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Rumman Chowdhury

@ruchowdh.bsky.social
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www.rummanchowdhury.com www.humane-intelligence.org CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)

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Knowledge in Crisis @knowledgecrisis.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Watch now: @timcrane.bsky.social, @ruchowdh.bsky.social, @commissionerhr.coe.int and Philipp Blom discuss democracy in the digital age at this year's European Forum Alpbach 👇 buff.ly/cfmsMMi #EFA25 @weareceu.bsky.social
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European Forum Alpbach Staffel 1 Folge 13: Demokratie im digitalen Zeitalter: Die Macht der Täuschung entlarven
KI-generierte Inhalte und algorithmische Manipulation gefährden informierte Meinungsbildung und Entscheidungen. Erkunden Sie, wie Demokratien diese…
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Transformer @transformernews.ai · 12/09/2025
"We must design, build and reward systems that complete work predictably in messy environments, rather than building ones that simply ace static quizzes under lab conditions," write @ruchowdh.bsky.social and Mala Kumar.
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Why AI evals need to reflect the real world
Opinion: Rumman Chowdhury and Mala Kumar argue that we need better AI evaluations — and the infrastructure and investment to do them
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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 24/07/2025
One problem with an EO requiring AI models to be politically neutral: There's no such thing, says @ruchowdh.bsky.social. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Political neutrality, for an AI model, is simply “not a thing,” Chowdhury said. “It’s not real.”

For example, she said, if you ask a chatbot for its views on gun control, it could equivocate by echoing both Republican and Democratic talking points, or it might try to find the middle ground between the two. But the average AI user in Texas might see that answer as exhibiting a liberal bias, while a New Yorker might find it overly conservative. And to a user in Malaysia or France, where strict gun control laws are taken for granted, the same answer would seem radical.
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Bob E Hayes @bobehayes.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
What OpenAI Doesn’t Want You to Know | ‪@moreperfectunion.bsky.social‬ with commentary from @bcmerchant.bsky.social, @smw.bsky.social, @theodoraskeadas.bsky.social‬ and @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watc... #regulations #discrimination #AI #law
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What OpenAI Doesn’t Want You to Know
AI companies are spending millions to get the laws they want. They're not trying to cure cancer, or save America. These companies want to make $100 billion overnight, and they're willing to sponsor dangerous laws to make it happen. ----- More Perfect Union is an Emmy-winning, nonprofit newsroom w
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
My latest op Ed in the @koreaherald.bsky.social on Sovereign AI - countries are rushing to build homegrown AI to escape Silicon Valley - but is government-led AI simply a thornier problem? www.koreaherald.com/article/1052...
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[Rumman Chowdhury] Sovereign AI: A new frontier of national ambition
Should AI be a public good, shaped by local values, or a technology controlled by a handful of geographically-limited tech giants? The rise of “sovereign AI” --
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StartingUpGood @startingupgood.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
#AIforGood “Views from the Summit” series expands upon speakers’ on-stage presentations. We look forward to more of these interviews at the 2025 Global Summit in July. Don’t miss 3 standout conversations from 2024. @humaneintelligence.bsky.social @ruchowdh.bsky.social medium.com/startingupgo...
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Expert Views on Advancing AI for Good
Exclusive interviews with Rumman Chowdhury (Humane Intelligence), Eric Loeb (Salesforce) & Anna Koivuniemi (Google DeepMind)
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Just remember folks, if you submitted to this RFI, you’re part of normalizing this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...
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American Public Submits Over 10,000 Comments on White House’s AI Action Plan
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) published over 10,000 public comments submitted in response to
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This is a service to humanity
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Sandra Wachter @swachter.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I am so excited to share the stage with @ruchowdh.bsky.social & Megan Smith 11 April at 11.20 am ET @rad-institute.bsky.social event "Gender and AI: Promise and Perils" www.radcliffe.harvard.edu/event/2025-g... - cannot wait! @oii.ox.ac.uk @ajlunited.bsky.social @ainowinstitute.bsky.social
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Gender and AI: Promise and Perils | Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University
In this conference, leading computer scientists, engineers, policy makers, ethicists, artists, and representatives from the private sector will explore present and future challenges and opportunities ...
