The NLP Community Metasurvey

Julian Michael, a postdoc at the Center for Data Science, New York University, joins us today. Julian’s conversation with Kyle was centered on the NLP community metasurvey: a survey aimed at understanding expert opinions on controversial NLP issues. He shared the process of preparing the survey as well as some shocking results.

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Julian Michael: Hi, I’m Julian. I currently work on AI safety, evaluation, and alignment at Meta. Until recently, I was head of the Safety, Evaluations, and Alignment Lab (SEAL) at Scale AI, which does research related to safeguarding AI system behavior and ensuring it preserves and amplifies human agency. Prior to SEAL, I did research on a variety of topics, mostly focused on AI alignment or formal semantics of natural language.