“The postwar order rested on three pillars: American hegemony, the fossil-fuel energy system, and an open, multilateral trading order. America has now attacked each pillar at the foundation of its hydrocarbon global order.” — New: @katemac.bsky.social & I www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...

🚨AISTATS workshop proposals open! Big News: For the first time, there will be a day of workshops at #AISTATS 2026, in Tangier, Morocco 🌴🇲🇦 Quentin Berthet @qberthet.bsky.social and I are workshop chairs. virtual.aistats.org/Conferences/... Deadline: Oct 17, AOE

A flagship keynote panel at #DLI2025 delved into the critical topic of AI policy and national strategies for Africa. The panel featured insights from Jane Munga, Barbara Glover, Virginia Dignum, and Vukosi Marivate. The session also included a special message from H.E. Ms. Lerato D. Mataboge.

I’ll be live posting from the Centring Data in African AI workshop happening in Kigali at the #DLI2025

Welcome to #DLI2025! The energy is already electric at registration. We are so excited to see everyone

#DLI2025 kicks off with opening remarks from the General Chairs, Bruno Ssekiwere, Pierrette Mahoro Mastel & Tejumade Afonja 🌍 They emphasised collaboration, community building & innovation in advancing Africa’s ML ecosystem, and shared why Rwanda is a fitting host this year ✨ #indaba2025 #Urunana

A thought-provoking keynote at #DLI2025 by Verena Rieser! Her talk challenged the idea of a single “gold standard” for AI alignment. It was a call to action: moving beyond narrow safety metrics to embrace a pluralistic approach that accounts for our diverse, and sometimes conflicting, human values.

What an incredible keynote by Max Welling! He’s challenging us to look beyond chatbots to the "fifth paradigm of scientific discovery": AI4Science. His talk explores how AI is transforming everything from predicting the weather to accelerating molecular simulations. #DLI2025 #Indaba2025

We were honoured to host our Faculty Panel Session, a crucial step in ensuring faculty and academia are at the heart of the conversation. The session was a reminder that the classroom is where future innovators are shaped.

Your #FAccT2025 General Chairs @sciorestis.bsky.social, @metaxa.net, and I, reporting from the venue. We're looking forward to welcoming you to the Athens Conservatoire or online!

We are at #facct2025 in Athens and discussing the latest research in building safe, fair and accountable AI technologies. 🚀🚀

Just 5 days left for the abstract submission deadline for @facct.bsky.social 😱 A slow trickle of submissions coming in and can’t wait to see the full set. good luck to everyone writing and planning to submit 🤞🏽🚀

🎄 Merry Christmas! 🎄 🔔 As Advent ends, the 12 Days of Christmas🎄begin! Join me for a deeper dive into the initiatives shown in this map - from Data Science Africa to @ai.cam.ac.uk - as we explore practical responses to AI challenges. the-atomic-human.ai/reflections/...

Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.

Deadline for faculty research grants up to $60k is 27 Jan! “The Research Scholar Program provides unrestricted gifts to support research at institutions around the world, and is focused on funding world-class research conducted by early-career professors” google.submittable.com/submit/ac6d7...

📢 ICML Call for Papers is out The CfP is live here: icml.cc/Conferences/..., and we also just released a blog post summarizing major updates this year: medium.com/@icml2025pc/...

"Contrails, formed by aircraft engines, are a major component of aviation’s impact on anthropogenic climate change. [...] This study demonstrates that per-flight detectable contrail avoidance is feasible in commercial aviation." www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Reminder: The #FAccT2025 submission deadlines are roughly one month away! Abstracts are due January 15th and full papers on January 22nd. See the full CfP here: facctconference.org/2025/cfp

Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators. More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live): 1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇 1/10

For my first post on Bluesky .. I'll start by announcing our 2025 edition of EEML which will be in Sarajevo :) ! I'm really excited about it and hope to see many of you there. Please follow the website (and Bluesky account) for more details which are coming soon ..

Could language games (and playing many of them) be the renewable energy that Ilya was hinting at yesterday? They do address two core challenges of self-improvement -- let's discuss! My talk is today at 11:40am, West Meeting Room 220-222, #NeurIPS2024 language-gamification.github.io/schedule/

Very good to see the renewal of the US-China science and technology pact. Even if it is reduced in scope, some limited cooperation is better than none at all, as we at the AI & Geopolitics Project argue in our latest report 'Moving Beyond Competition'.

Our new landscape review examines the foundations of participatory and inclusive data stewardship. The review demonstrates the liveliness of debate around ‘data stewardship’ and aims to support future research and practice. www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/parti...

I look forward to co-directing the Canadian AI Safety Institute (CAISI) Research Program at CIFAR with @catherineregis.bsky.social We will be designing the program in the coming months and will soon share ways to get involved with this new community. Read more here: cifar.ca/cifarnews/20...

