AI Starter Pack
A highly opinionated selection of my favourite journalists, commentators and practitioners with interesting things to say about AI. Particularly focused on AI policy + AI safety.
Created by
@shakeelhashim.com
@ghadfield.bsky.social
Economist and legal scholar turned AI researcher focused on AI alignment and governance. Prof of government and policy and computer science at Johns Hopkins where I run the Normativity Lab. Recruiting CS postdocs and PhD students. gillianhadfield.org
@garrisonlovely.bsky.social
Omidyar Network - Reporter in Residence + freelance journalist. Covers: The Nation, Jacobin. Bylines: NYT, Nature, BBC, Guardian, TIME, The Verge, Vox, Thomson Reuters Foundation, + others.
@mzeff.bsky.social
Writing - mostly about AI - for TechCrunch. I am maxwell, I am max, but I am not well. On signal at Mzeff.88 https://techcrunch.com/author/maxwell-zeff/
@hails.computer
@willdouglasheaven.bsky.social
Senior AI Editor at MIT Technology Review / Signal: strawbilly.69
@drewharwell.com
Tech reporter @washingtonpost.com Newsletter: drewharwell.com/stories Signal: drewharwell.01
@girving.bsky.social
Chief Scientist at the UK AI Security Institute (AISI). Previously DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Brain, etc.
@harrylaw.bsky.social
Thinking about thinking machines | University of Cambridge, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence | Previously Google DeepMind
@trevorlevin.bsky.social
Trying to help the world navigate the potential craziness of the 21st century, currently via AI Governance and Policy at @openphil; dad rock enjoyer; he/him
@nitasha.bsky.social
technology mother @ the washington post. baddie in the digital badlands. signal: nitasha.10
@shiraovide.bsky.social
Washington Post technology writer. New Yorker. Bird watcher. Grumpy. Sign up for my (free) Tech Friend newsletter: https://www.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/the-tech-friend/
@carlfranzen.bsky.social
late 30s, executive editor @venturebeat.com, fiction writer, AI video creator
@issielapowsky.bsky.social
Journalist covering tech, politics, and national affairs. Formerly WIRED and Protocol. Work featured in The New York Times, Fast Company, Inc., The Atlantic, and more. www.issielapowsky.com Signal: issielapowsky.08
@sanjushdalmia.bsky.social
Science, Innovation and Technology Policy @ Centre for British Progress | Exec @ Scientists for Labour Prev: Science Policy Advisor to Labour, Science Policy Lead at UK Day One, MRes in Medicine Manchester / Leeds
@davey.bsky.social
Bloomberg tech reporter / Google, Big Tech, misinfo / https://daveyalba.com / ask for my Signal
@jeffsebo.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection, Director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy, and Co-Director of the Wild Animal Welfare Program, New York University. jeffsebo.net
@vinayh.com
AI gov, sw eng, infra, transport ๐น Research Scholar at the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI)
@hern.bsky.social
AI writer at the Economist. I write about it, that is. Iโm still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
@abeba.bsky.social
Founder & PI @aial.ie, @tcddublin.bsky.social AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
@maosbot.bsky.social
Parent, spouse, Australian, cyclist, Professor of Machine Learning in Oxford. Bayesian ML, Long Covid, photos of dog, AI must be good for humans, https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mosb
@ristouuk.bsky.social
Head of EU Policy and Research at the Future of Life Institute | PhD Researcher at KU Leuven | Systemic risks from general-purpose AI
@mpshanahan.bsky.social
Professor at Imperial College London and Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind. Posting in a personal capacity. To send me a message please use email.
@sean-o-h.bsky.social
Academic, AI nerd and science nerd more broadly. Currently obsessed with stravinsky (not sure how that happened).
@noemidreksler.bsky.social
Research Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI | Public and expert opinion of AI | AI Governance survey research
@simonwillison.net
Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
@daniel-eth.bsky.social
AI alignment & memes | "known for his humorous and insightful tweets" - Bing/GPT-4 | prev: @FHIOxford
@stefanschubert.bsky.social
Effective Altruism and the Human Mind (with Lucius Caviola) is available for free at: https://academic.oup.com/book/56384 For physical and audiobook versions, see: https://stefanschubert.substack.com/p/physical-and-audiobook-versions-of
@sleepinyourhat.bsky.social
AI safety at Anthropic, on leave from a faculty job at NYU. Views not employers'. I think you should join Giving What We Can. cims.nyu.edu/~sbowman
@davidmanheim.alter.org.il
Humanity's future can be amazing - let's make sure it is. Visiting lecturer at the Technion, founder https://alter.org.il, Superforecaster, Pardee RAND graduate.
