Being out of SF has lowered my information proximity but with the big upside of giving me space to cultivate my own beliefs and values around ai. We need more people zagging in AI, the monoculture just helps the incumbents win at this point.

A bittersweet announcement! For family reasons, I will be leaving AISI soon to move back to the Bay Area. I will be starting a new nonprofit alignment research org (more to come). I will miss this place! Here are some reflections about my time at AISI. 🧵❤️| naml.us/post/reflect...

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

@kawulf.bsky.social you might find this interesting

On why compliance (with accessibility standards like ADA) should be the floor, and not the ceiling. From Meredith Mendola, our @browncntr.bsky.social program manager: cntr.brown.edu/news/2026-05...

Can AI do Theory? Some of my friends are hosting a workshop on this topic at #STOC2026 in Salt Lake City Speakers: Scott Aaronson, Carina Hong, Mark Sellke, David Woodruff, Sebastian Bubeck, Prabhakar Raghavan Call for posters ddl: 5/29 Check it out! pritishkamath.github.io/ai-tcs-stoc-...

I have some great colleagues! discuss.systems/@ricci/11655... Rob's thread about data centers in Utah is incredible

After months of tense negotiations, EU legislators have reached a provisional agreement on the AI Omnibus. The deal delays enforcement of high-risk AI rules, adjusts obligations across sectors, and sets the stage for a broader battle over digital simplification, writes Laura Caroli.

“Even if you stopped climate change today, New Orleans’s days are still numbered,” he added. “It will be surrounded by open water, and you can’t keep an island situated below sea level afloat. There’s no amount of money that can do that.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is a fantastic little experiment in testing the null. The author generated a data set, made copies of it, and labeled different copies with different country labels. He then asked copilot to analyze the data and it produced all kinds of claims of difference.

This is a great article about the moment when honesty and truth breaks through the walls we've set up as learners and educators

Reupping in US time :)

In my recent conversation with Politico on my new coauthored book, Auditing AI, I discuss why AI audits matter, why accountability can’t be left only to computer scientists, and how we can evaluate systems for real-world harms. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Julia Angwin says Meta, "one of the most powerful media organizations in the world and one of the most valuable members of the S&P 500 — is at the start of a long, slow decline that will trigger aftershocks to our economy and our society." (Kudos to the graphic artist, very Monty Python.)

Spent yesterday with a load of people working in digital across the public sector and was reminded that I could never be a civil servant, a lot of people work really hard, often in thankless conditions, and that ministerial teams need to stop drinking the Tony Blair Inst koolaid

AAAI did an experiment where they supplemented human reviews with AI-generated reviews and solicited feedback from authors and the review hierarchy about the process. They've now written up the experiment (arxiv.org/abs/2604.13940). Some thoughts, with a link to my full note at the end. 1/8

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

The AHA at work! Thankful for @historians.org leadership and collab with ACLS and MLA in this critical case.

Fascinating read. Still digesting.

Am I wrong though?

It seems to me that we should not be banning the use of chatbots by kids. We should instead be banning the use of chatbots by old farts. Richard Dawkins concludes AI is conscious, even if it doesn’t know it | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian share.google/dyE6OlW5kFtN...

Progress. FTC to ban data broker Kochava from selling Americans’ location data share.google/7DJqUYyxtj6U...

Or they could just reinstate President Biden's AI Executive Order which had begun to address these concerns in 2023.

Happy Rhode Island Independence Day! #OTD 250 years ago, on May 4, 1776, Rhode Islanders led the way as the first to declare independence from the British Crown. That same spirit of standing up, speaking out, and putting our values first still guides us today!

Last weekend I received the Troland Research Award from the @nationalacademies.org. I’m so grateful to the communities who made this work possible. It's strange to receive this award at a time when much of the work being recognized is not eligible for federal funding. My remarks 👇 and a 🧵>>

I talked to my students a few months ago about how it's hard for them to see all the tech that has been canceled or rolled back, especially a social movement wins are often not publicized or taught. This is so important!

I need to start tracking /collecting these. Let's create a Museum of AI Failures. The Repository of AI Refusal. The AI DENIED Database.

Powerful, honest and brave 🔥 Read this 🧵 and watch this video from IAS Member and friend @mjcrockett.bsky.social, who uses the occasion of her distinguished @nationalacademies.org award to challenge the uncritical automation of science and the erosion of federal funding for social science research

Join us! simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/go...

For those keeping score, NSF is Director-less, Board-less, HQ-less, and soon to be down a directorate. buttondown.com/crgibbons/ar...

you had me at @colesci.bsky.social

The past 15 months have marked a dark chapter in US science; one that will require significant effort to repair. But I'm not interested in duct tape and bandaid solutions. Our system had problems before Jan 20th, 2025. So, @standupforscience.net is doing what we do best: TAKING ACTION. 1/7

that guitaring is absolutely bonkers, and the percussion... just listen to them.

Real talk by @gretchentg.bsky.social on the firing of the National Science Board blog.ucs.org/gretchen-gol...

Important reading material my students send me. I feel seen.

Spending a Sunday morning talking about science and tech policy.

I see that Marcia McNutt is once again demonstrating that she’s unqualified to lead the NAS. I only hope that the NAS survives her disastrous tenure

I resigned from the National Science Board in May when meaningful oversight became untenable. I respect colleagues who stayed to serve the NSB's mission. Today's news clarifies that was an erosion of oversight and function has become open elimination of the Board itself. 🧵 time.com/7285045/resi...

paper with @realbrianjudge.bsky.social on how big tech uses the science and technical toolkit of AI safety to avoid and preempt AI regulation and the importance of technical expertise to penetrate these arguments: arxiv.org/html/2509.22...

Breaking: Trump has fired the membership of the National Science Board, which is oversees NSF. I have confirmed separately with multiple now-former members of NSB.

@mjcrockett.bsky.social is totally killing it (pun intended) in talk about DEAD cognitive benchmarks. DEAD = Decontextualized, Engineered, Anonymized, Disembodied Super insightful talk at @sfiscience.bsky.social 's annual Science Symposium.

Sunday at the ICLR Workshop on Algorithmic Fairness Across Alignment Procedures and Agentic Systems (www.afciworkshop.org/afaa-2026), I will speak on a framework for how to reconcile alignment, fairness, and bias. Long-term and near-term perspectives on "AI safety" are reconcilable.

Big Tech vs. AI Regulation | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart share.google/kD3CQK8hI8KJ...

Subject: Time To Be Ambitious Friends, lend me your ears. You got this from my good friend Brutus, but our ledgers show you haven’t joined the fight. Look, I get it. Brutus says he wants to be ambitious. And, sure, he is an honourable man. But here I am to speak what I do know. We need your help.

Janet Haven (who leads @datasociety.bsky.social) and @alondra.bsky.social quoted in this news report on the use of ChatGPT by mass shooters to plan their attacks. www.npr.org/2026/04/23/n...

Four Brown faculty — Michael Littman, Saul Olyan, Leela Prasad and Joseph Silverman — have been elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, one of the nation’s most prestigious honor societies.

The SECURE Data Act is not a serious effort at tackling the urgent privacy crisis facing this country. It is weaker than many existing state laws (the very state laws that it would wipe off the books with its broad preemption provision). Some examples: