James Landay @jlanday.bsky.social · 15/07/2025www.sfexaminer.com/news/technol...sfexaminer.comWhy AI likely to change jobs, not kill themExperts say impact could be more modest than some forecast. 091
James Landay @jlanday.bsky.social · 19/06/2025This Friday, I will be speaking at #TNW in Amsterdam about why “AI for Good” isn’t good enough – and what we should be doing instead. Human-centered AI doesn’t mean just user-centered design, but also requires a community- and society-centered approach. @stanfordhai.bsky.social lnkd.in/gxwUxgrA 0202
Reposted by James LandayStanford HAI @stanfordhai.bsky.social · 21/05/2025At today's seminar, Dave Patterson and Andy Konwinski discussed themes from their paper "Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives," arguing that we are still in the early days of practical AI, and that collaborative efforts can guide AI's impact. @jlanday.bsky.social hai.stanford.edu/events/andy-... 192
James Landay @jlanday.bsky.social · 25/05/2025Please reshare! Important piece on science, health, and technology research funding. time.com/7286127/medi...time.comMedical and Scientific Research Makes America GreatThose who care about America's global leadership, should be alarmed by deep funding cuts to the NSF and NIH. 164
James Landay @jlanday.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Check out the great recent PhD grad and uber HCI hacker @jackieyang_ on the last cool piece of his LLM-powered multimodal dev tool! See at #chi2025 at 4:20 in G304! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...dl.acm.orgGenieWizard: Multimodal App Feature Discovery with Large Language Models | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 170
James Landay @jlanday.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Check out this cool paper presentation by star student @mjoerke at #chi2025 on an AI agent that performs a best practices coaching onboarding interview for a creating fitness plan (Motivational interviewing and Active Choices (tm)) now in G304. 150
James Landay @jlanday.bsky.social · 29/04/2025Come see the incredible Nava Haghighi present on a new way to think about the ontologies embedded in LLMs #chi2025 in G303 now (11:10 AM). programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...programs.sigchi.orgConference Programs 2171
James Landay @jlanday.bsky.social · 20/04/2025Just saw this great journalistic theatre at The Marsh in The Mission (SF). Really recommend you see it. 010
Reposted by James LandayStanford HAI @stanfordhai.bsky.social · 04/04/2025"Unlike purely digital AI, robots interact physically with people. Thus, user experience is non-negotiable." HAI Co-Director @jlanday.bsky.social calls for a human-centered approach to designing AI-powered robotics at this week's HAI Spring Conference: hai.stanford.edu/news/stanfor...hai.stanford.eduStanford HAI Conference Explores Robotics in a Human-Centered World: Hype, Hope, and Future Directions | Stanford HAIScholars zeroed in on the need for data, generalization, and better human experience. 031
Reposted by James LandayProPublica @propublica.org · 20/02/2025NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. propub.li/43487Tjpropub.liTexas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban. 525130916986
Reposted by James LandayGovernor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 20/02/2025Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. 23597691520948
James Landay @jlanday.bsky.social · 13/02/2025Test New App to Motivate Physical Activity! @Stanford we are testing a unique app to help motivate you to be physically active. 18 or older, fluent in English & own an iPhone? Take our eligibility survey: bit.ly/physical-act.... Participants must share iPhone health data as part of this 4-week study 081
James Landay @jlanday.bsky.social · 31/01/2025Here are some of the reflections of the @stanfordhai.bsky.social team (including me) on things we heard during our participation in Davos last week. hai.stanford.edu/news/hai-dav...hai.stanford.eduHAI at Davos: Key Insights on AI From the World Economic ForumStanford HAI faculty joined world leaders and policymakers to discuss AI trends, shifting U.S. policy, the future of diversity efforts, and more. 1101
Reposted by James LandaySeth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 06/01/2025Never forget. 384235216917