@peterwildeford.bsky.social
Globally ranked top 20 forecaster ๐ฏ AI is getting powerful. We're not ready. I work at the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS) to shape AI for for global prosperity and human freedom ๐
@howard.fm
https://Answer.AI & https://fast.ai founding CEO; previous: hon professor @ UQ; leader of masks4all; founding CEO Enlitic; founding president Kaggle; various other stuffโฆ
@willknight.bsky.social
Bayesian agent learning to support its own agency. Signal = wak.01.
@mattburgess1.bsky.social
Security writer @wired.com Cybercrime, privacy, surveillance, and more. Signal: mattburgess.20 | Email: matt_burgess@wired.com
@kashhill.bsky.social
Journalist, currently at The New York Times. I cover privacy, technology & people done wrong by A.I. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. (Yes, in my head it will always be All Your Face Are Belong To Us)
@willoremus.com
I cover online speech and tech policy for the Washington Post and write the Tech Brief newsletter. Sign up to follow my work: https://www.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/follow-will-oremus/ Signal: willoremus.24
@alondra.bsky.social
Scholar, author, policy advisor alondranelson.com Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
@sayash.bsky.social
CS PhD candidate at Princeton. I study the societal impact of AI. Website: cs.princeton.edu/~sayashk Book/Substack: aisnakeoil.com
@milesbrundage.bsky.social
AI policy researcher, wife guy in training, fan of cute animals and sci-fi. Started a Substack recently: https://milesbrundage.substack.com/
@emollick.bsky.social
Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence. Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1 Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/ Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
@caseynewton.bsky.social
Email salesman at Platformer.news and podcast co-host at Hard Fork.
@dhadfieldmenell.bsky.social
Assistant Prof of AI & Decision-Making @MIT EECS I run the Algorithmic Alignment Group (https://algorithmicalignment.csail.mit.edu/) in CSAIL. I work on value (mis)alignment in AI systems. https://people.csail.mit.edu/dhm/
@natolambert.bsky.social
A LLN - large language Nathan - (RL, RLHF, society, robotics), athlete, yogi, chef Writes http://interconnects.ai At Ai2 via HuggingFace, Berkeley, and normal places
@davidpfau.com
So far I have not found the science, but the numbers keep on circling me. Views my own, unfortunately.
@melaniemitchell.bsky.social
Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems. Website: https://melaniemitchell.me Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
@randomwalker.bsky.social
Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/ BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
@jjvincent.bsky.social
journalist and writer. author of BEYOND MEASURE, a history of measurement; a New Yorker, Economist, Times book of the year. former senior editor / AI reporter at The Verge. you can buy my book here: https://linktr.ee/BeyondMeasureBook
@benjedwards.com
Senior AI Reporter, Ars Technica. Tech Historian. Bylines Fast Company / The Atlantic / Retronauts. http://www.benjedwards.com Founder http://Vintagecomputing.com
@billyperrigo.bsky.social
Tech correspondent at Time magazine. https://billyperrigo.com/about-me/
@garymarcus.bsky.social
AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley. Newsletter (50k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
@techpolicypress.bsky.social
Technology + democracy. Visit https://techpolicy.press Join our newsletter: https://techpolicy.press/newsletter Opinions do not reflect the views of Tech Policy Press. Reposts do not equal endorsements.
@knibbs.bsky.social
Live in Chicago, write for Wired, got a great attitude Email me tips: kate_knibbs@wired.com / Signal: kateknibbs.09
@bcmerchant.bsky.social
author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/ cohost, System Crash: https://systemcrash.info/
@mmitchell.bsky.social
Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse. Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
@josephcox.bsky.social
Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
@justinhendrix.bsky.social
Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
@404media.co
it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
@shakeelhashim.com
Writing about AI policy at Transformer. Supporting AI journalism with grants at Tarbell. Prev: AI safety and EA comms; journalist at The Economist, Protocol, Finimize. London. https://transformernews.ai