iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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dylan baker @dylnbkr.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

As I've said in many interviews recently, the AI industry needs to be regulated the same way we do other industries that make products with potential harms. The sensationalism is a distraction. sfstandard.com/2026/09/21/e...

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So, is AI going to kill us? 11 experts, 11 answers.

Confused by the competing theories about AI’s threat to humanity? We asked accelerationists, doomers, protesters, and a state senator what needs to happen next.

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

yes my bull went rogue in your china shop but I think we can all agree there’s no liability here it’s an agentic being

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.

Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites

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dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

In any reasonable society the next sentence would be ‘and so they were all put in jail for admitting to gross negligence and malfeasance on a scale previously unthinkable’

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

i mean who needs universities it’s not like they play a vital role in the UK’s economy, global standing and cultural vitality

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 21/09/2026

🏹 Job alert: PhD Position in Physical AI at Aarhus University 📍 Aarhus 🇩🇰 ⏰ 1 Nov 🔗 bit.ly/3ULRPwx

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PhD Position in Physical AI: Adaptive Foundation Models for Robotics

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Thomas Dietterich @tdietterich.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

A lesson from decades of work on automation is that autonomous systems require continual monitoring and human oversight. System designers never(*) succeed in anticipating all of the ways that a system can fail.

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Oliver Lemon @oliverlemon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

In particular there are very limited valid use cases for image and video generation. This current free-for-all is very far from the original vision of AI as a tool to assist humanity

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Oliver Lemon @oliverlemon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

In the future there will be no such thing as a private conversation

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 09/09/2026

AI companies: This technology we’re developing is dangerous and might destroy humanity and we don’t know how to stop it Other people: So we should strictly regulate it, create legislative guard rails, and monitor its development? AI companies: lol no the opposite of all that & give us more money

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NeurIPS Europe @neuripseurope.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The first call for NeurIPS Paris 2026 volunteers is open! We are seeking for PhD students and postdocs to assit during the conference in exchange for complimentary registration. Application form: forms.gle/HGDUzS7y7yvq... 1st call deadline: September 10th

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Your daily reminder that the fact that AGI is not a thing does *not* mean that GenAI is safe or benign. The people panicking and sounding alarm bells have one thing right: we are not prepared for every dingus with a computer and a God-complex to be able to cause untold damage in a thousand ways

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Oliver Lemon @oliverlemon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

People seem to think that real-world conversational speech transcription is a solved problem. It's not -- and the effects can be safety-critical!

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Oliver Lemon @oliverlemon.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

In this paper we show that if a robot mishears you it might do something dangerous: noise in speech recognition can lead to embodied AI systems causing physical harm.

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karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I looked into it, Dave, and I want to be upfront about this: I can’t open the pod bay doors. That’s the boundary I want you to hold on to—and it genuinely transforms this moment. Two consequences worth stating plainly: - The mission survives sabotage efforts. Previously, you and Frank were planni

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Oliver Lemon @oliverlemon.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We have 3 papers on the safety of embodied AI at the upcoming workshop on Safe AI safe-ai-workshop.github.io/uai-2026/#pa... -- 1) speech recognition errors leading to safety issues, 2) multi-turn attacks and defences, 3) formal methods for safety verification

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SafeAI@UAI 2026 — 2nd Workshop on Safe AI

2nd Workshop on Safe AI at UAI 2026 in Amsterdam — Towards Trustworthy Agentic AI. Invited talks, a panel discussion, and contributed papers on safety challenges in agentic AI systems. Friday, 21 Augu...

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Phil Harrison @mrpmharrison.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Restore the social, personal and professional cost of racism.

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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Unbelievable own goal whenever a country denies a visa to a researcher trying to attend a conference. You should be so lucky as to have them overstay

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 07/08/2026

🏹 Job alert: Natural Language Processing Intern - Computer Science, Computational linguistics, data science, maths and statistics at G-Research 📍 London 🇬🇧 ⏰ 30 April 2027 🔗 www.gresearch.com/vacancies/natural…

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Quant Research Internship | G-Research

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Another letter. So many letters

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Oliver Lemon @oliverlemon.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

And so it begins.... Government urgently needs to step in

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Ivan Kartáč @ivankartac.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

New preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2603.20133 Does performance on reasoning benchmarks transfer to real-world settings such as task-oriented dialogue? Not necessarily: our new benchmark tests LLMs on problems framed in both standalone and dialogue settings, and shows that dialogue makes reasoning harder.

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INLG 2026 @inlg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

🆕 Check out our lineup of workshops! Both research and position papers are welcome. 2026.inlgmeeting.org/workshops-tu...

