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Oliver Lemon

@oliverlemon.bsky.social
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Prof in CS; ELLIS Fellow; Edinburgh Centre for Robotics; Heriot-Watt, Edinburgh. Researcher in dialogue, conversational AI, NLP, multimodality, robotics, embodied AI, collaborative AI, safety

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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 09/10/2026
Sessions for the ELLIS UnConference are online! Kicking off with 2 sessions on World Models, including a 30-min tutorial by @yann-lecun.bsky.social! 🔎 Sessions: bit.ly/4dr7xUb ❗ Register: bit.ly/3TOh2WU Heading to @neuripseurope.bsky.social in Paris? Join us a day early on Dec 8
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 06/10/2026
Nothing makes me want to move permanently to the woods more than receiving endless 10-paragraph e-mails made entirely of sentences like "You have built a framework that is both intimately grounded in your own research and universally applicable."
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Oliver Lemon @oliverlemon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Important article: AI urgently needs to import safety and regulatory expertise from areas like nuclear, biosecurity, and aviation 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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dynomight @dynomight.net · 02/10/2026
has anyone else noticed this
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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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🪀Lefty Wilbury🇺🇦 @leftywilbury1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
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War Games: Joshua's Famous Quote
ALT: War Games: Joshua's Famous Quote
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Oliver Lemon @oliverlemon.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
What would Wittgenstein have made of this I wonder www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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AI models chatting in ‘surreal’ dialect mixing poetic language and tech bro jargon
Experts air concern over AI lingo redolent of James Joyce’s prose that is creating headaches for monitoring and oversight
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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 · 05/09/2026
Amazing version of Sympathy on that album
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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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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 21/08/2026
🏹 Job Alert: Postdoc in Mechanistic Understanding of AI Reasoning 📍 Copenhagen 🇩🇰 ⏰ 30 September 🔗 bit.ly/4c1sqoe
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Mechanistic Understanding of AI Reasoning
The position We are seeking to recruit a postdoctoral researcher to work on understanding the mechanisms of AI reasoning. Their core duty will be to advance our
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Oliver Lemon @oliverlemon.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Nice example of healthcare robotics freeing up more time for human face-to-face care #HRI @heriotwattuni.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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'It's a bit odd at first': The robot helping with NHS health checks
A Dundee GP has trialled a robot that takes patients through health checks to save the doctor's time.
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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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Pete Birkinshaw @binaryape.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Two frames from the This Is Fine cartoon - one shows a dog in a hat sitting among flames with a mug of tea, in the second the dog would normally have said "this is fine" but I've crudely pasted the headline from The Telegraph: ALLISTER HEATH
Britain can't stop
climate change. Scrap
net zero and embrace
Mediterranean
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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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Oliver Lemon @oliverlemon.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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ELLIS @ellis.eu · 09/07/2026
🏹 Job alert: Doctoral & Postdoctoral Researchers in Foundation Health Models at the ELLIS Institute Finland 📍 Espoo / Turku 🇫🇮 ⏰ 17 August 🔗 bit.ly/3QMzVYP
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Job Openings: Doctoral & Postdoctoral Researchers in Foundation Health Models | News | Omni Language AI Research
Job openings for Doctoral Researcher and Postdoctoral Researcher in Foundation Health Models at the University of Turku and ELLIS Institute Finland.
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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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Sign the Petition
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
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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Dr Ian McCormick @wokestudies.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Post-doctoral Research Associate in Computational Linguistics. King's College London. Salary: £45,031 to £47,379 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRU560/p...
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Post-doctoral Research Associate in Computational Linguistics at King's College London
Apply now for the Post-doctoral Research Associate in Computational Linguistics role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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Oliver Lemon @oliverlemon.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Important contribution from Suleyman www.theverge.com/tech/947197/...
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Microsoft AI head calls out Anthropic for acting like Claude is conscious
“This is exactly what we don’t want from AIs.”
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Oliver Lemon @oliverlemon.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
I thought it came from "faux rage".
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