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Suresh Venkatasubramanian

@geomblog.bsky.social
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Director, Center for Tech Responsibility@Brown. FAccT OG. AI Bill of Rights coauthor. Former tech advisor to President Biden @WHOSTP. He/him/his. Posts my own.

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 1h
This is a very funny, but also deadly serious reflection on accessibility, platform-independence, and chatbot relationships in the age of AI. By the CNTR Program Manager Meredith Mendola. cntr.brown.edu/news/2026-10...
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On Being Poly-AI-morous
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 3h
You didn't mention the poison that got churned up and how shiva had to rescue the devas and asuras by drinking it :). Seems fitting too
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 15h
AI AI YO #tamilsecrethandshake
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Oh wow. This will raise further questions about the risks of using openai's systems.
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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Renaming my HCAI Lab to the HCSI Lab: Human-Centered Shitposting Intelligence
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Boston University's Morgan Weiland on why reflexively invoking the First Amendment against the Meta settlement is the wrong critique.
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No, the Meta Settlement Isn’t a First Amendment Problem
Drawing on case history, Morgan Weiland pushes back on critics who say the landmark Meta settlement violates the free speech of the company.
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh ffs
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Someone needs to remind them that you can collapse p and pspace that way
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wait if that's the case how is the running time sub n log n
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Stefan Neumann @neumannstefan.com · 07/10/2026
So, the OpenAI results include: - A proof the unique games conjecture - L = RL - Matrix multiplication in n^(9/4) time - Almost-linear-time exact matching - Integer multiplication faster than n log n - Quasipolynomial algorithms for mean-payoff and parity games Overview: github.com/openai/math/...
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math/overview.pdf at main · openai/math
Contribute to openai/math development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wow. This is amazing
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ACM Policy Committees @acmpolicy.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
ACM’s Expanding Regions Technology Policy Committee has submitted comments to the African Union’s Open Consultation on AI Governance and Regulation in Africa. www.acm.org/public-polic... buff.ly/TVu5vDd
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African Union’s Open Consultation on AI Governance and Regulation in Africa
The ACM Africa Subcommittee welcomes the opportunity to respond to the African Union’s Open Consultation on AI Governance and Regulation in Africa. We support an approach to AI governance that is…
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Tackling the challenge of AI will require confronting our broader crisis of governance,” Lina M. Khan writes. “Our democracy cannot surrender the trajectory of these powerful technologies to a handful of private actors.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/30/o...
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Opinion | There Are Plenty of Laws on the Books to Check the A.I. Giants. Use Them.
Government enforcers have the laws and the experience to control A.I.
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Well I'm glad they worked night and day to fix vulnerabilities pre-launch when they affected their OWN systems. I guess the "rogue agents" were more scared of Mark Z than other governments.
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Nobel Prize @nobelprize.org · 05/10/2026
BREAKING NEWS The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
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Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Lady Sif would like a word with our president. iykyk
Super Intelligence Force my ass, says Lady Sif.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 03/10/2026
I for one am elated to see the big AI companies take societal concerns seriously, and commit a fraction of their time and money to assessing the impact of their products. In other news, the Joker promises to dedicate a couple of henchmen to the study of potential side effects of his laughing gas.
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John Palfrey @palfrey.org · 04/10/2026
Please take a moment to read David Robinson's essay in @theatlantic.com this weekend on why he left OpenAI and the cultural issues around risk and safety he observed.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don’t think everyone realizes how bad things are for US science: For the fiscal year that just ended, the Trump regime withheld $1.4 billion from the National Science Foundation’s research budget, which is about 1/5 of its primary research budget.
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress (Gift Article)
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In the Biden administration, l led the team that developed what was arguably the first White House “AI safety” framework, the AI Bill of Rights. David Robinson, author of this forthright and sobering essay about risk culture at OpenAI and in Silicon Valley was on that team.
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I know it's a trend to quit big tech and write a warning note. But this one from David Robinson is worth reading if only because he is much more careful in where he locates the concerns (about culture and industry attitude to safety) www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
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I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken
The industry’s approach to safety will guarantee more failures unless something changes.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 03/10/2026
Brooke Eby, who after being diagnosed with A.L.S. at 33 brought her story to social media with wit and charm, died on Thursday. She was 37.
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Brooke Eby, Who Brought Humor and Awareness to A.L.S., Dies at 37
After her diagnosis in 2022, when she was only 33, she became a vocal, witty advocate for people confronting the disease.
