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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I've been unsettled lately when reading messages and papers. It feels like I'm dissociating. Everything seems a bit alien, even if it's completely human. I've had a realization: When our simulations finally exited the Uncanny Valley, they brought the Uncanny with them.

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Life on the Uncanny Precipice | Naomi Saphra

We were wrong about the Uncanny Valley.

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Piotr Mirowski @piotrmirowski.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

In a recent interview for Reuters, I talked about our new show "Improbotics Presents: Artificial Reality", a parody of a reality TV show where contestants are eliminated by the audience to be replaced by an AI version of themselves or by an AI celebrity. www.gulftoday.ae/culture/2026...

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Piotr Mirowski on the promise and perils of AI in theatre

Piotr Mirowski occupies a rare space where theatre improvisation overlaps with artificial intelligence research. The Poland-born computer scientist and actor...

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Piotr Mirowski @piotrmirowski.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Just published at ACM C&C a demo of improvised theatre where one actor wears AR glasses to read LLM-generated lines, while stage partners engage all cognitive skills to support them. This enables novice (and challenges veteran) improvisers to join other humans in improvisational theatre.

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Piotr Mirowski @piotrmirowski.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

HCI and cultural probe paper announcement: Fabula: Building a Narrative Storytelling Sidekick with the Writers' Community arxiv.org/abs/2606.14411 We design and evaluate Fabula, an interactive app for fiction writers. Fabula uses detailed narrative plans informed by general narratological theory.

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Fabula: Building a Narrative Storytelling Sidekick with the Writers' Community

We design and evaluate Fabula, an interactive app for fiction writers. Fabula uses detailed narrative plans informed by general narratological theory. Stories are structured hierarchically into scenes...

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Piotr Mirowski @piotrmirowski.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Call for tech companies and states to halt the provision of AI systems for use in the military kill chain and to take all steps to ensure that other AI systems they provide do not cause or contribute to violations of international humanitarian and human rights laws. www.accessnow.org/press-releas...

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Access Now - Joint statement on AI in warfare

We, the undersigned organizations and individuals, are deeply alarmed by the rapid militarization of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. AI systems embedded into military kill chains are accele...

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Piotr Mirowski @piotrmirowski.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Call for tech companies and states to halt the provision of AI systems for use in the military kill chain and to ensure that other AI systems do not cause or contribute to violations of international humanitarian and human rights law (IHRL). @accessnow.org www.accessnow.org/press-releas...

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Access Now - Joint statement on AI in warfare

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Access Now @accessnow.org · 15/06/2026

AI-accelerated warfare must stop! Together with @amnesty.org and +200 experts and civil society organizations, we are calling on governments and tech companies to ensure AI does not become a tool for accelerating death and destruction. Read our statement: www.accessnow.org/press-releas...

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Piotr Mirowski @piotrmirowski.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The Creative AI track (formerly Machine Learning for Creativity and Design) at @neuripsconf.bsky.social has always been a home for interdisciplinarity. As its co-chair, I invite research and artworks exploring and critiquing of ML in art, design, and creative practice. neurips.cc/Conferences/... 1/n

Credit: Surface Tension (2025 by Karyn Nakamura), image courtesy of the artist

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WIRED @wired.com · 05/05/2026

UK staff of Google's AI research lab hope to block the use of the company's artificial intelligence models in military settings. www.wired.com/story/google...

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Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals

UK staff of Google's AI research lab hope to block the use of the company's artificial intelligence models in military settings.

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Piotr Mirowski @piotrmirowski.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

"I have joined the union due to concerns about AI being used to empower authoritarianism, whether through military or surveillance applications, both foreign and domestic [...] By unionizing, we are taking the traditional route for workers to [...] have a say." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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Google DeepMind workers in UK vote to unionize amid deal with US military

Exclusive: Worker pointed to Iran war and Pentagon’s Anthropic feud as indications the department is ‘not a responsible partner’

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Piotr Mirowski @piotrmirowski.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

More than 600 Google employees, directors and vice presidents have signed an open letter to chief executive Sundar Pichai urging him to refuse to let the US government use its AI technology for classified military operations. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

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Hundreds of Google workers urge CEO to refuse classified AI work with Pentagon

In an open letter, Google workers say doing a deal with the Department of Defense would hurt the tech giant's reputation.

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Christian Wolf @chriswolfvision.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Nice work by the ICML chairs ... love it. Signal boosting this to help make it known. I hope that the effect will be that reviewers will less "delegate" (sigh) reviewing to LLMs instead of spending more effort on finding watermarks.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

In 2016, 1000s of AI researchers and business leaders signed this open letter calling for a ban on lethal autonomous weapons. futureoflife.org/open-letter/... Worth having a little scroll through some of the names highlighted in the top 100.

