This conversation has convinced me that theory of mind is important for autonomous driving. I clearly underestimated its value, particularly in novel situations. Thank you to the participants, esp @sifu.tweety.fish @sven.blacksky.app @aniccia.bsky.social and @caravellin.bsky.social

It’s a reminder that whataver world follows our experiment on the planet it could be as vastly different as the one that preceded this Triassic climate spasm, and that our legacy will live on, not only in the fossil record, but perhaps even in the topography of the mountains of the far future.

One of Jesse Jackson’s lines that hits hardest: “Most poor people are not on welfare. They do the heavy lifting. They take the early bus. They work the late shift. They work every day that they can and still cannot lift their children from poverty, still cannot afford health care.”

Joe Halpern played a huge role in creating the CoRR and later integrating it with @arxiv.bsky.social. He chaired the CS section from 1998 until 2023, and he was active as a moderator until just a few weeks ago. Thank you, Joe, for promoting open science!

Highly recommend this essay by @mazmhussain.bsky.social It perfectly captures the lessons of this moment. open.substack.com/pub/mazmhuss... Anticipated by Paul Simon: "...a loose affiliation of millionaires, and billionaires, and baby: these are the days of miracle and wonder..."

No one will be surprised to learn that the author of the hyperviral "AI is coming for your white collar jobs" Twitter post is a scam artist. On his last viral twete: press.airstreet.com/p/reflection...

Except that tl;dr is also often accompanied by a summary. Will ai;dr be accompanied by an AI summary?

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

My god, her testimony. It’s just infuriating. youtu.be/E5-m5u0qzDU?...

I was one of the external reviewers.

I strongly recommend this blog post by Ben Vigoda: www.benvigoda.com/2026/02/01/w...

Come work with me!!!!

#ICML2026 authors, if you can flatten the curve on @arxiv.bsky.social submissions, the cs.LG moderators would really appreciate it. Today we have 4 times the usually number of submissions. Please select a random number between 1 and 14 and wait that number of days to submit! :-) #mlsky

NEW: NeurIPS,one of the world’s top academic AI conferences, accepted research papers with 100+ AI-hallucinated citations, new report claims fortune.com/2026/01/21/n...

I'm trying to find scholars who have studied how scientists assimilate the discoveries of other scientists. I'm trying to understand the potential impact of AI-assisted acceleration of scientific discoveries beyond the short term. Can anyone point me to people and publications?

<looooong sigh> got out of a meeting discussing how we are supposed to now push engineers to use AI on every check-in in some way. I may have just risked my promotion by asking how we will measure if that’s effective or not. Kept gently suggesting that we need means to prove it increases…

When did people start using the phrase "positioning" in AI papers, as in "Positioning OurNet" to describe how their work relates to previous work? Is this something that LLMs have introduced?

“We are taking the sign out of the window. The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy. But from the fracture, we can build something better, stronger, and more just. This is the task of the middle powers.” globalnews.ca/news/1162087...

📢 Jobs! arXiv is looking for editorial support to help tame the waves of incoming submissions. Two postings today (US-based): 1. arXiv Assistant Production Editor cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree... 2. arXiv User Support Assistant cornell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/CornellCaree...

Wrote a summary of a great keynote by @zey.bsky.social at NeurIPS, arguing that we’re having the wrong nightmares about AI: not AGI or superhuman benchmarks, but good-enough genAI at scale threatens "load bearing frictions" society relies on to signal effort, authenticity, sincerity, credibility.

Closed my account with Hilton Honors because of their support of ICE and lack of support for their local franchisee. I encourage others to do the same.

I notice a lot of LLM-written papers look alike. Do the LLMs suggest a particular latex style file and font choices?

An under-appreciated (good) news story of 2025: ➡️Covid-19 has still not reached endemism, and continues its steady march to extinction. (long thread) 1/

There is a Grokipedia article about me (and I assume anyone else who has a Wikipedia page about them) and well that was quite an interesting read (over 5,000 words). Let's fact check it, shall we...

Some folks have wanted to list Claude as a co-author on @arxiv.bsky.social submissions, which is not permitted. But if it had been allowed, so many Claude-written papers have been rejected at this point, that Claude would be banned from the platform

Trump does not consider himself to be the Leader of the Free World. He instead views himself as a member of the Authoritarian Triumvirate that rules the world

Happy arxiv:2601 to all who celebrate! 😉🎉🔬 We are so thankful for everyone who uses arXiv everyday to share and discover new research. Happy new year to all - here's hoping for a 2026 full of #openaccess science & lots of new discoveries.

We absolutely should be competing in renewables. Instead we are stuck wasting tax dollars propping up antiquated industries because they are propping up our antiquated leaders.

I'd like to propose the following norm for peer review of papers. If a paper shows clear signs of LLM-generated errors that were not detected by the author, the paper should be immediately rejected. My reasoning: 1/ #ResearchIntegrity

“Like Prime, but with human beings.”

Now seems like a swell time to point out that Frontline just released this excellent 11-minute mini-documentary about what happened inside CECOT.

Since I can’t get it out of my head, I wrote up my thoughts on @kevinbaker.bsky.social's critique of AI-automated science and the logical end of processes that can't self-correct.

This essay is excellent; also read Ben Recht's writeup about it on his blog, which is also particularly eloquent.

The current lab policy we are testing is to actively declare the level of LLM involvement in code or writing and to view the absence of this as a form of dishonesty. This is paired with a lack of judgement around their use. So far it seems to be helpful.

Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist. I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵

Join our NeurIPS social event: The Role of AI in Scientific Peer Review. Help build community and explore solutions for a fair, efficient, and transparent peer review system. Wed. Dec. 3rd, 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM #NeurIPS2025

Excellent blog post on the infeasibility of putting data centers in space. taranis.ie/datacenters-...

As someone who has occasionally glimpsed this world, this article strikes me as very accurate. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/o...

Conference centers (and other public venues) should be installing these. I suppose we could also crowdsource this data if someone could make a wearable Bluetooth version. www.wired.com/story/this-h...

Monarch butterfly tracks in today’s NYT. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

I am by no means a prominent public intellectual, but my inbox is increasingly filled with messages from people who have been convinced by sycophantic chatbots that they have discovered revolutionary theories that entirely upend our scientific understanding of the universe.

I agree that emotional addiction to chatbots is the number one risk of AI today. Here is a gift link to an important OpEd in the NYTimes: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/o...

Love this new technology from Cellular Tracking Technology for tracking Monarch butterflies. Great NYTimes story. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

So many nonsense ad hoc pipelines could be prevented by requiring that they work on synthetic data. I tend to think of experiments as special cases of inference, since most of the problems I work on cannot be studied in experiments. But I get that many researchers see experiments as base analogy.

We are not "banning" reviews; we are just requiring peer review first. Good review articles are important for the field!

The blog post is available: blog.arxiv.org/2025/10/31/a...

Yes. This raises the following question: What should be the consequences for an author who submits a paper for peer review that contains hallucinated references? (Or more generally any text that is found to contain obvious falsehoods?)

Great job alert! 👇

6. If scientists start noticing the similarities between observations in different fields, that should be treated as an opportunity to ask new research questions, perhaps even to conduct a comparative analysis or attempt advancing a unifying theory; not an opportunity for a cheap dunk.

thebulletin.org/2025/05/the-... Words of wisdom from David Woods, Mike Rayo, and Sean Pruchnicki. Air traffic accidents and near misses are up; proactive safety engineering needs to be reinvigorated.