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Ben Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
we @consumerfed.bsky.social are excited to support this well-grounded approach check out more at jayapal.house.gov/2026/10/01/j...
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Jayapal Introduces Legislative Framework Establishing National Charter System to Rein in AI - Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal
SEATTLE, W.A. — U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07) is introducing a new policy framework that reins in artificial intelligence (AI) by requiring every AI company to hold a federal charter to ...
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026
I'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to humanity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Forget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M Bender
The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now this is a red baseball cap I could work with
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EmilyTav @emilytav.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The entire language of an “AI race” is flawed. A race has a finish line. Software doesn’t have a finish line… it’s never done.
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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 01/10/2026
Four years since the AI Bill of Rights under @alondra.bsky.social , 24 hours since Trump announced the AI companies would do "tremendous self-policing." Me:
Red cap with "ALONRA WAS RIGHT ABOUT EVERYTHING"
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I indeed went there and called SI "super silly". www.cnbc.com/video/2026/0...
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Trump's AI pact is voluntary and unenforceable: Former White House tech adviser
Brown University's Suresh Venkatasubramanian, a former Assistant Director at the White House Office of Science and Tech Policy says AI policy should focus on protecting people from current, tangible h...
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
OMG. I don't know how he did it. took him all of 30 seconds.
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
My son thinks it's this: www.benchmade.com/products/916...
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Triage® Blunt-Tip Folding Knife – Tactical Rescue Knife | Benchmade
With the safety-forward design of a blunt-tip blade, the 916SBK Triage® is a tactical rescue knife built for confident response. Features a serrated edge and safety hook. Enjoy free shipping, lifetime...
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Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Get it while it's still cheap!
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angela zhou @angelamczhou.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Anyway, I feel super alive about tiny, tiny smol models
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angela zhou @angelamczhou.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
open source alternatives to Jev are super fun because it's basically just variants of last-layer retraining with an updated pretrained representation that's better at language
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Speaking to @politico.com, D&S board member @geomblog.bsky.social has some advice for lawmakers: "Stop worrying about superintelligence, and start making companies pay for putting out unreliable and error-prone systems that could and have harmed people." www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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5 Questions for Suresh Venkatasubramanian
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I just want to say that a ban on recursion would make algorithms classes way more interesting. Khanna to introduce AI safety bill awaiting technology safeguards share.google/Pj9lsr5Jt3lJ...
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Khanna to introduce AI safety bill with ban on 'recursive' technology until safeguards exist
The proposal joins a chorus of other measures being put forward in Congress as the body mulls how to regulate AI.
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David Brody @dbrody.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Yes, and, the Markey/Clarke AI Civil Rights Act is several years in the making with over 80 endorsements from many major civil rights, consumer, labor, and civil liberties orgs. It is the consensus gold standard bill for the progressive plan to regulate AI.
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
This is exactly right.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.
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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...
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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street
YouTube video by Musk
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dave.linkblog.org @dave.linkblog.org · 25/09/2026
US being left behind in EV charging speeds as China goes sub-5 min to 70%. arstechnica.com
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
When Coxon was suddenly ALL OVER the media, it felt to many like that was because his story deserved that much interest i.e. that the media was doing its job informing the public of an important threat. The wall-to-wall media coverage wasn't organic though, it was orchestrated: >>
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
For a second I thought you were talking about space data centers and the actual atmosphere:)
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I answered 5 questions for @politico.com www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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5 Questions for Suresh Venkatasubramanian
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Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Hearing AI regulation is in the air, especially with a misguided tone of “open dangerous, closed safe” so it felt timely to re-up this one. There are ways to make the AI industry safer without kneecapping transparency, education, and competition. www.interconnects.ai/p/banning-op...
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Banning Open Source AI Would Be A Mistake
This post was originally an op-ed co-authored with Kevin Xu of Interconnected for a general, non-technical audience.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Most people have no idea how much international students are the lifeblood of higher education. But they’re about to learn. Sigh.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
Democracy Now! has now gone from constantly inviting Max Tegmark to platforming people from none other than MIRI. That's right MIRI. Y'all know how bad that is? Do you understand the level to which they are doubling down on the eugenicists?
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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Today is Pub Day for "Data Are Made, Not Found: A Story of Politics, Power, and the Civil Servants Who Saved the US Census"!!! ::bounce:: Please support me by buying a copy of the book or asking your library for a copy! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
missed opportunity to call it SDI: super-duper intelligence
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The group should have instead said that they used an agent swarm to hack the FBI. They might have instead gotten an invitation to speak at the UN Security Council.
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