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Emtiyaz Khan

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Team leader (tenured) at RIKEN AIP. Opinions my own. emtiyaz.github.io 🌉 bridged from mastodon.social/@emtiyaz on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy

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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026
I recently moved to TU Darmstadt (Germany) and am currently hiring PhD student through ELISS. ellis.eu/news/ellis-phd-program-cal… If you interested, please apply and choose me as a potential advisor. Topics include Continual/Distributed/Federated/Active/Transparent […]
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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 06/07/2026
Super fun to be on a career advice panel at the KAIST ICML event! With so many lovely folks (Hsuan-Tien Lin, Niloofar Mireshghallah, Yoon Kim, @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy, moderated by @hyunwoo-kim.bsky.social). TY @aliceatkaist.bsky.social & others for organizing! Only 1 more day in Seoul🥲
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/06/2026
We are near Mount Fuji for our yearly Bayes-duality retreat.
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/04/2026
Announcing the CATS workshop #ICML2026! Continual AdapTation at Scale: Towards Sustainable AI cats-icml.github.io Let's enable fast, continual adaptation to drive more sustainable AI! 🗓️ Deadline: April 30, 2026 🔍 Key Topics - Scale & Efficiency - Lifecycle & Alignment - […]
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/03/2026
Not a news to many, but I will be starting as a professor (W3) at TU Darmstadt in June 2026 and setup another branch of our Adaptive Intelligence group. Our group in Tokyo at RIKEN AIP will continue as it is. So if you are visiting Japan, still welcome to visit us! Also, I am hiring! Please […]
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/03/2026
“TikTok and Meta risked safety to win algorithm arms race, whistleblowers say” www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqj9kgxqj…
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TikTok and Meta risked safety to win algorithm arms race, whistleblowers say
Companies allowed more harmful content on user’s feeds, knowing their algorithms ran on outrage, BBC hears.
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/03/2026
4 postdoc positions are available at TU Darmstadt and Centre for Excellence on Reasonable AI. I am part of the Active AI group. Please help me spread the word. Description: hessian.ai/projects/reasonable-ai-r… Application portal: www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darms…
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/02/2026
“The President also called Anthropic "woke" and accused it of being an "out-of-control, Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about".” “Trump [posted] that Anthropic "better get their act together, and be helpful during this phase out period, or I […]
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Joseph Salmon @josephsalmon.sigmoid.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/02/2026
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‘Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge’: the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for six weeks
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’When Karen Newton left...
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/02/2026
AI used by governments to distort the reality. Are we proud of our scientific achievements now that it has lead to a world where truth can be so easily distorted? www.bbc.com/news/videos/c86v6p1djvqo
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ICE protester speaks out after White House shared fake arrest image
The White House posted an edited image of Nekima Levy Armstrong after she was arrested for organising a protest in a church.
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/01/2026
“democracy, the rule of law, accountable government are not naturally occurring phenomena; they are not even, historically speaking, normal. They have to be fought for, built, sustained, defended.” This article argues that Europe,Canada and other middle powers are finally facing the American […]
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Pierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Reminder: journal-to-conference track at AISTATS
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/01/2026
“Cold weather and data centres drive up US greenhouse gas emissions” Data centers. Fuck. www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9r3832j…
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Cold and data centres drive up US greenhouse gas emissions
US emissions of planet-warming gases rise for the first time in three years.
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/01/2026
“'How do we look Indian?': Student's killing puts spotlight on racism in India” “the discrimination extends beyond abuse to everyday barriers that shape where and how they live. People from the region report difficulty renting accommodation, with landlords refusing tenants because of their […]
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/12/2025
“US could ask foreign tourists for five-year social media history before entry” www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1dz0g2yk…
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US could ask tourists for five-year social media history before entry
The plan would affect people from countries, including the UK, which can fill out a form in lieu of a visa.
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/12/2025
Sunrise in Copenhagen (before EurIPS starts).
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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 25/11/2025
TMLR (@tmlrorg.bsky.social) is now proud to support interactive HTML-based submissions, going "Beyond PDF" -- check it out! Thanks to Paul Vicol (@paulvicol.bsky.social) for his tireless work on this new option, as well as the OpenReview team.
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/11/2025
“Prof LeCun has suggested LLMs will be less useful to match human intelligence. Instead, he wants to pursue what he called "advanced machine intelligence". (Which tries) to replicate how a child or a baby animal learns.” I agree with LeCun and this is the kind of work we do in our lab, and […]
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/11/2025
“The latest case marks the first use of generative AI in such scams within Mie Prefecture. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications' Information and Communications in Japan White Paper 2024, the use of generative AI in crimes is increasing. It has reportedly become easy […]
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/11/2025
“‘No idea who he is,' says Trump after pardoning crypto tycoon” www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7ek63e5…
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/11/2025
“During the award presentation ceremony, Fukaya said he was "very happy to know that our work is understood and appreciated," noting that he usually works alone and that those around him often do not understand what he is working on.” […]
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/10/2025
I have not announced it widely but I will be starting a professorship in TU Darmstadt (Germany) next year. I will start accepting PhD students from Sep 2026 (but I will keep my group and position in Tokyo as well). Here is a first call for PhD positions at our new Center of Excellence at TUDa […]
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2025
An article in today’s newspaper that points to the issues in the way AI usage is promoted in Japan. Without much understanding of the technology, society is doomed to be negatively affected. The copyright law of 2018 was a poor decision imo that could be […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2025
A bunch of interviews by Jon Stewart on The Daiky Show. The interviewees are not always saying accurate things (except Carole Cadwalladr who is absolutely amazing) but questions by Jon Stewart are always to the point. It is worth watching the whole thing. m.youtube.com/watch?v=eR5x7CArfT4
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2025
“'Don't bring in foreign culture': Outburst on train leaves Nepali man in Japan fearful” mainichi.jp/english/articles/202510…
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2025
“'It's going to be really bad': Fears over AI bubble bursting grow in Silicon Valley” www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz69qy760…
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A tangled web of deals stokes AI bubble fears in Silicon Valley
Some are worried that the rapid rise in the value of AI tech companies may be a bubble waiting to burst.
