On August 20, at 1 p.m. ET, the authors will join @mmitchell.bsky.social, chief ethics scientist @hf.co; and Madeleine Claire Elish, head of eval, responsible development, & innovation at Google Deepmind; to discuss their research. Learn more and RSVP! datasociety.net/news-events/...

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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People not in tech have been interested in what happened with the Open AI agent/Hugging Face hack. So, I "Explain it Like I'm 5"-ed it and made a cartoon in 8 panels. Apologies for some anthro-ing. 🫤 m-mitchell.com/HF-hack-cart... 1/8

If you haven't read this piece on language use in around AI, you definitely should. Great work from @emilymbender.bsky.social , @nannainie.bsky.social and Peter Zukerman, with solutions for what to call things we backoff to just anthropomorphising. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

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.

**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

🧊 PSA: if you’re in a heat wave, consider putting ice out in bowls/bird baths for the birds. A lot of them will die otherwise. 😔 🪶

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

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. 🧵>>

Ain't no such thing at secure back doors in surveillance. Once too many people have access this is what you get.

San Francisco police suspend Flock camera network access following 'improper queries'

Yesterday, the San Francisco Police Department announced that they’re restricting outside access to data from Flock license plate reader cameras.

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So apparently KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations. www.ft.com/content/b382...

KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI

Bogus case studies on UBS and transit systems exaggerated adoption of the technology

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🌱 My fantastic blue-purple Delphinium is rapidly blooming, and today this pretty yellow butterfly was chilling on it, and it was glorious. I just thought you all should know.

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Fully autonomous drones have killed human soldiers for the first time

A senior figure in the Ukrainian defence industry told New Scientist that a test took place two years ago involving fully autonomous drones set to destroy anything in a given area, with confirmed casu...

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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.

Come join us to socialize, virtually!

JEDI Workshop@jedi-workshop.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Dear FAccT and IR friends, announcing the Justice, Emancipation, Democracy, and Information Access (JEDI) virtual social at ACM FAccT 2026. 📣📣📣 #FAccT2026 Date: Friday, June 26 Time: 6:00–7:30 PM EST Location: Zoom Register: drexel.zoom.us/meeting/regi... More info: jedi.inertial.science/facct2026/

Ted Chiang on AI: www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2...

🪶 www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8s8cepR/ So good! Also appreciate the eagle/red-tailed hawk call-out: “You’ve been lied to!”

Two years after his first ever Talent Show, Samuel came back to where it all started. Some new birds and some of the familiar bird calls this time. It was a farewell to Intermediate school #birder #...

TikTok video by Lori, Samuel's mom

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📣 Announcing the release of the 🕊️ Annotated Encyclical 🕊️ from the ethics & society folks at @hf.co. Includes citations to relevant academic work. Very much a WIP. Please add work we haven't added yet! huggingface.co/spaces/socie...

The Annotated Encyclical - a Hugging Face Space by society-ethics

Magnifica Humanitas, annotated with AI-ethics research

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🪶 If you’re in Europe and have ice, consider putting some out in bowls/bird baths.

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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Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

Counterpoint: Yes they are, and that is good

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

Instead of finding content you need, you get to have an interactive AI *experience*.

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

Wow some terrible reporting about Google's latest horrible ideas about how to distort information access in the name of "convenience" (or something): techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/g... A short thread 🧵>>

Against the constant pressure of *genAI, genAI, genAI*, I am really appreciating @ai2.bsky.social 's work on creating tools for critical needs -- like crop maps and forest loss analysis. They just did a nice release on @hf.co. huggingface.co/blog/allenai...

OlmoEarth v1.1: A more efficient family of models

A Blog post by Ai2 on Hugging Face

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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.

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*

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

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

Should all our resources go towards building chatbots? What if we built systems that actually give people meaningful agency? Finally out as an accepted @facct.bsky.social paper! Joint work with my past collaborators Sourojit, Pranav and Sanjana. huggingface.co/papers/2605....

Paper page - What if AI systems weren't chatbots?

Join the discussion on this paper page

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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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