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The SAIRC Discussion Forum is a space for AI enthusiasts to share what they're thinking about. No formal research paper required. Posts can be submitted anonymously and span a wide range of formats:
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Recent Posts
What Every Student Should Know About AI Before They Graduate
In a few years, the students sitting in my classroom will be working alongside AI systems in nearly every industry: healthcare, finance, law, engineering, creative fields. Most of …
SCOTUS Simulator Using A Council of LLMs
I recently had the idea to evaluate an LLM council's stance on contested legal questions in a Supreme Court style. In this post, I'll feed the LLM Council various hypotheticals and…
The Largest School District in America Just Drew A Line on AI
Reposted with permission from Elissa Malespina.
The largest school district in the United States has now released official guidance on artificial intelligence. That alone would be …
The Underwhelming Universal Approximation Theorem
A research advisor brought up the Universal Approximation Theorem during a meeting once as a fun thought experiment. It stuck with me because I initially found it super interesting…
Simulating War-Time Decisions with a Council of LLMs
'LLM Council' is a GitHub repo made by Andrej Karpathy which is intended to simulate a council of leading language models in a boardroom setting. It consists of council-member lang…
Mechanistic Interpretability and the Curses of Scaled Networks
Mechanistic interpretability is the practice of reverse-engineering deep-learning systems to understand their inner algorithms. If we can figure out what a neural network is actual…
What Students Want Teachers to Know About AI
Reposted with permission from original author(s).
Back in December I sat down with a handful of HS students on a couple different occasions to talk about AI — their thoughts, attit…
In an AI World, What's the Work?
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More than a decade ago, immersed in research on competency-based education, I read Leaders of Their Own Learning, a comprehensive …
AI Shouldn't Be Doing More Philosophy Than Students
Reposted with Permission from Mike Taubman and AI Waypoints.
Last weekend I found out that AIs can now reincarnate. This got me thinking about both the high school juniors I teach …
There's No Token for the Way the End of High School Feels
Reposted with permission by Mike Taubman.
Today in our AI literacy class, Scott Kern and I helped students open the hood to see how AI works, one pillar of the AI Driver's License …
Painless Activation Steering (PAS): Automated, Lightweight Post-Training for LLM Behavior
Reproduced with permission from Sasha Cui
We're releasing "Painless Activation Steering (PAS)," a fully automated approach to steer large language models after training—without mo…
(When) Is Mechanistic Interpretability Identifiable?
I recently finished a paper, "Characterizing Mechanistic Uniqueness and Identifiability Through Circuit Analysis," alongside a group of three others and a mentor. This post discuss…
Would a Language Model Push You Off A Bridge? Pt. 2
Utilitarianism, to recap, is a consequentialist decision-making framework which states that the best actions produce the most 'pleasure' for the greatest number of people. Deontolo…
How to Use Deep Learning for Flood Forecasting
Reposted with permission from Devansh.
Following is an excerpt from my article, "How Google Built an Open Source AI to Provide Accurate Flood Warnings for 460 Million People." The …
What is Concept Drift and How to Solve It
Reposted with permission from Devansh.
Thanks to their versatility, Neural Networks are a staple in most modern Machine Learning pipelines. Their ability to work with unstructured …