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20192023
most citedDecolonial AI: Decolonial Theory as Sociotechnical Foresight in Artificial Intelligence

827 citations · 1.7k across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.AI2023★ 44 cited

Sociotechnical Safety Evaluation of Generative AI Systems

Laura Weidinger, Maribeth Rauh, Nahema Marchal +10

Generative AI systems produce a range of risks. To ensure the safety of generative AI systems, these risks must be evaluated. In this paper, we make two main contributions toward e…

cs.LG2022★ 133 cited

Improving alignment of dialogue agents via targeted human judgements

Amelia Glaese, Nat McAleese, Maja Trębacz +31

We present Sparrow, an information-seeking dialogue agent trained to be more helpful, correct, and harmless compared to prompted language model baselines. We use reinforcement lear…

cs.CY2022★ 317 cited

Power to the People? Opportunities and Challenges for Participatory AI

Abeba Birhane, William Isaac, Vinodkumar Prabhakaran +4

Participatory approaches to artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are gaining momentum: the increased attention comes partly with the view that participation opens…

cs.CL2022★ 12 cited

Characteristics of Harmful Text: Towards Rigorous Benchmarking of Language Models

Maribeth Rauh, John Mellor, Jonathan Uesato +9

Large language models produce human-like text that drive a growing number of applications. However, recent literature and, increasingly, real world observations, have demonstrated…

cs.CL2022★ 243 cited

Scaling Language Models: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Training Gopher

Jack W. Rae, Sebastian Borgeaud, Trevor Cai +77

Language modelling provides a step towards intelligent communication systems by harnessing large repositories of written human knowledge to better predict and understand the world.…

cs.CL2021★ 71 cited

Ethical and social risks of harm from Language Models

Laura Weidinger, John Mellor, Maribeth Rauh +20

This paper aims to help structure the risk landscape associated with large-scale Language Models (LMs). In order to foster advances in responsible innovation, an in-depth understan…