🧵I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be going to @facct.bsky.social this June to present timely work on why current LLMs cannot safely **replace** therapists. We find...⤵️

Our latest brief highlights the importance of independent evaluation for AI safety and accountability, addressing barriers and proposing safe harbors to protect third-party research. @klyman.bsky.social @shaynelongpre.bsky.social @sayash.bsky.social @peterhenderson.bsky.social

We need a federal data privacy law now. Or we’ll continue down the road of a piecemeal strategy of banning popular foreign apps, while the US data broker industry continues to monetize the data of all Americans, mostly without our consent or notice. #AIBillofRights

Senator Mark Warner@markwarner.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’m concerned that Americans are flocking to a number of adversary-owned social media platforms. We still need a comprehensive and risk-based approach to assessing and mitigating the risks of foreign-owned apps.

Here's my "fact check" on Meta's announcement that it is terminating its fact checking program. The TL;DR: Pay more attention to product changes than to political pandering. THREAD...

New from 404 Media: Bluesky may have said it won't use user data to train generative AI, but someone else just published a dataset of million Bluesky posts for "machine learning research". Already very popular dataset, your data may be scraped www.404media.co/someone-made...

Someone Made a Dataset of One Million Bluesky Posts for 'Machine Learning Research'

A Hugging Face employee made a huge dataset of Bluesky posts, and it’s already very popular.

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New post on Bluesky content moderation (cc: @noupside.bsky.social @nachristakis.bsky.social and @prossertj.bsky.social) open.substack.com/pub/rajivset...

Content Moderation on Bluesky

The growth of Bluesky over the past couple of weeks has been spectacular. The app now has 3.5 million active daily users and more than 22 million total users. Based on downloads, it is currently the t...

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I’ve created my own starter pack!! It’s profoundly difficult to start as a cryptographer or engineer or programmer—then develop your presentation and political skills enough to explain tech well to policymakers/the public. Here are just a few of the people I learn from. go.bsky.app/8Ta3jza

I made a Black women in tech starter pack because I couldn’t find one and it annoyed me. go.bsky.app/5upv7SQ

This looks like an amazing opportunity, and @mkgerchick.bsky.social is a dream to work with. Worth applying if you're on the job market. www.aclu.org/careers/appl...

Careers at ACLU

Join our team! We’re looking for committed, passionate people for open roles at the ACLU.

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"92 million low-income people in the U.S. states—everyone whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line—have some basic aspect of their lives decided by AI" www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines... this is a damning report

Simulating human behavior with AI agents promises a testbed for policy and the social sciences. We interviewed 1,000 people for two hours each to create generative agents of them. These agents replicate their source individuals’ attitudes and behaviors. 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2411.10109

I am recruiting 1-2 PhD students for Fall 2025 at Princeton to work on Comp Social Science/Societal Impact of GenAI/GenAI for SocSci I wrote a bit on research flavor & interests here: manoelhortaribeiro.github.io/advising Deadline: December 15th www.cs.princeton.edu/grad#prospec... Please boost!

The AI Interdisciplinary Institute at the University of Maryland (AIM) is hiring 40 new faculty members in all areas of AI, particularly: - accessibility, - sustainability, - social justice, and - learning; building on computational, humanistic, or social scientific approaches to AI. >

AI powered "shop this image" ads on Buzzfeed are helping people score the look of the astronauts who died in Challenger, a woman who needed amputations after a horrible infection, buy the hat of someone died by suicide, the look of an attempted murderer, etc www.404media.co/ai-powered-b...

AI-Powered Buzzfeed Ads Suggest You Buy Hat of Man Who Died by Suicide

Buzzfeed is using an AI-powered ad platform that recommends products that attempts to match objects in disturbing images on its site.

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NEW: Today we published a searchable database of 139,000 movies and TV shows that have been used by companies such as Apple and Anthropic to train generative AI. Subtitle files taken en masse, giving huge amounts of natural dialogue to these programs. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

There’s No Longer Any Doubt That Hollywood Writing Is Powering AI

Dialogue from these movies and TV shows has been used by companies such as Apple and Anthropic to train AI systems.

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"It turns out that the algorithm is mostly just assessing need, that is, how long patients would survive without a transplant." this is a damming essay about UK's liver transplant matching algo www.aisnakeoil.com/p/does-the-u...

Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients?

Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects

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Starting to reup some of my work on here since I'm new to the Bluesky! This year my team released the first transparency reports for large language models, helped win new protections for AI researchers, and presented at some of the top ML conferences.

A new @knightcolumbia.org blog argues for safe harbors for AI safety & research. By @shaynelongpre.bsky.social, @sayash.bsky.social, @klyman.bsky.social, @randomwalker.bsky.social, @epicfaace.bsky.social, @peterhenderson.bsky.social, Rishi Bommasami, Percy Liang. knightcolumbia.org/blog/a-safe-...

I am building a Bluesky feed for the internet policy community. Add it by searching "Internet Policy" in the Feeds tab and send me suggestions or requests for folks I should add.