Our weekly SRI Seminar Series welcomes Yejin Choi, incoming professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Previously, Choi was a Wissner-Slivka Professor and MacArthur Fellow at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. Choi has received numerous accolades for her work, and was recently named an AI2050 Senior Fellow by Schmidt Sciences.
Choi’s research investigates whether AI systems can learn commonsense knowledge and reasoning, moral reasoning, and various other problems in natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and computer vision, including neuro-symbolic integration, language grounding with vision and interactions, and AI for social good. Choi’s 2023 TED Talk, “Why AI is incredibly smart and shockingly stupid,” has been viewed more than 2.5 million times, and she was recently named an AI2050 Senior Fellow by Schmidt Sciences.
Moderator: Sheila McIlraith
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About Yejin Choi
Yejin Choi is an incoming professor in the Department of Computer Science at Stanford University and a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Previously, Choi was a Wissner-Slivka Professor and MacArthur Fellow at the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. She is also a senior director at AI2, overseeing the Mosaic project, and a distinguished research fellow at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford.
Choi’s research investigates if (and how) AI systems can learn commonsense knowledge and reasoning, if machines can (and should) learn moral reasoning, and various other problems in natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and computer vision, including neuro-symbolic integration, language grounding with vision and interactions, and AI for social good. Choi is a co-recipient of two Test of Time Awards from the Association for Computational Linguistics (2021) and the International Conference on Computer Vision (2021). She is also the recipient of eight Best/Outstanding Paper Awards (at ACL 2023, EMNLP 2023, NAACL 2022, ICML 2022, NeurIPS 2021, AAAI 2019, and ICCV 2013), the Borg Early Career Award (BECA) in 2018, the inaugural Alexa Prize Challenge in 2017, and was selected as one of IEEE AI's 10 to Watch in 2016.
Choi’s 2023 TED Talk, “Why AI is incredibly smart and shockingly stupid,” has been viewed more than 2.5 million times online. In December 2024, Choi was named an AI2050 Senior Fellow by Schmidt Sciences.
About the SRI Seminar Series
The SRI Seminar Series brings together the Schwartz Reisman community and beyond for a robust exchange of ideas that advance scholarship at the intersection of technology and society. Seminars are led by a leading or emerging scholar and feature extensive discussion.
Each week, a featured speaker will present for 45 minutes, followed by an open discussion. Registered attendees will be emailed a Zoom link before the event begins. The event will be recorded and posted online.
Yejin Choi