RIP Charles Darwin, died this day 1882.

“It is not the strongest of the species that survives,
not the most intelligent that survives.
It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”

“In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate...

The worst way to use an LLM is to ask a standard LLM chatbot a question, like this.

Serious LLM use requires building out rules/guidance, providing data sources, and iterating on your prompt.

Unfortunately they market and deploy it to be primarily used the first way, causing nonsense like this.

Robotics Summer School -- registration is now open! - I am organising the day on Generative AI for Robotics #GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML#PhD @heriotwattuni.bsky.social ukrss.site.hw.ac.uk

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Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that.

Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best.

Welcome home, Integrity crew!

The biggest difference between 1990s Internet and 2020s Internet is that the bulk of our online activity has been corralled onto unregulated for-profit digital platforms

The profit motive driving the way these platforms are designed and run is the root cause of everything that goes wrong on them

AI needs historians as much as historians need AI Digital history did not fail in isolation—it failed just before the world discovered how much it needed it.

AI’s hardest problems — retrieval, ground truth, alignment — aren’t just technical. They’re historical.

The future of trustworthy AI may depend on historical methods.
computationalhistory.substack.com/p/ai-needs-h...

Graphic announcing the MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 call. It shows the opening date (9 April 2026), closing date (9 September 2026), and a budget of €399.05 million. The design features scientific visuals such as cells, a leaf, and lab elements on a dark background, with the European Commission logo at the bottom.

Big opportunities for researchers 🌍

We are investing nearly €400 million to help researchers share their work and collaborate with the best scientific teams across the EU.

The 2026 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships are now open.

More: link.europa.eu/PNxpxw

Imagine devoting your life's work to perfecting the seatbelt and then the first time there's a serious accident every occupant of the car goes flying right through the windshield. This post is about the founding fathers.

Artemis II is a thing of beauty open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

2 PhD Positions on Learning Causally Grounded Concepts for Safe AI Are you interested in improving the interpretability, robustness and safety of AI by integrating causal reasoning? The Causality team in the AMLab group at the University of Amsterdam is looking for 2...

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The underlying technology of AI is incredible.

It's the sociopathic capitalist layer that the tech bros put on top of it that's the problem. It was meant to create miracles in medicine and science, not become world-destroying chatbots and autonomous killing machines. These psychos are the problem.

Big Tech backs Anthropic in fight against Trump administration A group representing tech giants called government action against Anthropic a

Big Tech backs Anthropic in fight against Trump administration - BBC News share.google/xLNAhbA7qJO6...

Call for Papers: LM Playschool (LMP 2026) – Co-located with EMNLP 2026!

Can #LLMs learn, adapt, and improve through situated, game-based interaction?

See lm-playschool.github.io

#GenAI #NLProc #HRI #ELLISforEurope #AI #ML

OpenAI robotics leader resigns over concerns about surveillance and autonomous weapons amid Pentagon contract | Fortune A senior OpenAI robotics leader says she left over concerns about surveillance and autonomous weapons as the company expands its work with the Pentagon.

fortune.com/2026/03/07/o...

It was all about spying on Americans: www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

A direct attack on free enterprise, liberty, and basic morality

Hello #NLProc #ACL2026NLP people. I am looking for **two emergency reviewers** in the Safety and Alignment in LLMs track for ACL/ARR.

Reviews are due Feb 15th. Please DM if interested and available.

Happy to offer drinks/food if you live in/pass by Lisbon ☀️

Robotics in particular badly needs better evaluations

This year’s KONVENS will take place our beautiful city, Hamburg, September 14–17, under the special theme “Context Matters: NLP Beyond Text”.

The call can be found on our website: konvens2026.uni-hamburg.de.

An important topic, in honour of an important career in NLG

X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok Elon Musk's X and Grok platforms are facing increased scrutiny from authorities on both sides of the channel.

Why is @edinburghcouncil.bsky.social still on X?

@drscottarthurmp.bsky.social @cllrconorsavage.bsky.social X is an unsuitable communication platform for a council.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Nice analogy with linguistic levels of analysis : phonetics --> semantics --> pragmatics

Exclusive: Pentagon clashes with Anthropic over military AI use - sources The Pentagon and artificial-intelligence developer Anthropic are at odds over potentially eliminating safeguards that might allow the government to use its technology to target weapons autonomously an...

Source: Pentagon Clashes With Anthropic Over Military AI Use @reuters.com
The Pentagon and AI developer Anthropic are at odds over potentially eliminating safeguards that might allow the government to use its technology to target weapons autonomously and conduct U.S. domestic surveillance. 🤬

Solving the "data gap" in robotics by just collecting a lot of robot data

"Word from Mordor is that the Tomes of Epstein have been moved to the lower levels of Barad-dûr. Will Sauron's distraction tactics work forever?"

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Postdoctoral Researcher in Logical Reasoning and Machine Learning Postdoctoral Researcher in Logical Reasoning and Machine Learning

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