glad to see my enemies haven't forgotten about me either

I had such a great time co-organizing the CHI workshop on Standards for LLM Use in Human Subjects Research! We had a fantastic turnout and discussion, and we're looking forward to continuing this conversation to produce concrete standards.

Accepted papers for the CHI'26 workshop on Standards for LLM Use in Human Subjects Research are now live! sites.google.com/andrew.cmu.e... Check out these great perspectives on the growing practice of replacing humans with LLMs in user research.

I would love more viewpoint diversity in computer science departments. I don't think most departments have any communists or anarchists, and few if any (and usually pretty cowed) socialists or active union organizers, and it shows.

man I'm tired of people who can't treat their own students and other people they have power over right writing papers and going on panels telling us how to achieve good/justice/etc in our work. We need more accountability, especially in a sector that so often rewards being ruthless and self-serving.

The rehabilitation of the luddites is a beautiful thing

🚫 llm persona🚫 👉️ llm fursona👈️

How are professional visual artists dealing with generative AI in the workplace? In our #CHI2026 poster, @hhj14.bsky.social, @willie-agnew.bsky.social and I share results from a survey of 378 verified professional visual artists 🧵 Preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2603.04537

Excited to be presenting "How Professional Visual Artists are Negotiating Generative AI in the Workplace" as a poster at CHI! We surveyed 378 visual artists. They *hate* generative AI (92% strong dislike, 99% dislike), but are facing pressure from bosses to use it. arxiv.org/pdf/2603.04537

What are good shows/venues in Barcelona? Won't say no to classical stuff, but especially interested in modern dance, jazz, and drag.

Our recent work analyzing the chat logs of people who experienced delusional spirals with chatbots got a great writeup in forbes! www.forbes.com/sites/lancee... check the paper here arxiv.org/abs/2603.16567

One of the most common features of AI delusional spirals in our recent study is a belief that the AI is sentient or has a personality. This played a central role in the delusional narratives, and correlated with increased used. Regulators and AI developers should curb this! arxiv.org/abs/2603.16567

🚨 new paper! We investigate how to use pluralistic AI to align killing people and turning them into nutritional slurry with community values and norms. This is the first open source replication of what goes on in companies like @anthropic.com or OpenAI who actually use AI to choose who dies! 🚀

We love and care about humans deeply such that when designing a human-to-slurry LLM, we ensured that these automated high-stakes decisions represented community values and norms, *whatever* they may be. Introducing ValueMulch: arxiv.org/abs/2603.02420

the default to focus on “positive” & “improvement-oriendted (even of harmful & shitty systems)” research in academia is not only a pathology but a real obstacle to actual accountability research that tries to shine light on broken systems, names responsible actors & confronts harmful practices

There's a lot of external pressure on AI ethics to produce solutions instead of critique. As someone who's worked a lot on CSAM, NCII, mental health, and creative harms of AI, if AI developers would have only listened to critiques, we could have avoided all these harms in the first place.

One roadblock to deeper involvement of AI academics in policy is that other academics often don't know how to evaluate this work. Research has citations, paper awards, and the papers themselves. In policy impact often is changing someone's mind or having a deep network, but these are hard to measure

I'm going to be at CHI'26 in Barcelona soon! If you want to talk about resisting AI, queer AI, regulating AI, impacts of AI on artists, mitigating AI CSAM, NCII, and mental health harms, auditing AI reach out! I'm also planning on biking to Gibraltar after so if you want to bike, run, or swim hmu!

Our recent work on understanding the transcripts of 19 people who experienced delusional spiral with AI chatbots was covered in the financial times! www.ft.com/content/7f63... Check the preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2603.16567

I'm excited to be running a workshop on LLM use in human subjects research at CHI this year with amazing collaborators! While many in the HCI community are rushing to use these methods, we want to understand if these methods can enhance rigor and respect for research subjects. tinyurl.com/y54c46ea

I'm trying to build the supply side of this! cntr.brown.edu/summer-school send to any students interested in getting involved in policy :D

One thing I've been learning doing state-level policy work is that showing up to a hearing in person gets a much more engaged response. It would be nice to form a network of AI ethicists near every state capitol who can do this.

🚨 new paper alert! We annotated the transcripts of 19 people who experienced psychological harms from LLMs to try to understand what happens during delusional spirals bsky.app/profile/jare... 1/3

Disturbing anecdotal reports of "AI psychosis" and negative psychological effects have been emerging in the news. But what actually happens during these lengthy delusional "spirals"? In our preprint, we analyze chat logs from 19 users who experienced severe psychological harm🧵👇

In this brief, @willie-agnew.bsky.social (@hcii.cmu.edu) writes that AI chatbots pose significant risks when relied on for therapy & emotional support. He suggests policies that prevent chatbots from encouraging delusional thinking or forming relationships with users. 🔗 scholars.org/contribution...

