I feel like conferences are biased towards accepting papers that are like speedbumps--very robust of any sort of attack, but not very interesting, unique, or helpful for moving forward.

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Even when I was in high school all the kids who got into the top state school, much less Harvard, all had basically straight A's while taking many college-level classes. Is it really surprising or bad that they get mostly A's in college when colleges select for students who are good at getting A's?

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

Spending most your time writing and managing grants is no fun (and even less fun when you're still expected to do first author work like a grad student)

Read more here arxiv.org/abs/2605.068... With gratitude to my amazing coauthors @storitu.org, @willie-agnew.bsky.social, @harshp.com, @bmitra.bsky.social, Roel Dobbe, and @zeerak.bsky.social

Not just lobbying! our new paper maps 27 mechanisms of regulatory capture used by Big AI + 11 narrative framings that rationalise capture. “Big AI’s Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity” will be presented at #FAccT2026 next month arxiv.org/abs/2605.068... 1/

I don't think an NSFW AI model can ever be safe or ethical. Even if it is somehow trained on consensual data, the risk of people generating media of other people nonconsensually is too high, not to mention that this is the explicit goal of many users.

i keep finding human teeth in my bedroom

Our work on how gen ai is impacting the labor conditions and power of professional visual artists got a great writeup from Brian Merchant! www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-ai-inf...

General purpose AI should not be able to imitate romantic or platonic connections with people or claim consciousness of sentience--the risks of delusions and excessive trust and use are too high.

Our team working on AI and mental health harms testified before the Canadian Standing Senate Committee on Transport and Communications last week! We offered insights from our research into people experiencing delusions with AI, and concrete policy suggestions to mitigate harms.

CHI was had every kind of AI for X, and that made me feel we lack a robust discussion of the limitations of AI as a chimmunity. What are things AI should never be used for, no matter how good the performance?

Especially this era of frequent corporate contempt and hostility towards consumers and public services cuts, AI doesn't have to be performant to replace a job.

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.