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🎉 Huge thanks to James Rundle and @WSJ for their insightful coverage on our series D funding round and the importance of software security!
With this new round of funding, Semgrep will further develop our AI capabilities, expand our sales and marketing presence, and hire more talented people to help drive this mission forward. 🌍
👉Read the full article here: wsj.com/articles/semgrep-rai…
#AppSec #Cybersecurity #AI #VentureCapital #Semgrep
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🎉 Today marks a major milestone at Semgrep— we’re excited to announce that Semgrep has secured $100M in Series D funding!
🚀 This milestone, led by @MenloVentures with support from our amazing investors. With this boost, we’re more committed than ever to revolutionizing the cybersecurity landscape.
👉 Learn more here: prnewswire.com/news-releases…
#appsec #cybersecurity #infosec #devops #ai #staticanalysis
Christy Dennison retweeted
I'm super excited to talk with @DanielMiessler and @jbowocky tomorrow. They are both super thoughtful about AI and security and can't wait to explore the intersection with them.
Tomorrow is Artificial Intelligence Appreciation Day! 🎉
Come celebrate with @drewdennison, @DanielMiessler, and @jbowocky at 10AM PT and discuss the intertwined future of AI and security! Learn why both attackers and defenders will have smaller windows of opportunity moving forward in this enlightening session. 💻
semgrep.dev/events/skynet-or…
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I put my whole self into making AI work for the many cultures its affecting and it's really warming to have that recognized in @techreview 35 under35 alongside this rad group!
More cultural value alignment research 👏🏾
technologyreview.com/innovat…
Christy Dennison retweeted
In today’s paper: In an effort to curb Lyme disease, scientists hope to release thousands of genetically altered mice on Nantucket, the Boston Holocaust museum begins to take shape, and more. trib.al/Tp5jt5y
Christy Dennison retweeted
You may have heard that AI is biased because the data it’s trained on is biased.
That’s really just the tip of the iceberg.
The fairness crisis goes much deeper than that. 🧵 1/8
vox.com/future-perfect/22916…
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Loved chatting with the deeply thoughtful @SigalSamuel!! and ofc bestie @cbd
It's hard to encompass a complex field in a few words, which is why we must keep asking: for whom is this safe? For *whom* is this fair?
And with so much power in tech, silence can truly be violence
I hope you'll read my full piece explaining why nobody really knows how to resolve the AI fairness crisis. Gratitude to all the brilliant people who shared ideas with me: @timnitGebru @IreneSolaiman @cbd @stoyanoj @merbroussard @johnbasl @random_walker
vox.com/future-perfect/22916…
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I can’t wrap my mind around the existence of this clip. xitter.cf/StefanThumann/status/1…
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4) Pandemic prevention often requires data analysis.
You can find work as a SWE eg:
telisbio.com/
securedna.org/main-en
Or take your valuable programming skills, do life sciences grad study, and have your pick of roles
80000hours.org/problem-profi…
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Come hang out with @cbd and me at #NeurIPS2021 's poster session this Tuesday the 7th from 11:30a.m. - 1 p.m. ET!!
We want to hear your thoughts, questions, ideas, you!
And do feel free to reach out regardless if we can be handy (PALMS pun🥁)
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Our first AI alignment paper, focused on simple baselines and investigations: A General Language Assistant as a Laboratory for Alignment arxiv.org/abs/2112.00861
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Instead of determining whether individual viruses can bite us, most of which would never spill over anyway, let's pour resources into monitoring and excellent PPE that will work against any pandemic - or several at once. nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
Christy Dennison retweeted
#NeurIPS2021 Tutorials: Lilian Weng @lilianweng (Open AI) and Jong Wook Kim @_jongwook_kim (Open AI), will be giving a NeurIPS tutorial on “Self-supervised learning: Self-prediction and Contrastive learning”.
Dec 7, 01:00-05:00 (GMT) neurips.cc/Conferences/2021/…
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Our #PennBioengineering seminar series continues on Oct 21 with Dr. Emma Chory of @MIT: "“Phage and Robotics-Assisted Biomolecular Evolution”
#bioengineering #research #chemicalengineering #robotics #evolution
beblog.seas.upenn.edu/be-sem…
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To credibly identify a virus as capable of causing a pandemic – of inflicting more casualties than any nuclear warhead – is to give thousands the power to wield it as a weapon. Let's not. #PandemicNonproliferation
washingtonpost.com/opinions/…
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PALMS is NeurIPS accepted as a spotlight presentation‼️🔦
Thank you*100 to our hard-working reviewers 🙏🏽
Adjustments to come & stoked for the conference and honored to work with @cbd.
More social impact 🤝technical systems, shoutout to my humanities degree
Brb telling my dad
How should GPT-3 behave? @cbd and I have been working on a method to measurably improve model behavior with a small (<100 samples) dataset. Check out PALMS, our “hands-on”🥁 approach (Process to Adapt Language Models to Society with Values-Targeted Datasets)!