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Giada Pistilli

@giadapistilli.com
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Philosopher in tech, currently at Mistral AI. Doctor of talking machines, now teaching them good behavior.

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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 04/11/2025
I notice that a journalist picked up the info and that many of you are keen to let me know how much you don't give a shit -- okay! I took screenshots of the most absurd blocklists and not all of them, but I'm not here to explain who I am for the umpteenth time because, again, who cares?
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 03/11/2025
I really wanted this social network to work for me. But apparently, I’m on the worst block lists out there… a bit unfair. If you are interested in my research, follow me on LinkedIn.
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 30/10/2025
Il mio nuovo op-ed su @wired.com parte da un dato inquietante: milioni di persone oggi confidano le proprie crisi emotive all’intelligenza artificiale. Non perché la credano umana. Ma perché non trovano alternative umane disponibili.
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ChatGPT e la società del conforto artificiale. L'AI sta diventando il nuovo specchio della solitudine
Dopo l'ammissione da parte di OpenAI che una parte di utenti confida al suo chatbot segni di gravi disturbi e attaccamenti emotivi, emerge ancora più chiaramente il problema dell'attaccamento a questi...
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 28/10/2025
Join the @ellisinstitute.fi Scientific Seminar in Espoo 🇫🇮 on Nov 18: a landmark event uniting research, industry and policy. Speakers: @giadapistilli.com, Kyunghyun Cho, @ericmalmi.bsky.social, @serge.belongie.com, Max Welling, @lrlaurahy.bsky.social 🔗 www.ellisinstitute.fi/launch-seminar
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ELLIS Institute Finland Scientific Seminar | ELLIS Institute Finland
ELLIS Institute Finland scientific seminar on 18 Nov
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Christopher Akiki @cakiki.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Map of the internet: 1.3M nodes (BGP)
organic looking graph of the BGP nodes of the internet. black and white
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 15/10/2025
What if your most personal chat logs became the next source of ad data? @frimelle.bsky.social and I wrote an op-ed for @techpolicypress.bsky.social We look at what happens when generative AI conversations (the ones we treat as private) are turned into raw material for targeted advertising.
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Before AI Exploits Our Chats, Let’s Learn from Social Media Mistakes | TechPolicy.Press
Privacy in the age of conversational AI is a governance choice, write Hugging Face's Lucie-Aimé Kaffee and Giada Pistilli.
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 09/10/2025
🌎 AI ethics and sustainability are two sides of the same coin. In our new blog post with @sashamtl.bsky.social, we argue that separating them (as is too often the case) means missing the bigger picture of how AI systems impact both people and the planet.
huggingface.co
Ethics + Sustainability = Responsible AI
A Blog post by Sasha Luccioni on Hugging Face
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 09/10/2025
À tout à l’heure !
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 29/09/2025
One of the hardest challenges in AI safety is finding the right balance: how do we protect people from harm without undermining their agency? This tension is especially visible in conversational systems, where safeguards can sometimes feel more paternalistic than supportive.
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 01/09/2025
I've noticed something. While we're careful about what we post on social media, we're sharing our deepest and most intimate thoughts with AI chatbots -- health concerns, financial worries, relationship issues, business ideas... huggingface.co/blog/giadap/...
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Advertisement, Privacy, and Intimacy: Lessons from Social Media for Conversational AI
A Blog post by Giada Pistilli on Hugging Face
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 28/08/2025
With @frimelle.bsky.social and @yjernite.bsky.social, we released the AI Companionship Leaderboard on @hf.co to see how models handle connection, intimacy, and vulnerability. huggingface.co/spaces/frime...
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Companionship Leaderboard - a Hugging Face Space by frimelle
Browse and analyze benchmark data for different language models. View metrics like Average, Assistant Traits, and Emotional Investment. Customize the columns to display and search for specific models.
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Questions du soir @questionsdusoir.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
L’IA va-t-elle bouleverser l’enseignement et la place des professeurs ? Hier à 18h20 sur @franceculture.fr, @quentinlafay.bsky.social recevait @ccailleaux.bsky.social‬, professeur d’histoire, @giadapistilli.com, spécialiste de l’éthique en IA et Orianne Ledroit, DG d’EdTech France
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L’IA va-t-elle bouleverser l’enseignement et la place des professeurs ?
À quelques jours de la rentrée scolaire, Elisabeth Borne a annoncé mardi 26 août 2025, la mise en place d’une intelligence artificielle pour « accompagner les professeurs dans leur métier ».
