”Låt oss diskutera tekniska realiteter, teoretiska modeller och empiriska belägg – inte enbart luta oss mot auktoritetslistor. Det är först med vetenskaplig stringens som vi kan förstå både risker och möjligheter på allvar.” www.nyteknik.se/debatt/debat...

My office plant is flowering! No idea what species it is but it seems to thrive in an academic environment of random periods of neglect mixed with too much water.

Tidöpartierna vill att 13 åriga barn ska kunna dömas till fängelse. FN:s barnrättskommitte har avrått. Regeringens egna utredare säger att det är en dålig idé. Danmark redan testat – och var tvungna att backa då det visade sig att hårdare straff inte förebygger brott crd.org/sv/backademo...

”But when Silicon Valley tries to imagine superintelligence, what it comes up with is no-holds-barred capitalism.” www.theatlantic.com/books/archiv...

Congratulations to Dr. Denitsa Saynova who today successfully defended her thesis! It's been a pleasure working with you and supervising your PhD studies.

Om detta borde vi tala…👇🏼 www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Denitsa Saynova will defend her thesis on Wednesday 17/7 at 9am. She's worked on a cross-disciplinary project investigating applications of modern NLP methods to tasks relevant for political scientists, such as analysing very large amounts of texts from for example the Swedish Riksdag.

Ett år kvar till valet och de vinstdrivande skolkoncernerna och deras intresseorganisationer och betalda rapportskrivare syns överallt i media. Ja, jag är lite avundsjuk men också orolig för tillståndet med den svenska demokratin. Överdriver jag? Läs *lång tråd* och avgör själv.

"Extrem våldsvåg" "Skräniga gaphalsar" Eller 50.000 människor samlade i protest mot folkmord utan så mycket som ett glåpord eller en enda krossad flaska. Jag gick bl.a. bakom Judar mot Sionism. 🤷

Yay I got the linguistics joke

The aesthetics here are so spot on that I almost didn't read it --- not wanting to deal with any doomerish crap so early in the morning. But this is hilarious and it keeps on going.

I reviewed If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, a new book with an old argument for why AI will kill us all. To put it mildly, I didn't like it www.newscientist.com/article/2495...

”Effective regulation of AI needs grounded science that investigates real harms, not glorified press releases about existential risks” www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-n...

😂

AI + theorem proving + hiking = AITP conference in Aussois. As stunning as ever.

This is now, this is urgent and it can be fixed, but it’ll cost BigTeach. But in Swedish media, it’s difficult to get beyond having to debate existential risk, so we never get to discuss these issues.

As many of us people who study or work in tech tried to tell y’all, move fast & break things was always about POWER, not progress.

Ja, låt oss prata om detta istället för hypotetisk existentiell risk!

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

Reading about the horrifying case of Adam Raine, a teen who killed himself after prolonged engagement with ChatGPT, I can’t help but think of German artist and filmmaker Hito Steyerl’s wisdom to me a year ago. She already knew the answer. None of this was inevitable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

www.etc.se/klimat-miljo...?

No.

Margaret Boden reshaped cognitive science and AI. Her keen curiosity and witty defiance sparked fresh ways to think. Her legacy dares you and me to dream bigger and live boldly every day. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

”Författarens stöd för Palestine Action är inte bara modigt – det är ett genidrag som blottlägger det växande gapet mellan västvärldens regeringar och den verklighet som vanliga människor ser.”

Frihet är att den närmaste skolan alltid är tillräckligt bra, vårdcentralen vid jobbet likaså. De har tid att ta emot. Att hetsgoogla skolrecensioner, administrera köplatser, se samhället omkring en splittrats upp i ”bra” och ”dåliga” välfärdskonsumenter-frihet kanske för aktieägare, ingen annan.

Var inte som Ebba: se till att ha lite koll på hur stora språkmodeller funkar! www.sverigesradio.se/artikel/expe...

