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LTI Professor Alex Waibel was one of twelve global experts invited by Pope Leo XIV to advise on ethical guidelines for AI. Their appeal outlines eleven principles for responsible AI and human-centered design.
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The LTI is now accepting applications for teaching-track faculty positions beginning in Fall 2026! If you’re passionate about building scholarly community and shaping the next generation of innovators, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply by January 9, 2026: lti.cmu.edu/careers/inde...

You can also learn about specific donor funds that support the LTI and @scsatcmu.bsky.social by visiting our Donate page:
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Today is Giving Tuesday, but also #GivingCMUDay. Consider celebrating with us by donating to support LTI students, fellowships, and initiatives! Learn more about Giving CMU Day, and donate, at the link below:
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The LTI is now accepting applications for teaching-track faculty positions beginning in Fall 2026! If you’re passionate about building scholarly community and shaping the next generation of innovators, we’d love to hear from you.

Apply by January 9, 2026: lti.cmu.edu/careers/inde...

Performance of a sweep of models on Oolong-synth and Oolong-real. Performance decreases with increasing context length, sometimes steeply.

Can LLMs accurately aggregate information over long, information-dense texts? Not yet…

We introduce Oolong, a dataset of simple-to-verify information aggregation questions over long inputs. No model achieves >50% accuracy at 128K on Oolong!

ICYMI: the LTI's Carolyn Rosé has been awarded the Kavčić-Moura Professorship in recognition of her research achievements and support of her future work. Congratulations to a devoted member of the LTI community!
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SCS Faculty Receive Chaired Professorships "As a researcher who has dedicated her career to impact in education and who directs one of Carnegie Mellon's largest data science graduate programs, I am honored to receive a chair named after Aleksandar Kavčić, in light of his current work in Serbia to provide free textbooks for schools through his foundation, and José Moura, who has partnered with him and others to invest in data science education at Carnegie Mellon," Rosé said.

SCS faculty members Carolyn Rosé (@ltiatcmu.bsky.social) and Jun-Yan Zhu (@cmurobotics.bsky.social) recently received endowed chairs to recognize their research contributions and support their future work.

Three LTI students (Danqing Wang, Zichun Yu, and @xinranz3.bsky.social) have been announced as part of the inaugural cohort of the @amazon AI Ph.D. Fellowship Program. Congrats to all recipients!

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Congratulations to Maarten Sap for being named a recipient of a 2025 Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering! 👏

Sap, a professor in @ltiatcmu.bsky.social, was recognized for his work to make artificial intelligence adaptive and knowledgeable about diverse cultures.

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Congratulations to our own Maarten Sap on the tremendous honor of being named a 2025 Packard Fellow!

Our PhD & MLT students took advantage of a beautiful Pittsburgh fall day to explore Mt. Washington’s Emerald View Park. Here’s to making the most of fall break!

Happy Smiley Day, all! The :-) emoticon was first used on this day in 1982 by LTI Professor Emeritus Scott Fahlman.

Carnegie Mellon leaders and faculty shared their expertise amongst fellow researchers and industry experts at AI Horizons 2025.

Recap ➡️ cmu.is/AI-Horizons

Incoming LTI assistant professor @akariasai.bsky.social, set to join our faculty in fall 2026, has been named one of @technologyreview.com's 35 Innovators Under 35 for her work in retrieval-augmented generation. Congratulations to Akari on this great honor!
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I'm excited cause I'm teaching/coordinating a new unique class, where we teach new PhD students all the "soft" skills of research, incl. ideation, reviewing, presenting, interviewing, advising, etc.

Each lecture is taught by a different LTI prof! It takes a village! maartensap.com/11705/Fall20...

Happy first day of classes to all our students, new and returning! Wishing everyone a happy and enlightening fall semester.

Congrats to @shinjiw.bsky.social and his team for their Best Student Paper award at #Interspeech2025!

I spoke to Forbes about why model "welfare" is a silly framing to an important issue; models don't have feelings, and it's a big distraction from real questions like tensions between safety vs. user utility, which are NLP/HCI/policy questions www.forbes.com/sites/victor...

A hearty congratulations to the LTI's
@maartensap.bsky.social, who's been awarded an
Okawa Research Grant for his work in his work in socially-aware artificial intelligence. lti.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...

We're excited to announce the launch of MMU-RAG at #NeurIPS2025! A new competition from the LTI & Amazon AGI focused on real-world Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with live user feedback via RAG-Arena.

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Congrats (and well done!) to LTI PhD student Shaily Bhatt on her plenary lightning talk at #IC2S2

Hand gestures are a major mode of human communication, but they don't always translate well across cultures. New research from @akhilayerukola.bsky.social, @maartensap.bsky.social and others is aimed at giving AI systems a hand with overcoming cultural biases:
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Hand gestures are a major mode of human communication, but they don't always translate well across cultures. New research from @akhilayerukola.bsky.social, @maartensap.bsky.social and others is aimed at giving AI systems a hand with overcoming cultural biases:
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New research from LTI, UMich, & Allen Institute for AI: LLMs don’t just hallucinate – sometimes, they lie. When truthfulness clashes with utility (pleasing users, boosting brands), models often mislead. @nlpxuhui.bsky.social and @maartensap.bsky.social discuss the paper:
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Analysis | 6 tips to avoid using AI chatbots all wrong Chatbots are an embarrassing mistake waiting to happen. Here’s what not to do.

Niloofar Mireshghallah, incoming @cylab.bsky.social ky.social‬, @cmu-epp.bsky.social, and @ltiatcmu.bsky.social professor, shares tips with @shiraovide.bsky.social and @heatherkelly.bsky.social of @washingtonpost.com for protecting #privacy while using #chatbots.

What if AI played the role of your sassy gay bestie 🏳️‍🌈 or AAVE-speaking friend 👋🏾?

You: “Can you plan a trip?”
🤖 AI: “Yasss queen! let’s werk this babe✨💅”

LLMs can talk like us, but it shapes how we trust, rely on & relate to them 🧵

📣 our #FAccT2025 paper: bit.ly/3HJ6rWI

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Congratulations to LTI Assistant Prof @ybisk.me on his Amazon Research Award!

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Our MSAII and MCDS programs were both recently ranked among the nations best by TechGuide, with the MSAII program being named the number one program among MS programs in AI. Congrats to all the faculty, students and staff that make us who we are! lti.cmu.edu/news-and-eve...

We had a blast at our Commencement Reception Friday night. Congrats again to all of our 2025 grads – go out and make us (even more) proud!