Reposted by dan bateykoKenny Peng @kennypeng.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Our new paper introduces a scientific theory of atomic features. We mathematically derive testable predictions. Our experiments challenge conventional wisdom. SAEs of different size and training data share many features. Large SAEs recover both parent and child features. 🧵 1207
dan bateyko @dbateyko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Reading Cornell’s report on The Future of the American University and thought something felt off. The report explicitly says AI “was not used to automatically write the report or pieces of it.” And yet Pangram flags an entire section—about scholarly integrity—as AI-generated. 010
dan bateyko @dbateyko.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Nice coverage in @politico.com this afternoon of our work! www.politico.com/newsletters/...politico.comHow AI can root out discrimination 000
dan bateyko @dbateyko.bsky.social · 08/09/2026You can explore the thousands of discriminatory laws we found here! hidden-in-plain-text.reglabapp.comhidden-in-plain-text.reglabapp.comHidden in Plain Text: LLM-Assisted Detection of Discriminatory Local LawsAn LLM-assisted research pipeline surfaces suspect discriminatory provisions still on the books across 9,623 U.S. municipalities. 100
dan bateyko @dbateyko.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Terrible! My colleagues have looked and found racially restrictive covenants in California using similar techniques: law.stanford.edu/stanford-law...law.stanford.eduUsing AI to Map Racial Covenants | Stanford Law SchoolWhen Daniel E. Ho purchased a home in Palo Alto, he got more than he bargained for. Buried in the reams of papers he had to sign at closing was an uns 001
dan bateyko @dbateyko.bsky.social · 08/09/2026LLM-assisted statutory surveys can make legal cleanup possible at a previously impractical scale. You can read the full paper, published at ICAIL 2026 with the stellar team of co-first author Yasmine Mabene, Derek Ouyang, and Dan Ho, here: hidden-in-plain-text.reglabapp.com/hidden-in-pl...hidden-in-plain-text.reglabapp.com 130
dan bateyko @dbateyko.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Bowling alleys. Go-kart tracks. We found 2,000+ laws restricting noncitizens from working at places like these. Mass. repealed its citizenship rule for liquor licenses only in 2024, after a family was barred from applying. Yet two years later, similar rules remain in town codes. 120
dan bateyko @dbateyko.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Local law is full of fossils. We ran LLMs over 9,000 jurisdictions to identify plainly discriminatory ones. We found: — separate cemeteries for “white and black” residents — voting limited to “male persons” — speech rules protecting “any woman or child” from indecent language 130
dan bateyko @dbateyko.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Local law still formally mandates racial segregation. In 2026. We built the largest dataset of local laws and used LLMs to search for discriminatory provisions across the nation. What we found should not still be on the books. hai.stanford.edu/policy/makin...hai.stanford.eduMaking Local Law Legible: LLM-Assisted Detection of Discrimination | Stanford HAIThis brief demonstrates the potential of LLM-assisted review to accelerate legal reform. 2127
dan bateyko @dbateyko.bsky.social · 07/09/2026just finding out that the Python data visualization library seaborn is named after West Wing's Sam Seaborn and imported as sns due to the monogram on his shirt 000
dan bateyko @dbateyko.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Early results, but! I’ve scraped 100,000+ law review articles (maybe~2x the next-largest study) and am using language models to classify their footnotes. Having fun seeing how tech law scholarship shakes out. So far, STS is overrepresented; sociology is slightly under. 001
Reposted by dan bateykoData & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 23/07/2026To make govt services more accessible & accountable, @baricks.bsky.social, @boston.gov’s aleja jimenez jaramillo & @megyoung0.bsky.social call on state & local govts to explore collectively-governed “in-house” alternatives to commercial language translation tech. datasociety.net/research-lib... 152
Reposted by dan bateykoJames Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 20/07/2026The 16th Edition of my Internet Law casebook is out! Overview: internetcasebook.com Table of contents: www.semaphorepress.com/downloads/In... PDF download (suggested $30): semaphorepress.com/InternetLaw_... Print-on-demand ($75.10): www.amazon.com/dp/1943689245 A brief thread on the update: 1229