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 25/08/2025
🚨 Releasing INTIMA (Interactions and Machine Attachment Benchmark): an evaluation framework for measuring how AI systems handle companionship-seeking behaviors. huggingface.co/papers/2508.... Thread on what we discovered, together with @frimelle.bsky.social and @yjernite.bsky.social
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Paper page - INTIMA: A Benchmark for Human-AI Companionship Behavior
Join the discussion on this paper page
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 25/08/2025
🚨 Releasing INTIMA (Interactions and Machine Attachment Benchmark): an evaluation framework for measuring how AI systems handle companionship-seeking behaviors. huggingface.co/papers/2508.... Thread on what we discovered, together with @frimelle.bsky.social and @yjernite.bsky.social
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Paper page - INTIMA: A Benchmark for Human-AI Companionship Behavior
Join the discussion on this paper page
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 29/07/2025
From Replika to everyday chatbots, people form emotional bonds with AI. But what happens when an AI tells you "I understand how you feel" and you actually believe it? With @frimelle.bsky.social and @yjernite.bsky.social, we dug into something: how AI systems handle our emotional lives.
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AI Companionship: Why We Need to Evaluate How AI Systems Handle Emotional Bonds
A Blog post by Giada Pistilli on Hugging Face
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Dr Sasha Luccioni @sashamtl.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I am so grateful that this paper is out! It so eloquently describes so many of the issues I've seen with a lot of AGI experimentation that concludes that LLMs are scheming, ill-intentioned, or malicious, and the chimp language metaphor is the cherry on the cake 🍰 arxiv.org/abs/2507.03409
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Lessons from a Chimp: AI "Scheming" and the Quest for Ape Language
We examine recent research that asks whether current AI systems may be developing a capacity for "scheming" (covertly and strategically pursuing misaligned goals). We compare current research practice...
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 08/07/2025
I've been posting bits about this research, but now: new paper alert! 🚨 My colleague @brunatrevelin.bsky.social and I just shared research on why traditional consent frameworks are breaking down in AI contexts.
huggingface.co
Can AI Be Consentful? Rethinking Permission in the Age of Synthetic Everything
A Blog post by Giada Pistilli on Hugging Face
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 07/07/2025
AI is making everyone on dating apps sound charming. But is it still you talking? When we start outsourcing our most intimate expressions, we risk losing authenticity. I spoke to @washingtonpost.com about the rise of chatbots in dating and why it may feel good, but erodes emotional honesty.
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‘It’s almost like we never even spoke’: AI is making everyone on dating apps sound charming
Dating apps say AI can help people who are too busy, shy or abrasive to win dates. But a growing number of singles are finding that AI makes dating more complicated.
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Laurent Trastour @laftrastour.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Avec @natachatriou.bsky.social - est-elle cyborg?- et la @sciencecqfd.bsky.social , faites un vrai tour d'horizon de l'#IA : à quand de l'IA faible à l'IA générale, qui pourrait surpasser l'humain ? avec @quecalcoatle.bsky.social @giadapistilli.com #AxelCypel de vrais humanoïdes !
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De l'IA faible à l'IA forte : la paranoïa : épisode 3/5 du podcast IA, technosciences, demain leur appartient
AUDIO • IA, technosciences, demain leur appartient, épisode 3/5 : De l'IA faible à l'IA forte : la paranoïa. Une série inédite proposée par France Culture. Écoutez La Science, CQFD, et découvrez nos p...
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La Science, CQFD @sciencecqfd.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
[RDV 16h !] L’IA générale, qui pourrait surpasser l'humain, fait couler beaucoup d’encre. Il paraît même que c’est pour cette année : toutefois, a-t-on une définition commune de ce qu’elle pourrait être ? tinyurl.com/28b32lpm avec @quecalcoatle.bsky.social, @giadapistilli.com et Axel Cypel
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 30/06/2025
Hi! I’ll be in London July 9–11. Who’s around to chat about current AI research?
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Riccardo Fusaroli @fusaroli.eurosky.social · 27/06/2025
LM/ML models are being developed to detect neurodev & psychiatric conditions from speech. Are we building the right things? What are we overlooking? We built a framework rooted in ethics & real-world needs: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI... w @rockberta.bsky.social @giadapistilli.com Maheswari 1/
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 20/06/2025
🗣️ Whose voice do we hear when AI speaks? Every language carries its own cultural values and worldviews. So, when we build AI systems, we're not just deciding how they speak but also whose perspectives they represent. huggingface.co/blog/giadap/...
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Whose Voice Do We Hear When AI Speaks?
