In 2024, I was a co-author on "Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives", covering areas we thought AI would have significant impact on the world. A shortened version appears as the cover article in this month's CACM: cacm.acm.org/research/sha... arxiv.org/abs/2412.02730 See: shapingai.com

google: we have invented agi but have hidden it in such an obscure website no one will ever find it anthropic: through our interpretability research, we discovered claude imagines himself wearing a bow tie at all times openai: we added slot machines

"40 percent of MRI signals do not correspond to actual brain activity"; "Since tens of thousands of fMRI studies worldwide are based on this assumption, our results could lead to opposite interpretations in many of them.” www.tum.de/en/news-and-...

🚨🚨🚨 I have a #postdoc (1+1 yrs) at the School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh to work on 💥 #reliable #LLM #agents with #neurosymbolic #nesy layers 💥 with Huawei Trustworthy Technology and Engineering Laboratory Munich 👉 elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... 🙏 please share!

Europe’s holiday wish? More speed, more options, more time for YOU. While many are winding down, Europe is gearing up: a major high-speed rail plan is set to transform travel by 2040. Here’s what’s coming ↓

Santa can keep the toys… What we really want for Christmas: people before algorithms.

We have two PI positions open at Helmholtz Munich. Exciting opportunities for early-career scientists! jobs.helmholtz-muenchen.de/jobposting/8...

Martin is a kind PI with tons of ideas. (PhD students: the PI matters more than the project, and Martin is the one you want.) Now, go update your CV and send it! ✨💪

Really exciting initiative from the German government, and super cool that they launched it at EurIPS!

Excited to announce a new book telling the story of mathematical approaches to studying the mind, from the origins of cognitive science to modern AI! The Laws of Thought will be published in February and is available for pre-order now.

"This kind of hype has contributed to misunderstandings about what AI actually is and what it can and cannot do. Generative AI is a seductive distraction from the type of AI that is most likely to make your life better, or even save it: Predictive AI" www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/15/1...

“Why AGI Will Not Happen” by Tim Dettmers. timdettmers.com/2025/12/10/w... This essay is worth reading. Discusses diminishing returns (and risks) of scaling. The contrast between West and East: “Winner takes all” approach of building the biggest thing vs a long-term focus on practicality.

Coming off the #EurIPS high — let’s keep the momentum going! 👀 We’re looking for a host team + venue for EurIPS 2026 that can support a unified budget, big workshop participation & smooth logistics. ❗Deadline: Jan 15th 🔎Details: https://bit.ly/4q4OrXO

EurIPS was pretty fun! Thanks to @lacerbi.bsky.social , @conorhassan.bsky.social , and all organizers of the Amortized ProbML team for the great workshop and for inviting me as a speaker! 🙌 Also great to be able to present our spotlight paper on sparsity on the main stage 😍

It's a wrap! After 3 main conference days, 1 #ELLIS UnConference day, and now 2 Workshop days #EurIPS is officially over. Thank you to you all for your support and engagement, it has been truly overwhelming in the most positive way.

Such an inspiring keynote

EurIPA! 🍻

The panel discussion on the Future of AI conferences in Europe is happening now! It features Aasa Feragen, Søren Hauberg, @serge.belongie.com, Bernhard Scholkopf, Ben Glocker and @philiptorr.bsky.social

Beautiful keynote by @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social at @euripsconf.bsky.social .

@vincefort.bsky.social kicks it off representing @ellis.eu and the #ELLIS UnConferenece!

A few photos from the @ellis.eu UnConference 2025 opening remarks by @vincefort.bsky.social and Søren Hauberg

The ELLIS UnConference has started! We're looking forward to workshops, a Poster Session, and talking about ELLIS. Come by booth D03-07 on the ground floor to say hi, make a button and grab some ELLIS merch. #ELLISforEurope #EurIPS

Celebrating the author contributions of our ELLIS Members and PhD Students at @neuripsconf.bsky.social 2025 - congratulations to all authors! NeurIPS is joined for the first time by @euripsconf.bsky.social in CPH 🇩🇰, a NeurIPS-endorsed European venue co-developed by ELLIS. 🔗 https://bit.ly/48cRAib

Good morning everyone, and welcome to the first day of amazing scientific dissemination and networking! Today the @ellis.eu UnConference is taking place with an amazing series of workshops & posters. We will also have our #EurIPS Welcome Remarks and Reception in the afternoon. Be there or be square!

