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Michael Ekstrand

225 trust researcher @md.ekstrandom.net · 2,170 followers
AI research Responsible AI
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Researcher with public evidence across AI research, Responsible AI.

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Info sci prof @ Drexel, trying to keep the machines (esp. RecSys & IR) from learning bigotry and discrimination. ADHDS9. Usually self-propelled. Opinions those of the Vulcan Science Academy. 🐰x2. 🏡 https://md.ekstrandom.net 🧪 https://inertial.science
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social

NeurIPS statement on the use of AI in the position paper track blog.neurips.cc/2026/06/02/a...

AI-Generated Papers in the NeurIPS 2026 Position Paper Track – NeurIPS Blog blog.neurips.cc
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  • NeurIPS desk-rejected 178 papers (18.4%) via Pangram; 123 more must prove human authorship by June 15, 2026.
  • Default Pangram window sizes flagged 42.7% of submissions; refined 100-word windows reduced that rate to 12.7%.
  • Comparison venues FAccT 2025 and NeurIPS E&D 2026 showed 0% and 2.1% maximum AI scores respectively.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com

I still think the biggest threats from software automation have very mundane human origins, and the claims of looming superintelligence both misrepresent the tech's capabilities for marketing purposes and to provide ethical distance for company responsibility

UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges arstechnica.com
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  • The complaint alleges UnitedHealth's nH Predict has a 90% error rate, measured by how often denials are reversed on appeal.
  • Only 0.2% of denied Medicare Advantage beneficiaries appeal, and internal managers targeted stays within 1% of the algorithm's prediction.
  • Named plaintiffs' families paid $150,000 and $70,000 out of pocket after coverage was cut; both patients died before the suit was filed.
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“Algorithmic Realism” by @benzevgreen.bsky.social and @salome.bsky.social is on my short list of papers most foundational to my research. Super excited that Ben has turned it into a book, and it's available for pre-order! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205570...

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For a much newer one, capturing a line of thinking that I've been living in a lot for the last few years, and working on a paper about — measurement and AI eval, by @hannawallach.bsky.social et al. proceedings.mlr.press/v267/wallach...

Position: Evaluating Generative AI Systems Is a Social Science Measurement Challenge proceedings.mlr.press
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  • Twenty researchers led by Hanna Wallach argue in a new ICML 2025 position paper that current GenAI measurement tasks 'lack sufficient scientific rigor.'
  • The paper proposes a four-level framework drawn from social science measurement theory to assess capabilities, behaviors, and impacts of GenAI systems.
  • They say the framework broadens who can debate evaluations and brings 'a set of lenses for interrogating validity' to conceptual and operational work.
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I'll now drop one of mine, not to be vain but because it's the place where I've most explicitly pulled several of these threads together into my own (and co-authors') synthesis. Chapter 4 is the lynchpin. Clearest place to start for “how does Michael think about research?” arx…

Fairness in Information Access Systems arxiv.org
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social

People complain about employers wanting to replace them with AI then fall into the bad habit of responding to questions with “Claude said…” or sharing AI slop documents. They fail to realize that they’re making the case that they should be replaced with AI. Your coworkers can …

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What in the Roko’s Holy Goose-Valuing Basilisk is this? www.reuters.com/business/med...

reuters.com
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autocomplete wanted to correct “meta” (as in meta-reviewer) to Mets. Are we outsourcing scholarly decisions to New York’s non-evil baseball team now? Probably not worse than letting AI rip tbh.

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“May you understand the AI safety Harry Potter sex cult” — ancient BlueSky curse.

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tfw your phone is slow and battery is short and you don’t know if it’s because • battery / phone reaching EOL (I don’t think so? 87% capacity) • Apple is doing some bullshit (it’s a 15 Pro) • there’s some fixable problem • software is getting Bad, possibly because of AI

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