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Can you explain to me how submitting to this is helping? Do you think the Trump administration is going to take with seriousness and equal weight, the input of ethics groups?
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD @ubiquity75.xyz · 07/04/2025
Observing the deepening faultlines in American society in the early 1920s, F Scott Fitzgerald guessed right…The novel’s prescience lies not in foretelling specific events but in diagnosing a culture where power enjoys impunity and cruelty rubs out its traces — a society run by careless people.
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I hope they feature Angela Saini who wrote the books on this years ago.
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Reposting this to make sure we take a look at who submitted to this farce and importantly, who didn’t.
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Or - hear me out - look up who’s speaking. Ed is great and I admire him but I’ve been working on ethics and AI before he cared about the topic.
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
That’s how we opened it and that was the theme of the entire discussion
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Thats bc they know life on them streets; you don’t say no to a fresh meal and stable roof
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This tells us more about the writer and editors at WSJ than it does about anything else. Sorry their daddies didn’t love them enough.
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
My *third* time on @scifri.bsky.social but first time recording in the NYC studio! Hear me and @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social bring AGI conversations to reality and talk about the issues that really matter, like who controls the power behind AI.
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
One of the best parts of coming back to social media has been seeing your efforts - thank you!
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
I see we have entered the finding out phase
TESLA INSIDERS ARE DUMPING SHARES
EMPLOYEE STOCK TRADES IN THE LAST 3 MONTHS:
NUMBER OF SHARES SOLD:
745,228
NUMBER OF SHARES BOUGHT: 0
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Alvaro M. Bedoya @bedoyausa.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I am a commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission. Earlier today, the president attempted to illegally fire me. This is corruption, plain and simple. I will see the president in court. My full statement:
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Humane Intelligence @humaneintelligence.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
"Chaos is not where good work happens." @ruchowdh.bsky.social at #SXSW 2025. Dr. Rumman Chowdhury, CEO and Founder of Humane Intelligence, shared her concerns about Elon Musk’s impact on institutions—from Twitter to the U.S. government. techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/e...
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
This article is great btw thank you
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Correct, it gave some philosophers a way to be paid to give talks and be on panels; it gave others a fig leaf to say big words while doing nothing.
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
One would think
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Straight from elons mouth to the AISI.
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
There’s a new call for contributions for the new AI action plan and I don’t think anyone who cares about ethics should contribute and be complicit. I’m not looking forward to the slew of linked in clout-seeking strongly worded letters; don’t do it. www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...
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Public Comment Invited on Artificial Intelligence Action Plan
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Trump’s recent Artificial Intelligence (AI) Executive Order shows that this Administration is dedicated to America’s global
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
“Human flourishing” has long been on my list of bullshit terms wrt AI - some memed Aristotle and it became the bullshit term of AI ethics - but now it’s a right wing dog whistle. Keep an eye on how the AISI will be weaponized as the Trump/Musk AI Act is written. 1/ www.wired.com/story/ai-saf...
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Under Trump, AI Scientists Are Told to Remove ‘Ideological Bias’ From Powerful Models
A directive from the National Institute of Standards and Technology eliminates mention of “AI safety” and “AI fairness.”
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
🖐️ I call AI Agents “3 APIs in a trench coat” techcrunch.com/2025/03/14/n...
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No one knows what the hell an AI agent is | TechCrunch
AI agents are all the rage. But no one knows exactly what an agent is, partly because companies define them radically differently.
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Mala Kumar @authormala.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
I made a video about why the private sector won’t replace US government funding. Feel free to like and share with those people in your life who still don’t get why privatization in all aspects of life won’t work. youtu.be/AUHr0IgPKO8?...