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2025
“Much of the rapid growth in the stock market in recent years has been driven by investment in AI. On Wednesday, the Bank of England drew a comparison with the dotcom boom (and subsequent bust) of the late 1990s - and warned that the value of AI tech companies "appear stretched" with a rising […]
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2025
Today (September): “Trump will reportedly link pain reliever Tylenol to autism - but many experts are sceptical” April: “RFK Jr pledges to find the cause of autism by September” Made up result for submission deadline? www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj0z9nmzv… […]
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 20/09/2025
Fear, anger, hatred spread through social media by authoritarian regimes to control people and stay in power. AI is their next weapon I am sure, but can we do better this time? This is a wonderful interview to watch m.youtube.com/watch?v=Tsb1I7hqaJ4&p…
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Pierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
The Journal-to-Conference track is back at AISTATS🌴! See you in Morocco next year 😊 virtual.aistats.org/Conferences/...
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Call for Journal-to-Conference Track
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025
“Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites” www.bbc.com/news/articles/cm2zy4l8j… BBC “emailed Infidels MC for comment. In response, Mr Mulford instructed fellow leaders of the biker gang not to reply but included the BBC when he clicked "reply all" - […]
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025
We held the Bayes-Duality workshop in June 2025. The videos are now available here. bayesduality.github.io/talks_2025.h… I also wrote a paper and gave a talk recently on Posterior Correction which is the accumulation of 5-6 years of work. Here are […] [Original post on mastodon.social]
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2025
The strange history of the anti-vaccine movement www.bbc.com/future/article/20250905…
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2025
“Confronting climate change and conspiracy theories requires persistence, says Lewandowsky. "It's not the kind of thing that you can do over a single dinner conversation."” www.bbc.com/future/article/20250904…
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How eating insects became a conspiracy theory
Insect protein is healthy and sustainable. But now it is also at the centre of a far-reaching conspiracy theory.
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2025
"Our future is no longer science fiction," she said. "During this primitive stage, it is our duty to treat AI as we would our own children – empowering, but with watchful guidance." www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn82lp7y3… Yes I have been raising my Bayesian logistic regression as my own […]
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2025
It has become everyday news. “BBC reveals web of spammers profiting from AI Holocaust images” “The BBC has tracked many of these images to the accounts of a network of Pakistan-based content creators who collaborate closely on how to make money on Facebook. “Mr Rahman said a Facebook page […]
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2025
CW: this article talks about suicide. “Parents of teenager who took his own life sue OpenAI” “They accuse OpenAI of designing the AI programme "to foster psychological dependency in users," and of bypassing safety testing protocols to release GPT-4o, the version of ChatGPT used by their son.” […]
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/08/2025
“YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality” www.bbc.com/future/article/20250822…
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2025
Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results "Our technology doesn't even tell us what it's doing with our data, and that's a problem," www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdrkmk00j…
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Hundreds of thousands of Grok chats exposed in Google results
Elon Musk's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot appears to have published messages without users' knowledge.
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/08/2025
"Tesla designed Autopilot only for controlled-access highways yet deliberately chose not to restrict drivers from using it elsewhere, alongside Elon Musk telling the world Autopilot drove better than humans," said attorney Brett Schreiber in a statement to the BBC […]
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/07/2025
AISTATS 2026 will be in Morocco!
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/07/2025
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Babydoll Archi: Indian woman’s identity stolen for erotic AI content in deepfake deception
Babydoll Archi became an Instagram sensation. And then police arrested its creator.
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/07/2025
“The Pentagon also announced awarding similar contracts to Anthropic, Google and OpenAI - each with a $200m ceiling.” www.bbc.com/news/articles/c628d9mre…
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Musk's Grok signs $200m deal with Pentagon just days after antisemitism row
The deal is part of the Trump administration's push for more aggressive adoption of artificial intelligence in the government.
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/07/2025
Japan may not be a welcoming place for overseas students in the near future. I hope they do not do this to themselves because it hurts Japan the most. mainichi.jp/english/articles/202507…
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Cut to foreign PhD student support deals blow to Japanese academia - The Mainichi
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japanese government's plan to end financial support for foreign doctoral students has drawn criticism from students and academics
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/07/2025
Careless building of data centric tech leaves less room for natural life www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8gy7lv4…
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'I can't drink the water' - life next to a US data centre
Residents in rural Georgia say the data centre next door has disrupted their water supply.
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/06/2025
“A key feature of the next-generation store is its 14 AI cameras installed throughout the shop. These cameras analyze customer behavior in front of product shelves and display suggestions for recommended items. For example, if a customer picks up a dessert, the AI recognizes the action and […]
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Emtiyaz Khan @emtiyaz.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/11/2022
Who am I, and why am I here? #introduction I am a machine learning researcher, using tools from #Bayes, #stats, #optimization, #informationgeometry, #deeplearning, signal processing, etc. I care deeply about people, their well-being, inclusion, diversity, equity, privacy, and justice. I […]
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