William Isaac
@williamis.bsky.social
Research Scientist @DeepMind | Previously @OSFellows & @hrdag. RT != endorsements. Opinions Mine. Pronouns: he/him
Excited to share #ICML2026 paper from my internship @ Google DeepMind! AI models are deployed globally, but AI safety datasets are largely geographically homogenous. What is the impact of culture on AI safety ratings? Is there any impact beyond standard demographics like age, gender, and ethnicity?
Demis Hassabis, co-founder & CEO of DeepMind, is coming to YC! 🎉 > Fireside chat w/ Garry Tan > Keynote from DeepMind researchers > Talks & live demos from YC founders > Meet DeepMind engineers 1:1 If you're building at the edge of AI, you should be there. events.ycombinator.com/gdm-startupday
YC x Google DeepMind Startups Day with Demis Hassabis & Garry Tan
Demis Hassabis, co-founder and CEO, Google DeepMind is coming to YC for a fireside chat with Garry Tan on the future of AI. We're bringing together top founders, builders, and the Google DeepMind r...
events.ycombinator.com
Now out: Video of my recent conversation with @chrislhayes.bsky.social about his great book The Siren's Call, social media's grip on our attention, and what AI may mean for our focus, politics, and future. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KY38...
CBH Talk | Chris Hayes Discusses “The Siren’s Call” with Alondra Nelson
YouTube video by Center for Brooklyn History
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🚨 🔬 PhD positions at Google DeepMind in France 🇫🇷 We are advertising Master Level Intern positions at Google DeepMind within our Frontier AI Unit. These could lead to co-advised PhD positions with Google DeepMind and French academic institutions. job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...
Stagiaire de niveau Master, France / Master Level Intern, France
Grenoble, France ; Paris, France
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What is Moltbook? The strange new social media site for AI bots
What is Moltbook? The strange new social media site for AI bots
A bit like Reddit for artificial intelligence, Moltbook allows AI agents – bots built by humans – to post and interact with each other. People are allowed as observers only
theguardian.com
Real world implications of the shift towards AI adoption
Sung Kim@sungkim.bsky.social · 9mo agoI guess StackOverflow is done.
A ton of attention over the years goes to plots comparing open to closed models. The real trend that matters for AI impacts on society is the gap between closed frontier models and local consumer models. Local models passing major milestones will have major repercussions. buff.ly/ccMJydQ
Claude, "We all know among Sauron's many evils was that he ran Mordor using an Excel spreadsheet with multiple tabs. Show me the spreadsheet" It made 12 tabs "so bureaucratically complex that even the Eye of Sauron would need reading glasses to review it." Some very funny stuff. Creative, even.
Gemini Live is giving me the confidence to speak my second language The anxiety I experience when trying to speak my second language disappears when I use Gemini Live. #ai #gemini #geminiai
Gemini Live is giving me the confidence to speak my second language
The anxiety I experience when trying to speak my second language disappears when I use Gemini Live.
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This is a cool paper that suggests that AI agents can indeed be used for social science experiments, but that just using a chatbot isn't good enough, instead prompts developed based on social & game theory makes AI agent actions predictive of real human outcomes. benjaminmanning.io/files/optimi...
Duolingo’s recent earnings shows the gap between online vocal AI critics and businesses real-world value. Despite the backlash, Duolingo’s revenue and daily users jumped 40%. The AI hype is wild, but so is the value people are getting. This isn’t blockchain, it’s more like mobile or the internet
"In collaboration with the @archive.org TV News Archive we examined 14,749 evening news broadcasts spanning the big three networks from July 2010 to present, asking Gemini 2.5 Flash Thinking to make an index of the stories covered in each broadcast, geography, sentiment, frame, narrative structure.
We may have the chance to hire an outstanding researcher 3+ years post PhD to join Tarleton Gillespie, Mary Gray and me in Cambridge MA bringing critical sociotechnical perspectives to bear on new technologies. jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/jo...
Search Jobs | Microsoft Careers
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🥇 I am so happy to see the Google DeepMind Gemini team **OFFICIALLY** achieved gold-medal performance. Not only did we get 5 out of 6 questions correct. What's more amazing is the official IMO graders find those answers to be clear, precise and easy to follow! 1/ deepmind.google/discover/blo...
Advanced version of Gemini with Deep Think officially achieves gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad
Our advanced model officially achieved a gold-medal level performance on problems from the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), the world’s most prestigious competition for young...
deepmind.google
"[video game] as a community theater production" may be one of the most delightful Veo 3 Fast prompts Please enjoy, in order: GTA, Pokemon, Mario Kart, The Witcher 3, Stardew Valley, Tetris, Mortal Kombat, The Sims, & Death Stranding. The whole prompt was the one above. And the glitches add to it
If you're at @icmlconf.bsky.social this week, come check out our poster on "Position: Evaluating Generative AI Systems Is a Social Science Measurement Challenge" presented by the amazing @afedercooper.bsky.social from 11:30am--1:30pm PDT on Weds!!! icml.cc/virtual/2025...
ICML Poster Position: Evaluating Generative AI Systems Is a Social Science Measurement ChallengeICML 2025
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The best article ive read so far on social impacts: henryfarrell.net/large-ai-mod...
Large AI models are cultural and social technologies – Henry Farrell
henryfarrell.net
Did a starter pack a while back too of scholars and practitioners who cover this angle in case that’s useful go.bsky.app/5sFqVNS
If it's helpful, I followed the recommendations in this post from @nsaphra.bsky.social and as a result have a much more interesting and ML-focused feed: nsaphra.net/post/bsky/
The AI Researcher's Guide to a Non-Boring Bluesky Feed | Naomi Saphra
How to migrate to bsky without a boring feed.
nsaphra.net
These are the ML feeds I've pinned that now get mixed into my main feed: - ML Feed: Trending bsky.app/profile/smcg... - MLSky: bsky.app/profile/alex... - GenAI Bluesky Network: bsky.app/profile/hell... - Nuanced AI Commentary: bsky.app/profile/dame...
I can recommend following: @simonwillison.net, @metr.org, @abeba.bsky.social, @mmitchell.bsky.social , @wang.social, @sashamtl.bsky.social, @justinhendrix.bsky.social, @bvlsingler.bsky.social Some of the people I follow to keep up with that side of things. :)
I would love to see more discussion on ML/AI on bsky. Particularly more nuanced discussions of the societal impacts. If you tag in the relevant post, I'll be sure to repost it!
Still not a lot of ML talk on bsky (at least in my feed), hence paper Sunday: my two most interesting recent reads - H Nets arxiv.org/abs/2507.07955 - Energy Based Transformers arxiv.org/abs/2507.02092
Dynamic Chunking for End-to-End Hierarchical Sequence Modeling
Despite incredible progress in language models (LMs) in recent years, largely resulting from moving away from specialized models designed for specific tasks to general models based on powerful archite...
arxiv.org
I’ve loved everything about the Red Lobster turnaround: • A young Nigerian immigrant CEO who previously ran PF Chang (which I love) • Listened to customers and made swift changes • Stars in ads, bringing real authenticity to the “we’re fixing it” vibe
From a popular CEO to viral seafood boils: The story behind Red Lobster’s biz comeback
New offerings and marketing initiatives spark the ‘polish casual’ restaurant’s re-emergence after years of sinking fortunes.
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Anyone at #facct2025 want to go to the acropolis this afternoon?
Claude Code, meet your rival: Gemini CLI 🔥🚀 Google just unleashed Gemini 2.5 Pro at the command line—free, open-source (Apache 2.0) , 1-million-token brain baked right into your terminal. Chat, code, search, script—all with zero tab fatigue.
