I'm hiring again! 2 postdoc positions (3-years). Australian citizenship required. Join my lab to research scalable human-centred AI for decision support in defence, balancing scalable decision support and human control in complex environments. Details: uqtmiller.github.io/recruitment/

Visiting San Diego, I can say with confidence that the rest of the world is not up to real taco standards. That thing here rocks

Everyone stop, this is important

What does it mean when we say we understand mathematics and how will AI change all that? I recently attended the workshop on the Cognitive Science of Mathematical Understanding organized by Tania Lombrozo and Akshay Venkatesh, and summarized my experiences on my blog: gbalint.me/blog/2025/ma...

And now the propaganda rag "Magyar Nemzet" (along with other pro-Orban media) shared - then removed - a map containing the personal data, including the address, of the opposition supporters and activists whose data was stolen. Clear and brazen intimidation tactics. 444.hu/2025/11/07/n...

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

I had a long conversation with MIT Tech Review’s @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social about AGI; it fed into this very good read on the rise of AGI orthodoxy

I have been doing ML wrong my whole life: arxiv.org/abs/2309.08632

Cycling in Pittsburgh is great: the city is beautiful in the autumn colours, I never need to do cardio training again, and one may experience the "Pittsburgh left" which is when oncoming cars cut ahead of you at an unprotected left turn. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsbu...

new blog post: Vibe coding in the 90's

Oh my god some fucking tech dingdong posted this on Twitter with the caption "AI games are going to be amazing" totally seriously, you have to watch it. You have to. In full screen.

TIL that the expression: constant == expression, is called a Yoda condition and it makes so much sense. docs.astral.sh/ruff/rules/y...

I just saw a recent @nature.com paper that designs parachutes by literally cutting hundreds of holes into a disc. Inspired by kirigami, which is like origami but instead of folds you make cuts, if you cut a disc the right way, then you might just be able to jump out of a plane and survive.

👏👏👏 eurips.cc/salon-des-re...

Throw back to a cloud inversion on Beinn Eighe a year ago. If you have the chance, explore the Scottish Highlands!

The Hungarian government often mails people “National Consultations” paid for by taxpayers, asking violently condescending questions: “Do you wanna raise taxes?” A: “Yes, I like paying more to fund those who don’t work.” B: “No.” Then they use the results to fake support for their agenda…

Just came across this mesmerising art by Estampa of the components of GenAI interacting with humanity: cartography-of-generative-ai.net Reminds me a little of Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler's Anatomy of an AI System: anatomyof.ai

Please share! We have a number of fully funded PhD studentships in "Designing Responsible Natural Language Processing". I'm a possible supervisor & I'd be keen to support projects on sociolinguistics-AI, e.g., accent bias in AI, language+gender/sexuality+AI. www.responsiblenlp.org

Ironically, the “AI scientist”-written paper that was accepted to an ICLR workshop was about LSTMs and the paper didn’t cite Schmidhuber. AI scientists should have a Schmidhuber agent that verifies these important details in the future.

Never ask a man his age, a woman her salary, or GPT-5 whether a seahorse emoji exists

Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

"I have wait a long time for this moment, my little red friend." - Emperor Palpatine, probably

Having been playing The Art of Fauna while procrastinating, and it is the most relaxing game with beautiful illustrations of animals. I cannot recommend it enough: theartof.app/fauna/

For a week, we visited @iyadrahwan.bsky.social's Center for Humans and Machines in Berlin, where we have met an incredible array of interdisciplinary researchers. Special thanks to @neeleengelmann.bsky.social for hosting us and @alice-ross.bsky.social for organising the trip from the start!

Have been neglecting Bluesky recently, so I am happy to share a big update 🎉 I will join @cmu.edu as a postdoc in September working with the incomparable @atoosakz.bsky.social and Nihar Shah on understanding risks from LLM co-scientists. If you are in Pittsburgh, I would love to connect!

This thread is incredible.

VCs: oh yeah, developers with AI go brrrrr... METR: Uhm, actually they are 19% slower with AI metr.org/blog/2025-07...

The Edinburgh RL & Agents reading group is back in action after a hiatus. Previous speakers come for all across the world, including DeepMind, CMU, Oxford, NUS, etc. Sign up for some great discussions about cutting-edge RL and agents research.

The absolute state of peer review...

