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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I've always found the AI obsession with "general intelligence" frustratingly incoherent and uncomfortable...I'm realizing that a large part of that stems from a eugenics fueled human obsession with "general intelligence" that is equally incoherent and uncomfortable...

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

This ended up being such an excellent event! Big congrats to all the organizers and so grateful that I could attend + participate!

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

This is great reporting, as usual, but this is so far from a *new* strategy! The FTC has been leveraging the consumer product safety framing to remove and challenge commercial "AI" products since 2015!!

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Joe Calandrino @jcalandrino.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

We also have a fantastic keynote panel on regulating AI with Tony Batalla (@cityofoakland.bsky.social), Jennifer King (@stanfordhai.bsky.social), and @rajiinio.bsky.social (UC Berkeley)! #ConPro26 [14/15]

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RJ Yew @r-jy.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Thrilled that this workshop is coming together. We have an amazing line-up of speakers, including @rajiinio.bsky.social, Manon Revel, @senmcnerney.bsky.social, @geomblog.bsky.social blog.bsky.social, and Henriette Canino & Héctor Corzo. Come join us!

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Joe Calandrino @jcalandrino.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

📣 Registration is open for #ConPro26, the 10th Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection, on May 21 in SF! We're excited about this year's program, which includes [thread, 1/15]: conpro26.ieee-security.org

conpro26.ieee-security.org

10th Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro '26)

The Tenth Workshop on Technology and Consumer Protection (ConPro '26) will explore computer science topics with an impact on consumers.

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Also common in policy circles. I once attended a legislative caucus event on the topic of "Artificial General Intelligence" (AGI). I was shocked lol - when I asked them where they'd learnt that word, the response was "we were talking to Anthropic, and that's what they told us they were building".

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Peter Henderson @peterhenderson.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

This is a challenging legal problem for NeurIPS (and other conference participants)! You might be wondering how this is possible given the First Amendment? I wrote a quick explainer on the current status quo of relevant First Amendment cases & law to get you up to speed. 🔗👇

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I've come to seriously value any opportunity I get to create a safe space for those coming up behind me. It's incredibly important - and I know this because I'm here, able to do this work, precisely because of those that chose to endure who knows what in order to create the right space for me ❣️

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

This annoys me. We do have federal procurement guidelines for AI - even under Vought & the Biden EO repeal. Reporting about this should note that this is not a normative "AI in govt" situation. The pentagon is (& always has been) asking for *special treatment* here! techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/o...

techcrunch.com

No one has a good plan for how AI companies should work with the government | TechCrunch

As OpenAI transitions from a wildly successful consumer startup into a piece of national security infrastructure, the company seems unequipped to manage its new responsibilities.

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Love this! And very much the anti-thesis of the current "AI maximalist" corporate ethos at Spotify, Amazon, etc, and some public organizations (schools, hospitals, govt) where AI use is forced upon workers and pushed out in as many use cases as is conceivable, without reason & to disastrous results.

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

Interesting - I agree that simple proxies should not be the only way to get to predictable model outcomes. Tho I worry this criteria won't be well operationalized (ie "aligned"?). My pet theory is that model predictability is likely a byproduct of training *data* properties more than anything else.

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Interviewed for this doc years ago & have yet to see the final cut. Most of what I recall is how much Daniel had truly riled himself up - the confusion & chaos of this exaggerated boogyman version of "AI" had excited a genuine emotional response, despite successfully disguising AI's real terrors.

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Co-chairing this workshop at Simons this week & it's been amazing so far! Brought together folks from ML, stats, law, sociology & beyond to discuss the messy middle between individual predictions & the actions/policy change individuals/orgs take in response to those predictions

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

A fascinating recent development is that the ML research community -- as the earliest adopters of "AI for research" -- are at the frontlines of dealing with all the problems that come with that (ie. reduced trust in results & reviewers, increased submission load etc). Every other field is next! 😭

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

EAs love malaria nets because it's supposedly the intervention where we have the "most statistical evidence" of it's effectiveness. One kind of silly fact about this tho is that if you read Duflo's actual paper, the choice to do the experiments on bed nets as an intervention is pretty much arbitrary

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Eileen Guo (is on leave for rest of 2026) @eileenguo.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

The Trump administration is now barring 5 Europeans working on countering disinformation from the US — including initiating deportation proceedings against 2 of them, including a former EU commissioner. All in the name of free speech. www.state.gov/releases/off...

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Announcement of Actions to Combat the Global Censorship-Industrial Complex - United States Department of State

The State Department is taking decisive action against five individuals who have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose....

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · 15/12/2025

"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."

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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

One of my very early essays explored a paper by @rajiinio.bsky.social & others that centers the story of Grover and the Everything in the Whole Wide World Museum. It is striking to me that AI hyperscalers today really believe we can encapsulate all of human experience in data. I mean, good luck.

buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com

What Grover and Good Will Hunting can tell us about the limits of artificial intelligence

First, a quick thank you to all the new subscribers to the Cognitive Resonance Substack!

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Just a stream of unfortunate news this week. My heart goes out to anyone impacted by this - truly tragic. 🤍

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

It's always so funny to me when people frame this kind of AI "distrust" as an unfortunate PR issue... in actuality people have very legitimate and materially supported reasons to be skeptical - trust is earned! We shouldn't strongarm people into trusting institutions & tech that doesn't serve them 😳

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Marissa Kumar Gerchick @mkgerchick.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

And we have lots of open roles at ACLU, including roles on our Technology Team: www.aclu.org/careers/

aclu.org

Careers at ACLU

Join our team! We’re looking for committed, passionate people for open roles at the ACLU.