Reposted by dan bateykoJoachim Baumann @joachimbaumann.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Just arrived at ICML 🇰🇷😍 Get up early tomorrow to hear me talk about how (not) to solve the peer review crisis, or find me at one of my poster presentations. Paper links: ✅ AI Peer Review: arxiv.org/abs/2605.03202 ✅ SWE-chat: arxiv.org/pdf/2604.20779 0162
Reposted by dan bateykoIra Globus-Harris @iraglobusharris.bsky.social · 03/07/2026Are you at ICML next week? Feel like your decision-making for which sessions to attend might not be risk minimizing? Don't incur (swap) regret and come to my, @aaroth.bsky.social, and @ncollina.bsky.social's tutorial Monday on multicalibration, decision-making, and collaborative learning! 22011
Reposted by dan bateykoLauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · 28/06/2026it's the last day of #FAccT2026 in Montreal (bonjour hiii), and I'm presenting my paper with Diag Davenport on the promise of #PublicInterestTech clinics for training the next gen of critical sociotechnical thinkers. 🏆 plus we got an honorable mention!? come thru @ 10:45! 📄 tiny.cc/pit-clinics-26 1217
Reposted by dan bateykoEmma Harvey @emmharv.bsky.social · 23/06/2026I'm so excited to attend #FAccT2026 in 🇨🇦Montreal🇨🇦 to present "Tradeoffs are Domain Dependent: Improving Accuracy and Fairness in Property Tax Assessments" by Evelyn Smith, me, Chris Berry, @jacobsgoldin.bsky.social, and Dan Ho!! 🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2605.15020 1113
Reposted by dan bateykoIsabel Silva Corpus @isabelcorpus.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Excited to attend FAccT 2026 in Montreal this week! Let me know if you'll be there and want to catch up :) I'll be presenting a paper with @allisonkoe.bsky.social about ad delivery skew in the context of government advertising, come by and check it out! 2257
Reposted by dan bateykoJennah Gosciak @jennahgosciak.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I am excited to be at @facct.bsky.social this year presenting a new 📝 "Scrutinizing Index-Based Risk Assessments: A Case Study in NYC Decision-making for Heat Emergency Management" (work with Luke Boyce, @angelinawang.bsky.social , and @allisonkoe.bsky.social ). 🔗: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... (1/10) 1196
Reposted by dan bateykoLindsey Barrett @lambarrett.bsky.social · 30/05/2026outrageously corny how happy and grateful I feel after PLSC, every single time. man do I love my job and the lovely geniuses it gives me proximity to. privacy odd ducks conference forever!!!! 121
Reposted by dan bateykoLucy Li @lucy3.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Another one of @ahalterman.bsky.social and @katakeith.bsky.social's papers that I think should be cited more by CSS researchers: What is a protest anyway? Codebook conceptualization is still a first-order concern in LLM-era classification arxiv.org/abs/2510.03541arxiv.orgWhat is a protest anyway? Codebook conceptualization is still a first-order concern in LLM-era classificationGenerative large language models (LLMs) are now used extensively for text classification in computational social science (CSS). In this work, focus on the steps before and after LLM prompting -- conce... 1315
dan bateyko @dbateyko.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Wild Anna’s Archive bounty, reads like a heist. They want someone to front tens of thousands of dollars to buy Library of Congress files for a 3k bounty. I imagine a leak investigation would have a very short suspect list 010
Reposted by dan bateykoPeter Henderson @peterhenderson.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Btw, did a bit of a rebranding of the substack. Will endeavor to post more there. h/t @dbateyko.bsky.social on the Trials & Errors name. Super fitting name for a group whose focus is both in reinforcement learning and in law/governance research. www.trialserrors.aitrialserrors.aiTrials & Errors | Peter Henderson | SubstackVarious news, thoughts, and findings on the intersection of law, policy, and artificial intelligence. Click to read Trials & Errors, by Peter Henderson, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscri... 131
Reposted by dan bateykoMaria Antoniak @mariaa.bsky.social · 24/03/2026I've started a "History of NLP" repo to store all of these resources. I don't have time to add everything yet, but I'll keep chipping away, and help is welcome. github.com/maria-antoni...github.comGitHub - maria-antoniak/history-of-nlp: a public, crowd-sourced bibliography about the history of natural language processing (nlp)a public, crowd-sourced bibliography about the history of natural language processing (nlp) - maria-antoniak/history-of-nlp 1366
