Still processing my graduation 🥹 A big thank you to everyone at Edinburgh (and beyond) who made it such an amazing experience!

Didnt get around to sharing this earlier but super priveleged to have taken part in this summer school- thank you SICSS Penn for an incredible experience!

SICSS-Penn@sicsspenn.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The first day of SICSS-Penn 2026 just recently concluded! We were honored to have @dhopkins1776.bsky.social deliver the opening remarks, and @dalbarra.bsky.social give the first lecture on AI and the psychology of persuasion.

Redesigning #AI Regulatory Sandboxes for Generative AI: Beyond Traditional for-Profit Innovation The authors propose three main pathways for more inclusive sandbox design. Authors: @bhargaviganesh.bsky.social, @jaguridi.bsky.social, Thiago Moraes Read More: spkl.io/6332278cea #AI

link to preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721

AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance

People often optimize for long-term goals in collaboration: A mentor or companion doesn't just answer questions, but also scaffolds learning, tracks progress, and prioritizes the other person's growth...

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The CTMF brings together philosophers, technologists, policymakers & researchers to tackle one of the defining questions of our time: How can we build technologies that truly serve human flourishing? This video captures the heart of that mission & the voices of those shaping it ▶️ edin.ac/4ai5OiC

Important ethnography by Diana Enriquez, putting some flesh on the survey findings reported by Lindsay Ellis in the WSJ. Fascinating that these organizational pathologies are currently so widespread.

CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story.

How much time workers say the technology saves them on the job is vastly different from what executives report.

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Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 6mo ago

In dozens of interviews, sociologist, UX researcher, and interaction designer Diana Enriquez finds middle managers forced to "feign AI success" in a weak job market—for instance, pretending error-free drafts came from AI tools that actually failed.

Congrats to @bhargaviganesh.bsky.social for passing her viva today with flying colours! It’s been a joy to work with you and Stuart - we at the @technomoralfutures.bsky.social will miss you dearly. Looking forward to your work with the AI Accountability Lab and all that you will do in the future!

How did AI policymaking go from bipartisan collaboration to partisan gridlock in just a few years? 🧵 Our new study in Policy & Internet tracks this shift across US states (2019-2022) and reveals the triggers that fractured early cooperation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10....

a recent New York State audit of NYC's Local Law 144 — designed to ostensibly regulate potential bias and discrimination in automated employment tools — is fairly scathing in its assessment of how implementation and enforcement of the law is going. simply put, LL 144 does not work.

Registration is open for the first Accountable AI Research Conference, at The Wharton School in Philadelphia on Feb. 6, 2026. ai-analytics.wharton.upenn.edu/wharton-acco... If you're an AI governance practitioner or researcher, looking for insights on the future of responsible AI, please join us!

On AI’s ‘mediocrity trap’ — experiments indicates that while AI helps the less skilled make something passable, the highly skilled don’t use it to produce something better than they could have; they produce something ok, but lose motivation to make it great. www.jin-li.org/uploads/1/1/...

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

6 more days to submit to this call for papers for the inaugural Accountable AI conference at Wharton. Should be an interesting interdisciplinary conversation!

Kevin Werbach@kwerb.com · 11mo ago

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 The Wharton Accountable AI Lab is hosting the 1st Accountable AI Research Conference at @Wharton on Feb 6, 2026. Focus: law, ethics, governance & policy shaping real-world AI practice. Submissions due: Oct 27, 2025. Learn more: ai-analytics.wharton.upenn.edu/wharton-acco...

Really excited to present one of the papers coming out of my PhD at the AI, Ethics and Society (AIES) conference tomorrow called "The ‘Wild West’ of Medicine: Exploring the Emergence of ‘Grassroots’ AI Governance in Radiology". Link here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI.... Thread on the paper below 👇

They've lost the 9yos

🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

An ELSI for AI: Learning from genetics to govern algorithms

In the United States, the summer of 2025 will be remembered as artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) cruel summer—a season when the unheeded risks and dangers of AI became undeniably clear. Recent months h...

