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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 · 3d ago

A bit from me in @wired.com today wrt our research on AI agents with @evijit.io and Samir Passi. This is a really detailed article, thanks for writing it @thiccreese.bsky.social! www.wired.com/story/metas-...

Meta's Muse Is Better at Surveilling Than Helping Me

The Muse app continues Meta’s trend of opting users into data collection for AI training. It also nudges you to share your bank account, email, and passport information.

wired.com

Reece@thiccreese.bsky.social · 4d ago

AI agents make you dumb! 🚨 www.wired.com/story/metas-...

Sharing Machines Relying on agents, like Meta's Muse, could degrade our functioning while these tools collect data about us. "The design of Al agents is such that it disengages usersại says Margaret Mitchell, a researcher and chief ethics scientist at Hugging Face. "So, users become more passive." Mitchell recently co-wrote a research paper unpacking how agentic tools are not effectively designed for human oversight and may actually worsen the user's ability to assess what the agent is doing on their
Margaret Mitchell@mmitchell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you are at @deeplearningindaba.bsky.social, remember to check out the Trust AI Workshop!

TrustAI Workshop @Deep Learning Indaba@trustai.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 Just days away! The 4th TrustAI Workshop @deeplearningindaba.bsky.social , Lagos 🇳🇬 is here! Topic: How trustworthy are LLMs-as-Judges and what does it mean for the African continent? 🎤 Keynote: Dr @chinasa.bsky.social 🗣️ Panel: Tobi Olatunji, Cecilia Mwende, Dr. Blessing Ogbuokiri #AI #LLMs

Margaret Mitchell@mmitchell.bsky.social · 2mo ago

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.

huggingface.co

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

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 · 3mo ago

**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

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

drexel.zoom.us

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 3mo ago

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 · 4mo 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 · 4mo 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 · 4mo 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...

huggingface.co

Fuzzy Mike@fuzzymike.bsky.social · 9mo 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