Reposted by dan bateykoDominik Stammbach @dominsta.bsky.social · 28/01/2026📣 Call for Contributions: LEXam-v2 – A Benchmark for Legal Reasoning in AI How well do today’s AI systems really reason about law? We’re building a global benchmark based on real law school & bar exams. 🧵 Full details, scope, and how to contribute in the thread 👇 164
Reposted by dan bateykoJ. Nathan Matias @natematias.bsky.social · 15/11/2025One joy of growing as a scholar & doer has been the pleasure of being supported to pay attention to other people’s excellent work and amplify it. Next week I am publishing an article summarizing over 170 articles on AI + science + policy and tomorrow I get to email their authors to say thanks <3 1123
dan bateyko @dbateyko.bsky.social · 02/09/2025It's remarkable how early Ford Foundation was to law and technology in the midcentury 020
dan bateyko @dbateyko.bsky.social · 01/09/2025this is what you see moments before going down a cyberspace and law rabbit hole 110
dan bateyko @dbateyko.bsky.social · 01/08/2025it finally happened (my 3090 overheated and emergency shut off) 010
Reposted by dan bateykoDaphne Keller @daphnek.bsky.social · 01/08/2025Here’s the article. I’ve had more positive feedback on it than things I spent a year on. Apparently describing a problem that thousands of Trust and Safety people are seeing but also see the world ignoring is a good way to win hearts and minds :) www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...lawfaremedia.orgThe Rise of the Compliant Speech PlatformContent moderation is becoming a “compliance function,” with trust and safety operations run like factories and audited like investment banks. 13010
dan bateyko @dbateyko.bsky.social · 18/07/2025“The possibilities of the pole” @hoctopi.bsky.social 000
dan bateyko @dbateyko.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Eliza asking after an anti-suffering future of reproductive technology (the piece looks incredible) 100
dan bateyko @dbateyko.bsky.social · 18/07/2025@kevinbaker.bsky.social “The rules appear inevitable, natural, reasonable. We forget they were drawn by human hands.” 180
Reposted by dan bateykoEmma Harvey @emmharv.bsky.social · 14/07/2025After having such a great time at #CHI2025 and #FAccT2025, I wanted to share some of my favorite recent papers here! I'll aim to post new ones throughout the summer and will tag all the authors I can find on Bsky. Please feel welcome to chime in with thoughts / paper recs / etc.!! 🧵⬇️: 25510
Reposted by dan bateykojay @kuppermann.xyz · 15/07/2025i am launching a magazine with @kevinbaker.bsky.social and the rest of the reboot collective on thursday at gray area! you should be there! open.substack.com/pub/reboothq... 0144
Reposted by dan bateykoEmma Harvey @emmharv.bsky.social · 01/07/2025I've arrived in the 🌁Bay Area🌁, where I'll be spending the summer as a research fellow at Stanford's RegLab! If you're also here, LMK and let's get a meal / go on a hike / etc!! 091
Reposted by dan bateykoJames Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 02/07/2025Well, this was a nice surprise. Download it while it’s hot! lsolum.typepad.com/legaltheory/...lsolum.typepad.comGrimmelmann, Sobel, & Stein on Generative AI and Legal InterpretationJames Grimmelmann (Cornell Law School; Cornell Tech), Benjamin Sobel (Cornell University - Cornell Tech NYC), & David Stein (Vanderbilt University - Vanderbilt Law School) have posted Generative Misin... 041
Reposted by dan bateykoJennah Gosciak @jennahgosciak.bsky.social · 24/06/2025I am presenting a new 📝 “Bias Delayed is Bias Denied? Assessing the Effect of Reporting Delays on Disparity Assessments” at @facct.bsky.social on Thursday, with @aparnabee.bsky.social, Derek Ouyang, @allisonkoe.bsky.social, @marzyehghassemi.bsky.social, and Dan Ho. 🔗: arxiv.org/abs/2506.13735 (1/n) 1134
Reposted by dan bateykoEmma Harvey @emmharv.bsky.social · 23/06/2025I am so excited to be in 🇬🇷Athens🇬🇷 to present "A Framework for Auditing Chatbots for Dialect-Based Quality-of-Service Harms" by me, @kizilcec.bsky.social, and @allisonkoe.bsky.social, at #FAccT2025!! 🔗: arxiv.org/pdf/2506.04419 13110
Reposted by dan bateykoAllison Koenecke @allisonkoe.bsky.social · 22/06/2025🎉Excited to present our paper tomorrow at @facct.bsky.social, “Characterizing Bias: Benchmarking Large Language Models in Simplified versus Traditional Chinese”, with @brucelyu17.bsky.social, Jiebo Luo and Jian Kang, revealing 🤖 LLM performance disparities. 📄 Link: arxiv.org/abs/2505.22645 1174
Reposted by dan bateykomichael veale @michae.lv · 23/06/2025I am at FAccT 2025 in Athens, feel free to grab me if you want to chat. 091