I notice that a journalist picked up the info and that many of you are keen to let me know how much you don't give a shit -- okay! I took screenshots of the most absurd blocklists and not all of them, but I'm not here to explain who I am for the umpteenth time because, again, who cares?

I really wanted this social network to work for me. But apparently, I’m on the worst block lists out there… a bit unfair. If you are interested in my research, follow me on LinkedIn.

Il mio nuovo op-ed su @wired.com parte da un dato inquietante: milioni di persone oggi confidano le proprie crisi emotive all’intelligenza artificiale. Non perché la credano umana. Ma perché non trovano alternative umane disponibili.

Join the @ellisinstitute.fi Scientific Seminar in Espoo 🇫🇮 on Nov 18: a landmark event uniting research, industry and policy. Speakers: @giadapistilli.com, Kyunghyun Cho, @ericmalmi.bsky.social, @serge.belongie.com, Max Welling, @lrlaurahy.bsky.social 🔗 www.ellisinstitute.fi/launch-seminar

Map of the internet: 1.3M nodes (BGP)

What if your most personal chat logs became the next source of ad data? @frimelle.bsky.social and I wrote an op-ed for @techpolicypress.bsky.social We look at what happens when generative AI conversations (the ones we treat as private) are turned into raw material for targeted advertising.

🌎 AI ethics and sustainability are two sides of the same coin. In our new blog post with @sashamtl.bsky.social, we argue that separating them (as is too often the case) means missing the bigger picture of how AI systems impact both people and the planet.

À tout à l’heure !

One of the hardest challenges in AI safety is finding the right balance: how do we protect people from harm without undermining their agency? This tension is especially visible in conversational systems, where safeguards can sometimes feel more paternalistic than supportive.

I've noticed something. While we're careful about what we post on social media, we're sharing our deepest and most intimate thoughts with AI chatbots -- health concerns, financial worries, relationship issues, business ideas... huggingface.co/blog/giadap/...

With @frimelle.bsky.social and @yjernite.bsky.social, we released the AI Companionship Leaderboard on @hf.co to see how models handle connection, intimacy, and vulnerability. huggingface.co/spaces/frime...

L’IA va-t-elle bouleverser l’enseignement et la place des professeurs ? Hier à 18h20 sur @franceculture.fr, @quentinlafay.bsky.social recevait @ccailleaux.bsky.social‬, professeur d’histoire, @giadapistilli.com, spécialiste de l’éthique en IA et Orianne Ledroit, DG d’EdTech France

🚨 Releasing INTIMA (Interactions and Machine Attachment Benchmark): an evaluation framework for measuring how AI systems handle companionship-seeking behaviors. huggingface.co/papers/2508.... Thread on what we discovered, together with @frimelle.bsky.social and @yjernite.bsky.social

🚨 Releasing INTIMA (Interactions and Machine Attachment Benchmark): an evaluation framework for measuring how AI systems handle companionship-seeking behaviors. huggingface.co/papers/2508.... Thread on what we discovered, together with @frimelle.bsky.social and @yjernite.bsky.social

From Replika to everyday chatbots, people form emotional bonds with AI. But what happens when an AI tells you "I understand how you feel" and you actually believe it? With @frimelle.bsky.social and @yjernite.bsky.social, we dug into something: how AI systems handle our emotional lives.

I am so grateful that this paper is out! It so eloquently describes so many of the issues I've seen with a lot of AGI experimentation that concludes that LLMs are scheming, ill-intentioned, or malicious, and the chimp language metaphor is the cherry on the cake 🍰 arxiv.org/abs/2507.03409

I've been posting bits about this research, but now: new paper alert! 🚨 My colleague @brunatrevelin.bsky.social and I just shared research on why traditional consent frameworks are breaking down in AI contexts.

AI is making everyone on dating apps sound charming. But is it still you talking? When we start outsourcing our most intimate expressions, we risk losing authenticity. I spoke to @washingtonpost.com about the rise of chatbots in dating and why it may feel good, but erodes emotional honesty.

Avec @natachatriou.bsky.social - est-elle cyborg?- et la @sciencecqfd.bsky.social , faites un vrai tour d'horizon de l'#IA : à quand de l'IA faible à l'IA générale, qui pourrait surpasser l'humain ? avec @quecalcoatle.bsky.social @giadapistilli.com #AxelCypel de vrais humanoïdes !

[RDV 16h !] L’IA générale, qui pourrait surpasser l'humain, fait couler beaucoup d’encre. Il paraît même que c’est pour cette année : toutefois, a-t-on une définition commune de ce qu’elle pourrait être ? tinyurl.com/28b32lpm avec @quecalcoatle.bsky.social, @giadapistilli.com et Axel Cypel

Hi! I’ll be in London July 9–11. Who’s around to chat about current AI research?

LM/ML models are being developed to detect neurodev & psychiatric conditions from speech. Are we building the right things? What are we overlooking? We built a framework rooted in ethics & real-world needs: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI... w @rockberta.bsky.social @giadapistilli.com Maheswari 1/

🗣️ Whose voice do we hear when AI speaks? Every language carries its own cultural values and worldviews. So, when we build AI systems, we're not just deciding how they speak but also whose perspectives they represent. huggingface.co/blog/giadap/...

The sycophancy problem in one line, courtesy of @giadapistilli.com Really interesting piece by @melissahei.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/72aa...

Have some of you researched why LLMs tend to give themselves "astral names"? Like Nova, Luna, Sol... I've seen this across different closed and open-weight models and scenarios.