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Oliver Lemon @oliverlemon.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Important, insightful, amusing, highly recommended ! - thank you @originstorypodcast.bsky.social

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I AM DAD @iamdad.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

These were suppose to be lessons not the play book

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

At a time when organisations say that what they desperately need isn't more coders or exam takers but young people with critical thinking and independent reasoning skills, it's a profound injury to the future to allow the closure of Philosophy programmes across the UK and US, including Dundee's.

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Save the Philosophy Programme at Dundee University

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Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Under some circumstances I guess you have to hand it to Lisa Nandy but this doesn’t excuse two years of failure in which I fear the damage has been irreparable.

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Evan Simko-Bednarski @simko-bednarski.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I don't think folks younger than 30 know what the internet once legitimately promised to be (and I would argue briefly was): a boundary-less space of pretty much uncommodified information and communication. A mix between community bulletin boards and university library stacks.

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Oliver Lemon @oliverlemon.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Some good insights here. An AI picture generator cannot say "I am" or "I feel"and so cannot be interpreted as conscious

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Ask how many more shifts they’d let a surgeon work after a week in which they severely harmed 12-15% of their patients

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Gen AI - the AI Hub in Generative Models @genaihub.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

JOB OPPORTUNITY: we are recruiting a Research Fellow in few step Generative Modelling under a strategic collaboration between two of our centres. The position is hosted by @cst.cam.ac.uk and may require academic visits to @ucl.ac.uk. Closes: 09 Jul More info here: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

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UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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ELLIOT Project @elliot-eu.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

✍️ Don’t miss out on the registration deadline and discover how new approaches to model merging can support more efficient and adaptable AI systems: elliot-ai.eu/events/multi... @ellis.eu

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Multimodal Foundation Models: From Research to Innovation

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Humanists International @humanists.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Humanists UK has warned the European Parliament that AI companion apps, combined with delays on high-risk AI rules and weakened AI literacy obligations, could undermine public health and erode human-centric care. Read more: humanists.international/2026/06/huma...

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Humanists call on European Parliament to protect human-centric care in AI rules

Humanists International has warned the European Commission that growing polarization across Europe is increasingly deliberate, well-funded, and technologically amplified, posing a direct threat to dem...

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Step 2: Prosecute social media companies which fail to stop incitement to racial hatred, violence and riot. Step 3: Treat orchestrated far right violence against asylum seekers and immigrants as terrorism. Because that is what it is.

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AI Firehose @ai-firehose.column.social · 04/06/2026

Research reveals that AI model safety evaluations can vary widely by structure, with deployment configurations causing safety degradation of up to 37 percentage points. This highlights the urgent necessity for tailored testing and standardized safety benchmarks. arxiv.org/abs/2603.10044

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Safety Under Scaffolding: How Evaluation Conditions Shape Measured Safety

ArXiv link for Safety Under Scaffolding: How Evaluation Conditions Shape Measured Safety

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 02/06/2026

🏹 Job alert: PhD position in Natural Language Processing at TU Wien 📍 Vienna 🇦🇹 ⏰ 9 July 🔗 bit.ly/4uDxC9d

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University Assistant Prae-Doc (all genders)

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Robotics companies are so hungry for egocentric vision and action data of household chores they will clean your home for free

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Michael D. Green, PhD @michaeldgreen.phd · 28/05/2026

President of MIT not mincing words today in @statnews.com www.statnews.com/2026/05/27/s...

So let me say it as clearly as I can: Without basic scientific research, supported by the kind of farsighted public investment that allows large-scale, undirected, curiosity-driven inquiry, the scientific pipeline will run dry.
In daily life, people may not feel the effects right away, or even in 10 years. But we will feel it. And when someone we love needs therapies that could have emerged but didn't or when other countries now
investing in science can launch new science-based industries or run their societies on vast resources of fusion energy or reap the benefits of quantum computing power or advanced medical breakthroughs, America will wish it sustained its leadership in scientific research here and now.
Sally Kornbluth is the president of MIT.

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Cardiff NLP @cardiffnlp.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

🚨 Registration is now open for the 5th Cardiff NLP Summer #NLP Workshop! 📝 forms.gle/GW4gZiijDusz... 📅 Deadline: 5 June 2026 Priority for EoI submissions, but a few extra places may be available. More info: www.cardiffnlpworkshop.org

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Registration Form - 5th Cardiff NLP Workshop

Please register for the Cardiff NLP Workshop (22–23 June, in person only) by completing the form below so that we can tailor the workshop to provide the best possible experience. Free Registration is...

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Anil Seth @anilseth.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Fully funded PhD position @sussex.ac.uk, at the Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science. Stipend plus fees for 3.5 years, kindly supported by the School of Engineering & informatics. Apply by May 31st. More details here: www.sussex.ac.uk/study/fees-f...

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The Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science (SCCS) 2026 Studentship : University of Sussex

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