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Tom Schaul

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Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
A big source of sanity these days for me has been finding a community of researchers to talk about my concerns, then finding that a majority share them, and acting together. From these discussions a new group has coalesced in the last months, spanning geographies and companies: concernedaistaff.org
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Coalition of Concerned AI Staff
We help staff act on their concerns about AI, with independent advice and support from colleagues across labs.
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Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
One of the more thoughtful statements on how *not* to use AI:
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Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
europe2031.ai
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Europe 2031 — What getting AI wrong means for us
A five-year scenario about AI and Europe's impending slide into irrelevance, with a 2034 epilogue that describes how the collapse of the European model could have been prevented.
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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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Katrina Manson @katrinamanson.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
This is the text of Monday’s letter sent to Google CEO Sundar Pichai: assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...
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Katrina Manson @katrinamanson.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Exclusive: More than 580 Google workers including hundreds of AI researchers urge CEO Sundar Pichai to refuse classified military AI work, after senior Pentagon official tells me he is already in talks with Google. Our story on Bloomberg now, from me and Julia Love
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 27/04/2026
Google staff urge chief executive to block US military AI use ft.trib.al/2AfESts
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Google staff urge chief executive to block US military AI use
Over 560 employees sign open letter to Sundar Pichai following the Pentagon’s clash with Anthropic
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Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
DeepMind's RL team is hiring a research scientist: if you're passionate about RL, come work with us! And if you know people who might be interested, please share: job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job...
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Research Scientist, Reinforcement Learning
London, UK
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Reinforcement Learning Conference @rl-conference.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
RLC2026 Call for Workshops! We’re already live: openreview.net/group?id=rl-... Here's the opportunity to help shape the conference & spotlight your own RL focus areas. Call: rl-conference.cc/call_for_wor... Deadline: Mar 12 (AoE) And don't forget the awesome banquet :) www.cirquedusoleil.com/ludo
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Reinforcement Learning Conference @rl-conference.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Only ~7 days to go until the full paper deadline (Mar 5, AOE)! Wishing everyone a strong close to the submission cycle.
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Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Could we meta-learn which data to train on? Yes! Does this make LLM training more efficient? Yes! Would you like to know exactly how? arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17895 (come see us at NeurIPS too!)
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Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Where do some of Reinforcement Learning's great thinkers stand today? Find out! Keynotes of the RL Conference are online: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Wanting vs liking, Agent factories, Theoretical limit of LLMs, Pluralist value, RL teachers, Knowledge flywheels (guess who talked about which!)
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Aditi Mavalankar @aditimavalankar.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
On my way to #ICML2025 to present our algorithm that strongly scales with inference compute, in both performance and sample diversity! 🚀 Reach out if you’d like to chat more!
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Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Deadline to apply is this Wednesday!
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Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Ever thought of joining DeepMind's RL team? We're recruiting for a research engineering role in London: job-boards.greenhouse.io/deepmind/job... Please spread the word!
job-boards.greenhouse.io
Research Engineer, Reinforcement Learning
London, UK
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Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
When faced with a challenge (like debugging) it helps to think back to examples of how you've overcome challenges in the past. Same for LLMs! The method we introduce in this paper is efficient because examples are chosen for their complementarity, leading to much steeper inference-time scaling! 🧪
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Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Some extra motivation for those of you in RLC deadline mode: our line-up of keynote speakers -- as all accepted papers get a talk, they may attend yours! @rl-conference.bsky.social
RLC Keynote speakers: Leslie Kaelbling, Peter Dayan, Rich Sutton, Dale Schuurmans, Joelle Pineau, Michael Littman
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Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
200 great visualisations: 200 facets and nuances of 1 planetary story.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
Reposting David Silver's talk about how RL is the way to intelligence. No particular reason www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkpJ...
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David Silver - Towards Superhuman Intelligence - RLC 2024
YouTube video by Reinforcement Learning Conference
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Reinforcement Learning Conference @rl-conference.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Excited to announce the first RLC 2025 keynote speaker, a researcher who needs little introduction, whose textbook we've all read, and who keeps pushing the frontier on RL with human-level sample efficiency
Announcement of Richard S. Sutton as RLC 2025 keynote speaker
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Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
Could language games (and playing many of them) be the renewable energy that Ilya was hinting at yesterday? They do address two core challenges of self-improvement -- let's discuss! My talk is today at 11:40am, West Meeting Room 220-222, #NeurIPS2024 language-gamification.github.io/schedule/
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Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Don't get to talk enough about RL during #neurips2024? Then join us for more, tomorrow night at The Pearl!
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Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
This year's (first-ever) RL conference was a breath of fresh air! And now that it's established, the next edition is likely to be even better: Consider sending your best and most original RL work there, and then join us in Edmonton next summer!
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Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Are there limits to what you can learn in a closed system? Do we need human feedback in training? Is scale all we need? Should we play language games? What even is "recursive self-improvement"? Thoughts about this and more here: arxiv.org/abs/2411.16905
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Boundless Socratic Learning with Language Games
An agent trained within a closed system can master any desired capability, as long as the following three conditions hold: (a) it receives sufficiently informative and aligned feedback, (b) its covera...
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Glen Berseth @glenberseth.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
RLC will be held at the Univ. of Alberta, Edmonton, in 2025. I'm happy to say that we now have the conference's website out: rl-conference.cc/index.html Looking forward to seeing you all there! @rl-conference.bsky.social #reinforcementlearning
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Tom Schaul @schaul.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Twitter-optional NeurIPS? Sounds like an appealing prospect!
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