The latest Stanford University Foundation Model Transparency Index was released out today, and IBM took the top spot ! In a year when other major AI players retreated from transparency, we doubled down and received the highest score in the Index’s history: research.ibm.com/blog/ibm-gra...

"When language no longer requires belief, AI’s fluency becomes a kind of anesthesia. And we are the ones it sedates. I’m reminded of T. S. Eliot’s ghostly image of a “patient etherized upon a table,” alive yet emptied of agency." www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Granite-4.0-H-Small: a 32B-A9B MoE Mamba for high efficency Damn! IBM is on the map. The American Qwen? I barely even knew IBM made LLMs, this is solid www.ibm.com/new/announce...

Recently got to have a super interesting conversation with the infinitely fascinating @krvarshney.bsky.social about why we need to make AI safe, and the very nature of ethics in a disaggregated digital world. Have a watch ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2A7...

Check out IBM's latest open source tools for trustworthy AI on GitHub: In-Context Explainability 360 FactReasoner Contextual Privacy Links from here: research.ibm.com/blog/debuggi...

"In my own interactions with ChatGPT, it has often responded, with patently insincere flattery: “That’s a great question.” It has never responded: “That’s the wrong question.” It has never challenged my moral convictions or asked me to justify myself." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/02/o...

"Until we recognise that the debate about AI is not just about what machines can do but also about how humans should value education and knowledge, it will remain mired in confusion." observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

"The true measure of progress in AI lies not in the sophistication of algorithms but in whether it genuinely serve the people and communities they seek to empower. Without grounding in human dignity and local contexts, AI risks creating technological subjugation." www.brookings.edu/articles/ai-...

What do authorship, copyright, and creativity mean in the age of AI? @krvarshney.bsky.social talks to us about it: research.ibm.com/blog/kush-va...

"Training yourself to observe and challenge these automatic thoughts—what psychologists call metacognition—is strikingly similar to the Buddhist concept of yoniso manasikāra, or wise attention." www.forbes.com/councils/for...

"The next decade will be shaped by innovators using AI to solve real problems in real communities. The future won’t be written in Silicon Valley, but in Lagos, Jakarta, Cairo and Dubai. AI-powered solutions fused with local knowledge will unlock this future." www.weforum.org/stories/2025...

Weike Zhao, Chaoyi Wu, Yanjie Fan, Xiaoman Zhang, Pengcheng Qiu, Yuze Sun, Xiao Zhou, Yanfeng Wang, Ya Zhang, Yongguo Yu, Kun Sun, Weidi Xie An Agentic System for Rare Disease Diagnosis with Traceable Reasoning https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20430

📣 Today we open-sourced EvalAssist, a web-based tool that makes it super easy to develop criteria for llm judges. You can run this now locally and then scale up with notebooks using Unitxt. Check out the AI Alliance article to get the scoop: thealliance.ai/blog/llm-as-...

LLM-as-a-Judge Simplified — Start Small, Refine Fast, Scale Smart ibm.github.io/eval-assist/

🚨 Announcing our #keynote speakers for the 3rd Trustworthy AI #Workshop @deeplearningindaba.bsky.social ! We are excited to welcome thought leaders pushing the boundaries of #ResponsibleAI @krvarshney.bsky.social is a Fellow IBM Research

Djallel Bouneffouf, Matthew Riemer, Kush Varshney: The Ultimate Test of Superintelligent AI Agents: Can an AI Balance Care and Control in Asymmetric Relationships? https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01813 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.01813 https://arxiv.org/html/2506.01813

Announcing our keynote speakers for #FAccT2025! 🎉 Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Brown) Nathalie Smuha (KU Leuven) Kristian Lum (Google DeepMind) Molly Crockett (Princeton) And the plenary panel will be on “Pathways of Change and the Future of Responsible AI"

Frying gulab jamuns helps you understand the phenomenon of tidal locking between moons and planets.

🔗 Want to connect your agents together wherever they are🌎? See what's possible with ACP! This video will show: 🎁 How to wrap an agent with the SDK 🔈 Calling out with a a standardized client ⛓️Chaining ACP calls to different agents 📲 Prototype of ACPCallingAgent 👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nzaq...

Happy to see @bhoov.bsky.social recognized in this article about spin glasses and associative memory. www.quantamagazine.org/the-strange-...