Ever notice how some AI assistants feel like tools while others feel like companions? Turns out, it's not always about fancy tech upgrades, because sometimes it's just clever design. huggingface.co/blog/giadap/...

Ever notice how some AI assistants feel like tools while others feel like companions? Turns out, it's not always about fancy tech upgrades, because sometimes it's just clever design. huggingface.co/blog/giadap/...

Very proud of this work led by my amazing colleague @mmitchell.bsky.social! Read her interview for Wired here: www.wired.com/story/ai-bia...

I spoke to @washingtonpost.com about how bad actors are "grooming" LLMs with disinformation. Most chatbots struggle with disinformation, which worsens with search-augmented systems prioritizing recent information. The more real-time these models become, the more vulnerable they are to manipulation.

🤗 New from us! Just published a blog post exploring how we're rethinking consent in the AI ecosystem. Here's what we're seeing in the @hf.co Hub that differs from traditional closed systems...

If part of what it means to have a good life is to have control over your life, self-governance, or what philosophers call autonomy, then giving up control to AI by definition is worsening our lives, lessening our chances of having a good life. #AIEthics www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/24/1...

In our new paper, @giadapistilli.com, Nyalleng Moorosi, @raesetje.bsky.social and I talk about the intereconnectedness of ethics and sustainability in AI and propose ways to think and act on making AI more sustainable and socially-beneficial. 🌍 💻 🌱 Check it out here! arxiv.org/abs/2504.00797

Discussions around AI ethics and sustainability tend to happen in different circles, with different people and from different perspectives... but what if we had these important conversations together? 🤝

People out there are turning chatbots into their companions and talking love to them; meanwhile, here I am, mistreating Claude when my code breaks.

🌶️ New paper alert! Just published with @stepalminteri.bsky.social on cognitive biases in LLM discourse. Whether you think we're approaching AGI or LLMs are just "fancy autocomplete," your position likely stems from psychological biases. osf.io/preprints/ps...

Why handing over total control to #AI agents would be a huge mistake | @Technologyreview.com "The very feature being sold—reduced human oversight—is the primary vulnerability." ~ @mmitchell.bsky.social @evijit.io @sashamtl.bsky.social and @giadapistilli.com www.technologyreview...#AI #GenerativeAI

I cannot overstate how impressed I am by my colleague @giadapistilli.com's writing on digital consent in the age of AI She just published a fantastic blog post on the topic, which is by far the best piece I've seen in a while outlining the breadth of the issue, must-read 🙌 hf.co/blog/giadap/...

Crucial question by @giadapistilli.com: Is meaningful consent even possible in the age of AI? Check out her blog post: huggingface.co/blog/giadap/...

We've all become experts at clicking "I agree" without a second thought. In my latest blog post available on @hf.co, I explore why these traditional consent models are increasingly problematic in the age of generative AI.

Excited to share our latest piece on the double-edged sword of AI agents published in @technologyreview.com 🤖 It builds on our research paper that's been making waves lately -- pretty cool to see all the attention it's getting!

...we know approaches that put transparency and collaboration first do just that 👀📚🤝 Time to revisit our AI Act comment in that direction with @openfuture.bsky.social @eleutherai.bsky.social @creativecommons.bsky.social @github.com: hf.co/blog/eu-ai-a... And for more Open-R1: hf.co/blog/open-r1...

Amazing work from HF colleagues that's super relevant to AI policy - open development matches "frontier" performance 🤗 For policymakers, it means we need regulation that works for both open and closed model - not closed-first that disproportionately harms open! Good news is... 1/2

🤖 (🤗+🐸 )=✅ I am always stoked to share how the tech world operationalizes ethical values, and I get to do that today. 🥳 @hf.co and JFrog have partnered to certify models for security and safety. This also moves forward AI *trustworthiness* and provides another form of AI *transparency*. More later!

🎙️ Ho registrato un podcast sull'etica dell'intelligenza artificiale in italiano! Parliamo di dati sintetici, open source, agenti conversazionali, impatto ambientale... Praticamente un crash course su Crash Talk. Grazie a @adsignorelli.bsky.social! open.spotify.com/episode/4dmH...

Dans un segment pour l'émission "En société" diffusé hier sur France 5, nous avons retracé l'histoire du domaine de l'intelligence artificielle. Au-delà de la chronologie, une question fondamentale a émergé : si l'IA peut surpasser l'humain dans certaines tâches, quelle est notre valeur ajoutée ?

Position: Fully Autonomous AI Agents Should Not be Developed New paper with @mmitchell.bsky.social , @sashamtl.bsky.social and @giadapistilli.com Do read the full paper, but I wanted to do a summary thread to talk about what we did :)

Analyzing the ethics and risks of autonomous agents is crucial. Thank you for your insightful work @mmitchell.bsky.social @evijit.io @sashamtl.bsky.social @giadapistilli.com

I am at the @iaseai.bsky.social at the @oecd-ocde.bsky.social today and tomorrow — drop me a message if you want to chat 🤗

New piece out! We explain why Fully Autonomous Agents Should Not be Developed, breaking “AI Agent” down into its components & examining through ethical values. With @evijit.io, @giadapistilli.com and @sashamtl.bsky.social huggingface.co/papers/2502....

From ancient medical ethics to modern AI challenges, the journey of consent represents one of humanity's most fascinating ethical evolutions. In my latest blog post, I explore how we've moved from medical paternalism to a new frontier where AI capabilities force us to rethink consent.