NEW: How To Train Your Chatbot

AI chatbots have become increasingly common. How much do you know about how they actually work?

Very cool! Excited to read it :)

Promising Topics for US–China Dialogues on AI Risks and Governance | Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

At FAccT today? Hear from @oii.ox.ac.uk DPhil student @lujain.bsky.social presenting her co-authored research paper ‘Promising Topics for U.S.–China Dialogues on AI Risks and Governance’ in the AI Regulation session, 11.09am today. #FAccT2025

Read the paper:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Towards Interactive Evaluations for Interaction Harms in Human-AI Systems

In the latest essay in our AI & Democratic Freedoms series, @lujain.bsky.social, @saffron.bsky.social, @umangsbhatt.bsky.social‬, Lama Ahmad, and Markus Anderljung propose a new AI evaluation paradigm that assesses the harms that can emerge from repeated human-AI interactions.

Dear ChatGPT, Am I the Asshole?
While Reddit users might say yes, your favorite LLM probably won’t.
We present Social Sycophancy: a new way to understand and measure sycophancy as how LLMs overly preserve users' self-image.

On 4/10 & 4/11, we're hosting our symposium "AI and Democratic Freedoms." Thrilled to have @ghadfield.bsky.social, @lujain.bsky.social, @sydneylevine.bsky.social, and Hoda Heidari and moderator @hlntnr.bsky.social for our third panel RSVP: www.eventbrite.com/e/artificial...

📈Out today in @PNASNews!📈

In a large pre-registered experiment (n=25,982), we find evidence that scaling the size of LLMs yields sharply diminishing persuasive returns for static political messages. 

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Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Freedoms

EVENT: Join us for Artificial Intelligence and Democratic Freedoms on April 10-11 at
@columbiauniversity.bsky.social & online. Hosted with Senior AI Advisor @sethlazar.org. Co-sponsored by the Knight Institute & @columbiaseas.bsky.social. Panel info in 🧵. RSVP: knightcolumbia.org/events/artif...

Panel 3: Eval. & Design of Safe AI. 2:15pm, 4/10. @ghadfield.bsky.social (@hopkinsengineer.bsky.social), Hoda Heidari (@carnegiemellon.bsky.social), @lujain.bsky.social (@ox.ac.uk), @sydneylevine.bsky.social (Allen Institute for AI), & @hlntnr.bsky.social (Cntr for Security & Emerging Technology).

Congratulations to @oii.ox.ac.uk DPhil student, @lujain.bsky.social co-author of a new pre-print which considers a new method for evaluating LLMs. Thanks for sharing @agstrait.bsky.social!

Thanks for reading & sharing, Andrew!

@lujain.bsky.social has published an excellent new paper exploring anthropomorphic behaviours in LLMs. Notable finding - majority of these behaviours occur after multi-turn interactions

arxiv.org/abs/2502.07077

Recruiting 2x three-year postdoctoral researchers and 1-2 PhD students – Synthetic Society The Synthetic Society research team at the Oxford Internet Institute invites applications from enthusiastic and motivated candidates for two postdoctoral positions and 1-2 PhD positions in 2025, worki...

🚨 I'm recruiting 2x postdocs and 1-2 DPhil (PhD) students at Oxford to work on AI, Privacy-Enhancing Technologies, and public interest technology research.

Interested in human-centred and critical approaches to study the impact of data and algorithms on society? Join us next year!

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Thanks for sharing!

The Best Way to Understand an Algorithm? Help Train One The Algorithm — a 2023 Mozilla Creative Media Awardee — demystifies social media feeds. Users can train an emerging algorithm as it develops.

Bluesky sees this first 🫣 my Mozilla Creative Media Award project with @lujain.bsky.social is live; check out the announcement!

foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/the-...

Moderating Model Marketplaces RSM welcomes Robert Gorwa and Michael Veale for a discussion of their research into the governance questions raised by the moderation of model marketplaces.

want to hear Rob Gorwa and I talk about what content moderation of uploaded AI models on platforms like Hugging Face, GitHub and Civitai tells us about the future of who analyses open source dual use models? Mar 6 1230ET online organised by Berkman Klein. register: cyber.harvard.edu/events/moder...

@tabisamra.bsky.social is here! And @maitha.bsky.social! And @paularambles.bsky.social! where are my other ny*ad skeeps? who am i mising?

Omg this is amazing!! All my faves 💫❤️

I love this

A watercolor of a rabbit holding a spear and riding atop a giant snail with a saddle and reins

when i say i'm omw, this is what i mean

Such a good thread!

Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match Porsha Woodruff thought the police who showed up at her door to arrest her for carjacking were joking. She is the first woman known to be wrongfully accused as a result of facial recognition technolog...

Black woman, who was 8 months pregnant at the time, is arrested for carjacking based on faulty facial recognition match. She is the sixth (known) person to have this happen—all six have been Black. www.nytimes.com/2023/08/06/technology/fa...

Screen grab from @lightintheatticrecords on IG: A boxing instructional illustration in four parts. Left: DON’T TALK TO ME; right: UNTIL I’VE HAD MY; upper cut with the right: AMBIENT; hard left for the win: MUSIC.

Logging on

Amazing!! Welcome 🥳

a little something to take the edge off

designers of bluesky! we're hiring a short-term designer for a mozilla-funded simple educational game(ish) / interactive explainer on social media algorithmic feeds. email me aae322@nyu.edu for more info!

My least favorite place on earth is Heathrow

wake up babe, insane new use for ai (generating absurd yet somehow usable qr codes) just dropped

probably one of the few ai-image generation tasks that human artists cannot really do right now

www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/commen...

dead inside and cherishing my little plants