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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

... of a specific person telling their own story. We want to see a fellow human being struggle on stage and cheer us up and amaze us with their own story. I hope that we're going to witness the resurgence of the author in this new age.

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

... There is a realisation of the value of the shared human experience. I am positive because I know that Edinburgh Fringe has 4,000 shows and many are talking about the same things and yet the audiences still go to see these shows because they are going to see a specific performance...

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

"How do you deal with the fear of AI?" We’re trying to convey the message that it's up to the humans who deploy it ⁠to make it a tool and not a replacement and that is a responsibility that is shared by all of us. We should as a society educate ourselves to value work and individuality...

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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

Our approach, validated in 51 shows so far (and that we bring to Edinburgh Fringe this year!) reverts our relationship to AI: LLMs that prompt humans in their creative practice. dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10....

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Spontaneous Spectacles: AR- and LLM-Enabled Improvised Theatre Practice

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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

... Building on critical feedback and concerns, we use Fabula as a cultural probe in adversarial design, and identify potentials for writing feedback and for interactive storytelling. You can test the tool here: deepmind.google.com/frontiers/fa...

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

... (3) to what extent our narratology assumptions fit localised storytelling traditions and serve screenwriters or playwrights, and (4) whether convergent iteration over the story plan supports writers' creativity.

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

... and large-scale internal and external testing. We interrogate our design choices: (1) whether a language model-based auto-evaluator, optimized on human experts' preferences, can improve story quality, (2) whether users want UI that exposes the detailed narrative plan alongside the story script,

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

... Stories are structured hierarchically into scenes and beats that can be (re)generated and revised at script and story plan level. Using participatory AI, we critically evaluate and improve Fabula with casual and published writers, via design interviews and writing sessions with 42 experts,

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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 theme for this year is "AGENCY" and our call is now out! Share your creative practice, show how you mold AI and how AI prompts you, discuss the friction, resistance and inspiration. Deadline: 3 August (AoE) Decision: 18 September Location: Sydney, Australia, 6-12 December 2026

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

I still remember the early days and glitch aesthetic at its first instalment in 2017 (led by @elluba.bsky.social, @sedielem.bsky.social, David Ha, @douglaseck.bsky.social, @arkitus.bsky.social and @rebeccafiebrink.bsky.social), when Kory Mathewson and I were gloriously failing at improv with AI. 2/n

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Luba Elliott (@elluba.bsky.social)

AI art curator www.elluba.com

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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

"Investors have also raised concerns. A coalition of shareholders who own about $2.2bn of Alphabet’s shares wrote a letter to Google’s parent company last week demanding a meeting and greater transparency about Google Cloud and AI deployments in “high-risk” contexts."

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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 · 06/02/2026

Hello Anthony, I am the co-founder and director of improbotics.org - improv comedy with AI and robots, which we started 10 years ago, in a more civilized time. I found your post very funny.

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Improbotics

Theatre lab and AI improv pioneers

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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

"A robot walks into a bar: Can language models serve as creativity support tools for comedy? an evaluation of llms’ humour alignment with comedians" (FAccT 2024) dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

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A Robot Walks into a Bar: Can Language Models Serve as Creativity SupportTools for Comedy? An Evaluation of LLMs’ Humour Alignment with Comedians | Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness, ...

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

To learn more about what we have been doing, here is a sample of our recent work: "Co-Writing Screenplays and Theatre Scripts with Language Models: Evaluation by Industry Professionals" (CHI 2023) dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

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Co-Writing Screenplays and Theatre Scripts with Language Models: Evaluation by Industry Professionals | Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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

Interested? Please submit an application on the Google Careers website ("Student Researcher, 2026"): www.google.com/about/career... and send me an email to piotrmirowski+sr2026 [at] google [dot] com. Please include "[SR 2026]" in the subject line and tell me how you think about AI for creativity.

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Student Researcher, 2026 — Google Careers

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

You will be designing tools and evaluation methods to support writers in their creative process. The role will tentatively start in March-April 2026 and will be based on site in London.

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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

Video footage from Open Research day on 17 May 2025 at Battersea Arts Centre, feat. Natalia Korczakowska, Teatr Studio, Pricilla Lee, Sung Im Her and her dance company, and filmed by Google DeepMind Productions.

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

Work by Richard Evans with Ben Wedin, Piotr Mirowski, Reinald Kim Amployo, Richard Galt, Duncan Williams, Rida Qadri, Sian Gooding, Lucia Lopez Rivilla, João G. M. Araújo, Jaume Sanchez Elias, Erin Drake Kajioka, Edward Grefenstette, Emily Conn, Satinder Singh Baveja, Laura Rimell, Shakir Mohamed.

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

So, are you into writing? Then register your interest for Fabula at: deepmind.google.com/frontiers/fa...

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

We are inviting further writers to try Fabula and see if it is useful for learning, structuring ideas, and supporting human creativity. On the video: playwright Natalia Korczakowska, Artistic Director of STUDIO teatrgaleria in Warsaw, discusses her creative process.

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

We ran many workshop studies with our prototype, sought critical feedback from diverse industry experts on subjects ranging from the writing process, narratology, screen production, and cultural localisation, who discussed their creative practice and commented on AI ethics and on the Fabula app.

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

We are a small team passionate about interactive fiction, theatre, theatrical improvisation and computational creativity, and have been developing Fabula using principles of participatory AI, taking critical feedback from the industry in and integrating it within our process.

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

Fabula is not a story generator – it is a tool to empower a writer as they go through the creative process of exploring their story, by giving them coherent AI-based suggestions that allow them to iterate on versions of their stories, characters and story arc.

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

Fabula is a co-creation tool that enables writers to quickly review, revise, and iterate on a story plan and script. We crafted detailed instructions to build a story's structure, based on classical narratology, and power the app using Google DeepMind’s latest version of Gemini.

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