James Landay @jlanday.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Fun podcast conversation (~20 min) explaining my view on human-centered AI. @stanfordhai.bsky.social "The case for human-centered AI" www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...mckinsey.comThe case for human-centered AIMaximizing generative AI’s promise while minimizing its misuse requires an inclusive approach that puts humans first. 0205
James Landay @jlanday.bsky.social · 18/12/2024If need something to put you to sleep on flights this week, check out this interview I did with @rbaltman.bsky.social on his The Future of Everything podcast. It's a good summary of some of the latest research in my group & at @stanfordhai.bsky.social. engineering.stanford.edu/news/future-...engineering.stanford.eduThe future of AI coachingA computer scientist bringing AI to the classroom and the gym looks ahead to a world where AI coaches help make us smarter … and healthier. 180
Reposted by James LandayEthan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 15/12/2024oh my yes detroithistorical.pastperfectonline.com/archive/DC6A... #labor #TechLabor #LaborHistory #1u 1234
Reposted by James LandayBlake Richards @tyrellturing.bsky.social · 11/12/2024💯 Hallucination is totally the wrong word, implying it is perceiving the world incorrectly. But it's generating false, plausible sounding statements. Confabulation is literally the perfect word. So, let's all please start referring to any junk that an LLM makes up as "confabulations". 1820444
James Landay @jlanday.bsky.social · 03/12/2024Thanks! This was a fun interview with Russ Altman. 0110
Reposted by James LandayKylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 30/11/2024Peter Thiel has been going “democracy is bad because women vote against libertarianism” for like a quarter century and people are still doing this “Silicon Valley was forced right” thing 11988811814
Reposted by James LandayErik Brynjolfsson @erikbryn.bsky.social · 25/11/2024Please come work with me at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab! We're seeking a postdoctoral associate to explore exciting work focused on transformative AI. Accepting applications now. The link is in the next post. 33018
James Landay @jlanday.bsky.social · 25/11/2024We need to bring more GPU compute to academia to have a vibrant academic AI ecosystem. 1222
Reposted by James LandayScott McGrath @smcgrath.phd · 25/11/2024🧪 A global survey of academics reveals limited access to high-end AI tools like Nvidia H100 GPUs (10% access). With 66% dissatisfied, the gap with industry slows AI research and sparks innovation in resource efficiency. 🩺🖥️ #MLSkynature.comAI’s computing gap: academics lack access to powerful chips needed for researchSurvey highlights disparity between academic and industry scientists’ access to computing power needed to train machine-learning models. 2276
Reposted by James LandayMichael Zimmer @michaelzimmer.bsky.social · 19/11/2024I'd like to thank that one student in the corner who nodded along with me all semester. You make it all possible. 421928
Reposted by James LandayChristopher Manning @chrmanning.bsky.social · 21/11/2024Stanford RegLab is hiring predoctoral Research Fellows! The RegLab has been a wonderful place for work spanning from AI ML/NLP/policy to real world impact, successfully working with government organizations. It’s a place to apply technical skills to new areas. www.linkedin.com/posts/reglab...linkedin.comStanford RegLab on LinkedIn: Stanford RegLab is hiring predoctoral Research Fellows! (Round 1 Deadline…Stanford RegLab is hiring predoctoral Research Fellows! (Round 1 Deadline extended to 12/2/24!) Are you interested in using your technical skills to help… 0223
Reposted by James LandayWill Oremus @willoremus.com · 21/11/2024props to @ronanfarrow.bsky.social & the new yorker for crediting @wired.com in the first paragraph for breaking a story he had clearly also been working on. would love to see this become the norm although i doubt it will. 530853
James Landay @jlanday.bsky.social · 18/11/2024Great story featuring Jay McClelland's seminal contributions to Neural Networks. "From Brain to Machine: The Unexpected Journey of Neural Networks" hai.stanford.edu/news/brain-m...hai.stanford.eduFrom Brain to Machine: The Unexpected Journey of Neural NetworksHow early cognitive research funded by the NSF paved the way for today’s AI breakthroughs—and how AI is now inspiring new understandings of the human mind. 0142