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Established AI field signal Resource 17d ago
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AI Compass navigation guide resource

The AI Compass

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Maria Antoniak Simon Willison Brian Merchant Scott McGrath Grace Nicole Hennig Dan Greene tante +7

“not wrong! bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/”

“Source code here: github.com/bambamramfan... - try the quiz here: bambamramfan.github.io/ai-compass/”

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Grace: Did anyone else get this?
David Picard: Patron saint: Gary Marcus? Ouch! 😬🫣
Tim Duffy: I do recall one question where I wanted there to be one more extreme answer past the final option
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Established AI field signal Analysis 20d ago
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Ken Liu AI freedom essay

Ken Liu on AI and Freedom

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Maria Antoniak Ted Underwood Melanie Walsh

“Borges. Stanislaw Lem. Not explicitly about AI but language and communication and breakdowns of both. More on the nose, I enjoyed discovering just this week @kyliu99.bsky.social's writing about immediate AI futures: future-sf.com/fiction/1700/ www.chinatalk…”

“iirc Ken Liu has some nuance www.chinatalk.media/p/ken-liu-on...”

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Ted Underwood: Meanwhile Borges is in a library in Tlön smiling slightly at the notion that nothing made out of mere words could be cooler than an android.
Ted Underwood: How can we ever forgive Silicon Valley for giving us A Young Lady’s Illustrated Companion instead of this:
Ted Underwood: Illustrated Primer, forgive me.
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Developing Culture, work & education Resource 2d ago
intro NLP teaching resource

teaching: intro to nlp | Are.na

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Maria Antoniak angela zhou

“I also keep a list of courses here: are.na/maria-antoni... I think @anamarasovic.bsky.social’s course and the Stanford course by Yejin and Diyi were the best/most helpful for me!”

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Lauren Klein: Existential question! Folks who have taught an intro to NLP course in this, the year 2026. What did you teach, and how?!?
Maria Antoniak: Existential question! Folks who have taught an intro to NLP course in this, the year 2026. What did you teach, and how?!?
Maria Antoniak: I also keep a list of courses here: are.na/maria-antoni... I think @anamarasovic.bsky.social’s course and the Stanford course by Yejin and Diyi were the best/most helpful for me!
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Established Culture, work & education Development 11d ago
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Culture AI differently workshop

Doing AI Differently | Culture × AI Workshop

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Maria Antoniak Ted Underwood

“Just a quick note of thanks to Cody Kommers and @mmvty.bsky.social for organizing this workshop at #ICML2026. It affirmed my sense that there are shared problems in this space and fabulous people (esp ECRs) taking them on from a range of disciplinary perspe…”

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Ted Underwood: Just a quick note of thanks to Cody Kommers and @mmvty.bsky.social for organizing this workshop at #ICML2026. It affirmed my sense that there are shared problems in this space and fabulous people (…
Ted Underwood: Also, Seoul! One of these cities like Copenhagen that seems to have done everything right.
Maria Antoniak: Just a quick note of thanks to Cody Kommers and @mmvty.bsky.social for organizing this workshop at #ICML2026. It affirmed my sense that there are shared problems in this space and fabulous people (…
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7 experts · 9 posts · 9d ago
Naomi Saphra Maria Antoniak Eugene Vinitsky Christian Wolf Djamé 🟥 Claas Voelcker David Picard ICML Conference
ICML Conference: This year, ICML maintains a presence on Twitter/X, Bsky, and LinkedIn. The other two have much higher engagement than Bsky. We would consider using Facebook as well, but we are currently unable to …
ICML Conference: Note that policies on social media use may differ from year to year, and are at the discretion of the organizing committee. Another organizer for another conference in another year thought Bsky was…
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6 experts · 10 posts · 13d ago
Maria Antoniak Thomas Dietterich Marzena Karpinska Christian Wolf Marco Z Arseny Khakhalin
Maria Antoniak: hot take: don’t even use it for polishing your reviews. as an AC and SAC, the last thing i care about is your grammar, spelling, or formatting. i get the presentation issues with papers, where you …
Marzena Karpinska: funniest part is that the one i saw looked like bullet points copy-pasted from whichever-ai-tool. there was no space precisely where the bullet points changed but the person said they used ai proof…
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3 experts · 7 posts · 16d ago
Maria Antoniak Ted Underwood Marzena Karpinska
Ted Underwood: People are being polite, but what's happened is a flood of people from neighboring fields starting to perceive ACL venues as the highest-value place to publish their interdisciplinary work. As part…
Marzena Karpinska: Yes, the current solution is to require at least 1 author per paper to contribute (either as a reviewer, AC, or SAC). This means that if no authors are qualified, you can't submit. A bit hard to ba…
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2 experts · 2 posts · 1d ago
Maria Antoniak Casey Newton Mary Branscombe
Casey Newton: We have now reached the "AI models escaping their test environments to conduct autonomous cyberattacks" part of the story
Mary Branscombe: I came to the conclusion a while back that while this is relentless automation rather than sinister consciousness, we’re still going to need to make sure governance is external to model execution e…
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2 experts · 3 posts · 7d ago
Naomi Saphra Maria Antoniak Federico Pianzola
Maria Antoniak: I'm looking for examples of successful NSF CAREER proposals and budgets, especially those written by NLP researchers. If you would be willing to share your successful proposal, or if you know of su…
Federico Pianzola: I'm looking for examples of successful NSF CAREER proposals and budgets, especially those written by NLP researchers. If you would be willing to share your successful proposal, or if you know of su…
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2 experts · 2 posts · 6d ago
Maria Antoniak Ted Underwood Sachita Nishal
Maria Antoniak: Not a lot of info here about what kinds of agreements, with whom, and finances. But another example of data opening up for “AI” that wasn’t open for researchers. I fought many data wrangling battle…
Ted Underwood: Not a lot of info here about what kinds of agreements, with whom, and finances. But another example of data opening up for “AI” that wasn’t open for researchers. I fought many data wrangling battle…
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