A Blog post by Giada Pistilli on Hugging Face
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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
The sycophancy problem in one line, courtesy of @giadapistilli.com Really interesting piece by @melissahei.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/72aa...
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 06/06/2025
Have some of you researched why LLMs tend to give themselves "astral names"? Like Nova, Luna, Sol... I've seen this across different closed and open-weight models and scenarios.
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 07/05/2025
Ever notice how some AI assistants feel like tools while others feel like companions? Turns out, it's not always about fancy tech upgrades, because sometimes it's just clever design. huggingface.co/blog/giadap/...
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AI Personas: The Impact of Design Choices
A Blog post by Giada Pistilli on Hugging Face
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 07/05/2025
Ever notice how some AI assistants feel like tools while others feel like companions? Turns out, it's not always about fancy tech upgrades, because sometimes it's just clever design. huggingface.co/blog/giadap/...
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AI Personas: The Impact of Design Choices
A Blog post by Giada Pistilli on Hugging Face
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 24/04/2025
Very proud of this work led by my amazing colleague @mmitchell.bsky.social! Read her interview for Wired here: www.wired.com/story/ai-bia...
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AI Is Spreading Old Stereotypes to New Languages and Cultures
Margaret Mitchell, an AI ethics researcher at Hugging Face, tells WIRED about a new dataset designed to test AI models for bias in multiple languages.
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 18/04/2025
I spoke to @washingtonpost.com about how bad actors are "grooming" LLMs with disinformation. Most chatbots struggle with disinformation, which worsens with search-augmented systems prioritizing recent information. The more real-time these models become, the more vulnerable they are to manipulation.
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Russia seeds chatbots with lies. Any bad actor could game AI the same way.
In their race to push out new versions with more capability, AI companies leave users vulnerable to “LLM grooming” efforts that promote bogus information.
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 17/04/2025
🤗 New from us! Just published a blog post exploring how we're rethinking consent in the AI ecosystem. Here's what we're seeing in the @hf.co Hub that differs from traditional closed systems...
huggingface.co
Consent by Design: Approaches to User Data in Open AI Ecosystems
A Blog post by Giada Pistilli on Hugging Face
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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
If part of what it means to have a good life is to have control over your life, self-governance, or what philosophers call autonomy, then giving up control to AI by definition is worsening our lives, lessening our chances of having a good life. #AIEthics www.technologyreview.com/2025/03/24/1...
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Why handing over total control to AI agents would be a huge mistake
When AI systems can control multiple sources simultaneously, the potential for harm explodes. We need to keep humans in the loop.
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Dr Sasha Luccioni @sashamtl.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
In our new paper, @giadapistilli.com, Nyalleng Moorosi, @raesetje.bsky.social and I talk about the intereconnectedness of ethics and sustainability in AI and propose ways to think and act on making AI more sustainable and socially-beneficial. 🌍 💻 🌱 Check it out here! arxiv.org/abs/2504.00797
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Bridging the Gap: Integrating Ethics and Environmental Sustainability in AI Research and Practice
As the possibilities for Artificial Intelligence (AI) have grown, so have concerns regarding its impacts on society and the environment. However, these issues are often raised separately; i.e. carbon ...
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Dr Sasha Luccioni @sashamtl.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Discussions around AI ethics and sustainability tend to happen in different circles, with different people and from different perspectives... but what if we had these important conversations together? 🤝
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 01/04/2025
People out there are turning chatbots into their companions and talking love to them; meanwhile, here I am, mistreating Claude when my code breaks.
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 31/03/2025
🌶️ New paper alert! Just published with @stepalminteri.bsky.social on cognitive biases in LLM discourse. Whether you think we're approaching AGI or LLMs are just "fancy autocomplete," your position likely stems from psychological biases. osf.io/preprints/ps...
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Bob E Hayes @bobehayes.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Why handing over total control to #AI agents would be a huge mistake | @Technologyreview.com "The very feature being sold—reduced human oversight—is the primary vulnerability." ~ @mmitchell.bsky.social @evijit.io @sashamtl.bsky.social and @giadapistilli.com www.technologyreview... #GenerativeAI
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Yacine Jernite @yjernite.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I cannot overstate how impressed I am by my colleague @giadapistilli.com's writing on digital consent in the age of AI She just published a fantastic blog post on the topic, which is by far the best piece I've seen in a while outlining the breadth of the issue, must-read 🙌 hf.co/blog/giadap/...
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I Clicked “I Agree”, But What Am I Really Consenting To?
A Blog post by Giada Pistilli on Hugging Face
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Florent Daudens @fdaudens.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Crucial question by @giadapistilli.com: Is meaningful consent even possible in the age of AI? Check out her blog post: huggingface.co/blog/giadap/...
