James Landay
@jlanday.bsky.social
Professor of Computer Science, Stanford - HCI & Design, Co-Founder & Co-Director Stanford HAI @stanfordhai.bsky.social
This Friday, I will be speaking at #TNW in Amsterdam about why “AI for Good” isn’t good enough – and what we should be doing instead. Human-centered AI doesn’t mean just user-centered design, but also requires a community- and society-centered approach. @stanfordhai.bsky.social lnkd.in/gxwUxgrA
At today's seminar, Dave Patterson and Andy Konwinski discussed themes from their paper "Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives," arguing that we are still in the early days of practical AI, and that collaborative efforts can guide AI's impact. @jlanday.bsky.social hai.stanford.edu/events/andy-...
Please reshare! Important piece on science, health, and technology research funding. time.com/7286127/medi...
Medical and Scientific Research Makes America Great
Those who care about America's global leadership, should be alarmed by deep funding cuts to the NSF and NIH.
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Check out the great recent PhD grad and uber HCI hacker @jackieyang_ on the last cool piece of his LLM-powered multimodal dev tool! See at #chi2025 at 4:20 in G304! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
GenieWizard: Multimodal App Feature Discovery with Large Language Models | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Check out this cool paper presentation by star student @mjoerke at #chi2025 on an AI agent that performs a best practices coaching onboarding interview for a creating fitness plan (Motivational interviewing and Active Choices (tm)) now in G304.
Come see the incredible Nava Haghighi present on a new way to think about the ontologies embedded in LLMs #chi2025 in G303 now (11:10 AM). programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
Conference Programs
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Just saw this great journalistic theatre at The Marsh in The Mission (SF). Really recommend you see it.
"Unlike purely digital AI, robots interact physically with people. Thus, user experience is non-negotiable." HAI Co-Director @jlanday.bsky.social calls for a human-centered approach to designing AI-powered robotics at this week's HAI Spring Conference: hai.stanford.edu/news/stanfor...
Stanford HAI Conference Explores Robotics in a Human-Centered World: Hype, Hope, and Future Directions | Stanford HAI
Scholars zeroed in on the need for data, generalization, and better human experience.
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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. https://propub.li/43487Tj
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage.
Our thoughts on DeepSeek.
Stanford HAI@stanfordhai.bsky.social · last yr.In this collection of perspectives, @stanfordhai.bsky.social senior fellows offer a multidisciplinary discussion of what #DeepSeek means for AI and society at large. hai.stanford.edu/news/how-dis... @chrmanning.bsky.social @jlanday.bsky.social @yejinchoinka.bsky.social @amyzegart.bsky.social
Test New App to Motivate Physical Activity! @Stanford we are testing a unique app to help motivate you to be physically active. 18 or older, fluent in English & own an iPhone? Take our eligibility survey: bit.ly/physical-act.... Participants must share iPhone health data as part of this 4-week study
Here are some of the reflections of the @stanfordhai.bsky.social team (including me) on things we heard during our participation in Davos last week. hai.stanford.edu/news/hai-dav...
HAI at Davos: Key Insights on AI From the World Economic Forum
Stanford HAI faculty joined world leaders and policymakers to discuss AI trends, shifting U.S. policy, the future of diversity efforts, and more.
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Fun conversation with @inafried.bsky.social
Stanford HAI@stanfordhai.bsky.social · 2y agoWATCH: Our co-director @jlanday.bsky.social spoke with @axios.com @inafried.bsky.social at DLD25, joining innovators and visionaries at the event's 20th year. "We need to make sure we guide AI in a positive way, because it won't end up being good by itself." www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_yQ...
Fun event and a great museum!
Stanford HAI@stanfordhai.bsky.social · 2y agoLast week, our co-director @jlanday.bsky.social joined national leaders from health, tech, education, and policy in Bentonville for #ThinkHealth: AI for Healthy Communities, an event co-hosted by @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social and Alice L. Walton School of Medicine. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
Fun podcast conversation (~20 min) explaining my view on human-centered AI. @stanfordhai.bsky.social "The case for human-centered AI" www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...
The case for human-centered AI
Maximizing generative AI’s promise while minimizing its misuse requires an inclusive approach that puts humans first.
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If need something to put you to sleep on flights this week, check out this interview I did with @rbaltman.bsky.social on his The Future of Everything podcast. It's a good summary of some of the latest research in my group & at @stanfordhai.bsky.social. engineering.stanford.edu/news/future-...
The future of AI coaching
A computer scientist bringing AI to the classroom and the gym looks ahead to a world where AI coaches help make us smarter … and healthier.
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💯 Hallucination is totally the wrong word, implying it is perceiving the world incorrectly. But it's generating false, plausible sounding statements. Confabulation is literally the perfect word. So, let's all please start referring to any junk that an LLM makes up as "confabulations".
Cian O'Donnell@cianodonnell.bsky.social · 2y agopetition to change the word describing ChatGPT's mistakes from 'hallucinations' to 'confabulations' A hallucination is a false subjective sensory experience. ChatGPT doesn't have experiences! It's just making up plausible-sounding bs, covering knowledge gaps. That's confabulation
Thanks! This was a fun interview with Russ Altman.
Doug Richmond, PhD@drphd2k7.bsky.social · 2y ago#AI for coaching, tutoring: Professor James Landay #Stanford @jlanday.bsky.social (podcast 30:53 w/transcript) engineering.stanford.edu/news/future-... Note: "Human-centered AI". #health #fitness #K12 #highereducation #STEMeducation #instructionaldesign #edtech #generativeAI #LLMs #AIethics
Peter Thiel has been going “democracy is bad because women vote against libertarianism” for like a quarter century and people are still doing this “Silicon Valley was forced right” thing
Please come work with me at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab! We're seeking a postdoctoral associate to explore exciting work focused on transformative AI. Accepting applications now. The link is in the next post.
We need to bring more GPU compute to academia to have a vibrant academic AI ecosystem.
Scott McGrath@smcgrath.phd · 2y ago🧪 🩺🖥️ #MLSky direct link to the pre-print: arxiv.org/abs/2410.23261
🧪 A global survey of academics reveals limited access to high-end AI tools like Nvidia H100 GPUs (10% access). With 66% dissatisfied, the gap with industry slows AI research and sparks innovation in resource efficiency. 🩺🖥️ #MLSky
AI’s computing gap: academics lack access to powerful chips needed for research
Survey highlights disparity between academic and industry scientists’ access to computing power needed to train machine-learning models.
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I'd like to thank that one student in the corner who nodded along with me all semester. You make it all possible.
Stanford RegLab is hiring predoctoral Research Fellows! The RegLab has been a wonderful place for work spanning from AI ML/NLP/policy to real world impact, successfully working with government organizations. It’s a place to apply technical skills to new areas. www.linkedin.com/posts/reglab...
Stanford RegLab on LinkedIn: Stanford RegLab is hiring predoctoral Research Fellows! (Round 1 Deadline…
Stanford RegLab is hiring predoctoral Research Fellows! (Round 1 Deadline extended to 12/2/24!) Are you interested in using your technical skills to help…
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