Bhargavi Ganesh

Final thank you to the participants without whom this study would not have been possible. Their expertise was invaluable in understanding the challenges emerging in context.

6 more days to submit to this call for papers for the inaugural Accountable AI conference at Wharton. Should be an interesting interdisciplinary conversation!

I hope you'll check it out and let me know if you have any questions/comments. Many thanks to my PhD supervisors Stuart Anderson and @dschiff.bsky.social for helping me think through and develop this project. Hopefully this can be a starting point for more research on 'bottom-up' AI governance!

We found that there is great variance in how AI is governed across hospitals, and that setting up governance committees is challenging because the diffusion of AI within hospitals is not always complementary with existing norms in medicine. More details and findings are in the body of the paper.

The paper was motivated by a desire to understand how governance is emerging in practice settings. We spoke to healthcare practitioners with experience developing 'bottom-up' AI governance committees and task groups in radiology departments and professional societies in the US and UK.

Really excited to present one of the papers coming out of my PhD at the AI, Ethics and Society (AIES) conference tomorrow called "The ‘Wild West’ of Medicine: Exploring the Emergence of ‘Grassroots’ AI Governance in Radiology". Link here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI.... Thread on the paper below 👇

JA Westenberg @Daojoan@mastodon.social My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.” Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner Kiddo: that’s AI Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

They've lost the 9yos

An ELSI for AI: Learning from genetics to govern algorithms In the United States, the summer of 2025 will be remembered as artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) cruel summer—a season when the unheeded risks and dangers of AI became undeniably clear. Recent months h...

🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Research: low productivity gains from AI may stem from employees using AI to produce "workslop", or low-effort, passable work that creates more work for others (Harvard Business Review)

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Tesla fights two court battles over claims it misled consumers about automated driving Tesla is fighting cases in Miami and California alleging it dangerously misled consumers about its Autopilot technology, including the driver in a fatal crash.

California’s DMV says Tesla should lose its license to sell cars in the state, as the company fights allegations of misleading drivers into thinking its vehicles can operate autonomously without human oversight.

These things seem to bear repeating over and over again

Beautiful, and thoughtful. For just one example, see this excerpt. I'm increasingly captivated by the idea that "attention is all you need" is both the rallying cry for transformers and an exhortation for us to preserve ours.

We are wildly unprepared to think about and manage water as the precious and limited resource it truly is.

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.

Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.

arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

AI's promise is still taking shape. The costs of its data centers are already here. Data center costs in electricity and water have been hard to pin down. We dug up documents to figure out the impact of AI infrastructure.

"Business Insider identified 1,240 data centers in America already built or approved for construction at the end of last year — the most comprehensive tally to date. That's nearly four times the number in 2010."

Call for Papers - The Politics of AI: Governance, Resistance, Alternatives www.criticalinfralab.net/preview/?id=...
We invite proposals for our symposium that offer critical perspectives on AI & environment, AI & society, and the political economy of AI. Please share widely!

Steph Wright of the Scottish AI Alliance asking exactly the right question at our @braiduk.bsky.social gathering in Manchester: ‘How can we change the narrative from ‘Are you ready for AI? How can we make you AI-ready?’ to ‘Is AI ready for you? Is it good enough yet to be in your life, or business?’

....the Middle East, Latin America, or Russia and the Post-Soviet space, great power/imperial conflict, international law..technology/AI, or the international politics of the environment.

Deadline - Friday 27 June 2025

Apply here
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

THREE 5-year Lectureships in IR at Oxford.

One person will have expertise in Historical and Interpretive Methods; another in Qualitative Methods, and a third in Quantitative Methods

We're looking for people with substantive expertise in historical international relations, the IR of Africa...

Congrats Joe!! Amazing to see how this work has progressed

Me every sunny day: God I love Scotland

at no point did I know where that sentence was going but maybe I should’ve known

AI Action Summit review: Differing views cast doubt on AI’s ability to benefit whole of society | Computer Weekly Governments, companies and civil society groups gathered at the third global AI summit discussed how the technology can be made to work for the benefit of everyone in society, but experts say competin...

“If my products are so good for everyone, why wouldn’t I guarantee its safety by holding myself to account? Who wins if we have biased, unsustainable, deceptive AI? Is it the 8 billionaires, or the other 8 billion people?” My interview @computerweekly.bsky.social & Seb Klovig tinyurl.com/4my8rke3

Strategies for Regulating Artificial Intelligence - Guest Post, Cary Coglianese As part of our series on AI Risk Management and Financial Regulation, our colleague Cary Coglianese builds on his work to describe some options for regulating AI risks.

My colleague Peter Conti-Brown and I have a project connecting the dots between AI governance and financial regulation. Below is the first in a series of contributions from our recent workshop, by Penn Carey Law School regulatory expert Cary Coglianese.

open.substack.com/pub/petercon...

Only in Scotland would you see a bunch of barbecues going in the park on a day that feels like 35F (2C)

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

Makes me really just want to do a full u-turn and focus entirely on history for the next 10 years or so because lord knows people need reminding

HCI Intern (AI Ethics Team) Sony AI America, a branch of Sony AI, is a remotely distributed organization spread across the U.S. and Canada. Sony AI is Sony’s new research organization pursuing the mission to use AI to unleash hu...

Hi all! I am looking to recruit an intern for this summer at Sony AI. The researcher should have documented expertise in qualitative studies and an interest in studying how responsible AI is conducted within organizations. Feel free to share widely!
tinyurl.com/hci-sony

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