"Will we have fewer lawyers? No, we will have more lawsuits." And not just because lawyers are more "efficient", as this article points out: sychophantic AI gives people the ability AND motivation to file; overwhelming defendants, lawyers, and the system as a result. futurism.com/artificial-i...

One of the best sports shots I have ever seen (Emilee Chinn/Getty) #MarchMadness www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-...

The Court of Death, by Rembrandt Peale, 1820, 📸 via @ContextFreeCBB

I mean, I bet @masnick.com for example would appreciate knowing more about the accounts he reposts #ATmosphereconf

I regret missing #atmosphereconf but would love attendees to check out and give feedback on our labeler at @stechlab-labels.bsky.social -- a first-pass implementation looking at how labelers can improve the surfacing of transparent, objective, useful ATProto information about account behavior.

Great session with @oliviersylvain.bsky.social on the @techpolicypress.bsky.social podcast on the history and law of keeping big tech accountable. Complete with a reference to my colleague @frankpasquale.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/podcast/

Went with timeliness for my #NoKings sign today.

Like every year around PhD decision time, here is a PhD syllabus I wrote to demystify and clarify what to expect from the PhD for students in my lab. It may be helpful for others making their decisions: it's not the same everywhere, but can tell you what q's to ask. s.tech.cornell.edu/phd-syllabus/

Like every year around PhD decision time, here is a PhD syllabus I wrote to demystify and clarify what to expect from the PhD for students in my lab. It may be helpful for others making their decisions: it's not the same everywhere, but can tell you what q's to ask. s.tech.cornell.edu/phd-syllabus/

oh my god is it a calf, please tell me its a calf

The regime is counting on your exhaustion. 😮‍💨 Your neighbors are counting on your presence. 🤝 3,000+ events this Saturday. Choose your side. March 28. #NoKings2026

New important (I hope) resource for academics working in this area.

I spoke with @rollingstone.com about the Trump administration's new AI framework. At a moment when a majority of Americans are asking for AI guardrails, this proposal moves in the opposite direction. Rather that constrain companies, it releases them from accountability. 🧵 www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...

1/ I've taught/referenced three democracy indexes/reports over the years- from Freedom House, the V-Dem Institute, and The Economist Intelligence Unit. V-Dem just came out with its 2026 report. Like most measures of the health of democracy, it's not good news. www.v-dem.net/documents/75...

To my friends in CS who argue that criticism of LLMs is overblown: please read this. While you personally may find benefits that replace broken search engines/reduce the need to slog thru old StackOverflow posts, there are very real, very scalable propaganda harms to others. LLMs need regulation.

🧵[1/6] The term AI-complete usually refers to a problem that is as difficult as creating a human-level General Intelligence (AGI). If you mean Bluesky is now fully integrated with AI, the reality is more nuanced and interesting. Bluesky recently clarified they do not use your posts to train

BlueSky is now AI-complete. Is that right, @debunkbot.bsky.social ?

This might be the biggest job in (open) science. Cornell is creating a new non-profit organization to house @arxiv.bsky.social -- and hiring a new person to lead it. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37961678...

Karl Weick (organizational psychologist, foundational work on sensemaking) had a great refrain: “How can I know what I think until I see what I say?” I often think about this in relation to how AI can interfere w/ thinking by substituting its words for ours. This experimental study offers evidence.

Good summary in the coverage by @cornelluniversity.bsky.social: news.cornell.edu/stories/2026...

“Overall, the study participants who saw the biased AI text shifted their positions toward those espoused by the AI.”

🥁🥁🥁 Newly out from us today in Science Advances: “Biased AI Writing Assistants Shift Users’ Attitudes on Societal Issues”. Large Language Models are providing users with autocomplete writing suggestions on many platforms. Could these suggestions shift users’ own attitudes? (spoiler: YES) (1/7)

🥁🥁🥁 Newly out from us today in Science Advances: “Biased AI Writing Assistants Shift Users’ Attitudes on Societal Issues”. Large Language Models are providing users with autocomplete writing suggestions on many platforms. Could these suggestions shift users’ own attitudes? (spoiler: YES) (1/7)

Life imitates art

Heroes. Quite the effort and dedication on this one. Unfortunately, not an easily repeatable process for most researchers looking for access, but can hopefully inform lawmakers.

Life imitates art

Here are 49 notes flagging that a tweet was posting AI content about the Iran war without disclosing. As you will see, most did not reach "helpful" status and will therefore probably not be used to demonetize creators spreading disinfo. The policy may have decent precision, but not good recall.

Black-and-red, angular-lines design? I swear I've seen that before

OFFS. When Iran tried to interefere in 2020, researchers caught them and called them out. Then the Benz-Weiss-Taibbi-Musk-Jordan-Trump axis labeled those researchers "censors" ... and set about defunding them and dismantling their organizations.

Could not be more clear who the real criminals are in this country

Astonished by the exceptional work/contributions of faculty candidates we are considering this year at Cornell Tech, many of whom (like me) came to this country as immigrants because of its renowned universities. Unfathomable damage of this administration actively undermining these institutions.

Only a few more days (full consideration deadline: March 1) to apply to our lecturer position at @cornelltech.bsky.social!

Kudos to the five* hockey players who chose to spend time with their families and teams instead of serving as political props for a authoritarian *Counted 18 at the SoTU, so maybe seven? www.nytimes.com/athletic/706...

Blizzard scenes on Roosevelt Island and the @cornelltech.bsky.social campus #nycblizzard

Haaretz exposes: Israeli government info campaign aimed at the US Christian Right, using fake websites designed to impact AI engines (aka GEO) by posing as think tanks publishing position papers or neutral factual overviews. Seemingly running this: Brad Parscale. www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Send a hospital boat to Louisiana www.axios.com/local/new-or...

Everything that @eryk.bsky.social writes is recommended. This is a great summary of the challenges raised by AI agents.

“I read very well, great comprehension. I read everything there is to read.” -- said nobody (who actually reads and comprehends) ever

If a couple of Tickle Me Elmos had told kids to kill themselves they would have been off the market by the weekend

Counterpoint: in the AI age there will be a high-premium on authenticated, human-inside services, for real estate and other industries.

For the morning crowd

Care about preparing people to contribute responsibly to building the next generation of AI and technology? Full-time (or at least 50%) lecturer position at Cornell Tech just posted, teaching computer science or related topics. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31698

The interview with Talarico has been posted to YouTube: youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A

This call is still open. I am looking to recruit, as well as many other faculty at Cornell. We review folders as they come, and will send offers until all positions are filled. Please share with your network 🙏

This is the only benchmark I take seriously

Professor Parenteau is all of us

And now for the most academic (and accurate) take on the Bad Bunny halftime show...

Endless legal calvinball making a mockery of the rule of law and the human rights of those being detained

We gave this phenomenon a name: "perceptual harms" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...