🤖 ✏️ There is a better way to explain how you used AI in your {research paper, college essay, blog posts, …}. Check out our new AI Attribution Toolkit and look for us at #CHI2025! aiattribution.github.io dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

“If we think about how human beings in the world, we do see bad things, so it’s not about allowing the language model to see only the good things. It’s about understanding the full spectrum — both good and bad,” says Ko, “and choosing to uphold our values when we speak.” news.mit.edu/2025/trainin...

See you at the University of Sydney in less than two hours. www.eventbrite.com.au/e/toward-a-s...

Granite Guardian tops a new benchmark! research.ibm.com/blog/granite...

LLMs need not engage in a coloniality of knowledge by treating one culture's ethics or moral philosophy as universally correct. Instead, open LLMs should be aligned to value systems from different epistomologies and not assume universal values. 🌍🤖 #ai #hcai #alignment

A summary of decolonial AI alignment in the Human-Centered AI publication on Medium. Thanks to @jweisz3.bsky.social for asking me to write it, and for editing the piece. medium.com/human-center...

Happy to see Granite Guardian models atop the GuardBench leaderboard, including in non-English languages. This benchmark was just released. Read about it here: www.linkedin.com/posts/eliasb....

How do the opportunities, risks, and mitigations extend from traditional machine learning to generative AI to agentic AI? What risks are amplified? What risks are new? The IBM AI Ethics Board answers these questions in a new report about AI agents. Check it out here: www.ibm.com/downloads/do...

"Social impact work isn’t charity. It’s how companies sharpen their edge.They’re learning in ways that no corporate client can teach them. They’re designing for chaos, building for the underserved, and stretching their creativity to the limit." www.fastcompany.com/91303723/fro...

I'm on the IBM Mixture of Experts podcast wearing a safety vest. We talk about all the new things in AI this week. I also connect to older work by IBM Fellows Irene Greif, Bob Dennard, Rolf Landauer, and Charlie Bennett and to Mauro Martino's new AI-generated film. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgqH...

Glioblastoma cancer tore up the brain of someone I loved dearly. We are approaching highly effective treatment for glioblastoma with mRNA-based vaccines! —> doi.org/10.3389/fonc... And this conspiracy-soaked cabal wants to throw it away. Forcing more families to endure what mine did. Stop them.

"The deep-seated separation between humans and nature that defines our times is a self-defeating illusion rooted in a distorted view of intelligence as efficient problem-solving." bigthink.com/13-8/the-cas...

Learned a new word today: optimific.

From Erik Miehling (www.linkedin.com/posts/erik-m...) "AI development is currently overly focused on individual model capabilities, often ignoring broader emergent behavior, leading to a significant underestimation of the true capabilities and associated risks of agentic AI."

Four exciting things to share about watsonx.governance and Granite Guardian. Fun times in AI safety! See thread for the details.

The 10 trillion token GneissWeb dataset is very nice. Please check it out. research.ibm.com/blog/gneissw...

I'm presenting a seminar at the University of Illinois tomorrow at 4 pm. It'll be about human-centered trustworthy AI in the age of agentic AI and how a systems theory might help us understand and govern certain risks like loss of dignity and loss of control. calendars.illinois.edu/detail/5528?...

Inference-time compute is volleyball to single-pass inference's tennis.

Nice reflection on fairness in machine learning for dermatology by Celia Cintas of IBM Research Africa. 4sonline.org/news_manager... cc @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social

Some musings about LLMs from the perspective of the classics and other topics in the humanities. arxiv.org/abs/2502.05148

"While techniques such as the ones used by R1 can degrade model safety, our preview release shows that reasoning and safety don’t have to be a trade-off." www.ibm.com/new/announce...

Link: ymroueh.me/post/post_1/

A very nice blogpost on GRPO (the method that was used to train R1) by Youssef Mroueh

Trump’s attack on birthright citizenship threatens generations of AAPI families and fuels xenophobia. Stop AAPI Hate calls on Congress to protect the Constitutional right to citizenship for all. Read the full statement:

"But the trend is clear: answers to even very hard questions are becoming cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. Which means the ability to ask them is getting more and more and more valuable." www.notboring.co/p/most-human...

Nice summary of where AI lobbying and policy seem to be headed. www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/21/1...