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I Clicked “I Agree”, But What Am I Really Consenting To?
A Blog post by Giada Pistilli on Hugging Face
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 26/03/2025
We've all become experts at clicking "I agree" without a second thought. In my latest blog post available on @hf.co, I explore why these traditional consent models are increasingly problematic in the age of generative AI.
huggingface.co
I Clicked “I Agree”, But What Am I Really Consenting To?
A Blog post by Giada Pistilli on Hugging Face
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 24/03/2025
Excited to share our latest piece on the double-edged sword of AI agents published in @technologyreview.com 🤖 It builds on our research paper that's been making waves lately -- pretty cool to see all the attention it's getting!
technologyreview.com
Why handing over total control to AI agents would be a huge mistake
When AI systems can control multiple sources simultaneously, the potential for harm explodes. We need to keep humans in the loop.
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Yacine Jernite @yjernite.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
...we know approaches that put transparency and collaboration first do just that 👀📚🤝 Time to revisit our AI Act comment in that direction with @openfuture.bsky.social @eleutherai.bsky.social @creativecommons.bsky.social @github.com: hf.co/blog/eu-ai-a... And for more Open-R1: hf.co/blog/open-r1...
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Open R1: Update #3
A Blog post by Open R1 on Hugging Face
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Yacine Jernite @yjernite.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Amazing work from HF colleagues that's super relevant to AI policy - open development matches "frontier" performance 🤗 For policymakers, it means we need regulation that works for both open and closed model - not closed-first that disproportionately harms open! Good news is... 1/2
A graph comparing the performance of different AI systems on a benchmark derived from the Informatics Olympiads, showing an open Hugging Face model coming third ahead of DeepSeek-R1 and Claude-3.7 Sonnet
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
🤖 (🤗+🐸 )=✅ I am always stoked to share how the tech world operationalizes ethical values, and I get to do that today. 🥳 @hf.co and JFrog have partnered to certify models for security and safety. This also moves forward AI *trustworthiness* and provides another form of AI *transparency*. More later!
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JFrog and Hugging Face Team to Improve Machine Learning Security and Transparency for Developers
JFrog Ltd (Nasdaq: FROG), the Liquid Software company and creators of the JFrog Software Supply Chain Platform, today announced it is partnering with
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 03/03/2025
🎙️ Ho registrato un podcast sull'etica dell'intelligenza artificiale in italiano! Parliamo di dati sintetici, open source, agenti conversazionali, impatto ambientale... Praticamente un crash course su Crash Talk. Grazie a @adsignorelli.bsky.social! open.spotify.com/episode/4dmH...
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CRASH TALK – L'etica dell'intelligenza artificiale (con Giada Pistilli)
CRASH – La chiave per il digitale · Episode
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 10/02/2025
Dans un segment pour l'émission "En société" diffusé hier sur France 5, nous avons retracé l'histoire du domaine de l'intelligence artificielle. Au-delà de la chronologie, une question fondamentale a émergé : si l'IA peut surpasser l'humain dans certaines tâches, quelle est notre valeur ajoutée ?
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Avijit Ghosh @evijit.io · 06/02/2025
Position: Fully Autonomous AI Agents Should Not be Developed New paper with @mmitchell.bsky.social , @sashamtl.bsky.social and @giadapistilli.com Do read the full paper, but I wanted to do a summary thread to talk about what we did :)
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Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Analyzing the ethics and risks of autonomous agents is crucial. Thank you for your insightful work @mmitchell.bsky.social @evijit.io @sashamtl.bsky.social @giadapistilli.com
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 06/02/2025
I am at the @iaseai.bsky.social at the @oecd-ocde.bsky.social today and tomorrow — drop me a message if you want to chat 🤗
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
New piece out! We explain why Fully Autonomous Agents Should Not be Developed, breaking “AI Agent” down into its components & examining through ethical values. With @evijit.io, @giadapistilli.com and @sashamtl.bsky.social huggingface.co/papers/2502....
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Paper page - Fully Autonomous AI Agents Should Not be Developed
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Giada Pistilli @giadapistilli.com · 04/02/2025
From ancient medical ethics to modern AI challenges, the journey of consent represents one of humanity's most fascinating ethical evolutions. In my latest blog post, I explore how we've moved from medical paternalism to a new frontier where AI capabilities force us to rethink consent.
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From Hippocrates to AI: Reflections on the Evolution of Consent
A Blog post by Giada Pistilli on Hugging Face
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