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Margaret Mitchell

@mmitchell.bsky.social

Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse. Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face

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Margaret Mitchell@mmitchell.bsky.social · last wk.

We @hf.co made an interactive visual of the actual hack from the Hugging Face side: the attack chain across trust boundaries, phase activity, and the commands as they were recorded. Key #transparency . huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Massive props to Hugo, Adrien, Raphael, Christophe for making this.

Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident

We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.

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Margaret Mitchell@mmitchell.bsky.social · last mo.

I am beyond honored to have been selected to give a keynote at Deep Learning Indaba: 4.August, Lagos. I will be cutting into some of the deepest issues I see in AI (hint: it's not alignment) and what I think we can do solve them.

Advertisement of my talk from Deep Learning Indaba. Green background with yellow and white geometric shapes at the bottom Has the DL Indaba logo (tree with neural roots), the title "Who defines AI, and whose interests does it serve?", the logistical details "Keynote | Tuesday, 4 August | 9am GMT+1", and a headshot of me on a blue chair.
JEDI Workshop@jedi-workshop.bsky.social · last mo.

**JEDI Social at @facct.bsky.social** When: Friday, 6:00–7:30 PM EST Location: Zoom Register: drexel.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Details: jedi.inertial.science/facct2026 Organizers: @bmitra.bsky.social @danachatter.bsky.social @md.ekstrandom.net @mmitchell.bsky.social @sannevrijenhoek.bsky.social

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: FAccT JEDI Social. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: FAccT JEDI Social. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · last mo.

A phenomenon I've noticed recently is people trying to occupy some untenable middleground wrt to the use of systems sold as "AI" -- this is a position where people try to recognize the harms of this tech but also hold space for "responsible" or "ethical" use. 🧵>>

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 2mo ago

1. I am not an AI researcher 2. "Doesn't just repeat back to you what you said" ... isn't what any chatbots do, nor what that metaphor was about. 3. For the millionth time, that paper was about LLMs, not "AI" and definitely not "AI agents" medium.com/@emilymenonb...

IEEE Spectrum@spectrum.ieee.org · 2mo ago

Emily Bender described #AI agents as “stochastic parrots” that can only repeat patterns they find in training data. The folks at @medialab.bsky.social were inspired to create a robotic parrot companion. This AI parrot keeps you on track, reminding you of tasks and challenging you.

Larry Hunter@proflhunter.bsky.social · 3mo ago

New family of generative DNA language models trained on 1T 6-mer DNA tokens in long genomic contexts. Open weights, open source, open training data... h/t @mmitchell.bsky.social huggingface.co/spaces/Huggi...

Carbon - a Hugging Face Space by HuggingFaceBio

Enter a DNA string and the Carbon model can continue the sequence, score genetic variants, or predict the protein’s 3‑D structure. You can also explore gene‑embedding visualisations and see the ful...

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Fuzzy Mike@fuzzymike.bsky.social · 8mo ago

it seems like a five alarm problem that every single time anything bad happens right wing influencers flood the landscape with the entirely baseless claim that the perpetrator was trans, and it would be nice if our entire media wasn't fellow travelers

Margaret Mitchell@mmitchell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Gmail's automatically generated responses (which can appear whether or not you ask for them) cement human anchoring bias: The tendency for people to heavily rely on what they have already seen. The effects are insidious, subconsciously influencing what we believe.

Margaret Mitchell@mmitchell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The “instrumental convergence” theory posits an AI that, in its quest for a narrow goal, uses all of the earth’s resources. If that theory pans out, it will not be at the level of a single AI system, but rather at the level of the AI industry.

Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I had a realisation Context: In our Reclaiming AI paper we argued that AI systems cannot scale up to human-level cognition without consuming astronomical amounts of resources My realisation: The AI industry is determined to burn through the earth’s resources just to prove us right *empirically*

Box 1 — Implications of intractability
Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3mo ago

Published with some minor changes! Please share widely. 😊 Guest, O., Suarez, M., ... & van Rooij, I. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education, 16(2), 85–118. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Journal: www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-162

Volume 16.2 — Digital Culture & Education (ISSN: 1836-8301)

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 11mo ago

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues.
Mar Hicks@histoftech.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

Bamboo-based plastic can be made to biodegrade quickly, but still holds up in tough conditions

A new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo is reported in Nature Communications this week. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapability, and thermal stab...

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