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Saffron Huang

@saffron.bsky.social
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how shall we live together? societal impacts researcher at Anthropic saffronhuang.com

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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 23/06/2025
In the latest essay in our AI & Democratic Freedoms series, @lujain.bsky.social, @saffron.bsky.social, @umangsbhatt.bsky.social‬, Lama Ahmad, and Markus Anderljung propose a new AI evaluation paradigm that assesses the harms that can emerge from repeated human-AI interactions.
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Towards Interactive Evaluations for Interaction Harms in Human-AI Systems
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Noema Magazine @noemamag.com · 22/04/2025
“As AI advances, many are worried about the tech's potential to concentrate unprecedented wealth among a few, while eroding the economic value of human work for everyone else.” Here’s how @saffron.bsky.social & Sam Manning believe we can stop that from happening. #ai #wealthinequality #economy
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Here’s How To Share AI’s Future Wealth | NOEMA
Advanced AI threatens to increase inequality and concentrate power, but we can proactively distribute AI’s benefits to foster a just and inclusive economy before it’s too late.
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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Really proud and excited to release work on empirically measuring AI values “in the wild” — understanding, analyzing and taxonomizing what values guide model outputs in real interactions with real users. www.anthropic.com/research/val...
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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
This piece I wrote is now in the Stanford CS ethics curriculum! honestly, the exact kind of audience i wanted, so 🥹. (Also I do actually still think this piece is ~my compass for what technology is and what it means to build it!) www.kernelmag.io/1/what-is-te...
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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Reviving my Substack to try to describe something that is very difficult to describe (a near death experience 20 years after it happened) saffron.substack.com/p/something-...
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something divine shook me by the shoulders
when you see so clearly that everything on the outside is really on the inside
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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
oh my god i love this one: Q: Which philosopher/logician identified an inconsistency in the US Constitution. Einstein tried (and failed) to persuade him not to point this out during his US citizenship test. A: Godel
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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
one of my favourite chinese words is 时光 which Google-translates as ‘time’ but really it’s ’time-light’. as in, ‘the wonderful time-light we spent together’
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Nils Gilman @nilsgilman.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
For more on this, see @saffron.bsky.social's excellent account here: www.cip.org/blog/predist...
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Predistribution over Redistribution — The Collective Intelligence Project
If AI could bring enormous benefits to humanity, but also threatens to put us all out of work and concentrate economic production in the hands of a few, what should our policy approach be?
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⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt.org · 20/12/2024
The future is here, and it should be co-created. These global dialogues convene thousands of people from around the world to set a vision - and concrete goals - for what world they want. Our first dialogue centers around the fears, dreams, hopes, and attitudes people have about AI.
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Global Dialogues
Exploring humanity's vision for artificial intelligence through global conversations and collective intelligence.
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Alex Tamkin @alextamkin.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
How are AI Assistants being used in the real world? Our new research shows how to answer this question in a privacy preserving way, automatically identifying trends in Claude usage across the world. 1/
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Miles McCain and 309 others @miles.land · 12/12/2024
read the paper — there are some fun anecdotes! www.anthropic.com/research/clio
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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
SO excited to share Clio with the world (and on Bsky before Twitter)! Clio generates insights on AI usage patterns, in a way that keeps user data private. It has unlocked, and will continue to unlock, an immense amount of understanding about the present and future of AI use. (Blog linked below)
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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
great news: using AI to generate a silly little short film for my friend's birthday. its so hard to get anything you actually want to happen, happen, consistency is terrible, and what it gives you is so diff from regular filmmaking this overall makes me happy although i am currently suffering
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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
computer history museum highlights: punched-card distribution maps of plant and flower species on the british isles
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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
macbooks are cool, but they can’t print your name in ASCII art on an impact printer that outputs 600 lines per min and smells like an engine
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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
‘the light in San Francisco is like golden hour all day’ - friend
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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
learned a startling amount from this about crime/drugs/addiction & what happens when markets meet vices & vulnerability open.spotify.com/episode/2L2A...
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The Hidden Politics of Disorder
The Ezra Klein Show · Episode
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Suing Kendrick for having a superior diss track is something Kendrick would say Drake does in a diss track
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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
@divya.bsky.social and I contributed an essay to this volume on AI morality, edited by the inimitable @davidedmonds100.bsky.social (which delights me as a big Philosophy Bites fan) it's out now & the contributors are incredible: see global.oup.com/academic/pro... or www.amazon.com/AI-Morality-...
Screenshot of Chapter 6, titled 'Collective Intelligence over Artificial Intelligence' by Saffron Huang and Divya Siddarth. The page shows the beginning of the chapter, discussing technological progress and AI's impact on society, including its benefits and risks. The text mentions examples like penicillin, electricity, and the internet, and discusses current fears about AI development and its lack of coherent regulation.Table of contents:
Introduction
David Edmonds

