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Bhargavi Ganesh

@bhargaviganesh.bsky.social
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Postdoctoral Researcher at the Wharton Accountable AI Lab. Previously a PhD student at University of Edinburgh, focusing on AI governance Tourist in the waking world

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The way we talk about tech is increasingly dominated by a radical intentionalist position: one that insists we can *only* observe the system by reference to its internal “beliefs,” “thoughts,” and “wants.” That’s a trap — and it must not be enshrined into policy. www.techpolicy.press/to-make-ai-r...
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To Make AI Rules, Policymakers Must Resist the Influence of ‘Radical Intentionalists’
In industry rhetoric, a radical intentionalist stance dominates any interpretation of model behavior, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
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Bhargavi Ganesh @bhargaviganesh.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Still processing my graduation 🥹 A big thank you to everyone at Edinburgh (and beyond) who made it such an amazing experience!
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Bhargavi Ganesh @bhargaviganesh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Didnt get around to sharing this earlier but super priveleged to have taken part in this summer school- thank you SICSS Penn for an incredible experience!
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SSRN @ssrn.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Redesigning #AI Regulatory Sandboxes for Generative AI: Beyond Traditional for-Profit Innovation The authors propose three main pathways for more inclusive sandbox design. Authors: @bhargaviganesh.bsky.social, @jaguridi.bsky.social, Thiago Moraes Read More: spkl.io/6332278cea #AI
A close up of a cell phone that is displaying a few AI applications.
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
link to preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721
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AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance
People often optimize for long-term goals in collaboration: A mentor or companion doesn't just answer questions, but also scaffolds learning, tracks progress, and prioritizes the other person's growth...
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Centre for Technomoral Futures @technomoralfutures.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
The CTMF brings together philosophers, technologists, policymakers & researchers to tackle one of the defining questions of our time: How can we build technologies that truly serve human flourishing? This video captures the heart of that mission & the voices of those shaping it ▶️ edin.ac/4ai5OiC
Jamie Webb, Shannon Vallor and Gina Helfrich sit together in the Edinburgh Futures Institute having a conversation. They are all smiling.
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Dave Palfrey @01factory.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Important ethnography by Diana Enriquez, putting some flesh on the survey findings reported by Lindsay Ellis in the WSJ. Fascinating that these organizational pathologies are currently so widespread.
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CEOs Say AI Is Making Work More Efficient. Employees Tell a Different Story.
How much time workers say the technology saves them on the job is vastly different from what executives report.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Congrats to @bhargaviganesh.bsky.social for passing her viva today with flying colours! It’s been a joy to work with you and Stuart - we at the @technomoralfutures.bsky.social will miss you dearly. Looking forward to your work with the AI Accountability Lab and all that you will do in the future!
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Daniel S. Schiff @dschiff.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
How did AI policymaking go from bipartisan collaboration to partisan gridlock in just a few years? 🧵 Our new study in Policy & Internet tracks this shift across US states (2019-2022) and reveals the triggers that fractured early cooperation. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10....
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logan koepke @jlkoepke.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
a recent New York State audit of NYC's Local Law 144 — designed to ostensibly regulate potential bias and discrimination in automated employment tools — is fairly scathing in its assessment of how implementation and enforcement of the law is going. simply put, LL 144 does not work.
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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 05/12/2025
Registration is open for the first Accountable AI Research Conference, at The Wharton School in Philadelphia on Feb. 6, 2026. ai-analytics.wharton.upenn.edu/wharton-acco... If you're an AI governance practitioner or researcher, looking for insights on the future of responsible AI, please join us!
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michael veale @michae.lv · 26/11/2025
On AI’s ‘mediocrity trap’ — experiments indicates that while AI helps the less skilled make something passable, the highly skilled don’t use it to produce something better than they could have; they produce something ok, but lose motivation to make it great. www.jin-li.org/uploads/1/1/...
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Mark Harris @markharris.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.
The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is above all an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console, but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us, and sometimes, even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.
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Bhargavi Ganesh @bhargaviganesh.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
6 more days to submit to this call for papers for the inaugural Accountable AI conference at Wharton. Should be an interesting interdisciplinary conversation!
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Bhargavi Ganesh @bhargaviganesh.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
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 👇
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View of The ‘Wild West’ of Medicine: Exploring the Emergence of ‘Grassroots’ AI Governance in Radiology
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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
They've lost the 9yos
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@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
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
🧵 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/...
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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...
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Techmeme @techmeme.com · 23/09/2025
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) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 22/07/2025
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.
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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.
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Bhargavi Ganesh @bhargaviganesh.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
These things seem to bear repeating over and over again
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
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.
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
We are wildly unprepared to think about and manage water as the precious and limited resource it truly is.
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Bradley Busch @handle.invalid · 18/06/2025
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...
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
"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."
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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.
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
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!
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
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?’
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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
....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...
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Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
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...
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Bhargavi Ganesh @bhargaviganesh.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Me every sunny day: God I love Scotland
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Sandra Wachter @swachter.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
“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
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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...
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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 05/03/2025
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...
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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.
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Bhargavi Ganesh @bhargaviganesh.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Only in Scotland would you see a bunch of barbecues going in the park on a day that feels like 35F (2C)
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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.
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Morgan Klaus Scheuerman @morganklauss.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
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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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...
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Felix M. Simon @felixsimon.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
That went well
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Jacob Aron @jjaron.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Why would you report as fact a claim that even the person making it admits is entirely made up? www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
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Hannes Cools @hannescools.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy. Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐 www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
If a human-rights campaigner offered a "vibes-based estimate" on something in a national newspaper, they would be regarded as a laughing stock.
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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
So grateful for @abeba.bsky.social on stage at the AI Action Summit, challenging us to be honest about the fact that we’re moving backward, not forward toward a shared social contract as Big Tech have now walked back nearly every voluntary commitment they once made to be responsible social actors.
Session on Public Interest AI at the Paris AI Action Summit
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michael veale @michae.lv · 10/02/2025
Now hiring in law & tech @ucllaws.bsky.social! Lecturer/Assoc Prof in IP & IT law: intersection of platform reg, emerging tech, copyright/designs. Join me @bernardkeenan.bsky.social Orla Lynskey @alinatrapova.bsky.social Ilanah Fhima, Matt Fisher, Robin Jacob & friends www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
We are looking to appoint to one or more posts in IP/IT Law, as Associate Professor or Lecturer in Law. Applications from colleagues who can also teach in other subject areas, including French Law, are most welcome.

