Tim Miller
@tmiller-uq.bsky.social
Professor in Artificial Intelligence, The University of Queensland, Australia Human-Centred AI, Decision support, Human-agent interaction, Explainable AI https://uqtmiller.github.io
Please share the adverts for my 2 postdoc positions with anyone you think may be interested. Applications close on Monday 8 Dec. See details below. Thanks!
Tim Miller@tmiller-uq.bsky.social · 8mo agoI'm hiring again! 2 postdoc positions (3-years). Australian citizenship required. Join my lab to research scalable human-centred AI for decision support in defence, balancing scalable decision support and human control in complex environments. Details: uqtmiller.github.io/recruitment/
I'm hiring again! 2 postdoc positions (3-years). Australian citizenship required. Join my lab to research scalable human-centred AI for decision support in defence, balancing scalable decision support and human control in complex environments. Details: uqtmiller.github.io/recruitment/
Recruitment
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I'm hiring again! 2 postdoc positions (3-years). Australian citizenship required. Join my lab to research scalable human-centred AI for decision support in defence, balancing scalable decision support and human control in complex environments. Details: uqtmiller.github.io/recruitment/
Recruitment
uqtmiller.github.io
The School of #ComputerScience at #USyd is hiring! Multiple continuing (≡ tenure-track) positions in all areas, with particular focus on the ones listed below. Women and candidates from underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply. ⏰ Apply by Dec 1: usyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/USYD_E...
#JOB: We’re hiring a Full Stack Developer! Design, develop & maintain innovative web applications that empower UQ’s research community. Join a collaborative team. Apply by COB 9 October. uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/uqcare... #UQ
The deadline for my postdoc on scalable clinical decision support is closing in 1 week: 4 October (Australian Eastern standard Time). Please share with anyone that you think would be interested
Tim Miller@tmiller-uq.bsky.social · 11mo agoI'm hiring again! Please share. I'm recruiting a postdoc research fellow in human-centred AI for scalable decision support. Join us to investigate how to balance scalability and human control in medical decision support. Closing date: 4 October (AEST). uqtmiller.github.io/recruitment/
Official petition to the 🇦🇺 govt: make part-time PhD students' stipends tax-exempt! www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/... Stipends are low but at least tax-exempt. Unless they go part time, then it becomes taxable. This disproportionately affects PhD students w/ care duties, health issues, young children..
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They should've hired @markriedl.bsky.social and his consultancy "That Won't Work" before they got this far
Techmeme@techmeme.com · 10mo agoMeta rolls out Vibes, a platform where users can create and share short-form, AI-generated videos, in the Meta AI app and on the meta.ai website (Juby Babu/Reuters) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Can large language models stand in for human participants? Many social scientists seem to think so, and are already using "silicon samples" in research. One problem: depending on the analytic decisions made, you can basically get these samples to show any effect you want. THREAD 🧵
The threat of analytic flexibility in using large language models to simulate human data: A call to attention
Social scientists are now using large language models to create "silicon samples" - synthetic datasets intended to stand in for human respondents, aimed at revolutionising human subjects research. How...
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Nature research paper: Delegation to artificial intelligence can increase dishonest behaviour go.nature.com/3KsDgbG
Delegation to artificial intelligence can increase dishonest behaviour - Nature
People cheat more when they delegate tasks to artificial intelligence, and large language models are more likely than humans to comply with unethical instructions—a risk that can be minimized by introducing prohibitive, task-specific guardrails.
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Massive Attack Turns Concert Into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment. Bristol band uses live facial recognition on concertgoers to create uncomfortable art about surveillance culture. https://www.gadgetreview.com/massive-attack-turns-concert-into-facial-recognition-surveillance-experiment
大规模攻击将音乐会变成面部识别监控实验
Massive Attack turns concert into facial recognition surveillance experiment (www.gadgetreview.com) 05:51 ↑ 104 HN Points
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I'm hiring again! Please share. I'm recruiting a postdoc research fellow in human-centred AI for scalable decision support. Join us to investigate how to balance scalability and human control in medical decision support. Closing date: 4 October (AEST). uqtmiller.github.io/recruitment/
Recruitment
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I wrote a response to Thomas Friedman's "magical thinking" on AI here: aiguide.substack.com/p/magical-th...
