9  Ethical Use of LLMs?

Week 10

Lecture: Ethical concerns in developing and deploying LLMs
Lab: Measuring environmental costs of LLM use

9.1 Lecture

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9.2 Lab

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9.3 Readings

• Williams, A., Miceli, M. and Gebru, T. (2022) ‘The Exploited Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence’, Noema, 13 October.
• Bender, E.M. et al. (2021) ‘On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?’, in Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery (FAccT ’21), pp. 610–623. https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922
• Bucher, M.J.J. and Martini, M. (2024) ‘Fine-Tuned “Small” LLMs (Still) Significantly Outperform Zero-Shot Generative AI Models in Text Classification’. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2406.08660