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Autonomous Weapons Open Letter: AI & Robotics Researchers - Future of Life Institute

2016 (>30k signatures) open letter for AI and Robotics researchers calling for ban on offensive autonomous weapons beyond meaningful human control.

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Mythic 🦊 @mythicalredfox.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.

Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads:

The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you.

And our governments are very much the same...

- Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist

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Piotr Mirowski @piotrmirowski.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

“Instead of building an alternative new media ecosystem and amplifying each other’s work, the left focuses more on competition than the right. […] age-old leftist tendency toward infighting”. Some hope: “Now, many on the left are leaving internal battles behind” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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How the left can win back the internet – and rise again | Robert Topinka

In the final part of this series, we look at how infighting has ripped the left apart online while the right has flourished – and how some progressives are turning the tide, says digital media academi...

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Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

I post politically on eXtwitter and no science/tech, and here only post on science/tech. But we must not look away from what is happening right now, out in the open with no regard for morality or human life. Do not look away.

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Piotr Mirowski @piotrmirowski.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

🤖🎭 Robot Fringe 2026 | London Experimental robotics + daring performance + wild ideas, showcased at ICSR + Art 2026 (1–4 July). 📍 Senate House, London 🗓 Thu 2 July 2026 (evening) Hosted by Heather Knight & Piotr Mirowski Submission: 🔗 robotfringe.com #ICSR2026

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

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Mike Hixenbaugh @mikehixenbaugh.com · 08/01/2026

Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.

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Piotr Mirowski @piotrmirowski.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

I will host a student researcher at Google DeepMind and am looking for PhD students interested in the intersection of creative writing and human-computer interaction. Your work will contribute to moving beyond generative AI towards formative AI.

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David Pfau @davidpfau.com · 16/10/2025

Very excited to be able to talk about something I've been working on for a while now - we're working with Commonwealth Fusion Systems, IMO the leading fusion startup in the world, to take our work on AI and tokamaks and make it work at the frontier of fusion energy. deepmind.google/discover/blo...

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Google DeepMind is bringing AI to the next generation of fusion energy

We’re announcing our research partnership with Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) to bring clean, safe, limitless fusion energy closer to reality with our advanced AI systems. This partnership...

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Piotr Mirowski @piotrmirowski.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

Research prototype, early access announcement and participatory AI! I am really excited to invite you to try Fabula, an experimental app designed to serve as a writing tool for screenwriters and playwrights of all skill levels. We invite critical feedback: read the thread below! youtu.be/YH7sZ2GN_m0

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Announcing early access to Fabula, a prototype AI app for writing by Google DeepMind researchers

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Piotr Mirowski @piotrmirowski.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Really honoured to have participated, alongside Rida Qadri, to this @britishcouncil.bsky.social report on exploring the importance of artists, cultural organisations, and creative industries to technological advancement. www.britishcouncil.org/research-ins...

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Piotr Mirowski @piotrmirowski.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Visionary theatre director Natalia Korczakowska from Teatr Studio invites you to witness her open research and rehearsal of “AlphaGo_Lee: Theory of Sacrifice”. Extremely lucky to join her cast of creatives to discuss limits, ethics and potential of LLMs in writing. bac.org.uk/whats-on/alp...

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Alpha Go_Lee: Theory of Sacrifice | Battersea Arts Centre

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Piotr Mirowski @piotrmirowski.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Generative AI tools used in art production should be evaluated by the broader art world of artists, art historians and curators, to integrate culturally-specific critique and to re-imagine these tools to suit the artists’ needs. dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

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AI and Non-Western Art Worlds: Reimagining Critical AI Futures through Artistic Inquiry and Situated Dialogue | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Piotr Mirowski @piotrmirowski.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Interdisciplinary CfP: "Robots on Stage: Performative Practices, Experimentation and Human–Machine Social Interaction" @ Social Robotics ICSR'25 📅☕ 18 April (submission) 🇮🇹🏛️ Naples, Italy 🤖🎉 10-12 September (conference) icsr2025.eu/special-sess...

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Special Sessions - ICSR 2025

Special Sessions ICSR 2025

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Serge Belongie @serge.belongie.com · 03/04/2025

So far, 2,135 people have responded to the poll Søren and I posted a few days ago. Of those, 94.4% replied “Yes” to being interested in officially presenting accepted @neuripsconf.bsky.social papers in Europe. (1/7)

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Piotr Mirowski @piotrmirowski.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Uncomfortably excited to announce that I joined the board of Swedish startup Mindfix, revolutionising mental healthcare through #AI #chatbot #therapy. Currently raising seed VC round 4 series D capital at Kulturhaus Helferei in Zürich. www.friendlyfire.art

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Friendly Fire at the Shrink

Your Soul Deserves A Sportscar.

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