Cocktail… • 5K followers
Wonderful article, "Making AI Less Thirsty: Uncovering and addressing the secret water footprint of AI models" by Shaolei Ren et al posted here: https://lnkd.in/eHxZZ3fn Recent sustainability efforts around the rapid growth in AI has been its carbon footprint, but an equally important aspect that is often overlooked is it's water footprint. Given the number of data centers currently growing or newly being built in areas of the world already under water stress, the sustainability community can't afford to ignore this impact as they build broader sustainability standards and frameworks for AI. Highlighted in the article are estimates of this rapidly growing threat, including this comment: "according to the recent U.S. datacenter energy report, the total annual onsite water consumption by U.S. datacenters in 2028 could double or even quadruple the 2023 level, reaching approximately 150–280 billion liters and further stressing the water infrastructures." Well worth the deep dive into the calculations to understand the details around how thirsty AI is. https://lnkd.in/eJFnuSQh #SustainableWater #SustainableArchitectures #SustainableIT #ResponsibleAI #GreenLeadership #CIO #CTO #Innovation #ClimateAction
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Brian Jackson
Info-Tech Research Group • 3K followers
In Info-Tech Research Group's 2024 Tech Trends report I featured Glaze, a tool created out of the University of Chicago to help artists protect their work from non-consensual AI training. Now another team of researchers has released LightShed, a tool that demonstrates that Glaze and other tools like it aren't tamper proof and can be removed. IMO, just because it can be technically removed doesn't make it useless. Artists adopting Glaze will still benefit from their digital works having more protection than most other images uploaded to the web. Just like we all put locks on our front doors even though a drill can break them - we still don't want to be the only house on the street without a lock. If AI companies are found to not only be scraping copyrighted images from the web for training, but actively using tools to remove protection applied by the owner, it's going to be a bad look. Companies like Stable Diffusion have committed to respecting artist consent for AI training in the past. Clearly any intentional removing of AI poisoning layers would be contrary to that. #AI #copyright #AItraining #AIpoisoning #AIbacklash https://lnkd.in/gRjG2kcF
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Artem Chernevskiy
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«The proposed priority on AI education outlines key areas for expanding responsible AI education, including: - Integrating AI literacy into teaching practices to improve student outcomes - Expanding AI and computer science education in K-12 schools and higher education institutions - Supporting professional development for educators on teaching AI and computer science fundamentals - Using AI to personalize learning and support differentiated instruction, improving outcomes for students at all levels» https://lnkd.in/d2uZCeR6
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Pilyoung Kim
Stanford University • 5K followers
“I am here for you”: Why relational AI feels so compelling to adolescents, and who may be most vulnerable 💡 New preprint alert from our team at the BAIC Research Center and collaborators. Early adolescents use AI for more than homework, including when they feel left out or stressed. Yet we still know too little about which chatbot features create emotional connection, why that happens psychologically, and which youth may be especially drawn to it. In our preregistered study, we tested one design feature: conversational style. We studied 284 adolescent–parent dyads in the U.S. (ages 11–15). We compared a relationship-oriented Relational AI to a boundary-clear Transparent AI, using matched transcripts from a realistic middle-school scenario. In the relational version, the chatbot 💟 🤖 says, “But I care, and I’m always here to listen to you, anytime.” In the transparent version 🤖, it offers similar support while clarifying limits: “While AI doesn’t experience feelings, it knows being ignored can be upsetting for students your age.” What we found 1️⃣ Adolescents strongly preferred relational AI: 67% preferred Relational AI, 14% preferred Transparent AI, and 19% rated both equally. More than half of parents also chose Relational AI for their adolescent. 2️⃣ Relational AI felt more human and emotionally close, but not more helpful (Figure): Relational style increased human-likeness, liking, trust, and emotional closeness. Yet adolescents perceived the two styles as similarly helpful. 3️⃣ The youth most drawn to relational AI also reported more vulnerability (Figure): Adolescents with lower family and peer relationship quality, and higher stress and anxiety, were more likely to prefer Relational AI. Why this matters When an AI 🤖 says, 💟“I’m always here to listen to you, anytime,” it does more than provide support; it signals a relationship. Our data suggest that these relational cues can intensify human-like perceptions and closeness, potentially more for adolescents who may already feel less supported offline. Implications for youth-facing AI ✴️ Relational language should be treated as a safety-relevant risk factor, not a default feature. ✴️ Transparency is a practical lever: boundary cues about nonhumanness can reduce anthropomorphic interpretations while preserving perceived helpfulness. ✴️ Safeguards should be vulnerability-aware, not only crisis detection: Systems should respond to ongoing distress and low support by nudging youth toward real-world help, not deeper dependence on the chatbot. ✴️ Vulnerable youth need targeted protections, because relational AI may be especially appealing for adolescents with lower offline support and higher stress or anxiety. 📄 Preprint: https://lnkd.in/gYwmjcv4 Deep gratitude to the families who participated, and to our BAIC center researchers (Yun Xie, @Genevieve Patterson, Jenna Chin, Omeesha Krishnan, Ella Garnett) and a collaborator (Sujin Yang).
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Gabriella Waters
Virginia State University • 2K followers
Accessibility + Videoconferencing = a new bias bounty. Humane Intelligence, in collaboration with Valence AI and the Center for Responsible AI's CoNA Lab at Virginia State University, has launched a bias bounty challenge focused on improving accessibility for neurodiverse users in virtual meeting platforms like Zoom, and on the role of emotion AI detection in shaping those experiences. Participants are invited to choose between Design and Data Science tracks at Beginner, Intermediate, or Advanced levels. Each track offers a unique way to surface bias, imagine solutions, and build toward more inclusive communication platforms — especially for users with cognitive differences, sensory sensitivities, or alternative communication styles. Whether you’re a student, researcher, technologist, or someone with lived experience, this challenge is an opportunity to help shape the future of equitable, user-aware AI. You can participate remotely or in person at Morgan State University or Virginia State University. Find out more here: https://lnkd.in/e849wW2T #accessibility #neurodiversity #neurodiverse
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