Are you at ICML next week? Feel like your decision-making for which sessions to attend might not be risk minimizing? Don't incur (swap) regret and come to my, @aaroth.bsky.social, and @ncollina.bsky.social's tutorial Monday on multicalibration, decision-making, and collaborative learning!

Most Multilingual benchmarks measure what models know, not what they can reliably do. Our #ACL2026 paper introduces functional benchmarks in six languages from English to Yoruba to test whether models can actually execute tasks across languages, not just answer fixed questions about them. 🧵1/n

Sam D'Alonzo is presenting "Helpful, Harmless, Honest? Reconsidering RLHF as Survey Design and Content Moderation," our paper that explores these theories in depth, on Sunday @ 10:45-12:15 in Joyce. Collaborative work also with Frauke Kreuter.

This ended up being such an excellent event! Big congrats to all the organizers and so grateful that I could attend + participate!

Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing@simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join us for a special workshop on Governance at the Technological Frontier: Translating Research into Policy for AI Oversight. Keynotes by California State Senator Jerry McNerney and Suresh Venkatasubramanian. Thursday, 4/30, 1–5:30 p.m. Registration required. simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/go...

Join us! simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/go...

Spending a Sunday morning talking about science and tech policy.

paper with @realbrianjudge.bsky.social on how big tech uses the science and technical toolkit of AI safety to avoid and preempt AI regulation and the importance of technical expertise to penetrate these arguments: arxiv.org/html/2509.22...

Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Big Tech vs. AI Regulation | The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart share.google/kD3CQK8hI8KJ...

Thrilled that this workshop is coming together. We have an amazing line-up of speakers, including @rajiinio.bsky.social, Manon Revel, @senmcnerney.bsky.social, @geomblog.bsky.social blog.bsky.social, and Henriette Canino & Héctor Corzo. Come join us!

Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing@simonsinstitute.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join us for a special workshop on Governance at the Technological Frontier: Translating Research into Policy for AI Oversight. Keynotes by California State Senator Jerry McNerney and Suresh Venkatasubramanian. Thursday, 4/30, 1–5:30 p.m. Registration required. simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/go...

Some personal news: I've signed a contract for a book! It's called REGIME CHANGE and it's published with Princeton University Press. More details as they become available.

It's about what's hidden, and what new deficiencies the tech carries with it. @victorojewale.bsky.social opines on the evolution of deployed AI and its limits. victorojewale.substack.com/p/from-exper...

Every Generation of AI Solves One Problem and Hides Another

What brittleness looked like then, what it looks like now, and why “adding a layer” never fully solves it

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For me, this comes with a responsibility to raise awareness about the challenges of being trans in Singapore. So I wrote a short post about my own journey transitioning since 13 years ago, which you can find here: ztangent.github.io/blog/2026/td...

Thanks for the signal boost, @jlkoepke.bsky.social! We wrote this paper to respond to real confusion we saw in various bills and in conversations with legislators. So while parts may be obvious to academics steeped in this work, hopefully it can give those working in AI policy some useful clarity.

logan koepke@jlkoepke.bsky.social · 5mo ago

more folks working on 'ai policy' — specifically policies seeking to prevent discrimination by ai systems in part through the use of impact assessments and audits — should read this paper by jennifer wang, @aselbst.bsky.social, @s010n.bsky.social, and @geomblog.bsky.social. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.17347

It's been a journey of nearly 3 years, but I'm very excited to announce the CNTR AISLE Portal! 🚀 cntr-aisle.org It’s a new way to review and evaluate the 1,000+ AI bills introduced in the U.S. over the last three years. Check out the Bill Library and our Profiles#AIPolicy #OpenData

This Wednesday! Don't forget to register! Featuring Keynotes and Discussants (11:00am-1:00pm ET) @djweitzner.bsky.social (MIT) with Kobbi Nissim (Georgetown), Katrina Ligett (HUJI) with Talia Gillis (Columbia)

ACM SIGecom@acmsigecom.bsky.social · 6mo ago

What are YOU doing Feb 25? Because the 6th Annual SIGEcom Winter Meeting is free, virtual, 10:30am-5pm about CS, AI & Law. Register to participate! forms.gle/LVjX7TPk9kba... Organized by Rachel Cummings and @inbaltalgam.bsky.social!