PART I. DEFENCE, HEALTH, LAW

"Autonomous Weapons Systems and Human Rights" - Linda Eggert
"Cyber-Risks and Medical Ethics" - Maximilian Kiener
"Risky Business: AI and the Future of Insurance" - Jonathan Pugh
"AI and Discriminatory Intent" - Binesh Hass

PART II. POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE
5. "The Perfect Politician" - Theodore M. Lechterman
6. "Collective Intelligence over Artificial Intelligence" - Saffron Huang and Divya Siddarth
PART III. WORK AND PLAY
7. "Work and Meaning: A Challenge for Economics" - Daniel Susskind
8. "Losing Skills" - Carissa Véliz
9. "Benevolent Algorithmic Managers" - Charlotte UnruhPART IV. MANIPULATION, AUTONOMY, AND ALGORITHMS
10. "What's Your Price? Three Cheers for Data Markets" - Aksel Sterri
11. "Work and Play in the Shadow of AI" - John Tasioulas
12. "The Silent Meddling of Algorithms" - Carina Prunkl
13. "Recommended!" - Silvia Milano
14. "Do AI Systems Allow Online Advertisers to Control Others?" - Gabriel De Marco and Tom Douglas
15. "Should You Let AI Tell You Who You Are and What You Should Do?" - Muriel Leuenberger
16. "Information Flows in the Digital Age" - Emma Bluemke and Andrew Trask
PART V. IDENTITY AND VALUES
17. "Robotic Persons and Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics" - César Palacios-González
18. "Is AI Ethics All Fluff?" - John Zerilli
19. "Artificial General Intelligence: Shocks, Sentience, and Moral Status" - Peter Millican
20. "Human in the Loop!" - Ruth Chang
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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
life / adaptation / multicellularity (from last night’s max cooper concert)
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Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
For my newsletter I wrote about some things I learned as a young activist that have just stayed true over the last 35 years. I’ve thought of a few more, will put those in the next one.
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Chenjerai Kumanyika @chenjerai.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Um yes please to this starter pack go.bsky.app/2JYffeG
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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 09/06/2023
going to japan… thinking about encountering japanese design in just 14 hours makes me squeal excitedly like a child
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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 06/05/2023
individuals are networks of groups just as groups are networks of individuals
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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 02/05/2023
boys love to jump around on the dance floor and collide into each other like bumper cars
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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 30/04/2023
just me and the boys (just boys) at zuzalu
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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 21/04/2023
exposing how foreign i am but every time someone says the word ‘federal’, usually for very sensible reasons, my immediate instinct is like woah slow down why you gotta make things so american
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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 20/04/2023
it’s spring and there’s a great blue heron looking at me
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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 18/04/2023
you should not be optimising (boring and lame) you should be maxxing (fun and cool) like don’t ‘optimise’ your life for health or happiness. instead you should be sleepmaxxing. walkmaxxing. park bench maxxing. ice cream maxxing
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prerat @prer.at · 15/04/2023
we can totally do DM's in bluesky first we agree on a prime p and a primitive root g then you pick a secret a, and publicly send me g^a mod p then i pick a secret b, and publicly send you g^b mod p now our shared secret is g^(ab) mod p, and we can use that as a symmetric AES key
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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 15/04/2023
love people who are constantly smiling. they walk into a room smiling. im gonna do this
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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 14/04/2023
hah i just got covid right before a 2 day workshop i am organising, of all weeks! i was really looking forward to it & many folks flew out for it but people have been really lovely about it and i have a solid team to back me up. which makes me feel, in the end, blessed
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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 09/04/2023
happy easter, the holiday of its so over & we’re so back
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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 29/03/2023
all my clothes are wrinkled. won’t somebody do something?
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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 15/03/2023
found a highly effective no-thoughts-head-empty routine — go to russian banya sit in worryingly hot steam room dump a bucket of ice water on head (brain freeze!) ice plunge sit dazedly repeat
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Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social · 13/03/2023
for the first time in my life seriously daydreaming about moving to the mountains and spending my days running and writing and breathing fresh air… i get it now
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