This from Anthropic is a real piece of work: www.anthropic.com/institute/re...
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Nick Diakopoulos
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
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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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AI Agent Accountability ai-accountability-review.com
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New AI EO dropped www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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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
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...
The portrayal of AI in media is an important dimension to norm development. This paper looks at how AI risks are discussed by Fox News: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Auditing is a critical method supporting accountability. This paper looks at applying it to robotic systems under EU AI Act requirements: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Access to data and information is critical for oversight of AI systems. In this paper the authors examine structural challenges and intervention points: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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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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