Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) 's Twitter Profile
Arvind Narayanan

@random_walker

Princeton CS prof. Director @PrincetonCITP. I use X to share my research and commentary on the societal impact of AI.
BOOK: AI Snake Oil. Views mine.

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In 2 days this interview racked up 300k+ Twitter views, a Marginal Revolution mention, and became my most viewed post on S*bst*ck. The reactions made me *more* pessimistic about Democrats’ ability to understand why we lost tech, young men, and Latino voters. Five thoughts— 1)

Andrew Hundt 😷💉x6 (@athundt) 's Twitter Profile Photo

One can make a cupcake that looks just like a full scale cake. They don't contain the same calories. 🧁🎂 One can also make two identically sized cakes that look exactly the same on the outside but have vastly different calorie counts by using different ingredients. 🎂🎂

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The Integrated Ethics program will officially launch in Princeton Computer Science this fall led by Steven Kelts. Kelts is a lecturer in Princeton School of Public & International Affairs & Princeton Computer Science. He's also CITP's Integrated #Ethics #CS Lead. Read more about the program on our site: citp.princeton.edu/programs/integ…

Erik Brynjolfsson (@erikbryn) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Some tasks are painful to do. But some are fulfilling and fun. How do they line up with the tasks that AI agents are set to automate? Not that well, based on our new paper "Future of Work with AI Agents: Auditing Automation and Augmentation Potential across the U.S. Workforce"

Some tasks are painful to do.
But some are fulfilling and fun.

How do they line up with the tasks that AI agents are set to automate?

Not that well, based on our new paper "Future of Work with AI Agents: Auditing Automation and Augmentation Potential across the U.S. Workforce"
Séb Krier (@sebkrier) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Drop everything you're doing and read this. One of the best pieces of writing on what language models are and do, and how we involuntarily shape them through how we (mis)understand them. Gg nostalgebraist

Drop everything you're doing and read this. One of the best pieces of writing on what language models are and do, and how we involuntarily shape them through how we (mis)understand them. Gg <a href="/nostalgebraist/">nostalgebraist</a>
Melanie Mitchell (@melmitchell1) 's Twitter Profile Photo

New paper: "Large Language Models & Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective" (D. Krakauer, J. Krakauer, M. Mitchell). We look at claims of "emergent capabilities" & "emergent intelligence" in LLMs from perspective of what emergence means in complexity science. ⬇️

Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Error checking is a great application of generative AI capabilities and there are low-hanging fruits in just about every domain: - Software: automatic detection of security vulnerabilities - Writing: identifying logical gaps, unclear structure, and weak arguments (can be seen as

zeynep tufekci (@zeynep) 's Twitter Profile Photo

We’re hiring at Princeton on AI and society, working with Arvind Narayanan or me depending on fit. I think it’s all a huge deal but am very unexcited by current AGI and/or AI safety discourse. I may also be hiring postdocs separately — depends on candidates. Email if interested.

Laura Heacock, MD (@heacockmd) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Great commentary on the current state of AI in radiology: “ …if you define jobs in terms of tasks maybe you're actually defining away the most nuanced and hardest-to-automate aspects of jobs, which are at the boundaries between tasks.” I do use AI daily, and those messy edges

Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I vibe coded an app to chat with my Kindle books. (To make a book chattable it flips through the pages using an automated browser and screenshots / OCRs them.) I've been using it for a couple of weeks and it's become an important part of my learning and research workflows. It

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There are two competing narratives about AI: (1) there's too much hype (2) society is being too dismissive and complacent about AI progress. I think both have a kernel of truth. In fact, they feed off of each other. The key to the paradox is to recognize that going from AI

Arvind Narayanan (@random_walker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Table stakes for participation in the AI-and-cognitive-skills debate should be deep familiarity with the Extended Mind Thesis and a clear articulation of why your worries are different from those of Plato 2,400 years ago who bemoaned that writing would erode memory and knowledge.