Talks & Panels
Events
Keynotes, panels, and specials from the workshops and conferences WiAIR takes part in.
COLM 2026
The Third Annual Conference on Language Modeling. San Francisco, USA
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COLM 2026 in San Francisco. Do All LLMs Learn in the Same Order?
October 5, 2026 · 32 min
COLM 2026 in San Francisco. Can AI Safety Tools Detect Manipulation? 1,000 People Say No
October 6, 2026 · 16 min
COLM 2026 in San Francisco. Are You Wasting Your Fine-Tuning Data? Why It Belongs in Pretraining
October 7, 2026 · 23 min
COLM 2026 in San Francisco. Reunions
October 7, 2026 · 5 min
Is COLM the New NeurIPS? Russ Salakhutdinov on Agents, Evals and Long-Horizon Tasks
October 8, 2026 · 10 min
COLM 2026 in San Francisco. DNA Has No Words. So How Should a Language Model Read It?
October 8, 2026 · 17 min
COLM 2026 in San Francisco. On mechanistic interpretability and AI in education
October 9, 2026 · 6 min
Is COLM the Most AGI-Pilled AI Conference?
October 9, 2026 · 5 min
COLM 2026 in SF | LLM Judges Can’t Spot AI Slop. Humans Can.
October 10, 2026 · 11 min
COLM 2026 in SF | The Tokenizer Before the Tokenizer: How One Regex Line Can Make or Break Models
October 11, 2026 · 9 min
Bigger Models Won’t Fix Low-Resource Languages | Tiny Aya (Cohere Labs) @ COLM 2026
October 13, 2026 · 13 min
Steering 1% of Attention Heads Reduces Sycophancy | COLM 2026
October 14, 2026 · 12 min
Claude vs Gemini: Same Reasoning, Different Threshold | COLM 2026
October 15, 2026 · 9 min
Chopsticks in Rice: Why AI Misses Cultural Offense | COLM 2026
October 16, 2026 · 12 min
Where Does an LLM's Social Reasoning Come From? Tracing It to Pre-training Data | COLM 2026
October 19, 2026 · 7 min
Why LLMs Assume You Want Validation, and How to Steer It | COLM 2026
October 20, 2026 · 4 min
Does Code Make LLMs Better at Math? Scaling Laws That Measure Data Synergy | COLM 2026
October 21, 2026 · 8 min
Day 2 at ICLR 2026, with Shelly Golan
April 26, 2026 · 4 min
ICLR 2026 in Rio de Janeiro. Test-Time Spatial Control to 3D Generative Modeling
May 25, 2026 · 5 min
ICLR 2026 in Rio de Janeiro. Can We Really Trust LLM Leaderboards? 🎯
May 27, 2026 · 6 min
ICLR 2026 in Rio de Janeiro. How to Make AI Agents Faster with Speculative Actions
May 29, 2026 · 8 min
ICLR 2026 in Rio de Janeiro. Beyond RLHF: Learning Diverse Human Values with Community Alignment
June 1, 2026 · 4 min
ICLR 2026 in Rio de Janeiro. How to Prevent Catastrophic Forgetting Without Storing Data
June 3, 2026 · 14 min
ICLR 2026 in Rio de Janeiro. Why Do Multimodal LLMs Get Worse When You Give Them More Information?
June 5, 2026 · 13 min
ICLR 2026 in Rio de Janeiro. AI Models Understand Human Harm but Still Choose Unsafe Actions
June 8, 2026 · 7 min
Do LLMs Spread Misinformation Better Than Humans? (EACL 2026)
March 23, 2026 · 15 min
Inference-Time Steering Is Riskier Than You Think (EACL 2026)
March 25, 2026 · 10 min
Why Your LLM Needs Math to Think Better (EACL 2026)
March 27, 2026 · 19 min
You're Using Persona Prompting Wrong (EACL 2026)
March 30, 2026 · 16 min
From Paraphrases to Diagnostics: A Fine-Grained Framework for LLM Auditing (EACL 2026)
April 1, 2026 · 17 min
Why LLMs Hallucinate, and How to Make Them Say "I Don't Know" (EACL 2026)
April 3, 2026 · 15 min
Persona-Driven LLMs for Hinglish? (EACL 2026)
April 5, 2026 · 14 min
Reasoning Can Hurt LLM Safety?! Rethinking Accuracy in AI Systems (EACL 2026)
April 6, 2026 · 22 min
LLMs Can Call Tools -- But Can They Understand Them? (EACL 2026)
April 8, 2026 · 22 min
WiAIR | Interview Trailers
Trailers for upcoming Women in AI Research WiAIR podcast interviews. Get a preview of in-depth conversations with leading academic and industry AI researchers on core research questions shaping the field -- from foundations of ML and NLP to interpretability, fairness, and responsible AI. Each trailer highlights the key ideas, open problems, and debates explored in the full episode. 🎓 Ideal for PhD students, postdocs, and faculty looking to discover rigorous, research-driven discussions before diving into the full interviews. 🎙️ New to WiAIR? Start here to discover upcoming guests and decide which full interviews you want to watch next. 👉 Subscribe for full interviews, research-driven discussions, and behind-the-scenes insights into modern AI research.
