Paper links from my keynote at FAccT

 it's always difficult to keep track of the papers a speaker mentions when they're giving a talk. I'm delivering a keynote at FAccT 2025, and so thought I'd make a list of paper references for easy access to anyone interested. Note that some of my papers are not yet publicly available. I'll make them accessible as soon as they are, and you can find the link here when they are. 

1. FATML 2016 closing panel
2. FATML 2014
3. AI Bill of Rights; the NIST AI Risk Management Framework
4. Biden administration memos on AI
1. Executive order 14110
2. OMB Memo M-24-10
3. National Security Memo on AI
5. CNTR AISLE framework
6. Remarks by the Catholic Church and Pope Leo XIV (one, two)
7. Explainer on Sociotechnical AI policy
8. Fairness and Abstractions in Sociotechnical Systems
9. Participatory AI
10. Measurement and Fairness
11. Framework for undersstanding sources of harm throughout the machine learning lifecycle
12. Explanations in artificial intelligence: insights from the social sciences
13. DOGE and Veterans Affairs Contracts.
14. Distinguishing Predictive and Generative AI in Regulation (coming soon)
15. Sovereignty as a Service (coming soon)
16. Evaluation Science
17. Position paper on evaluating genAI.
18. Multi-lingual functional evaluation (coming soon)
19. Data and DOGE panel at Brown
20. MIT Tech Review article on Amsterdam deployment of AI.
21. Red-Teaming AI Policy
22. Better proxy estimation
23. Genetic data governance
24. Audit trails (coming soon)
25. CNTR website (and tech policy summer school)

Standing up for Science

 It's been forever since I've written a blog post. Twitter, and then X, and then Bluesky, has absorbed most of my hot takes. But I think more and more that it's time to move away from transient thoughts to things that are more well formed, and so I'm going to try and blog a bit more again. 

Mar 7, 2025 was Stand Up For Science Day. I was invited to speak at the Rhode Island local event. It was a freezing cold day in front of the Rhode Island State House in Providence, RI. With encouragement from my students, we did a little "teach-in" on campus first to lay out some of the history of federal funding in the US (going back to Vannevar Bush and Endless Frontiers), and why some of the new administration moves were so radical and dangerous. 

Then a bunch of us walked over to the State House for the rally. There was a good crowd there inspite of the bitter wind - by my estimate it was over 100 and perhaps close to 200. Lots of fantastic placards, including this one: 

And then it was time for me to speak. I've never spoken at a rally before, and it took a good amount of preparation (and much more trepidation) to generate my 3 minutes of remarks. The crowd was very encouraging, cheering every time I paused, and that helped a lot :). 

Here's what I said.