Magical Thinking on AI
A Response to Thomas Friedman's Recent AI Columns in the New York Times
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Melanie Mitchell@melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 11mo agoJust reading the Friedman AI articles in the NYT. There is *a lot* of magical thinking in them. E.g.: "We discovered in the early 2020s that if you built a neural network big enough, combined it with strong enough A.I. software and enough electricity, A.I. would just emerge." (1/2)
Here's the link to their "stakeholder survey on the use of AI in grant assessment": www.surveymonkey.com/r/X7PY5GL
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/X7PY5GL
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Fully funded PhD scholarships at the Max Planck School of Cognition (Deadline Dec 1st) You can apply to work with me or one of the many amazing school faculty. Apply here: cognition.maxplanckschools.org/en/application
Application
Application; application procedure; FAQs; handbook
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45 signatures on the official government petition already! We need at least 50: let's make it happen! www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/... #Australia #PhD #HigherEducation
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Clément Canonne@ccanonne.github.io · 11mo ago"The tax exemption does not apply to the [PhD/MPhil] students who pursue their training part time. As a result, this affects and disadvantages students who have carer or parental responsibilities, or who study part time due to a disability or mental health reasons." www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/...
My petition to the 🇦🇺 Australian government: make part-time PhD students' stipends tax exempt! 📋 Read and sign here: www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/... ⏰ Deadline: October 1
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It supports researchers who have been displaced, or are at risk of displacement, due to war or natural disasters, and who currently have limited access to resources and institutional support. Apply here: www.maxminds.mpg.de/3630/apply The deadline to apply is September 15.
How to Apply
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If you know a 🚨 Scholar at Risk 🚨 please share! I am delighted to share that applications are now open for the MAXMINDS mentoring program.
ARC says they’ll announced Discovery Indigenous outcomes tomorrow. Recently, announcements have been made around 11am (Canberra time). But even more recently ARC’s comms have been at weird hours, so we’ll see what happens.
My latest newsletter is about the excesses of big tech, why Europe should declare war on Silicon Valley, and how it can win. whatwelost.substack.com/p/how-europe...
How Europe Can Win The War On Big Tech
Someone light me a cigar, I'm going all Churchill on big tech.
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New post on Optimally Irrational: Everything you ever wanted to know about friendship: why it feels good, has its rituals, and sometimes brings anxiety. The puzzles of friendship make sense once we unpack its strategic layers. www.optimallyirrational.com/p/friendship...
Friendship politics
Everything you have always wanted to know on friendship
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My video about how LLMs are not search engines has led to many, MANY comments telling me that I should be using Perplexity. Some insisting that Perplexity does not hallucinate. Out of a list of 26 papers it just provided me (in "Research" mode) 4 were real. FOUR. 85% hallucination rate.
like so many products to come out of silicon valley in the last decade or so, AI is a legal innovation masquerading as a tech innovation. the legal theory seems to be that AI is entitled to everything but liable for nothing.
Ars Technica@arstechnica.com · 11mo agoAI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.
Thoughtful reflections on how universities can and must adapt to the rise of generative AI, including by returning to ancient practices. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o... Left unaddressed is how scalable online education will survive the rise of AI without sacrificing academic integrity
Opinion | Students Hate Them. Universities Need Them. The Only Real Solution to the A.I. Cheating Crisis.
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UX researchers are not ok, according to this post. They’re asked often to find some data that affirms users want more AI but when they don’t find that, they worry about losing their jobs quantuxblog.com/things-im-he...
Things I'm Hearing about UX Research
In the past few months, I’ve had many conversations with senior folks across a variety of MAMANG and similar companies. These are all UXR managers or senior ICs (L5 and up, largely L6-L8 if you’re familiar with those levels). I expected to hear a var...
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