Wonder why Claude decided to report users to the authorities? It might be because its constitution says Claude should choose responses in the long-term interest of humanity! But what if we could leverage computational and legal tools to "debug" or "lint" AI rules/laws for ambiguity? 🧵!

#books are awesome.

If you are passionate about the AI's potential to help **over-worked** public defenders, please share this! If you happen to have work experience in the public sector, please sign up for our interviews! 🤩

A lot of underlying stuff holds: Devlin, K. (2024). Relating with Social Robots: Issues of Sex, Love, Intimacy, Emotion, Attachment, and Companionship. In A. Edwards, & L. Fortunati (Eds.), The De Gruyter Handbook of Robots in Society and Culture (pp. 277-294). kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/pu...

Who is doing solid critical work about character.ai and related topics of intimacy, "AI girlfriends", addiction? Surprised that the ACM Library doesn't turn up anything but maybe I need to wait for the #chi2025 and #facct2025 proceedings.

Very impressed/moved by a packed seminar room with on-point questions! Although the power outage cut my travel short, always feels so great to mingle with brilliant minds!

Having learned so much from CITP folks who are so good at sharing research products with society. Do subscribe!

New research from Costello, Pennycook, and Rand. Can conversations with AI help reduce belief in conspiracy theories? Quite possibly. What’s the mechanism? Evidence production. Let me explain my little-t theory about how this might work.

Also, the fact that women candidates were referred to by the first names — and men by their last names — is a clue about who created that first graph and why.

I am one of more than 750 political scientists who signed this statement "express[ing] our urgent concern about threats to the basic design of American government and democracy" drive.google.com/file/d/1lGk2...

Have so many thoughts on this, reflecting on my own experience in both multi-headed agency and single-headed agency. It's true that single-headed agency faithfully following the lead of the President is simpler and makes more sense to the Max Weber's hierarchical, bureaucratic system. 1/n

🚨OpEd+data: Meta is out of step with public opinion🚨 Zuck cut moderation b/c he said people no longer want it. But he's wrong! We polled 1k Americans and most people, including majority of Reps: i) want content moderation ii) don't want Community Notes w/o fact-checkers thehill.com/opinion/tech...

Great news @axz.bsky.social <3

As the #ParisAISummit is happening today, we share another in the #TechTakes series based on @inyoungcheong.bsky.social's presentation at the conference. READ ➡️➡️"Balancing Free Speech & Safety: Envisioning a Human-Centered First Amendment for AI Regulation" freedom-to-tinker.com/2025/02/11/b...