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Edgar Duenez-Guzman @eaduenez.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I once hoped discrimination was a dying relic. But what if it's a cognitive "bug"? At #DeepMind, we asked a critical question: Could bias emerge on its own, even in AI without any human social baggage? Our new research in @pnas.org has some startling answers. #AI #Bias #Psychology #CognitiveScience

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Edgar Duenez-Guzman @eaduenez.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Honoured to give a Keynote at Doing AI Differently organised by The Alan Turing Institute, @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, and @ukri.org. "Defending human autonomy in the age of AI enshittification", what I consider to be the single most pressing problem facing humanity. vimeo.com/event/498174...

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Doing AI Differently: London Workshop

An International Initiative Integrating Humanities into the Core of AI Development. Doing AI Differently is led by The Alan Turing Institute, University of Edinburgh…

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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Felipe De La Hoz @felipedlh.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

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Edgar Duenez-Guzman @eaduenez.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Another example of bad AI practices, with a great take from Pluralistic. TL;DR, no, you cannot train an AI Vision model to predict MBA performance from headshots (other than to measure preexisting human bias). pluralistic.net/2025/02/17/c...

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Pluralistic: Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers’ personalities based on their faces (17 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Edgar Duenez-Guzman @eaduenez.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Here's how to save trillions in government spending... Hint, Elon wouldn't like it: prospect.org/economy/2025...

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Edgar Duenez-Guzman @eaduenez.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Fantastic take on... well... rationality, mostly, but specifically about how revolutionaries need to think about consequences of their tearing down the status quo pluralistic.net/2025/01/13/w...

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Pluralistic: They were warned; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 4) (13 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Jane Wang @janexwang.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

A brilliant colleague and wonderful soul Felix Hill recently passed away. This was a shock and in an effort to sort some things out, I wrote them down. Maybe this will help someone else, but at the very least it helped me. Rest in peace, Felix, you will be missed. www.janexwang.com/blog/2025/1/...

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Felix — Jane X. Wang

From the moment I heard him give a talk, I knew I wanted to work with Felix . His ideas about generalization and situatedness made explicit thoughts that had been swirling around in my head, incohe...

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Andrew Lampinen @lampinen.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Felix Hill was such an incredible mentor — and occasional cold water swimming partner — to me. He's a huge part of why I joined DeepMind and how I've come to approach research. Even a month later, it's still hard to believe he's gone.

Felix Hill and some other DMers and I after cold water swimming at Parliament Hill Lido a few years ago

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Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

For Maths fans, 2025 is a square. 45² = 45 x 45 = 2025 Also, 9² x 5² = 2025 40² + 20² + 5² = 2025 My favourite? 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025 #Mathematics #teaching #education

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.

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Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

OpenAI whistleblower Suchir is dead. His mother has reasons to suspect foul play, below. I hope that SFPD will reinvestigate. His parents deserve justice, and given how central Suchir was to upcoming legal cases with hundreds of billions of dollars at stake, the world deserves answers.

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Edgar Duenez-Guzman @eaduenez.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

In collective intelligence smarter units are not always better: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... For AI the lesson is that just making AIs more intelligent isn't necessarily going to make them better tools (or companions, or assistants)

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Comparing cooperative geometric puzzle solving in ants versus humans | PNAS

Biological ensembles use collective intelligence to tackle challenges together, but suboptimal coordination can undermine the effectiveness of grou...

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Science Magazine @science.org · 17/12/2024

Breaking news: A 2020 paper that sparked widespread enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine as a #COVID19 treatment has been retracted, following campaigning by scientists who alleged the research contained major scientific flaws and may have breached ethics regulations. scim.ag/4iR9bQ6

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Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted

Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds

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Edgar Duenez-Guzman @eaduenez.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Advice for budding AI researchers: read a paper every week. It almost doesn't matter which paper. The goal is not to know the whole field (that's impossible), but to get very comfortable quickly understanding what an article is about and evaluate it's contribution in the context of the field.

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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

I love this.

A restaurant board sign that reads: “we are not all in the same boat. We are in the same storm. Some have yachts. Some have canoes. And some are drowning. Just be kind and help when you can.

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Edgar Duenez-Guzman @eaduenez.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Anyone knows how to quickly follow back people who follow me? Bonus points if there's a way to do it by having some profile information alongside the decision point. I find it hard to just click on every person one by one, look at their profile, decide, and go back.

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Edgar Duenez-Guzman @eaduenez.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

What are the best examples of AI products that are trying to explicitly empower humans? Maybe search, maybe codegen? I think most use-cases are (actually) empowering corporations, and that worries me.

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Edgar Duenez-Guzman @eaduenez.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I cannot be the only one using peer review to keep up to date with research, right?

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Edgar Duenez-Guzman @eaduenez.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

It's great to see so many fantastic people here, but why does it still feel like doomscrolling? 🫠

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Edgar Duenez-Guzman @eaduenez.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Fantastic take on the role of power mediating corporate and user interests: pluralistic.net/2024/11/07/u...

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Yoshitomo Matsubara @yoshitomo-matsubara.net · 21/11/2024

Here is a list of ML OSS & Open Source / Science enthusiasts I found on Bluesky 🦋 go.bsky.app/8MFcfXd Let me know if you find such people here! I'm still new here and probably the list misses many must-add people, so let's built it together💪

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

The RL (and some non-RL folks) starter pack is almost full. Pretty clear that the academic move here has succeeded go.bsky.app/3WPHcHg

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