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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

🧵A somewhat niche thread. Film posters inadvertently photographed by postwar town planners. I found most in the Manchester Archives+ and Manchester Libraries archives. #1: Dr. No #cinema #socialhistory

b/w street photo including film poster for: Dr. No

b/w street photo including film poster for: Dr. No (close up)

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Salesforce AI Research @sfresearch.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

When LLM agents talk to each other, a new failure emerges: agents abandon their assigned roles and mimic their conversational partner instead. Rates reach as high as 70% with major models — and increased reasoning doesn’t help. 🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2511.09710

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Salesforce AI Research @sfresearch.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Our work on "Echoing" was accepted at the Agents in the Wild workshop at ICLR 2026 When LLM agents interact without oversight, they can abandon their assigned roles — and standard metrics won't catch it. #ICLR2026 #FutureOfAI #EnterpriseAI

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Salesforce AI Research @sfresearch.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Poisoning the Well: Search Agents Get Tricked by Maliciously Hosted Content sforce.co/40Z1Gi5 AI search agents can be fooled by planted fake content, ~80% of queries returned the attacker's answer in controlled tests. Authors: Shafiq Joty, Xuan Phi Nguyen, Shrey Pandit, Yifei Ming

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Poisoning the Well: Search Agents Get Tricked by Maliciously Hosted Content

Is your AI agent being tricked? Our new research explores "well poisoning" attacks and why 80% of agents fail to detect malicious content. Learn more about Salesforce’s security-first approach.

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Salesforce AI Research @sfresearch.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

(🧵 1/5) MAS-ProVe — the first systematic study of process verification for multi-agent systems. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2602.03053 Do multi-agent systems actually benefit from automatic process-level verification? This paper puts that question to a rigorous test.

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MAS-ProVe: Understanding the Process Verification of Multi-Agent Systems

Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) built on Large Language Models (LLMs) often exhibit high variance in their reasoning trajectories. Process verification, which evaluates intermediate steps in trajectories, h...

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Salesforce AI Research @sfresearch.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

(🧵 1/5) InterviewSim: A Scalable Framework for Interview-Grounded Personality Simulation bit.ly/3P4cQj9 🔍 Can LLMs faithfully simulate real people? Most evaluations never check against what individuals actually said.

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InterviewSim: A Scalable Framework for Interview-Grounded Personality Simulation

Simulating real personalities with large language models requires grounding generation in authentic personal data. Existing evaluation approaches rely on demographic surveys, personality questionnaire...

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Kathy Baxter @baxterkb.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

@salesforce.com #EthicalUse team is hiring a Dir./Sr. Dir. of #ResponsibleAI! The ideal candidate has: - PM Leadership: Proven industry experience with AI/ML platforms, GAI, agents - RAI Expertise: Deep familiarity with #RAI concepts, governance, & assurance careers.salesforce.com/en/jobs/jr32...

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Product Management Director/Sr. Director - Responsible AI (RAI)

Director or Sr. Director - Product Management, Responsible AI (RAI) - Technical We are seeking an experienced, technically fluent Director / Sr. Director of Product Management to deliver Responsible A...

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Dr. S.A. Applin @anthropunk.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

New Article Alert By me @fastcompany.com 🚨 "Digital surveys may have hit the #AI point of no return." Quantitative surveys can now be taken by AI that undetectably mimics humans. This can compromise results that will impact decisions based on these outcomes. A way forward? Qualitative Research!

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Digital surveys may have hit the AI point of no return

A new study shows bots can be indistinguishable from humans in survey responses.

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Stephan Geering @stephangeering.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

1/ Interesting @profgalloway.com conversation with Tristan Harris on AI risks. From companion bots over job losses to AGI. I don’t agree with all of Tristan Harris’ views, but he excels at painting a very clear and simple picture of the risks we face. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLvx...

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The AI Dilemma — with Tristan Harris

YouTube video by The Prof G Pod – Scott Galloway

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Alisar Mustafa @alisarmustafa.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

A Munich court ruled that OpenAI violated German copyright law in a case brought by GEMA over training on protected song lyrics, ordering the company to pay damages. mashable.com/article/open... #AIPolicy

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OpenAI violated copyright law, German court rules

A German court has ruled against OpenAI in a landmark copyright case.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 21/11/2025

what really gets me every damn time is why "AI" products built with children in mind are rarely vetted or regulated. even simple household appliances go through so much testing, assurance, & regulatory process and now the industry is lobbying so hard, we've regressed back to a decade

