Thrilled that this workshop is coming together. We have an amazing line-up of speakers, including @rajiinio.bsky.social, Manon Revel, @senmcnerney.bsky.social, @geomblog.bsky.social blog.bsky.social, and Henriette Canino & Héctor Corzo. Come join us!
Some personal news:
I've signed a contract for a book! It's called REGIME CHANGE and it's published with Princeton University Press. More details as they become available.
It's about what's hidden, and what new deficiencies the tech carries with it. @victorojewale.bsky.social opines on the evolution of deployed AI and its limits. victorojewale.substack.com/p/from-exper...
For me, this comes with a responsibility to raise awareness about the challenges of being trans in Singapore. So I wrote a short post about my own journey transitioning since 13 years ago, which you can find here: ztangent.github.io/blog/2026/td...
Curious about your thoughts on where Singapore, which might be considered a tax haven, fits.
Congrats on the article. Also enjoyed your panel at UC Berkeley!
Thanks for the signal boost, @jlkoepke.bsky.social!
We wrote this paper to respond to real confusion we saw in various bills and in conversations with legislators. So while parts may be obvious to academics steeped in this work, hopefully it can give those working in AI policy some useful clarity.
It's been a journey of nearly 3 years, but I'm very excited to announce the CNTR AISLE Portal! 🚀 cntr-aisle.org It’s a new way to review and evaluate the 1,000+ AI bills introduced in the U.S. over the last three years. Check out the Bill Library and our Profiles#AIPolicy #OpenData
This Wednesday! Don't forget to register!
Featuring Keynotes and Discussants (11:00am-1:00pm ET)
@djweitzner.bsky.social (MIT) with Kobbi Nissim (Georgetown),
Katrina Ligett (HUJI) with Talia Gillis (Columbia)
The @acmsigecom.bsky.social Winter Meeting and CSLaw Workshop are combined and on Wed., Feb. 25. Topic:
"Algorithmic Game Theory, AI, and Law"
Winter Meeting: www.sigecom.org/meetings/win...
CSLaw Workshop: www.cslawworkshop.org
Organizers: Rachel Cummings and @inbaltalgam.bsky.social.
Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!
We opened up applications for the Brown AI Policy Summer School! Please share with any computing or computational social science students who want to engage substantively with policymaking in the United States: cntr.brown.edu/summer-school.
Deadline March 27th!!! Funding available!
Next was a great talk by @r-jy.bsky.social and Greg Demirchyan on alignment problems in AI governance at @simonsinstitute.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV2P... (5/7)
Thurs., 2/5 at 3:30 p.m., Law & Society Fellows Rui-Jie Yew and Greg Demirchyan discuss Alignment Problems in AI Governance.
simons.berkeley.edu/events/align...
in which my students explain the context-sensitivity of social roles and norms 😅
I've also had the pleasure of discussing this project with a terrific community --- including Nadia Khan, Inha Cha, @robin.berjon.com, @paeth.xyz, and my colleagues at Brown CS and CNTR. This project also started through a Brown AI and Humanities Reading Group.
Looking forward to more conversation.
Left: 1942 "War Map" produced by Esso, now ExxonMobil, charting oil's role in transportation as "key to victory". Right: 2024 map produced by NVIDIA as part of an investor presentation slide deck describing its involvement in sovereign AI efforts globally. On the left panel: "Nations are awakening to the imperative to produce artificial intelligence using their own infrastructure, data workforces and business networks."
The Commodification of AI Sovereignty: Lessons from the Fight for Sovereign Oil (with Kate E. Creasey, Taylor Lynn Curtis, and @geomblog.bsky.social), is out now on arXiv: www.arxiv.org/abs/2601.11763.
It was then, over two bowls of seafood soondobu, that we started thinking through how an oil parallel could be generative for the commodification of AI sovereignty today.
In the beginning of November, Kate and I met to think more about how to continue the work from our tech policy press blogpost on AI sovereignty.
She mentioned she’d been reading Laleh Khalili's works on oil in the Middle East and that she couldn’t get AI out of her head.
We released a new report in partnership with the Center for Tech Responsibility at Brown University on how policymakers and researchers can better analyze AI legislation to protect our civil rights and liberties.
Excited to be starting as a Law and Society Fellow at the @simonsinstitute.bsky.social in Berkeley next week. Looking forward to connecting with friends, old and new!
New post by @michelleding.bsky.social on resources for the Brown community in the aftermath of the shooting. open.substack.com/pub/michelle...
📍 Come to the #NeurIPS2025 Position Paper Panel at 3:30PM where @princessacintaqia.bsky.social will be speaking about our work: "Stop the Nonconsensual Use of Nude Images in Research". I’m also around and happy to chat!
Learn more: www.safedigitalintimacy.org/datasets
More info below!
Very glad to be a part of a new paper detailing how developers and developer platforms can prevent AIG-NCII, a form of image based sexual abuse that disproportionately harms women and girls. Thanks to all the collaborators and Max Kamachee & @scasper.bsky.social for leading this important project!
Thanks to collaborators! This was a really interesting paper for me to work on, and it took a special group of interdisciplinary people to get it done.
Max Kamachee
@r-jy.bsky.social
@michelleding.bsky.social
@ankareuel.bsky.social
@stellaathena.bsky.social
@dhadfieldmenell.bsky.social
ACM members/computing researchers who should be members interested in contributing should join the subcommittee's mailing list!
One of our goals here is to build policy coalitions across institutions so we can do more as a collective 💪 and balance special interest groups.
Can't work because AWS?
It's a good time to read this piece if you haven't! www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...
Thanks to @geomblog.bsky.social, @scasper.bsky.social, @krisshrishak.bsky.social, @lucyq.bsky.social for helpful discussions and reviewing drafts! 💖 (6/6)
We conclude with a discussion of policy implications that centers on the consideration of business incentives that drive AI development, and we emphasize the importance of technological expertise in assessing whether these technologies fulfill their purported protections. (5/n)
Second, we investigate how emerging techniques, including open-source releases and alignment techniques, function as mechanisms of change. By championing industry-controlled standards, AI companies can direct focus away from regulatory oversight and toward a system of self-governance. (4/n)
First, we reveal how techniques like federated learning and synthetic data—framed as preserving privacy or reducing bias—operate as avoidance mechanisms. In attempts to place data operations outside traditional frameworks, these methods enable companies to sidestep existing data regulations. (3/n)