🎤 Announcing the 3rd workshop on Reinforcement Learning in Mannheim 🎤 We have an amazing lineup of speakers: @Mathieugeist, @gio_ramponi, Theresa Eimer, @SarahKeren_, @araffin2, @c_rothkopf, and @AdrienBolland ⏰ Friday 6th February 📍University of Mannheim

Statement from #AISTATS2026 organizers regarding the @openreview.bsky.social API Security Incident

If you are at ELLIS UnConference on Dec 2 (pre @euripsconf.bsky.social ), join us at our Amortized ProbML workshop! Come for our great speakers: @paulbuerkner.com Yingzhen Li @davidruegamer.bsky.social @liza-semenova.bsky.social & poster session; stay for our hot takes on amortized probML!

Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”

I am hiring a PhD & postdoc to work together with me at KTH on probabilistic machine learning. Both positions are fully funded and part of WASP. I will be attending @euripsconf.bsky.social, if you are around and want to talk about the positions or what we do at KTH, then ping me and we can meet.

Getting journal rejections like

Thoughtful (as always) blog post from Nicholas Carlini. "Are large language models worth it?" A nice read giving his perspective on risks of ML models. Post: nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2025... For people who prefer, this is the video of the talk from @colmweb.org www.youtube.com/watch?v=PngH...

cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents

40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.

Every debate about AI on here about whether it is good or evil, verboten or not, presumes it can be prevented, and that seems so out of touch I don't even feel like reading to the end of a post, even the rebuttals.

Part of the reason why I’m so insistent about folks understanding AI capabilities is that they’re here to stay and we need to start thinking about what to do in such a world. Putting the genie back in the bottle is a pleasant fantasy that delays serious reckoning

I've had enough of this meme andymasley.substack.com/p/its-much-e...

EurIPS student pricing is ending soon and I have a hunch that the other tickets might also sell out, so get yours now while supplies last!

Interesting application of ideas from topology to LLM training!

Fisher meets Feynman! 🤝 We use score matching and a trick from quantum field theory to make a product-of-experts family both expressive and efficient for variational inference. To appear as a spotlight @ NeurIPS 2025. #NeurIPS2025 (link below)

The ELLIS Society welcomes its new Board. As the primary decision-making body, it will play a vital role in shaping the future of ELLIS and advancing #AI and #MachineLearning research across Europe in a time of global change. Read the full article: ellis.eu/news/ellis-s...

Super cool stuff! And great to see that there's at least a small part of GDM left not doing Gemini...

Looks like an awesome workshop!

The #EurIPS Salon des Refusés poster session is now accepting submissions 📜 We welcome self-nomination of rejected submissions from all @neuripsconf.bsky.social tracks (Main, D&B, Position). The call for self-nominations will stay open until the session is filled eurips.cc/salon-des-re...

✨ EurIPS registration is now open! Get one of the 1,500 tickets available. 500 tickets are discounted for students 🎓. In Copenhagen 🇩🇰 on Dec 2-7, 2025. ❗ Entrance to the ELLIS UnConference is free with a #EurIPS ticket. Get your ticket now: https://eurips.cc/ @euripsconf.bsky.social#EurIPS

🎓 The application portal for the #ELLISPhD Program is open today! Info & link: https://bit.ly/45DSe75

EurIPS workshop on AmOrTIzED InfErENcE!!!1!

My full interview with MLStreetTalk has just been posted. I really enjoyed this conversation! We talk about the bitter lesson, scientific discovery, Bayesian inference, mysterious phenomena, and key principles for building intelligent systems. www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-jT...

Most of the #EurIPS workshops now have their websites online 🙌 A lot of them have active call for participation and/or papers, so if you see something relevant to your field of research please consider submitting! Links for most workshops are available at: eurips.cc/workshops/

Looks like a good candidate paper for the Salon des Refusés at @euripsconf.bsky.social