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Researcher with public evidence across AI research, Culture, work & education, Responsible AI.
I respect the candor here. But I don't agree with the geopolitics, at all. The line between democracies and autocracies is not as crisp as this pretends. How much do we trust, e.g., an AI company in a competitive-authoritarian state that launches sneak decapitation attacks & b…
An understatement: The “call for the administration to de-prioritize “life sciences,” which encompass molecular biology, genetics and other fields in biomedicine, as well as clinical trials aimed at testing new therapies, raised alarms among biomedical researchers and academic…
Cal Newport -- @author-calnewport.bsky.social -- is so right. Gift link. Dear A.I. Companies: The Doom Trolling Needs to Stop www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/o...
Thought this was a reasonably accurate way to position me in the AI zeitgeist; U Chicago Pediatrics is leaning on me hard here, and I’m fine with that. Be curious to see other experts’ results. bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/
"Few are worried about the prospect of public research scientists using LLMs to discover new peptides; plenty are worried about how AI might be used as leverage against them in their workplaces, or to replace their labor, or to narrow their job opportunities www.bloodinthemach…
Medical training faces a new calibration gap as AI enters the clinic. A trial of 111 medical students showed that fluent, misleading LLM explanations degraded diagnostic accuracy from 21.9% to 9.2%. "Shadow AI" can act as a substitute for reasoning rather than a scaffold. #MedSky
Don’t need AI for that, see, e.g. www.newyorker.com/science/anna...
Based on something like this paper of yours? Scaling RL self-play for driving is a cool accomplishment! Do you think about how your various approaches might also be applied to humanoid robots? Any particular task seem a good fit? arxiv.org/abs/2606.19641
I don’t think this is fair. There are LOTS of mainstream scientists doing a great job of talking about “actual evolutionary analysis” of humans. @ewanbirney.bsky.social, Director of EBI, is one of my favorites, check out, say arxiv.org/pdf/2106.10041 or ewanbirney.com/2019/10/…
This paper was entertaining, and even mildly reassuring. Major effect of GenAI on cybercrime? Not effective new hacking tools or reduced barriers to entry among noobs, but that tech layoffs drive more skilled coders to crime. arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29545
New family of generative DNA language models trained on 1T 6-mer DNA tokens in long genomic contexts. Open weights, open source, open training data... h/t @mmitchell.bsky.social huggingface.co/spaces/Huggi...
*Chinese AI guy launching "Moonshot" and "Kimi" is super into Pink Floyd and Haruki Murakami *Not, like, an Elon Musk eccentric of any kind. Everyday Chinese dude en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_Zh...
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