AIM-LIFT is a reading and discussion group on AI and its social implications. We meet twice each month to discuss recently published papers.

Topic for Tuesday, Oct. 1: Covertly Racist LLMs (Large Language Models)
Readings:
(1) Hofmann et al., "AI Generates Covertly Racist Decisions about People Based on Their Dialect," Nature (2024)
(2) Vaswani et al., "Attention is All You Need" (2017)

AIM-LIFT Mission Statement:
Artificial Intelligence is rapidly evolving with still uncharted benefits and costs. Steering a course for an AI in society, and society alongside AI, demands a combination of technical competence and theoretical imaginativeness that is still too rare. AIM-LIFT aims to improve AI futures through technically informed and theoretically sophisticated discussion of AI/ML in its full context, drawn from multiple disciplines, skills, and backgrounds.

Agenda:
We meet on 1^st and 3^rd Tuesdays of each month, from 12pm-1pm, by Zoom. Someone gives a short introduction to the papers (5-10 minutes) and the group discusses. 

Hosts:
AIM-LIFT is co-hosted by 
Gabriella Waters (gabriella.waters@morgan.edu) and 
Phillip Honenberger (jaywilliam.honenberger@morgan.edu),
both at CEAMLS (the Center for Equitable AI & ML Systems) at Morgan State University.
The group is supported by CEAMLS. 

To participate in AIM-LIFT, write jaywilliam.honenberger@morgan.edu to be added to the list and receive readings and the Zoom link.