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"It was as though I had witnessed a Mystery, and I could only remember that when something finally moved – and I realised that I had been breathlessly watching a sequence of still images – I very nearly screamed." —William Gibson on the first time he watched La Jetée

House Energy and Commerce reconciliation text has language preempting all state AI regulations: "no state or political subdivision may enforce any law or regulation regulating artificial intelligence models, artificial intelligence systems, or automated decision systems during

Got my copy of Robin's printed matter earlier this week; it's going to be fun rereading his advice on AI to writers a few years from now

Center on Privacy and Technology Georgetown Law just re-released a previous report on ICE's surveillance infrastructure with new foreword: americandragnet.org

URL is sacred. ▌We refuse to be part of this dumbass future where everything is implicit, vague, bloated, hidden, magical, slow, and sleek. REJECTED WITH FORCE.

BREAKING: FIRE statement on Trump administration revoking Harvard’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification The Department of Homeland Security’s decision to escalate its assault against Harvard University by revoking its ability to enroll international students is

🚨 Lucie-Aimée Kaffee and I are looking for a junior collaborator to research the Open Model Ecosystem! 🤖 Ideally, someone w/ AI/ML background, who can help w/ annotation pipeline + analysis. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

🚨New paper🚨 Excited to share our latest on nature today: The PIVOT PENALTY in research. nature.com/articles/s4158… More than five years in the making. Key finding: The impact of new research steeply declines the further a researcher moves from their previous work.

reminder that there is three more days to apply for our Institute for Law & AI and Future Intelligence Cambridge summer workshop (Aug 6-8) on Law-Following AI, where we'll explore the question of how to design agentic AI systems that reliably follow the law law-ai.org/event/workshop…

New paper available - "Bureaucratic Backchannel: How r/PatentExaminer Navigates #AI Governance" which investigates how examiners navigate dual roles through a qualitative analysis of a Reddit, Inc. community where U.S. Patent & Trademark Office employees discuss their work🔗📜👇

Many brilliant industry AI researchers have told me that bureaucracy is slowing them down. An underrated research question is: How do we design teams & incentives that improve research speed and impact—along with team happiness? Any thoughts out there on optimal strategies?

My PhD materials are now available! Dissertation: arxiv.org/abs/2506.23123 Slides: drive.google.com/file/d/13N2FRW… Folks should read the acknowledgements since so many people have been so important to me along this journey!

Are you a researcher, trying to build a small GPU cluster? Did you already build one, and it sucks? I manage USC NLP’s GPU cluster and I’m happy to offer my expertise. I hope I can save you some headaches and make some friends. Please reach out!

Check out our new blogpost and policy brief on our recently updated lab website! ❓Are we actually capturing the bubble of risk for cybersecurity evals? Not really! Adversaries can modify agents by a small amount and get massive gains.

1. We will present HypotheSAEs at #ICML2025, Wednesday 11am (West Hall B2-B3 #W-421). 2. Let me know if you'd like to chat about: - AI for hypothesis generation - why SAEs are still useful - whether PhD students should stay in school