Orban: Budapest Pride ist verboten. Budapest Pride: Liebe kannst du nicht verbieten♥️🏳️‍🌈 Angeblich mehr als 500.000 Menschen vor Ort.

The @braiduk.bsky.social gathering did an amazing job with presenting artists and researchers who address real-world questions around AI by actually engaging with people and learning from them. After hearing two weeks of technical talks at CHAI and RLDM, this was a most welcome break of pace.

I had the most amazing time at RLDM learning a lot about RL and agent foundations, catching up with and meeting new friends. Two things that really stood out to me are: - Agency is Frame Dependent by from Dave Abel - Rethinking Foundations of Continual RL by Michael Bowling #RLDM2025

I am heading to RLDM in Dublin this week to present our work on objective evaluation metrics for explainable RL. Hit me up there or send me a DM to connect if you are around.

Preprint alert 🎉 Introducing the Agentic eXplanations via Interrogative Simulations (AXIS) algo. AXIS integrates multi-agent simulators with LLMs by having the LLMs interrogate the simulator with counterfactual queries over multiple rounds for explaining agent behaviour. arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17801

What can policy makers learn from “AI safety for everyone” (Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s42... ; joint work with @gbalint.bsky.social )? I wrote about some policy lessons for Tech Policy Press.

Delighted to share our most recent paper: "A Scoresheet for Explainable AI" (with John & Sebastian). It will be presented at @aamasconf.bsky.social later this month. 🎬 Short YouTube summary (5 minutes): www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCpf... 📝 Link to the paper on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2502.098...

90-year-old Masako Wakamiya at the final keynote of #CHI2025 shared a cautiously optimistic vision of the future of AI and humanity, especially for the elderly, as we enter the age of 100-year-long lives. Her speech and work is truly inspiring.

One of the things I find most unique about Japan are the unnecessary and questionable motivational quotes on just about anything. "Humans can only put out what has been put into them." says my pre-packed body towel in the fanciest of fonts. Inspiring stuff

The #CHI2025 plushie is looking too cute:

#CHI2025 has a badge tag for rejected author. 🥲I couldn't resist getting one for future use.

I am going to CHI'25. I am super excited for this, so reach out if you are there! I will be presenting our work titled "People Attribute Purpose to Autonomous Vehicles When Explaining Their Behavior: Insights from Cognitive Science for Explainable AI" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... 🧵 1/7 #CHI2025

Our paper "AI safety for everyone" with Balint Gyevnar is out at Nature Machine Intelligence: www.nature.com/articles/s42... We challenge the narrative that AI safety is primarily about minimizing existential risks from AI. Why does this matter?

'AI Safety for Everyone' is out now in @natmachintell.nature.com! Through an analysis of 383 papers, we find a rich landscape of methods that cover a much larger domain than mainstream notions of AI safety. Our takeaway: Epistemic inclusivity is important, the knowledge is there, we only need use it

I get so frustrated with the dilution of the term ‘literacy’ - in no world should ‘AI literacy’ mean ‘prompt engineering classes’ but apparently here we are

A while ago, I wrote an essay for the Stanford AI100 Study titled "Love, Sex, and AI", discussing the ethical challenges of AI and love. I put it on my webpage and forgot about it. That is, until last week. Since then, it had 4K visitors with <10s average engagement looking for "ai sex".

Out in Philosophical Studies. A 🧵: Read here: link.springer.com/article/10.1... Most AI x-risk discussions focus on a cataclysmic moment—a decisive superintelligent takeover. But what if existential risk doesn’t arrive like a bomb, but seeps in like a leak?

Took an 18km walk today along the beautiful sand dunes of East Lothian. Standing in the horizontal rain, I couldn't help but feel the dramatic beauty of the landscape. Scotland is so beautiful when you get out of the city.

Watching an episode of Numb3rs where an AI "passes the Turing test" which they present as a series of fun tasks, and I'm like... Wait is this where the tech bros get their ideas around the Turing Test from? If it can write a convincing poem and talk about life and death it's sentient?

Call for papers! 🎉 If you have felt confused about evaluation in explainable AI, this workshop is for you! We are excited to go to Bologna @ ECAI'25 as we try to build better methods for evaluating XAI. Can't wait to see what ideas the community will bring! sites.google.com/view/excd-20...

I am glad to see some action against shower-in-a-cans at the university gym. For far too long have our noses been invaded by such famous fragrances as "Aqua Bergamot" and "Black Vanilla".