The Commodification of AI Sovereignty: Lessons from the Fight for Sovereign Oil (with Kate E. Creasey, Taylor Lynn Curtis, and @geomblog.bsky.social), is out now on arXiv: www.arxiv.org/abs/2601.11763.

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.

Today on @indicator.media's free weekly briefing: The staggering impunity of xAI, which turned its abusive image generator on its own users in full view and has barely done anything to contain it.

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

@mantzarlis.com and folks at @indicator.media have done incredible reporting & investigation on the AI nudification ecosystem that I'm constantly citing in my research on AIG-NCII - appreciate all the work you do!

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.

@reniebird.bsky.social and I have just been appointed to co-Chair @TheOfficialACM's US Technology Policy Committee’s Subcommittee on AI and Algorithms. cs.brown.edu/news/2025/11...

PSA: tips to protect yourself from scams on Signal. Every major comms platform has to contend w phishing, impersonation, & scams. Sadly. Signal is major, and as we've grown we've heard about more of these attacks--scammy people pretending to be something or someone to trick and abuse others. 1/

Today on @indicator.media: A first-of-its-kind audit of AI labels on major social platforms.

Hi friends! After much thinking & doodling, I'm excited to share my new substack "Finding Peace in an AI-Everywhere World" 🌷 🌏 Here is the first article based on some reflections I had at COLM: michellelding.substack.com/p/who-has-th...

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

I wrote a (personal) blog post about my hopes and dreams for AI policy, my devastation after the US Election, and my process of picking myself off the floor by rebuilding an optimistic vision for AI scientists in government through education: simons.berkeley.edu/news/rebuild...

💡We kicked off the SoLaR workshop at #COLM2025 with a great opinion talk by @michelleding.bsky.social & Jo Gasior Kavishe (joint work with @victorojewale.bsky.social and @geomblog.bsky.social ) on "Testing LLMs in a sandbox isn't responsible. Focusing on community use and needs is."

Have you or a loved one been misgendered by an LLM? How can we evaluate LLMs for misgendering? Do different evaluation methods give consistent results? Check out our preprint led by the newly minted Dr. @arjunsubgraph.bsky.social, and with Preethi Seshadri, Dietrich Klakow, Kai-Wei Chang, Yizhou Sun

🚨 New preprint! 🚨 Excited to share my work: An AI-Powered Framework for Analyzing Collective Idea Evolution in Deliberative Assemblies 🤖🗳️ I’ll be presenting this at @colmweb.org in the NLP4Democracy workshop! 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2509.12577

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!

Very excited to be part of this new AI Institute that is being led by Ellie Pavlick @brown.edu and to be able to work with so many experts, including @datasociety.bsky.social www.brown.edu/news/2025-07...

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.

With their 'Sovereignty as a Service' offerings, tech companies are encouraging the illusion of a race for sovereign control of AI while being the true powers behind the scenes, write Rui-Jie Yew, Kate Elizabeth Creasey, Suresh Venkatasubramanian.

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-...

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

Excited to present "Towards AI Accountability Infrastructure: Gaps and Opportunities in AI Audit Tooling" at #CHI2025 tomorrow(today)! 🗓 Tue, 29 Apr | 9:48–10:00 AM JST (Mon, 28 Apr | 8:48–9:00 PM ET) 📍 G401 (Pacifico North 4F) 📄 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

@michelleding.bsky.social has been doing amazing work laying out the complex landscape of "deepfake porn" and distilling the unique challenges in governing it. We hope this work informs future AI governance efforts to address the severe harms of this content - reach out to us to chat more!

Excited to be presenting a new paper with @harinisuresh.bsky.social on the extremely critical topic of technical prevention/governance of adult AI generated non-consensual intimate images aka "deepfake pornography" at #CHI2025 chi-staig.github.io on 4/27 10:15-11:15 JST arxiv.org/abs/2504.17663 🧵

Independent Bookstore Day - Saturday

Extremely proud to finally launch the SRC Handbook: a project that I began with @geomblog.bsky.social and Julia Netter 1 year ago to bring topics of AI governance, privacy, and accessibility etc. into Brown's CS courses. We now have an interdisciplinary team of 22 students on product/research! 🌷

The 23andME bankruptcy shows why data protection is important. But for genetic data, the problems are even more serious. Genetic data is used in so many places and is collected so widely that there are dangerous leaks everywhere. So much so that we wrote a paper on it. arxiv.org/abs/2502.09716 1/n

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

We are excited to announce our 2025 Annual Subscriptions! Don't miss out on your chance to save on this year's titles. For the first time, we have introduced an annual subscription specifically designed for North America! www.tiltedaxispress.com/store/2025-uk-print-subscription

🚨Call for Presenters! 🚨 Last semester at the Center for Tech Responsibility, we had a speaker series consisting of grad students presenting their ongoing work on sociotechnical computing (broadly conceived). It was fantastic: a relaxed environment, brief presentations, and lots of discussion. 1/4