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Two days after Dario Amodei called for mandatory frontier AI testing, the US ordered Anthropic to cut off foreign access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5. I wrote about how Washington's improvised response exposed the lack of an AI safety playbook.
In "Proprietary LLMs impede scientific transparency and reproducibility," @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social, Alexis Palmer, @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I explain how the rush for LLMs in social science is destabilizing scientific reliability www.nature.com/articles/s44... @natrev…
Years ago, Christian Sandvig predicted that companies would convert email it into yet another feed they could control, datamine, and advertise on as it became the last place that people and publishers could use to guarantee interpersonal information delivery. www.theverge.com/…
People often pitch AI as unprecedented. But what if we already have the organizational tools to evaluate & negotiate its use? Our new book Auditing AI opens in the 1980s with the story of the US Network for Organ Sharing how how they test & decide on their algorithms direct.mi…
"Auditing AI" is open access. We wrote it for leaders / organizers of all kinds who want to *do something* about AI, so if you want to read it for yourself, you can find it here. If you find it useful and share it with your communities, let us know! direct.mit.edu/books/book/6...
“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...
Hard to square that reaction with the total silence when Grok was churning out CSAM & nonconsensual deepfakes on demand — while also being used inside the DoD. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... For more on the admin's incoherence, see Justin Hendrix's analysis (linked above).
Hard to square that reaction with the total silence when Grok was churning out CSAM & nonconsensual deepfakes on demand — while also being used inside the DoD. www.bloomberg.com/news/article... For more on the admin's incoherence, see Justin Hendrix's analysis (linked above).
According to Bloomberg, the European Commission plans to designate Roblox and OpenAI's ChatGPT as very large online platforms (VLOPS) under the DSA. VLOPS are subject to more stringent reporting rules. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"AIAL, one of the few independent sources of research into AI’s societal risks, conducts testing that is a model for evaluating systems before they are released to the public." www.macfound.org/press/grante...
☀️ Excited that next week we'll kick off the Summer School: Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming ☀️ irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/02/18/s...
In the @inquirer.com, @geurkink.bsky.social clearly lays out the unambiguous reality that the Trump administration is engaging in a censorship campaign against researchers of technology companies and the information ecosystem. www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
Hello statisticians of Bluesky, I'm attending the Joint Statistical Meetings for the first time and would love to say hello! I'll be speaking on community science on Monday at 10:30 and would love to connect with others who working on AI + behavior + rights + participatory science #JSM2026
Ohai @mitpress.bsky.social - happy to see our book on Auditing AI out in the wild!
Enjoyed speaking at @sfiscience.bsky.social Tues on the importance of centering affecting communities in the science & policy of AI Grateful for collaborators Avriel Epps, Lucas Wright, Alexandra Gonzalez, @sarahagilbert.bsky.social, & Megan Price Also grateful for a ride in the Jemez Mountains 🌄
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