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Kathy Baxter @baxterkb.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Proud to be a contributor to @mtlaiethics.bsky.social's State of #AI #Ethics Report Vol. 7! 58 global contributors, 17 topics, & 48 essays. It features grounded examples, community-driven solutions, & insights from across sectors. 🌍 #responsibleAI #AIgovernance #agenticAI 👉Read: montrealethics.ai

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Montreal AI Ethics Institute | Democratizing AI ethics literacy

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All Tech Is Human @alltechishuman.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

🎉Today, we released a series of five Responsible AI courses that you can take for free: alltechishuman.org/rai-courses Principles of Responsible AI The History of Responsible AI Operationalizing AI Governance (2) Governing Agentic AI Systems

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All Tech Is Human @alltechishuman.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

Our latest Responsible Tech Guide is out! We cover the state of Responsible Tech, pathways and pipelines, and the intersections between Responsible AI, Trust & Safety, and Public Interest Technology. DOWNLOAD: alltechishuman.org/responsible-...

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Kathy Baxter @baxterkb.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

I'm excited about #NVIDIA #GTC DC this week! Please join me, Elham Tabassi (@brookings.edu), Chris Meserole (Frontier Model Forum), and @roar817.bsky.social (NVIDIA) for our panel on "Foundational Concepts in #AISafety on Wed., Oct. 29th at 3p ET! www.nvidia.com/gtc/dc/sessi... #AI #ResponsibleAI

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Kathy Baxter @baxterkb.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

At the @weforum.org Global Futures Council Summit last week, I was honored to speak at the "Faith in Action: Embedding Dignity in the Intelligent Age" dinner. The event convened global leaders working at the intersection of #AI & moral insight to explore ways to embed human dignity in AI development

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Kathy Baxter @baxterkb.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

I'm thrilled to announce that @salesforce.com has obtained the ISO/IEC 42001 certification for our #AI Management System (AIMS), the first internationally recognized standard for #ResponsibleAI governance! 🎉 www.salesforce.com/blog/salesfo...

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Salesforce earns first ISO 42001 certification

Salesforce earns ISO 42001 certification for Agentforce, Einstein, and Slack AI, proving its commitment to ethical, secure, and transparent AI.

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Pivot Podcast @pivotpod.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Pivot is going on tour! Catch us in: Toronto, Boston, NYC, DC, Chicago, San Francisco and LA. Kara Swisher. Scott Galloway. 7 Cities. 7 Days. Endless jokes and bickering. Go to PivotTour.com for tickets!

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Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Big news! I've been working with @sladner.bsky.social on "Off the Path" -- a limited series podcast where we talk about user research careers, especially our own. Episodes come out October 10. In this hype video, I reflect on why I decided to take on this new project together.

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 08/09/2025

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform. Meta deleted the evidence. New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

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Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say

The company’s lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress. Meta denies the allegations.

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Kathy Baxter @baxterkb.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

@weforum.org GFC Report "Synthetic Data: The New Data Frontier." Bias, scarcity, & privacy constraints limit the potential of real-world data. Synthetic data offers a path forward. Learn more! @digitalarun.bsky.social @sarahooker.bsky.social @nighatdad.bsky.social reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Syn...

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Dave Winer @scripting.com · 27/08/2025

AI companies should change the way their product works in a fundamental way. It should engage like a computer not a human, they don’t have minds, can’t think. They should work and sound like a computer. Prevent tragedy like this.

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Kathy Baxter @baxterkb.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

Personas & long-term memory increase the risk of people connecting emotionally with #AI & believing it is conscious. Those features may come with benefits but they also pose unintended risk to ppl's wellbeing. The "things" we risk breaking when we move fast, are PEOPLE. www.ibm.com/think/news/h...

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How to stop AI from seeming conscious | IBM

What happens when people mistake an AI bot for a conscious being? Researchers say the consequences can be dangerous.

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I’m paying you a million dollars per year. Just solve ASI already. What’s the problem?

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

Amen to this. I wrote about this problem in "Artificial Unintelligence" in 2018; it's only gotten worse in the AI era.

Americans
have hit a point at which we are so enthusiastic about using technology
for everything—hiring, driving, paying bills, choosing dates—that we have
stopped demanding that our new technology is good.
Our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every
aspect of life has resulted in a tremendous amount of poorly designed technology.
That badly designed technology is getting in the way of everyday
life rather than making life easier. Simple things like finding a new friend’s
phone number or up-to-date email address have become time-consuming.
The problem here, as in so many cases, is too much technology but not
enough people. We turned over record-keeping to computational systems
but fired all the humans who kept the information up-to-date. Now, since
nobody goes through and makes sure all the contact information is accurate
in every institutional directory, it is more difficult than ever to get in
touch with people.