The @acmsigecom.bsky.social Winter Meeting and CSLaw Workshop are combined and on Wed., Feb. 25. Topic: "Algorithmic Game Theory, AI, and Law" Winter Meeting: www.sigecom.org/meetings/win... CSLaw Workshop: www.cslawworkshop.org Organizers: Rachel Cummings and @inbaltalgam.bsky.social.

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

We opened up applications for the Brown AI Policy Summer School! Please share with any computing or computational social science students who want to engage substantively with policymaking in the United States: cntr.brown.edu/summer-school. Deadline March 27th!!! Funding available!

Next was a great talk by @r-jy.bsky.social and Greg Demirchyan on alignment problems in AI governance at @simonsinstitute.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV2P... (5/7)

Alignment Problems in AI GovernanceLocation

YouTube video by Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing

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Thurs., 2/5 at 3:30 p.m., Law & Society Fellows Rui-Jie Yew and Greg Demirchyan discuss Alignment Problems in AI Governance. simons.berkeley.edu/events/align...

Alignment Problems in AI Governance

In an event comprising short talks and dialogue, Simons Institute Law and Society Fellows Rui-Jie Yew and Greg Demirchyan will explore two challenges of alignment in AI governance. First, we currently...

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in which my students explain the context-sensitivity of social roles and norms 😅

In the beginning of November, Kate and I met to think more about how to continue the work from our tech policy press blogpost on AI sovereignty. She mentioned she’d been reading Laleh Khalili's works on oil in the Middle East and that she couldn’t get AI out of her head.

'Sovereignty' Myth-Making in the AI Race

Tech companies stand to gain by encouraging the illusion of a race for 'sovereign' AI, write Rui-Jie Yew, Kate Elizabeth Creasey, Suresh Venkatasubramanian.

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We released a new report in partnership with the Center for Tech Responsibility at Brown University on how policymakers and researchers can better analyze AI legislation to protect our civil rights and liberties.

Making Sense of AI Policy Using Computational Tools | TechPolicy.Press

A new report examines how to use computational tools to evaluate policy, with AI policy as a case study.

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Excited to be starting as a Law and Society Fellow at the @simonsinstitute.bsky.social in Berkeley next week. Looking forward to connecting with friends, old and new!

New post by @michelleding.bsky.social on resources for the Brown community in the aftermath of the shooting. open.substack.com/pub/michelle...

Caring for yourself and each other

Resources for the Brown community, friends, family, loved ones and how to support us

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📍 Come to the #NeurIPS2025 Position Paper Panel at 3:30PM where @princessacintaqia.bsky.social will be speaking about our work: "Stop the Nonconsensual Use of Nude Images in Research". I’m also around and happy to chat! Learn more: www.safedigitalintimacy.org/datasets More info below!

Very glad to be a part of a new paper detailing how developers and developer platforms can prevent AIG-NCII, a form of image based sexual abuse that disproportionately harms women and girls. Thanks to all the collaborators and Max Kamachee & @scasper.bsky.social for leading this important project!

Cas (Stephen Casper)@scasper.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Did you know that one base model is responsible for 94% of model-tagged NSFW AI videos on CivitAI? This new paper studies how a small number of models power the non-consensual AI video deepfake ecosystem and why their developers could have predicted and mitigated this.

Thanks to collaborators! This was a really interesting paper for me to work on, and it took a special group of interdisciplinary people to get it done. Max Kamachee @r-jy.bsky.social @michelleding.bsky.social @ankareuel.bsky.social @stellaathena.bsky.social @dhadfieldmenell.bsky.social

ACM members/computing researchers who should be members interested in contributing should join the subcommittee's mailing list! One of our goals here is to build policy coalitions across institutions so we can do more as a collective 💪 and balance special interest groups.

Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 8mo ago

@reniebird.bsky.social and I have just been appointed to co-Chair @TheOfficialACM's US Technology Policy Committee’s Subcommittee on AI and Algorithms. cs.brown.edu/news/2025/11...

Can't work because AWS? It's a good time to read this piece if you haven't! www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...

We Need To Rewild The Internet  | NOEMA

The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.

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Technologies like synthetic data, evaluations, and red-teaming are often framed as enhancing AI privacy and safety. But what if their effects lie elsewhere? In a new paper with @realbrianjudge.bsky.social at #EAAMO25, we pull back the curtain on AI safety's toolkit. (1/n) arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22872