The closing date for applications is 28 February 2025. Interviews will likely take place in the week(s) commencing 05 and 12 May 2025.

About you

Successful candidates will be expected to engage in world leading research, and to contribute to the Faculty’s development and advancement of both intellectual property and information technology law and policy, and other areas of law falling within their subject matter expertise. It is also expected that the post-holders will contribute to all aspects of the academic life of the Faculty and University.

The Faculty has a particular interest in recruiting scholars with research interests in copyright law, platform regulation, enforcement with and through technology, and the intersection of emerging technologies with other IP rights such as designs. UCL Laws faces growing demand for teaching and engagement on IP and IT issues from other parts of the university, as well as in executive education, and we particularly welcome applicants with interest and experience of teaching contested legal topics to technologists, creatives and other non-lawyers.

Reflecting the broad strength of the Faculty, we welcome scholars from a wide array of approaches to these issues — socio-legal, comparative, doctrinal, empirical, historical and/or theoretical and interdisciplinary approaches. Applicants should, however, pay particular attention to how their work illustrates their capacity for depth and rigour in a fast-moving field prone to superficial analysis.
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michael veale @michae.lv · 09/02/2025
Microsoft Research: GenAI can inhibit critical engagement with work and can potentially lead to long-term overreliance on the tool and diminished skill for independent problem-solving. Microsoft: *sells GenAI aggressively into the Education 365 packages*
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Sam Bennett @sj-bennett.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
✨bottom-up, emergent processes have shaped the NHS - how does AI fit into this messy, complicated history - and shape its future? And how might these AI-directed transformations of care (re)create forms of epistemic injustice? Some questions we reflect on here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...
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Bhargavi Ganesh @bhargaviganesh.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Re-upping this. So lucky to have so many people to love and hold dear.
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Kevin Werbach @kwerb.com · 13/01/2025
Thrilled to launch the Accountable AI Lab at Wharton AI & Analytics! We’re tackling the critical challenges of ethics, governance, and regulation for AI innovation that benefits both business and society. Learn more: ai-analytics.wharton.upenn.edu/news/announc... #WhartonAI #AccountableAI
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Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative Launches the Wharton Accountable AI Lab, Led by Professor Kevin Werbach
Discover the Wharton Accountable AI Lab, a new initiative by the Wharton AI & Analytics Initiative led by Professor Kevin Werbach, advancing ethical and responsible AI development. Learn how WAAL addr...
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Bhargavi Ganesh @bhargaviganesh.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
AI-generated transcripts be like…
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Bhargavi Ganesh @bhargaviganesh.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
🚨 Call for Participants 🚨: I am currently looking to recruit radiologists for a study I am conducting on the Governance of AI in Radiology. Voluntary participation in this study involves a 40 minute- 1 hour interview (on Microsoft Teams). Link to sign up here: calendly.com/b-ganesh/phd...
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PhD Project/ AI Governance in Healthcare Interviews - Bhargavi Ganesh
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Rob Reich @robreich.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Big news in AI governance: last week in San Francisco was the launch of the international network of AI safety institutes. Ten initial government members, a joint testing exercise, and a US government task force on AI testing. www.nist.gov/news-events/...
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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
This is .. alarming to say the least. The bureaucratic over-scrutiny of medical insurance claims (via ~50 algorithms ?!) in order to systematically & specifically deny mental health care. www.propublica.org/article/unit...
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How UnitedHealth’s Playbook for Limiting Mental Health Coverage Puts Countless Americans’ Treatment at Risk
United used an algorithm system to identify patients who it determined were getting too much therapy and then limited coverage. It was deemed illegal in three states, but similar practices persist due...
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28 Days Lehner 🪦 @danlehner.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
It is not *easy* to be informed about this stuff - you have to read, you have to consider counterfactuals, you oftentimes have to pay money for good stuff, but a series of curation algorithms has gotten people convinced that this instant terror and ecstasy is not only acceptable but *good* for them
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