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Open at the Edge, Captured at the Center: llama.cpp and the Political Economy of Local AI Inference
Woohyeuk Lee, Hanlin Li, David Gray Widder
Critical scholarship on open AI has focused on model releases and cloud ecosystems, leaving the local inference infrastructure that makes open-weight models runnable on user-owned…
Reimagining Open Source and Openness in AI: Co-Creating Responsible Technological Futures
Genevieve Smith, Hiral Patel, Steven Luo +20
Debates over open source and openness in artificial intelligence have intensified as policymakers, researchers, and practitioners grapple with how foundation models should be devel…
Cost-of-Ethics Crisis: Beliefs, Decisions, and Justifications in the Job Searches of Computer Science Students in Canada and the United States
Mohamed Abdalla, Sahar Abdalla, Alicia Cappello +4
Workplace norms in computer science have received growing attention due to a series of recent ethical scandals. One response has been a push to improve the ethics education provide…
Basic Research, Lethal Effects: Military AI Research Funding as Enlistment
David Gray Widder, Sireesh Gururaja, Lucy Suchman
In the context of unprecedented U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) budgets, this paper examines the recent history of DoD funding for academic research in algorithmically based warfi…
Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate
David Gray Widder, Mar Hicks
Only a few short months ago, Generative AI was sold to us as inevitable by the leadership of AI companies, those who partnered with them, and venture capitalists. As certain elemen…
From Stem to Stern: Contestability Along AI Value Chains
Agathe Balayn, Yulu Pi, David Gray Widder +9
This workshop will grow and consolidate a community of interdisciplinary CSCW researchers focusing on the topic of contestable AI. As an outcome of the workshop, we will synthesize…
Power and Play: Investigating "License to Critique" in Teams' AI Ethics Discussions
David Gray Widder, Laura Dabbish, James Herbsleb +1
Past work has sought to design AI ethics interventions--such as checklists or toolkits--to help practitioners design more ethical AI systems. However, other work demonstrates how t…
What is a "bug"? On subjectivity, epistemic power, and implications for software research
David Gray Widder, Claire Le Goues
Considerable effort in software research and practice is spent on bugs. Finding, reporting, tracking, triaging, attempting to fix them automatically, detecting "bug smells" -these…
Epistemic Power in AI Ethics Labor: Legitimizing Located Complaints
David Gray Widder
What counts as legitimate AI ethics labor, and consequently, what are the epistemic terms on which AI ethics claims are rendered legitimate? Based on 75 interviews with technologis…
To Build Our Future, We Must Know Our Past: Contextualizing Paradigm Shifts in Natural Language Processing
Sireesh Gururaja, Amanda Bertsch, Clara Na +2
NLP is in a period of disruptive change that is impacting our methodologies, funding sources, and public perception. In this work, we seek to understand how to shape our future by…
The Ethics of AI Value Chains
Blair Attard-Frost, David Gray Widder
Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers with an interest in AI ethics need more integrative approaches for studying and intervening in AI systems across many contexts and scal…
Thinking Upstream: Ethics and Policy Opportunities in AI Supply Chains
David Gray Widder, Richmond Wong
After children were pictured sewing its running shoes in the early 1990s, Nike at first disavowed the "working conditions in its suppliers' factories", before public pressure led t…
Dislocated Accountabilities in the AI Supply Chain: Modularity and Developers' Notions of Responsibility
David Gray Widder, Dawn Nafus
Responsible artificial intelligence guidelines ask engineers to consider how their systems might harm. However, contemporary artificial intelligence systems are built by composing…
Gender and Robots: A Literature Review
David Gray Widder
Here, I ask what we can learn about how gender affects how people engage with robots. I review 46 empirical studies of social robots, published 2018 or earlier, which report on the…
Debugging Framework Applications: Benefits and Challenges
Zack Coker, David Gray Widder, Claire Le Goues +2
Aspects of frameworks, such as inversion of control and the structure of framework applications, require developers to adjust their debugging strategies as compared to debugging se…