@informor.bsky.social
Cornell Tech professor (information science, AI-mediated Communication, trustworthiness of our information ecosystem). New York City. Taller in person. Opinions my own.
What kind of AI governance do we need? Our new piece in @science.org answers this: we need policy grounded in evidence and built to generate more of it. Evidence-based policymaking is not a slogan—it’s a design challenge for democratic governance in the age of AI www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵
31.07.2025 23:27 — 👍 113 🔁 50 💬 7 📌 2Hmmm maybe it can't handle the Bluesky traffic!
28.07.2025 23:16 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
www.alltext.nyc/search?q=Blm
Hmmm... Definitely exists, but surprisingly low count on this one for example?
👋 but will likely not be in Bergen ☹️
28.07.2025 22:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
For example, some areas to avoid in Manhattan right here
www.alltext.nyc/map?q=Trump+...
This is too cool. Reminds me of what we did in the first years of geotagged Flickr (raise your hand if you remember) photos although we had to rely on text and tagging. No more!
28.07.2025 22:42 — 👍 15 🔁 3 💬 3 📌 0The university presidents in Israel speak out against the atrocities in Gaza. The Israeli public has largely been shielded from the situation in Gaza by the cooperating media but cracks (like this one) are appearing.
Netanyahu's criminal and shameful government must and will be defeated.
Can AI (GPT-4o-mini) #TrustSafety guardrails be easily circumvented via age-old human mechanisms of persuasion? Yes, in this extremely elegant experiment by @emollick.bsky.social & team (incl. Cialdini aka Mr. Persuasion). Also: nicely presented on this page!
gail.wharton.upenn.edu/research-and...
In targeting “ideological bias” and “social engineering agendas," the Trump administration’s AI Action Plan ultimately enforces them, writes Tech Policy Press fellow Eryk Salvaggio.
24.07.2025 15:41 — 👍 49 🔁 18 💬 5 📌 4
Emma Marris at @theatlantic.com is arguing that we should not be too upset about it!
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ― attributed to Albert Einstein
Months before ChatGPT, for my keynote talk at @recsys.bsky.social I suggested we may be soon falling off the Internet cliff. I used this Einstein(?) quote to capture the yet-unknown impact of AI on our information ecosystem and argue that the future of human communication may be face-to-face.
23.07.2025 19:21 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0Free speech (but don't mention _these_ topics) and no bias (but the government will decide what's biased). Oh and these tools should reflect truth, and be trustworthy, and avoid social engineering, all of which I imagine the government will help us identify in a fair and robust manner.
23.07.2025 16:05 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Don't @ me, finally with justification
20.07.2025 20:51 — 👍 10 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Hey I have an idea, what if we had media organizations that are publicly funded?
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The Colbert Clock expired. Kimmel next or Meyers*? Strike Force Five vs totalitarianism. Shameful.
(Or Jon Stewart).
I saw some signs, yes
18.07.2025 00:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Kimmel is next?
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Agreed with you some time ago already!
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I saw this "financial decision" coming. Who is next?
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/b...
@travislloydphd.bsky.social ☝️
17.07.2025 00:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This @nytimes.com story is extremely well reported. But I don't understand why it potrays Netanyahu as enjoying a comeback. All the data I saw shows he made only minor gains in public opinion and polls in last month, certainly not the grand bounce depicted here.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/m...
For example
bsky.app/profile/yair...
This @nytimes.com story is extremely well reported. But I don't understand why it potrays Netanyahu as enjoying a comeback. All the data I saw shows he made only minor gains in public opinion and polls in last month, certainly not the grand bounce depicted here.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/m...
More on the topic.
"Appalled and unsurprised" is probably Gary Marcus' steady state these days, as is (should also be) the case for many of us
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Forget El0n. I am curious who are the cowards working to develop this chatbot. He has no shame. Do they* have any?
*Sadly it is possible that they do have shame but do not have a green card / employment options.
Though much remains uncertain (e.g. outcomes of lawsuits re: canceled grants), it is clear that U.S. gov funding for science — especially science that intersects w/ concerns about human flourishing — is going to be significantly diminished in coming years. Here are a few things we can do to help:
10.07.2025 19:17 — 👍 268 🔁 109 💬 1 📌 10Excited to have this work out at ICML this year! Do LLMs make correlated errors? Yes, and those by the same company, and also more accurate/later generations are more correlated -- increasing algorithmic monoculture
arxiv.org/abs/2506.07962
Empire and Vanderbilt buildings in red (and white) lights
The skyline is red tonight. An urgent warning to all of us.
Oh wait it's Canada Day
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