NeurIPS演讲者歧视中国学生

报道来了： https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/1 ... to-chinese-student/

NeurIPS keynote speaker apologizes for reference to Chinese student

Anthony Ha
12:50 PM PST · December 15, 2024

A speaker at the annual NeurIPS AI conference has drawn criticism — not for her opinions about AI, but the way she referred to a Chinese student.

During her keynote presentation on “How to optimize what matters most,” MIT Media Lab Professor Rosalind Picard (pictured above) included a slide quoting an excuse given by a “Chinese student who is now expelled from top university” for using AI, with the student supposedly saying, “Nobody at my school taught us morals or values.”

The slide also includes a note from Picard saying, “Most Chinese who I know are honest and morally upright.”

Google DeepMind scientist Jiao Sun shared a photo of the slide on X, writing, “Mitigating racial bias from LLMs is a lot easier than removing it from humans!” Yuandong Tian, a research scientist at Meta, reposted Sun’s comment and added, “This is explicit racial bias. How could this happen in NeurIPS?”

In Q&A footage that was also shared on X, an attendee noted that this was the only time anyone’s nationality was referenced in Picard’s presentation, suggested that it was “a bit offensive,” and urged her to remove the reference if she gave the presentation again — a suggestion that Picard seeming to agree with.

Following the talk, NeurIPS organizers posted an apology, writing, “We want to address the comment made during the invited talk this afternoon, as it is something that NeurIPS does not condone and it doesn’t align with our code of conduct. We are addressing this issue with the speaker directly. NeurIPS is dedicated to being a diverse and inclusive place where everyone is treated equally.”

Picard also apologized in a statement in which she expressed “regret” for mentioning the student’s nationality.

“I see that this was unnecessary, irrelevant to the point I was making, and caused unintended negative associations,” Picard wrote. “I apologize for doing this and feel very badly about the distress that this incident has caused. I am learning from this experience, and I welcome ideas for how to try to make amends to the community.”




Anthony Ha
Anthony Ha is TechCrunch’s weekend editor. Previously, he worked as a tech reporter at Adweek, a senior editor at VentureBeat, a local government reporter at the Hollister Free Lance, and vice president of content at a VC firm. He lives in New York City.

Alex16 发表于 2024-12-15 13:01:10
报道来了：

NeurIPS keynote speaker apologizes for reference to Chinese student

这是每一个发声的同胞争取来的：当场勇敢发声的女生，还有每一个给mit file report、发邮件、在linkedin和X发post、回复、转发、点赞、在各个社交媒体分享此事增加关注…的同胞。

还有一些外国友人也仗义执言，比如Jeff Dean，Jekaterina Novikova。

我们要给每一个发声的人正反馈。即使自己没有写邮件发帖，也要给发声的点个赞。这样才能有更多人为我们说话。

继续努力💪

川普大比分上台，各路蚂嘎们都不装了，摊牌了

eclipseYY 发表于 2024-12-14 22:41:09
神奇是发声的都是年轻学生和AP。Feifei Kaiming这种大佬却屁都不敢放一个。。

呵呵，nips上灌水的华人大佬pua自己学生可狠了，这种时候全员装死，所谓内狼外狗。

这个女生真棒，这种现场call her out的力量非常大。

哪里可以去骂她  对待垃圾必须要用垃圾的方式

Naruto414sasuki 发表于 2024-12-14 23:49:01
成為資本了就不敢隨意行動了，只有一無所有的才是革命的主力

无产者在这个革命中失去的只是锁链。他们获得的将是整个世界

eclipseYY 发表于 2024-12-14 22:41:09
神奇是发声的都是年轻学生和AP。Feifei Kaiming这种大佬却屁都不敢放一个。。

光脚的不怕穿鞋的

7226800 发表于 2024-12-15 11:18:12
已举报，绝不能放任不管这种在公开场合赤裸裸的歧视行为

干得好，这娘们简直就是故意羞辱国人，谁不知道绝大多数中国学生比其它族裔学习强一百倍

那位被MIT 开除的学生可以起诉MIT，争取一个对自己有力的deal, 比如，恢复学籍。