I had given Anthropic a lot of credit for turning down the DoD and its trillions of dollars, especially as it seemed to be the only example of any AI company making any financial sacrifices for moral principles. Of course, it turns out to be not really true. www.axios.com/2026…
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Stella Biderman
EleutherAI, open machine learning research
I make sure that OpenAI et al. aren't the only people who are able to study large scale AI systems.
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axios.com
Deep Ignorance: Filtering Pretraining Data Builds Tamper-Resistant Safeguards into Open-Weight LLMs arxiv.org
The Common Pile v0.1: An 8TB Dataset of Public Domain and Openly Licensed Text arxiv.org
Position: Don't Just "Fix it in Post": A Science of AI Must Study Training Dynamics arxiv.org
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That talk also inspired a fun rule: if I go around saying “ someone should do X” for two years I have to do it or stop talking about it. This rule has caused the creation of several papers I’m very proud of including arxiv.org/abs/2508.06601 and arxiv.org/abs/2506.05209
That talk also inspired a fun rule: if I go around saying “ someone should do X” for two years I have to do it or stop talking about it. This rule has caused the creation of several papers I’m very proud of including arxiv.org/abs/2508.06601 and arxiv.org/abs/2506.05209
Read the full paper: arxiv.org/abs/2606.06533 or come listen to our oral @icmlconf.bsky.social! Huge thanks to my co-authors @aflah02101.bsky.social Niloofar @catherinearnett.bsky.social @fbarez.bsky.social @nsaphra.bsky.social Stay tuned for a related workshop (hopefully) at …
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In film, "we'll fix it in post" is what you say when something went wrong on set and you don't want to redo it. AI research has made it our entire methodology: train the model, then patch whatever comes out. Our new ICML oral argues this can't be the basis of a science of AI. 🧵
The ability of tech co. to produce "intelligent" systems that are incompetent at doing any of the tasks I actually want them to do is mind-boggling. TIL that ChatGPT and Claude generally don't agree when you give them two papers and ask how many citations they have in common.
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