Marcus Schwarting is a PhD candidate in computer science at the University of Chicago, where his research focuses on applying machine learning to important challenges in computational chemistry, materials science, and quantum mechanics. Marcus graduated from the University of Louisville in 2018 with degrees in mathematics and chemical engineering. After four years at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory, he began his PhD in 2020 under Dr. Ian Foster. Marcus is a senior editor of AI and Faith and a contributing member of the Partnership for Applied Biblical Natural Language Processing.
The Technical and Ethical Challenges of Generative Model Alignment
August/September 2024: Ethical Considerations on Artificial Intelligence (Volume 24 Issue 4)
Introduction [1] Anyone who has interacted with generative models like ChatGPT or Midjourney knows that their responses can sometimes be deeply flawed. Large language models (LLMs) will sometimes confabulate[1] factual errors. They can also respond in manners that are biased, racist, sexist, or explicit.[i] Text-to-image diffusion models can make relatively harmless errors like misspelling image […]