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Ep 12 Trailer - When AI Misunderstands You: Cultural Bias in Language Models, with Dr. Vered Shwartz
October 27, 2025 · 4 min
Ep 13 Trailer - AI Isn't Just English: The Fight for Linguistic Diversity, with Dr. Annie Lee
November 17, 2025 · 6 min
Ep 14 Trailer - AI, Intimacy & Inclusivity: What We’re Getting Wrong, with Dr. Maria Antoniak
December 8, 2025 · 6 min
Ep 15 Trailer - Do LLMs Really Think? with Maria Ryskina
December 29, 2025 · 4 min
S2 Ep 1 Trailer - Can Language Models Reveal Their Hidden Prompts? Swabha Swayamdipta on AI Safety
January 19, 2026 · 5 min
S2 Ep 2 Trailer — Don't Trust the Reasoning: Letitia Parcalabescu on AI Explanations
February 9, 2026 · 4 min
Day 1 at NeurIPS 2025
December 3, 2025 · 12 min
Day 2 at NeurIPS 2025 - Rich Sutton, Zeynep Tufekci, posters
December 4, 2025 · 3 min
Day 3 at NeurIPS 2025 - keynotes and posters
December 5, 2025 · 7 min
Day 4 at NeurIPS 2025 - yet another interesting poster, and afterparty
December 6, 2025 · 9 min
NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego, Yejin Choi on Small Language Models
December 11, 2025 · 3 min
NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego, Marzyeh Ghassemi on the life in academia
December 14, 2025 · 4 min
NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego, with Leilani Gilpin
December 15, 2025 · 3 min
NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego, Wei Xu's Advice for Women in Generative AI
December 16, 2025 · 5 min
NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego, The Illusion of Thinking Explained
December 17, 2025 · 17 min
NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego. The Leaderboard Illusion: How LLM Rankings Are Gamed
December 20, 2025 · 17 min
NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego. Treasure Hunt
December 22, 2025 · 9 min
NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego. Deep Learning Secrets
December 23, 2025 · 8 min
NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego. Do AI Models Really Understand Emotions?
December 24, 2025 · 10 min
NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego. Charting the Future of AI: Building a Model Atlas
December 25, 2025 · 13 min
NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego. Causal Representations from Observational Data
December 26, 2025 · 15 min
NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego. Scaling Causal Discovery to Massive Graphs
December 27, 2025 · 12 min
NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego. Born With a Silver Spoon? Socioeconomic Bias in LLMs
December 28, 2025 · 16 min
NeurIPS 2025 in San Diego. Building Knowledge Graphs from Text with LLMs - KGGen Explained
December 29, 2025 · 7 min
Risks of AI
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Trustworthy AI Explained: Ana Marasović on AI Interpretability, LLM Reasoning & Benchmark Myths
October 6, 2025 · 3 min
Ep 11 Part 1 - The Messy Journey of Research, with Dr. Ana Marasovic
October 9, 2025 · 12 min
Ep 11 Part 2 - The Role of Explainability and Reasoning Traces in AI Trust, with Dr. Ana Marasovic
October 11, 2025 · 39 min
Ep 11 Part 3 - Robustness and Trustworthy AI, with Dr. Ana Marasovic
October 13, 2025 · 32 min
Ep 12 Part 1 - "Lost in Automatic Translation", with Dr. Vered Shwartz
October 30, 2025 · 15 min
Ep 12 Part 2 - Hidden Cultural Codes in AI, Dr. Vered Shwartz on Bias, Fairness & Global NLP
November 1, 2025 · 35 min
Ep 12 Part 3 - When AI Can't "See" Your Culture, with Dr. Vered Shwartz
November 5, 2025 · 29 min
Ep 13 Part 1 - The Journey of a Multilingual AI Researcher, with Dr. Annie En-Shiun Lee
November 21, 2025 · 19 min
Ep 13 Part 2 - The Real Challenges of Multilingual NLP, with Dr. Annie En-Shiun Lee
November 23, 2025 · 29 min
Ep 13 Part 3 - The Cross-Lingual Challenge, with Dr. Annie En-Shiun Lee
November 25, 2025 · 33 min
Ep 14 Part 1 - Trust, Privacy, and Power in AI, with Dr. Maria Antoniak
December 13, 2025 · 14 min
Ep 14 Part 2 - What AI Learns From Us, with Dr. Maria Antoniak
December 16, 2025 · 34 min
Ep 14 Part 1 - AI in Maternal & Reproductive Health, with Dr. Maria Antoniak
December 23, 2025 · 25 min
LLMs Can Hear… But Can They Reason? A New Benchmark for Audio Intelligence (EACL 2026)
April 12, 2026 · 18 min