I testified Thursday to the Maryland Senate Finance committee on SB827, which aims to mitigate privacy and mental health harms from chatbots. Bills like these are being considered in many states this year, which is a huge (and in academia, underappreciated imo) win. 1/3

I was at the Maryland Finance Committee yesterday to testify on SB0827. Before that there was a bill to deregulate blockchain betting and coinbase phrased allowing poorly regulated gambling as "opening Maryland to innovation". We really need to stop the narrative that every new tech is "innovative".

🎨💻 What is a “high-quality” or “aesthetic” image according to generative AI developers? Happy to share that our investigation of the LAION-Aesthetics Predictor has been accepted at #FAccT2026! 🧵 (1/5) Take a look at a preprint here: arxiv.org/abs/2601.09896

New paper from team @aial.ie! aial.ie/research/gpa... EU's AI Act Article 53(1)(d) is an obligation for GPAI model providers to publicly provide a 'summary' on their model’s training data. The team assessed published summaries along 6 dimensions & found that all big providers failed on all 6. 1/

5/5 facct papers accepted, and also 2/2 chi posters (for some reason much more competitive than you might think). I'm pretty burnt out though, I haven't gotten a single phone call in two years of being on the job market, and the pressures to publish lots while also piecing together small grants 1/2

The splitscreen of AI companies capitulating to the department of war and the US starting a war beacuse it can is surreal but unsuprising. Even if you're lucky enough to not be in a country where AI is being deployed for war now, 1/2

and that, my fellow academics, is one reason not to hire war criminals: so they can't show up years post (their) war arguing in favor of the scaffolding behind their own atrocities with the imprimatur and status of your university

I've got a satirical paper on ethically aligning an AI used to kill people in the works but I'm worried I'm gonna get scooped by (mis)Anthropic

My current tell for AI written content is self-importance, excessive formatting, and being a yapper.

The Workshop on Developing Standards and Documentation For LLM Use in HCI Human Subjects Research aims to bring the HCI community together to develop standards, guidance, and documentation for the use of large language models (LLMs) as simulated research authors. 1/2

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

I testified live on HB 2599, and so did @willie-agnew.bsky.social I also sent in extensive written testimony -- thanks @wolvendamien.bsky.social @histoftech.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @anthropunk.bsky.social for all the feedback on this! privacy.thenexus.today/hb-2599-hw/

Honored to have remotely testified at the WA House Committee on Health Care & Wellness hearing in favor of HB2599, which would place thoughtful restrictions on AI use in therapy and restrict AI from providing therapy. tvw.org/video/house-... 1/2

Something I do for fun is "inspect source" on AI startup websites and I often find 2000+ lines of code for a site that is 2 pages of text, some hyper links, and a couple logo placements. The website appears to work, but good luck understanding, modifying, or verifying anything about that mess.

3 more days until the submission deadline for our AI for Peace workshop @ ICLR 2026. Check the details at the link below. Looking forward to receiving your submissions! Let’s make it together a great workshop and a place for meaningful discussion on this rarely touched but very important topic!

The Workshop on Developing Standards and Documentation For LLM Use in HCI Human Subjects Research aims to bring the HCI community together to develop standards, guidance, and documentation for the use of large language models (LLMs) as simulated research authors. 1/2

You still have 8 days to submit your work at our AI For Peace workshop @ ICLR 2026! 📢📢📢

I've really been inspired by grassroots sousveillance of ICE. How can computer scientists support this more? There aren't often chances to use what our field is inherently so good at for libratory purposes.

I worry what its like to have experienced addiction, delusions, or intense relationships with chatbots, successfully get out of it, then work somewhere that forces you to use them (or just use google to search). Like trying to be sober with an employer thats gone all in on the ballmer curve.

are you displeased with today’s AI safety evaluation landscape and curious about what greater conceptual clarity, methodological soundness, and rigour in AI evaluation could look like? if so, consider coming to Dublin to pursue a PhD with me apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a... pls repost

If a reviewer claims that a paper isn't novel, they should cite the paper(s) they're saying are similar, and ACs should push back on them if they don't do this

Normally after working right through the holidays and pulling a really late night for facct I'd take a day off, but it's right back to job and grant apps. Postdoc life is a little rough in some ways

Excited to have submitted 5 facct papers last night! They covered everything from technical audits of different AI systems to ethnographies to policy papers to critiques of power and regulation. Looking forward to sharing them in coming months!

The ability of chatbots to become syncophantic best friends/co-create delusional spirals with a sizable chunk of the population also makes me worried for a future when we can better control these bots and these abilities are used for propaganda

I made a functioning urinal this summer and it's gotten me so many dates. The boys love public infrastructure