Michael Ekstrand

Keynote for ROEGEN @ RecSys 2024

A slide entitled “Enter Generative AI” with a recommendation list and an arrow pointing to a psychdelic AI-generated llama.

These are the resources for my keynote talk, “Responsible Recommendation in the Age of Generative AI”, at the 1st Workshop on Risks, Opportunities, and Evaluation of Generative Models in Recommender Systems (ROEGEN) workshop at RecSys 2024.

Abstract

Generative AI is bringing significant upheaval to how we think about and build recommender systems, both in the underlying recommendation techniques and in the design of surrounding applications and user experiences, with potentially profound impact on the social, ethical, and humanitarian impacts of recommendation. Some concepts developed for responsible recommendation, retrieval, and AI can be applied to generative recommendation, while others are substantially complicated or hindered by the significant changes in the relationships between users, creators, items, and platforms that generative AI brings. In this talk, I will argue that thinking clearly and explicitly about the underlying social, legal, and moral principles that responsible recommendation efforts seek to advance will provide guidance for thinking about how best to apply and revise impact concerns in the face of current and future changes to recommendation paradigms and applications.

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