Enjoyed reading this interview: "...rather than talk about AI in Africa, we are instead trying to focus on the context of where you are on the continent rather than a definitive catch-all that ignores the massive differences in place and experience.” wearecs.org/cs-magazine/...

There is just about a month left before the abstract deadline for @facct.bsky.social 2025🥳😳🙈. Really looking forward to seeing all the submissions. If you are submitting, don’t forget to check out the Author Guide (and the reviewer and AC guide as well). facctconference.org/2025/aguide

Like its predecessor (GraphCast), the weights & code of GenCast have been made publicly available: github.com/google-deepm... We’re looking forward to seeing how the community builds on this!

So excited to share our Google DeepMind team's new Nature paper on GenCast, an ML-based probabilistic weather forecasting model: www.nature.com/articles/s41... It represents a substantial step forward in how we predict weather and assess the risk of extreme events. 🌪️🧵

1/25 Welcome to the "Atomic Human Advent Calendar" A new post or every day. the-atomic-human.ai/images/dan-a... I'm please to share the work of Dan Andrews of scribeysense. I asked Dan to read the book and create a drawing for each chapter. Here's how Dan responded to Chapter 1.

Got this amazing graphic summary of a keynote I gave on the Roles for generative AI in scientific discovery. From the amazing Dan Andrews at an event by @acceleratescience.bsky.social (Last Dec already 👻). Check Dan out on LinkedIn and consider for your next event. www.linkedin.com/posts/danscr...

Our team at Google DeepMind is hiring Student Researchers for 2025! 🧑‍🔬 Interested in understanding reasoning capabilities of neural networks from first principles? 🧑‍🎓 Currently studying for a BS/MS/PhD? 🧑‍💻 Have solid engineering and research skills? 🌟 We want to hear from you! Details in thread.

Very excited to see the @deep-mind.bsky.social GenCast paper in press at Nature! Great work by the core team at GDM; GenCast provides a significant step forward with the ability to draw realistic sample ensemble members from the posterior forecast distribution. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This was a fun paper to read. It uses generative architectures and concepts combined with strong and rigorous evaluation.

The next generation of probabilistic machine learning for weather called GenCast is published in @natureportfolio.bsky.social today 🥳. Amazing to see the collective progress in ML for weather as a field over the last 5 years. 🏖️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The bluesky roast tool is hilarious. Get yours here. blueskyroast.com

I hope I am not late to the party (was away post-quals chilling) but here are some thoughts on why this is bad IMO: First, a disclaimer that I am writing this as an African who is a speaker of multiple African languages, NLP researcher of African languages, and HCI researcher focusing broadly on..

Should tag this piece on the end of the thread too. Education Next gave me 2000 words to express my skepticism on tutorbots, but I could've gone on at ten times that length. That skepticism is rooted in distrust of what the bots have to teach us. www.educationnext.org/ai-tutors-hy...

📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't. @smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇 nature.com/articles/s41...

New starter pack of Canada CIFAR AI Chairs! Featuring leading AI researchers across the country, from British Columbia to Alberta to Ontario to Quebec. Surprised @roydanroy.bsky.social didn't beat me to this one... Too normal a pack? go.bsky.app/8T8VDW

Poetry is a good case where ‘superhuman’ AI performance doesn’t make sense. “In racing to confer god-like status to machine output, what’s lost is what makes a poem a poem: a necessary urge to plumb what it means to have “one wild and precious life,” as Mary Oliver wrote.” lithub.com/on-the-repor...

Exciting opportunity for a senior software engineer to join our team in Kenya. www.google.com/url?q=https:...

Might be of interest to the academic types on here: fnl.mit.edu/1736/the-pro... @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social @kevinzollman.com @stevenstrogatz.bsky.social @karlwiderquist.bsky.social @socio-steve.bsky.social @etvpod.bsky.social @seanmcarroll.bsky.social @cailinmeister.bsky.social

NeurIPS Conference is now Live on Bluesky! -NeurIPS2024 Communication Chairs

The @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social previously highlighted 'knots' in healthcare systems, which disrupt how well it works for people. Good to see some of the themes of the 'knotted pipeline' report redirected in the Sudlow review

So happy to see the work of we’ve been doing in AI and education teams get recognised in multiple categories in this year’s Anthem Awards (that honours purpose and mission driven work)🥳 See the page for our work on LearnLM www.anthemawards.com/winners/list...

It's great to see so many new followers here. In case anyone wants to know what I (currently) think about AI and consciousness, this is the thing to read: arxiv.org/abs/2402.12422

Schmidt Sciences is outlining the timeline for a new program to support research at the intersection of artificial intelligence and the humanities. Open call for proposals to come Dec 15. www.schmidtsciences.org/humanities-a...

The Deep Learning Indaba has made significant progress over the last few years. This piece in @mittechreviewbr.bsky.social paints a great picture of the opportunities and tensions we face 🙏🏾. And Lots more work for us still 🚀🚀 www.technologyreview.com/2024/11/11/1...