This from Anthropic is a real piece of work: www.anthropic.com/institute/re...
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Nick Diakopoulos
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Researcher with public evidence across AI research, Culture, work & education.
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Northwestern University Professor. Computational Journalism; AI & Society. https://www.nickdiakopoulos.com
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When AI builds itself anthropic.com
Promoting Advanced Artificial Intelligence Innovation and Security whitehouse.gov
nytimes.com
wsj.com
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Informing AI Policy Assessment using Large-Scale Simulation of Interventions arxiv.org
The Agentic AI Investigative Journalism Challenge | gain-agent-challenge.northwestern.edu
Head of AI - Full Fact fullfact.teamtailor.com
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Are Your AI Guidelines Any Good? ai-accountability-review.com
Claude Cowork for Research Screening ai-accountability-review.com
dl.acm.org
AI Agent Accountability ai-accountability-review.com
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New AI EO dropped www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
“A.I. is a genuinely powerful technology that still needs people, and putting it to use is slow, human work. The sooner we are honest about that …, the sooner we can stop performing A.I. and start building something with it.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...
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"Trump administration officials have asked a government artificial-intelligence testing unit to stop issuing public reports, the latest signal that the White House is tightening control over AI models as national-security concernsmoratorium?"
I’m glad Anthropic models will be released, but de facto executive control of AI systems has got to be the worst possible version of AI governance. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/t...
I'm bummed to miss the FAccT Conference later this week in Montreal. If you're there please check out our work on simulating AI policy interventions which Julia Barnett will present (pre-print here: arxiv.org/abs/2605.27395). Another great collaboration with Kimon Kieslich and…
Today we're launching the Northwestern Agentic AI Investigative Journalism Challenge. Top prize is $5000 and an invitation to present the work at the Computation + Journalism Symposium this fall. Details here: www.gain-agent-challenge.northwestern.edu
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One of the best jobs in civic tech has just been advertised Head of AI at the mighty @fullfact.org
Are your AI guidelines any good? New research published at @facct.bsky.social develops an assessment of quality: www.ai-accountability-review.com/p/are-your-a...
I’ve been finding Claude Cowork to be really helpful for screening literature. Here’s my workflow: www.ai-accountability-review.com/p/claude-cow...
A study of real world AI contestation dynamics: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
More in my post for the AI Accountability Review here: www.ai-accountability-review.com/p/ai-agent-a...
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A recent analysis of 188 autonomous AI incidents found that 35% involved code being destroyed or deleted. So as we delegate more to AI agents it's worth asking: How do we ensure people stay accountable for their agents?
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