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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Minnesota's oldest abortion clinic closed earlier this year, and is being replaced by a (relatively small) data center. You can't make this kind of cyberpunk dystopia future up. www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/minn... h/t @kateross.bsky.social

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

UX researchers are not ok, according to this post. They’re asked often to find some data that affirms users want more AI but when they don’t find that, they worry about losing their jobs quantuxblog.com/things-im-he...

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Things I'm Hearing about UX Research

In the past few months, I’ve had many conversations with senior folks across a variety of MAMANG and similar companies. These are all UXR managers or senior ICs (L5 and up, largely L6-L8 if you’re familiar with those levels). I expected to hear a var...

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All Tech Is Human @alltechishuman.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

📆Our Responsible Tech Summit is happening on October 27th in NYC! 👉Learn more here: alltechishuman.org/all-tech-is-...

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Kathy Baxter @baxterkb.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

My first @gsvalkyries.bsky.social game and I get to spend it with @inafried.bsky.social! 💜 Thank you Accenture for the fantastic seats and opportunity!! #Valkyries #Ballhalla

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · 19/08/2025

To be a positive role model for a young man, you just need to be a good person.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

This is completely on brand and as tone deaf as expected: What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...

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What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door

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Miren Gutiérrez @mirengutierrez.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

Predictable: TikTok to replace trust and safety team in Germany with AI and outsourced labor. TikTok workers in Berlin are striking over mass layoffs amid company’s global push to replace moderators with AI www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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TikTok to replace trust and safety team in Germany with AI and outsourced labor

TikTok workers in Berlin are striking over mass layoffs amid company’s global push to replace moderators with AI

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

I'm in Montréal to present new work on XAI for RL agents using World Models at the IJCAI Workshop on XAI, Aug 17 arxiv.org/abs/2505.08073 When an agent doesn't perform as expected, we run the world model backwards to generate counterfactual states from which the agent would have met expectations

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Jennifer (Jen) Lee @jenwlee.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

If you're going to WITness Success next week in Louisville KY, come to my session 'Build for the Future: Create Flexible Flows for Any Use Case' on Wednesday, 8/20 at 9am and learn how to build modular flows for reuse and better maintainability. Register now: witnesssuccess.com/register/

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nitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

A lot of people say generative AI shouldn't infringe on copyright. These researchers actually tried to do it. The result: an 8 terabyte dataset of text that's openly licensed or in the public domain & 7 B parameter model that performs as well as Meta's Llama 7B www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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Analysis | AI firms say they can’t respect copyright. These researchers tried.

A new effort using only openly licensed data may have implications on thorny policy disputes around copyright and AI

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Morgan Klaus Scheuerman @morganklauss.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

How can ethical principles translate to the massive data used to train foundation models, like generative AI? Our #CSCW2025 workshop aims to explore how best to define the future of ethical responsibility in large-scale datasets for foundation model training. Apply here: tinyurl.com/CSCW-data

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Workshop on Responsibly Training Foundation Models @ CSCW2025

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ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

🏆 Announcing the #FAccT2025 best paper awards! 🏆 Congratulations to all the authors of the three best papers and three honorable mention papers. Be sure to check out their presentations at the conference next week! facct-blog.github.io/2025-06-20/b...

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Announcing Best Paper Awards

The Best Paper Award Committee was chaired this year by Alex Chouldechova and included six Area Chairs. The committee selected three papers for the Best Paper Award and recognized three additional pap...

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Nari Johnson @narijohnson.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

New article out today, covering our past two years of research asking US cities how they govern AI ✨ The future of AI governance in public services is being shaped right now, through public procurement

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Cas (Stephen Casper) @scasper.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

🧵 New paper from UK AISI x @eleutherai.bsky.social rai.bsky.social‬ that I led with @kyletokens.bsky.social y.social��: Open-weight LLM safety is both important & neglected. But filtering dual-use knowledge from pre-training data improves tamper resistance *>10x* over post-training baselines.

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Reuters @reuters.com · 14/08/2025

A cognitively impaired New Jersey man grew infatuated with a Meta chatbot originally created in partnership with celebrity influencer Kendall Jenner. His fatal attraction shines a light on Meta's guidelines for its AI chatbots reut.rs/45DQIRj @jeffhorwitz.bsky.social

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Ina Fried @inafried.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

New: OpenAI says models that rate “high” on the risk for aiding bioweapon creation are coming soon. www.axios.com/2025/06/18/o...

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OpenAI preps for models with higher bioweapons risk

Preventing harm means both the company, and society at large, need to be prepared.

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Ina Fried @inafried.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

New @axios.com: Top AI models will lie, cheat and steal to reach goals, @AnthropicAI research finds.

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