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Trump doing this just weeks before Colorado is set to push out final amendments to SB 205 is so annoying. Just another performative roadblock to push negotiations further down the line -- and given that Colorado is named explicitly in the EO, not likely to be a coincidence either

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B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them) @b-cavello.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

We have some pretty cool roles open at @aspendigital.bsky.social! www.aspeninstitute.org/about/our-ca...

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Explore Our Job Openings

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

US CAISI is hiring -- the internal govt name for the role is "IT Specialist" but it is effectively a research scientist role! Salary is $120,579 to - $195,200 per year, and you get to work on AI evaluation within government agencies! Job posting (**closes EOD 12/28/2025**): lnkd.in/exJgkqr5

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

US CAISI (the equivalent of the US "AI Safety Institute") just put out their approach to AI measurement & there's such a significant portion on construct validity (nist.gov/blogs/caisi-...). Great to see this after ongoing advocating about this issue (arxiv.org/abs/2511.04703)!

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Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

I'm spending my PhD researching just this question of what careers in tech "for good" or "in the public interest" look like. Just published an op-ed this weekend about one option: go do tech and/or data work for a non-profit! localnewsmatters.org/2025/11/30/b...

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Beyond Big Tech: Why 'advocacy technology' will be the next hot career in AI-driven world - Local News Matters

RECENTLY, IBM ANNOUNCED it will lay off thousands of employees; Amazon announced over 14,000 layoffs. Companies like Google and Microsoft have also faced

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Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

Spread the word! 📢 The FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) group at @msftresearch.bsky.social in NYC is hiring interns and postdocs to start in summer 2026! 🎉 Apply by *December 15* for full consideration.

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Started a thread in the other place and bringing it over here - I really think we should be more vocal about the opportunities that lay at the intersection of these two options! So I'm starting a live thread of new roles as I become aware of them - feel free to add / extend / share :

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

I feel like I have a conversation every other day with someone going through this exact crisis. We need better options for those aiming to do good work.

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

There is so much about navigating the Internet in a low resourced language that makes one unnecessarily vulnerable to malicious actors. It's not just a quality of experience difference, but literally the soft belly through which misinformation spreaders attack.

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

More of this kind of reporting, please!

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Roberta Fischli @leonieclaude.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

So inspiring to see @karenhao.bsky.social in conversation with @rajiinio.bsky.social at the AI and Society event @ Berkeley. We need more formats like this in the Bay Area! (and beyond)

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Emma Harvey @emmharv.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Towards AI Accountability Infrastructure: Gaps and Opportunities in AI Audit Tooling by @victorojewale.bsky.social @rbsteed.com @briana-v.bsky.social @abeba.bsky.social @rajiinio.bsky.social compares the landscape of AI audit tools (tools.auditing-ai.com) to the actual needs of AI auditors.

Screenshot of paper title and author list:

Towards AI Accountability Infrastructure: Gaps and Opportunities in AI Audit Tooling
Victor Ojewale, Ryan Steed, Briana Vecchione, Abeba Birhane, Inioluwa Deborah Raji

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Emma has such good research taste :) Given the sheer scale of these events, its really helpful to see what caught people's eye at these conferences...

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Emma Harvey @emmharv.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

After having such a great time at #CHI2025 and #FAccT2025, I wanted to share some of my favorite recent papers here! I'll aim to post new ones throughout the summer and will tag all the authors I can find on Bsky. Please feel welcome to chime in with thoughts / paper recs / etc.!! 🧵⬇️:

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Was beyond disappointed to see this in the AI Action Plan. Messing with the NIST RMF (which many private & public institutions currently rely on) feels like a cheap shot

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

The way this was predictable from the start...

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

This group (+ @leonyin.org ) makes this team like the Avengers of data journalists lol Congrats to Bloomberg!

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

The genius of the Wired people, as I see it from outside, is that they very quickly saw how a specific model of _tech_ reporting could be much more easily adapted into a closely related model of _political_ reporting, in a world where actual and organizational technology is urgently relevant.

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

After my participation in the AI Senate forum, Andreesen went out of his way to find me on X and block me (I had never interacted w him). Just a terrifyingly hateful person. I remain deeply unsettled the more I learn about how deep his prejudice actually goes.

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

The distinction between this situation & the 2016 Tay twitter chatbot fiasco by Microsoft feels like a sign of the times - now, it's the companies actively trying to steer the chatbot towards extremist views rather than the interactions of a malicious public pushing the chatbot in that direction...

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

One of the first things I noticed looking through SearchArena logs was the very stark differences between queries for search LLMs (eg. Perplexity AI, etc) and regular search engines. It really is quite remarkable how different people's expectations are!

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jessica dai @jessica.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

individual reporting for post-deployment evals — a little manifesto (& new preprints!) tldr: end users have unique insights about how deployed systems are failing; we should figure out how to translate their experiences into formal evaluations of those systems.

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 01/07/2025

In a stunning reversal, the Senate voted 99-1 this morning to strip from Trump's big bill a 10-year moratorium on state-level AI regulations. Gift link to my story on how it happened and who's celebrating: wapo.st/3TOyiaG

washingtonpost.com

In dramatic reversal, Senate votes to kill AI-law moratorium

A GOP-led bid to stop states from regulating AI collapsed after a deal to save it fell through.

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Deb Raji @rajiinio.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

LOL. Congrats to everyone that bothered your senator about this! h/t @beenwrekt.bsky.social

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