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@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@ngerakines.me
he/him; Protocols, platforms, and machine learning; GitHub; Check out @smokesignal.events Profile: myself with a thick mustache, septum ring, and hat
@erictopol.bsky.social
physician-scientist, author, editor https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/ Ground Truths https://erictopol.substack.com SUPER AGERS https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666
@zephoria.bsky.social
STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society. Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society Microsoft Research -> Cornell (2025) https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
@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/
@vickiboykis.com
ML Engineering. LLMs π¬. Information retrieval. Infra. Systems. Normcore code. Nutella. Vectors. Words. Vibes. Bad puns (soon). https://vickiboykis.com/what_are_embeddings/
@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
@emilymbender.bsky.social
Book: https://thecon.ai Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
@histoftech.bsky.social
Historian of technology and dad joke aficionado who lives with a tiny, spotlight-stealing rabbit. www.marhicks.com for writing & syllabi
@tedunderwood.me
Uses machine learning to study literary imagination, and vice-versa. Likely to share news about AI & computational social science / Sozialwissenschaft / η€ΎδΌη§ε¦ Information Sciences and English, UIUC. Author of Distant Horizons (Chicago, 2019). Pluviophile.
@bengolub.bsky.social
economics and computer science professor at Northwestern bengolub.net social and economic networks originally from Ukraine
@wolvendamien.bsky.social
Read threads Asst. Professor of Philosophy & Data Sci. Degrees in: Science, Technology, & Society; Philosophy; Religious Studies Working on: Algorithms, "AI," Human Knowledge & Values, Marginalized Lived Experiences, Occult Beliefs, Pop Culture He/Him/His
@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
@swyx.io
i want everyone to aspire to integrity, intensity, and intentionality. see also @latent.space
@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/
@michaelnielsen.bsky.social
Searching for the numinous Australian Canadian, currently living in the US https://michaelnotebook.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
@chrisalbon.com
Director of Machine Learning at the Wikimedia Foundation. We host Wikipedia.
@rakyll.org
Principal Engineer at Google. Simplicity and optimism. Personal opinions.
@tcarmody.bsky.social
Ex-liontamer https://timcarmody.com Now: Deputy Editor at DeepLearning.AI. I used to write for Wired, The Verge, The Message, Adweek, and Amazon Chronicles. I also host sometimes at Kottke.org. Call me he/him. Everything changes; donβt be afraid.
@laurenfklein.bsky.social
Digital humanities, data science, AI, eating, professor of Quantitative Theory & Methods and English at Emory. Coauthor #DataFeminism w/ @kanarinka, PI #AIAInetwork.
@marietjeschaake.bsky.social
Technology Policy at Stanford π©πΌβπ» column in FT πͺπΊ Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 πAuthor: The Tech Coup
@ruchowdh.bsky.social
www.rummanchowdhury.com www.humane-intelligence.org CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
@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 stuffβ¦
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
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@kareemcarr.bsky.social
Stats PhD student @Harvard β’ My posts are a cool, refreshing breeze of nerdy content crafted for a broad audience. Follow me to enter the nerd space safe.
@lucylw.bsky.social
Asst Prof @uwischool.bsky.social; #NLP #healthinformatics #accessibility #scholcomm π΄ποΈπβοΈβ·οΈπ§Άβ«οΈβͺοΈππΈin Seattle; llwang.net; she/her
@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
@rmcelreath.bsky.social
Anthropologist - Bayesian modeling - organic modem converting poetry into code - cat and cooking content too - Director @ MPI for evolutionary anthropology https://www.eva.mpg.de/ecology/staff/richard-mcelreath/
@wattenberg.bsky.social
Human/AI interaction. ML interpretability. Visualization as design, science, art. Professor at Harvard, and part-time at Google DeepMind.
@hmason.bsky.social
Co-founder & CEO of Hidden Door. I <3 cheeseburgers and making beautiful things. I know a thing or two about AI, but it's people who matter. I am interested in many things. NYC
@youraibigsis.bsky.social
Data Scientist, coffee addict, blerd, and drummer. Octavia Butler stan. Trekkie, survivalist, and pole dancer. ADHDer, elder emo, horror movies, & video gamesπ€ AI 101: https://lu.ma/4h3drm9v Parable of the Sower book club: https://dis
@melaniemitchell.bsky.social
Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems. Website: https://melaniemitchell.me Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
@qianli.dev
Co-founder @dbos.dev β’ Stanford CS PhD Co-organizer @southbaysystems.xyz Working on π Database + Systems + AI Amateur bird watcher π¦ Personal site: qianli.dev She/her.
@mariaa.bsky.social
Postdoc at the Pioneer Centre for AI in Copenhagen, soon-to-be Assistant Professor of Computer Science at CU Boulder π©βπ» NLP, cultural analytics, online communities, narratives, healthcare π https://maria-antoniak.github.io
@shannonvallor.bsky.social
Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social, co-Director @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own.
@levels.io
πΎ Pieter.com est. 1994 πΈ PhotoAI.com $120K/m π‘ InteriorAI.com $38K/m π° RemoteOK.com $37K/m π Nomads.com $35K/m π levelsio.com $23K/m
@irisvanrooij.bsky.social
Professor of Computational Cognitive Science | @AI_Radboud | @Iris@scholar.social on 𦣠| http://cognitionandintractability.com | she/they π³οΈβπ
@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
@adipolak.bsky.social
Code | Test | Deploy | Get paged Data streaming, Machine Learning and BigData Systems
@markriedl.bsky.social
AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Associate Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
@soldaini.net
I like tokens! Lead for OLMo data at @ai2.bsky.social (Dolma π) w @kylelo.bsky.social. Open source is fun π€βοΈππ³οΈβπ Opinions are sampled from my own stochastic parrot more at https://soldaini.net
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@v1vekkumar.bsky.social
Senior Manager, Foundational Research , @GoogleDeepMind Googler, Ex @Dolby & @Broadcom Talks and Investments ππ½ http://portfolio.v1vek.com