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Research: low productivity gains from AI may stem from employees using AI to produce "workslop", or low-effort, passable work that creates more work for others (Harvard Business Review) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

California’s DMV says Tesla should lose its license to sell cars in the state, as the company fights allegations of misleading drivers into thinking its vehicles can operate autonomously without human oversight.

Tesla fights two court battles over claims it misled consumers about automated driving

Tesla is fighting cases in Miami and California alleging it dangerously misled consumers about its Autopilot technology, including the driver in a fatal crash.

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These things seem to bear repeating over and over again

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last yr.

Me, a rube: governments procure a technology when a specific need is identified. UK: “lol, no”

Beautiful, and thoughtful. For just one example, see this excerpt. I'm increasingly captivated by the idea that "attention is all you need" is both the rallying cry for transformers and an exhortation for us to preserve ours.

Jed Bracy@jedbracy.bsky.social · last yr.

Phenomenal article by @meghanor.bsky.social on the ripple effects generative AI is having on creative writing and the mind. As an editor and writer, the issues she so thoughtfully unpacks here really hits home. A highly recommended long read. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/o...

We are wildly unprepared to think about and manage water as the precious and limited resource it truly is.

Kristin Toussaint@ktoussaint.bsky.social · last yr.

Because electricity is more costly for data centers than water, companies often prioritize building their facilities in places with cheap power, even if the area is drought stricken. “Water is an afterthought”...The thinking is, ‘Someone will figure that out later.’” www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

"Business Insider identified 1,240 data centers in America already built or approved for construction at the end of last year — the most comprehensive tally to date. That's nearly four times the number in 2010."

AI's promise is still taking shape. The costs of its data centers are already here.

Data center costs in electricity and water have been hard to pin down. We dug up documents to figure out the impact of AI infrastructure.

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Call for Papers - The Politics of AI: Governance, Resistance, Alternatives www.criticalinfralab.net/preview/?id=... We invite proposals for our symposium that offer critical perspectives on AI & environment, AI & society, and the political economy of AI. Please share widely!

Steph Wright of the Scottish AI Alliance asking exactly the right question at our @braiduk.bsky.social gathering in Manchester: ‘How can we change the narrative from ‘Are you ready for AI? How can we make you AI-ready?’ to ‘Is AI ready for you? Is it good enough yet to be in your life, or business?’

....the Middle East, Latin America, or Russia and the Post-Soviet space, great power/imperial conflict, international law..technology/AI, or the international politics of the environment. Deadline - Friday 27 June 2025 Apply here my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

THREE 5-year Lectureships in IR at Oxford. One person will have expertise in Historical and Interpretive Methods; another in Qualitative Methods, and a third in Quantitative Methods We're looking for people with substantive expertise in historical international relations, the IR of Africa...

Me every sunny day: God I love Scotland

“If my products are so good for everyone, why wouldn’t I guarantee its safety by holding myself to account? Who wins if we have biased, unsustainable, deceptive AI? Is it the 8 billionaires, or the other 8 billion people?” My interview @computerweekly.bsky.social & Seb Klovig tinyurl.com/4my8rke3

AI Action Summit review: Differing views cast doubt on AI’s ability to benefit whole of society | Computer Weekly

Governments, companies and civil society groups gathered at the third global AI summit discussed how the technology can be made to work for the benefit of everyone in society, but experts say competin...

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My colleague Peter Conti-Brown and I have a project connecting the dots between AI governance and financial regulation. Below is the first in a series of contributions from our recent workshop, by Penn Carey Law School regulatory expert Cary Coglianese. open.substack.com/pub/petercon...

Strategies for Regulating Artificial Intelligence - Guest Post, Cary Coglianese

As part of our series on AI Risk Management and Financial Regulation, our colleague Cary Coglianese builds on his work to describe some options for regulating AI risks.

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