Are you at ICML next week? Feel like your decision-making for which sessions to attend might not be risk minimizing? Don't incur (swap) regret and come to my, @aaroth.bsky.social, and @ncollina.bsky.social's tutorial Monday on multicalibration, decision-making, and collaborative learning!

Most Multilingual benchmarks measure what models know, not what they can reliably do. Our #ACL2026 paper introduces functional benchmarks in six languages from English to Yoruba to test whether models can actually execute tasks across languages, not just answer fixed questions about them. 🧵1/n

Sam D'Alonzo is presenting "Helpful, Harmless, Honest? Reconsidering RLHF as Survey Design and Content Moderation," our paper that explores these theories in depth, on Sunday @ 10:45-12:15 in Joyce. Collaborative work also with Frauke Kreuter.

This ended up being such an excellent event! Big congrats to all the organizers and so grateful that I could attend + participate!

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

Spending a Sunday morning talking about science and tech policy.

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...

Thrilled that this workshop is coming together. We have an amazing line-up of speakers, including @rajiinio.bsky.social, Manon Revel, @senmcnerney.bsky.social, @geomblog.bsky.social blog.bsky.social, and Henriette Canino & Héctor Corzo. Come join us!

Some personal news: I've signed a contract for a book! It's called REGIME CHANGE and it's published with Princeton University Press. More details as they become available.

It's about what's hidden, and what new deficiencies the tech carries with it. @victorojewale.bsky.social opines on the evolution of deployed AI and its limits. victorojewale.substack.com/p/from-exper...

For me, this comes with a responsibility to raise awareness about the challenges of being trans in Singapore. So I wrote a short post about my own journey transitioning since 13 years ago, which you can find here: ztangent.github.io/blog/2026/td...

Thanks for the signal boost, @jlkoepke.bsky.social! We wrote this paper to respond to real confusion we saw in various bills and in conversations with legislators. So while parts may be obvious to academics steeped in this work, hopefully it can give those working in AI policy some useful clarity.

It's been a journey of nearly 3 years, but I'm very excited to announce the CNTR AISLE Portal! 🚀 cntr-aisle.org It’s a new way to review and evaluate the 1,000+ AI bills introduced in the U.S. over the last three years. Check out the Bill Library and our Profiles#AIPolicy #OpenData

This Wednesday! Don't forget to register! Featuring Keynotes and Discussants (11:00am-1:00pm ET) @djweitzner.bsky.social (MIT) with Kobbi Nissim (Georgetown), Katrina Ligett (HUJI) with Talia Gillis (Columbia)

The @acmsigecom.bsky.social Winter Meeting and CSLaw Workshop are combined and on Wed., Feb. 25. Topic: "Algorithmic Game Theory, AI, and Law" Winter Meeting: www.sigecom.org/meetings/win... CSLaw Workshop: www.cslawworkshop.org Organizers: Rachel Cummings and @inbaltalgam.bsky.social.

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

We opened up applications for the Brown AI Policy Summer School! Please share with any computing or computational social science students who want to engage substantively with policymaking in the United States: cntr.brown.edu/summer-school. Deadline March 27th!!! Funding available!

Next was a great talk by @r-jy.bsky.social and Greg Demirchyan on alignment problems in AI governance at @simonsinstitute.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV2P... (5/7)

Thurs., 2/5 at 3:30 p.m., Law & Society Fellows Rui-Jie Yew and Greg Demirchyan discuss Alignment Problems in AI Governance. simons.berkeley.edu/events/align...

in which my students explain the context-sensitivity of social roles and norms 😅

In the beginning of November, Kate and I met to think more about how to continue the work from our tech policy press blogpost on AI sovereignty. She mentioned she’d been reading Laleh Khalili's works on oil in the Middle East and that she couldn’t get AI out of her head.

We released a new report in partnership with the Center for Tech Responsibility at Brown University on how policymakers and researchers can better analyze AI legislation to protect our civil rights and liberties.

Excited to be starting as a Law and Society Fellow at the @simonsinstitute.bsky.social in Berkeley next week. Looking forward to connecting with friends, old and new!