”Here's hoping that within a few years, when the frenzy is over, there will be room for those of us who really care about AI to get on with our work.” Amen to that! The current state of affairs is *not* why I decided to study a BSc in AI in Edinburgh way back when…

If you missed us at #cogsci2025, my lab presented 3 new studies showing how efficient (lossy) compression shapes individual learners, bilinguals, and action abstractions in language, further demonstrating the extraordinary applicability of this principle to human cognition! 🧵 1/n

”all federal science research would need to be approved by a political appointee who may have no expertise in the relevant areas, and the research can be canceled at any time if the political winds change. ”

#IPAM (the institute for pure and applied mathematics) is facing a critical shortfall for operating expenses due to an unexpected suspension of NSF funding www.ipam.ucla.edu/news/nsf-fun... . Donations for emergency continuity of operations funding can be made at giving.ucla.edu/Campaign/Donat

Demi Vollering on Instagram on the weight questions she received after Tour de France Femmes

The complete lack of regard for the Y-axis hurts me physically #GPT5

Här en text om varför vi inte har råd med de rika: www.affarsvarlden.se/wp-content/p...

Ja, det här israeliska avslöjandet säger alltså att Israel *spelat in* samtal mellan palestinier på Västbanken och Gaza, bortåt en miljon i timmen, och har lagrat audio av 200 miljoner timmars samtal hos Microsoft. www.972mag.com/microsoft-82...

80 years ago today, the USA dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. While we speak less about the horrors of nuclear war, the dangers are as real as ever. Somehow we need to rediscover our common humanity. Somehow we need to relearn to work together, not blow each other to bits.

📄📄📄 The AI4Mat-NeurIPS-2025 workshop is now open for submissions until August 22, 2025 (AOE)! Consider submitting full-length papers or shorter-length findings. We also have a special track for papers on benchmarking AI for materials design. sites.google.com/view/ai4mat/...

Depressing but important article on how GenAI is destroying the publishing industry. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

so I am one of the 12 people (including the “god-fathers of AI”) that will be at the Vatican this September for a two full-day working group on the Future of AI here is my Vatican approved short provocation on 'AI and Fraternity' for the working group

Unfortunately not at #cogsci2025 either, but check out the oral presentation by Andrea Silvi tomorrow!

I'm not at #acl2025, but my student Denitsa Saynova and our collaborators are there to present this paper: aclanthology.org/2025.finding...

The mathematician Fan Chung has authored over 300 papers with more than 150 coauthors. Her work has contributed to problems in computer science, engineering and physics. In an interview with Quanta, Chung discusses human and mathematical connection: www.quantamagazine.org/why-the-key-...

💐 Stage winner 💐 Marianne Vos 🇳🇱 #TDFF2025 l #TDFFLive

I love the #eurips initiative! But to live up to its potential, it should be accepted an official #neurips conference location (similar to Mexico City) and not just an addon! Then we would save C02, rather than adding to it!!! What can we do to achieve this?

Both LLMs and LRMs are upper bounded by humanity's knowledge closure. True scientific discoveries are, by definition, outside of that closure. Ergo, LLMs/LRMs are great force multipliers to us; but don't support "Nobel this weekend" hype.. 👉 www.linkedin.com/posts/subbar...

My thoughts on the crucial importance of methodology on self-reported AI performance on mathematics competitions, and my policy on commenting on such reports going forward: mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1148814...

Do models really understand humans (ToM)? Can your model do it? Beat them at the neurips Competition. 🤖📈🧠

Huge interest in #AI4math workshop at #ICML2025!

Tomorrow Friday at 1pm I'm giving a talk in the #AI4math workshop at #icml2025 about how efficient recursive number systems can emerge via communication and RL!

Are you passionate about AI & molecular engineering? Just ‼️one‼️ week left to apply to the 2 PhD positions currently open in our team at Chalmers! 🎓 Apply to join us in here in lovely Gothenburg, Sweden 🇸🇪🤩 For details: ailab.bio/join-us