Susan Silbey is the Leon and Anne Goldberg Professor of Humanities and Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at MIT, with an additional appointment in the Sloan School of Management. She is a leading scholar of legal consciousness and organizational governance, known for her work on how people experience law and how institutions manage compliance and risk. She holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and has received numerous honors, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and MIT’s Killian Faculty Achievement Award. At MIT, she has also served as Chair of the Faculty and played a key role in interdisciplinary governance. Her influential books include The Common Place of Law and Law and Science.
The MIT Press surveyed book authors on attitudes towards LLM training practices. In Part 2 of this 2 part post, we discuss recommendations for stakeholders to avoid unintended harms and preserve core scientific and academic values.
The MIT Press surveyed book authors on attitudes towards LLM training practices. In Part 1 of this 2 part post, we discuss the results: authors are not opposed to generative AI per se, but they are strongly opposed to unregulated, extractive practices and worry about the long-term impacts of unbridled generative AI development on the scholarly and scientific enterprise.