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Why Private Sector Solutions Won't Replace US Government Funding
YouTube video by Mala Kumar
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Dr Sanjana Hattotuwa @sanjanah.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
The gutting of Twitter was prologue to the evisceration of government. Musk is a threat to democracy, and not just in the US. | Ex-Twitter AI ethics lead @ruchowdh.bsky.social is worried about Musk’s impact on the federal government techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/e...
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Ex-Twitter AI ethics lead Rumman Chowdhury is worried about Musk's impact on the federal government | TechCrunch
Rumman Chowdhury, ex-director of Twitter's machine ethics team, has strong words for Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency.
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Thank you!!
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Is anyone still at sxsw?
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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
There is irony in Trump calling Tesla Musk’s “baby,” when Musk has at least 14 kids who he also ignores.
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Well this is - as my friend put it - a 100 alarm fire Glad Congress is unnerved(??) maybe they’ll wear pink to stop them! www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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USAID workers told to shred, burn documents, unnerving Congress
The directive to destroy USAID documents raised questions about how sensitive records are being handled amid the Trump administration’s drive to cut foreign aid.
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I’m loving this series on @nytopinion.nytimes.com interviewing Inspectors General. The reality is, most Americans have no idea how government works. They don’t understand institutions and checks and balances. Fundamental civics isn’t taught. 👇 www.tiktok.com/t/ZT24HSpXw/
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Part 1 of 4: Within days of taking office, President Trump fired 16 inspectors general from across the federal government. We spoke to seven of them about the abuses they uncovered, what they really t...
TikTok video by New York Times Opinion
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BostonJoan 🏳️‍🌈 🦫 @bostonjoan.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
If you work in the government or know someone who does, please share this far and wide. Employees need to know about workplace surveillance. www.justsecurity.org/108295/us-fe...
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What U.S. Federal Employees Should Know About Workplace Surveillance
Government employees must take steps to guard against internal workplace surveillance in the current political climate.
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
POV Sam Altman
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a woman is sitting in a living room talking to someone and says " i mean it 's one banana "
Alt: " i mean it 's one banana Michael. What could it cost? $10?"
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melomys @melomys.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Good Morning to everyone who opposes the current #StateoftheUnion
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Color me deeply fucking unsurprised that it’s women and POC
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Of course we know @aoc.bsky.social is holding it down
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
I want a list of the dems who had the guts to protest in any capacity, so we know who to support. Embarrassed by the continued inaction and bullshit coming from democrats overall.
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
He’s threatening to do what he did to GARM. Bury them in lawsuits until they comply or fold.
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
In case you don’t know what I’m referring to : www.cnbc.com/2024/08/08/a...
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Advertising group suspends brand safety unit after Elon Musk's antitrust lawsuit
The World Federation of Advertisers said it's suspending operations of its Global Alliance for Responsible Media after Elon Musk's X filed an antitrust lawsuit.
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
I’ll say it again - Elon litigating GARM out of existence because they dared pull ad revenue was a huge red flag 🚩 Now companies have to pay protection money to X. archive.is/8tvmx
Headline:
The Elon tax: Ad insiders say they're advising clients to spend on X to avoid legal and political headaches
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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
@ivan-ehlers.bsky.social is a writer, illustrator and graphic designer. He created this wonderful page of Billionaire Merit Badges for the New Yorker magazine this week. link to @newyorker.com page: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
In the style of cloth merit badges for scouting, here are 8 merit badges for billionaires.

Disrupting Destabilizing
"Good Billionaire" Branding
Wage Thieving
Union Busting
Court Stacking
Deregulating
Luxury Doom Prepping
Oligarching
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@hypervisible.bsky.social
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Honestly I love this. Maybe I’ll do it
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Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The organization is led by Reva Schwartz and Gabriella Waters - seasoned experts in this work.
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