University of Wisconsin Talk

censorship, fairness, talks, Wisconsin, Madison, David Evans

I visited the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and gave a talk mostly on Hannah Cyberey’s work in their amazing new Morgridge Hall CS building:

University of Wisconsin

Tilting the BobbyTables and Steering the CensorShip

Abstract: AI systems including Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly influence human writing, thoughts, and actions, yet our ability to measure and control the behavior of these systems is inadequate. In this talk, I will describe some of the risks of uses of language models and ways to measure biases in LLMs. Then, I will advocate for measurement and control strategies that depend on analysis and manipulation of internal representations, and show how a simple inference-time intervention can be used to mitigate gender bias and control model censorship without degrading overall model utility.

Thanks to Patrick McDaniel for hosting a great visit!