Mona Diab

Mona Talat Diab is a computer science professor and director of Carnegie Mellon University's Language Technologies Institute. Previously, she was a professor at George Washington University and a research scientist with Facebook AI. Her research focuses on natural language processing, computational linguistics, cross lingual/multilingual processing, computational socio-pragmatics, Arabic language processing, and applied machine learning.

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"NEW LTI DIRECTOR TO USER IN ‘RESPONSIBLE THINKING’ AT CMU" (2024)

"NEW LTI DIRECTOR TO USER IN ‘RESPONSIBLE THINKING’ AT CMU", The Link (2024)

• We’re living in a world of proliferating AI and generative AI. There is so much at stake.

• We are at an inflection point for this technology and the discipline as a whole. It is a critical time to take into account its impact and sustainability.

• Responsible thinking needs to become core to our work. It should shape the future of language technologies and AI at large.

• We must embed the technology with the right frameworks and build systems that are culturally aware and culturally responsible.

• there is no better place to affect the development and use of the next generation of technology than the School of Computer Science.

• AI researchers, scientists and students must consider issues ranging from security, privacy and accountability to diversity, equity and inclusion. They need to ask questions about climate and culture alongside questions about ones and zeros.