New post by @michelleding.bsky.social on resources for the Brown community in the aftermath of the shooting. open.substack.com/pub/michelle...

📍 Come to the #NeurIPS2025 Position Paper Panel at 3:30PM where @princessacintaqia.bsky.social will be speaking about our work: "Stop the Nonconsensual Use of Nude Images in Research". I’m also around and happy to chat! Learn more: www.safedigitalintimacy.org/datasets More info below!

Very glad to be a part of a new paper detailing how developers and developer platforms can prevent AIG-NCII, a form of image based sexual abuse that disproportionately harms women and girls. Thanks to all the collaborators and Max Kamachee & @scasper.bsky.social for leading this important project!

Thanks to collaborators! This was a really interesting paper for me to work on, and it took a special group of interdisciplinary people to get it done. Max Kamachee @r-jy.bsky.social @michelleding.bsky.social @ankareuel.bsky.social @stellaathena.bsky.social @dhadfieldmenell.bsky.social

ACM members/computing researchers who should be members interested in contributing should join the subcommittee's mailing list! One of our goals here is to build policy coalitions across institutions so we can do more as a collective 💪 and balance special interest groups.

Can't work because AWS? It's a good time to read this piece if you haven't! www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...

Technologies like synthetic data, evaluations, and red-teaming are often framed as enhancing AI privacy and safety. But what if their effects lie elsewhere? In a new paper with @realbrianjudge.bsky.social at #EAAMO25, we pull back the curtain on AI safety's toolkit. (1/n) arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22872

Hi #COLM2025! 🇨🇦 I will be presenting a talk on the importance of community-driven LLM evaluations based on an opinion abstract I wrote with Jo Kavishe, @victorojewale.bsky.social and @geomblog.bsky.social tomorrow at 9:30am in 524b for solar-colm.github.io Hope to see you there!

Great policy brief from @datasociety.bsky.social - happy to see that it draws from award-winning work by @r-jy.bsky.social and @lucyq.bsky.social at AIES last year.

“States should think very carefully about what they actually want to get out of this before spending hundreds of billions of dollars trying to indigenize the entire AI stack”

📌📌📌 I'm excited to be on the faculty job market this fall. I just updated my website with my CV. stephencasper.com

First up, on September 5 @ 6 pm ET: a grounding conversation about how AI technologies are reshaping daily life, featuring ‪D&S director of research @alicetiara.bsky.social, advisors @merbroussard.bsky.social & Mimi Ọnụọha, & board member @geomblog.bsky.social. www.showclix.com/event/unders...

phrases coming up in my research discussions: "vegan LLMs", "beyond meat or impossible meat LLMs", "tech companies as mercantilists, or money launderers, or tax dodgers, or arms dealers". oh and also "code generation for XML parsers", and then "birthday paradox". What field am I in? good question.

Excited to be joining a great lineup of speakers at the Technical AI Governance workshop in Vancouver this summer If you are working on AI governance, definitely consider submitting! #ICML2025

I'll be presenting a position paper about consumer protection and AI in the US at ICML. I have a surprisingly optimistic take: our legal structures are stronger than I anticipated when I went to work on this issue in Congress. Is everything broken rn? Yes. Will it stay broken? That's on us.

This is a very good piece about sovereignty as a service and you should read it. 🧵

compelling piece on the distance between the rhetoric and the reality of sovereign AI

Very excited to see this piece out in @techpolicypress.bsky.social today. This was written together with @r-jy.bsky.social and Kate Elizabeth Creasey (a historian here at Brown), and calls out what we think is a scary and interesting rhetorical shift. www.techpolicy.press/sovereignty-...

The welcome event and first keynote are getting started! 🎉🦉 Our first keynote is by Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Brown University) @geomblog.bsky.social "Are we winning yet? FAccT, AI governance, and the shape of what comes next." #FAccT2025

So the EU AI Act passed. Companies have to comply. AI regulation is here to stay. Right? Right? FAccT 2025 paper with @r-jy.bsky.social and Bill Marino (not on bsky) 📜 incoming! 1/n arxiv.org/abs/2506.01931