AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social The AI Now Institute produces diagnosis and actionable policy research on artificial intelligence.
Find us at https://ainowinstitute.org/
John Thornhill @johnthornhill.bsky.social Founder of Sifted, the FT-backed startup covering European tech. Tech columnist Financial Times and host of Tech Tonic podcast
https://www.ft.com/john-thornhill
allie lawsen @lexlawsen.bsky.social AI grantmaking at Coefficient Giving
Previously 80,000 Hours
lawsen.substack.com
gavin leech @gleech.org context maximizer
https://gleech.org/
Dean W. Ball @deanwb.bsky.social
https://hyperdimensional.co
Toby Ord @tobyord.bsky.social Senior Researcher at Oxford University.
Author — The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity.
tobyord.com
Lee Sharkey @leesharkey.bsky.social Scruting matrices @ Apollo Research
Matt Reardon @mjreard.bsky.social Programs at LawAI. Frmly 80000 Hours.
Eli Lifland @elifland.bsky.social
catherine 🌀 @catherinebrewer.bsky.social ai governance @openphil, unsupervised learner
Chris Painter @chris.bsky.social President @metr.org
Check out my artisanal hand-crafted "AI Bluesky" starter pack here: https://bsky.app/starter-pack/chris.bsky.social/3lbefurb2xh2u
Saffron Huang @saffron.bsky.social how shall we live together?
societal impacts researcher at Anthropic
saffronhuang.com
Adam D’Angelo @dangelo.bsky.social CEO of Quora, working on @poe.com
METR @metr.org METR is a research nonprofit that builds evaluations to empirically test AI systems for capabilities that could threaten catastrophic harm to society.
Yoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social Working towards the safe development of AI for the benefit of all at Université de Montréal, LawZero and Mila.
A.M. Turing Award Recipient and most-cited AI researcher.
https://lawzero.org/en
https://yoshuabengio.org/profile/
Yo Shavit @yonashav.bsky.social policy for v smart things @openai. Past: PhD @HarvardSEAS/@SchmidtFutures/@MIT_CSAIL. Posts my own; on my head be it
David Schneider-Joseph @thedavidsj.bsky.social Working on AI gov. Past: Technology and Security Policy @ RAND re: AI compute, telemetry database lead & 1st stage landing software @ SpaceX; AWS; Google.
Epoch AI @epochai.bsky.social We are a research institute investigating the trajectory of AI for the benefit of society.
epoch.ai
@climateer.bsky.social @climateer.bsky.social
Adam Binksmith @binksmith.com Building theaidigest.org and forecasting tools @aidigest.bsky.social
https://binksmith.com- D David Bau @davidbau.bsky.social Interpretable Deep Networks. http://baulab.info/ @davidbau
Tyler Johnston @tylerjohnston.bsky.social looking for new and interesting platforms to doomscroll on!
writing about meaning-laden secularism @SecularMornings.bsky.social
corporate accountability @TheMidasProject.bsky.social
404 Media @404media.co it's a website (and a podcast, and a newsletter) about humans and technology, made by four journalists you might already know. like and subscribe: 404media.co
Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.
Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social Hacking/crime/privacy journalist. Author of DARK WIRE, buy here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/joseph-cox/dark-wire/9781541702691/#preorder Co-founder of 404 Media. Signal: joseph.404 Email: joseph@404media.co
Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social author of Blood in the Machine, tech writer, luddite
newsletter: https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/
books: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/contributor/brian-merchant/
kofi link: https://ko-fi.com/brianmerchant
Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social Live in Chicago, write for Wired, got a great attitude
Send me tips: kate_knibbs@wired.com / Signal: kateknibbs.09
Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social Technology + democracy.
Visit https://techpolicy.press
Join our newsletter: https://techpolicy.press/newsletter
Opinions do not reflect the views of Tech Policy Press. Reposts do not equal endorsements.
Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social AI and cognitive science, Founder and CEO (Geometric Intelligence, acquired by Uber). 8 books including Guitar Zero, Rebooting AI and Taming Silicon Valley.
Newsletter (100k subscribers): garymarcus.substack.com
Billy Perrigo @billyperrigo.bsky.social Tech correspondent at Time magazine. https://billyperrigo.com/about-me/
Benj Edwards @benjedwards.com Tech reporter, tech historian. Bylines Fast Company / The Atlantic / Retronauts podcast. http://www.benjedwards.com Founder http://Vintagecomputing.com
James Vincent @jjvincent.bsky.social journalist and writer. author of BEYOND MEASURE, a history of measurement; a New Yorker, Economist, Times book of the year. former senior editor at The Verge. buy my book here: https://linktr.ee/BeyondMeasureBook. website: jamesvincent.info
Arvind Narayanan @randomwalker.bsky.social Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/
BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
karpathy @karpathy.bsky.social AI @ OpenAI, Tesla, Stanford
David Pfau @davidpfau.com So far I have not found the science, but the numbers keep on circling me.
Views my own, unfortunately.
Nathan Lambert @natolambert.bsky.social A LLN - large language Nathan - (RL, RLHF, society, robotics), athlete, yogi, chef
Writes http://interconnects.ai
Prev Ai2/Olmo, HuggingFace, Berkeley, and normal places
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Sayash Kapoor @sayash.bsky.social CS PhD candidate at Princeton. I study the societal impact of AI.
Website: cs.princeton.edu/~sayashk
Book/Substack: aisnakeoil.com
Kevin Roose @kevinroose.com NYT tech columnist, Hard Fork co-host, best at 0.8x speed
Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social Scholar, author, policy advisor
alondranelson.com
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & Soul, Technicolor
Will Oremus @willoremus.com Covering online speech, the information economy and AI weirdness at @theatlantic.com. Shitposting about Bluesky on Bluesky.
Signal: willoremus.24
Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social Journalist, currently at The New York Times. I cover privacy, technology, A.I., and the strange times we live in. Named after the Led Zeppelin song. Author of YOUR FACE BELONGS TO US. (Yes, in my head it will always be All Your Face Are Belong To Us)
Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social Security writer @wired.com
Cybercrime, privacy, surveillance, and more.
Signal: mattburgess.20 | Email: matt_burgess@wired.com
Will Knight @willknight.bsky.social Hi.
Signal = wak.01.
Jeremy Howard @howard.fm https://Answer.AI & https://fast.ai founding CEO; previous: hon professor @ UQ; leader of masks4all; founding CEO Enlitic; founding president Kaggle; various other stuff…
Simon Willison @simonwillison.net Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Dr Noemi Dreksler @noemidreksler.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Governance of AI | Public and expert opinion of AI | AI Risk Management
Murray Shanahan @mpshanahan.bsky.social Professor at Imperial College London and Principal Scientist at Google DeepMind. Posting in a personal capacity. To send me a message please use email.
MAIKEONE[big] @maosbot.bsky.social Mother, wife, Australian, Professor of Machine Learning in Oxford. Long Covid, trans rights, music, reggae, AI must be good for humans, https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mosb. She/her 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app Founder & PI @aial.ie. Assistant Professor of AI, School of Computer Science & Statistics, @tcddublin.bsky.social
AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social AI correspondent at the Economist. I write about it, that is. I’m still human. One of literally dozens of people online who is not American.
Josh You @justjoshinyou.bsky.social researcher at Epoch AI. Views my own 🔸
Vinay Hiremath @vinayh.com AI gov, sw eng, infra, transport 🔹
Research Scholar at the Centre for the Governance of AI (GovAI)
Davey Alba @davey.bsky.social Bloomberg tech reporter / Google, Big Tech, misinfo / https://daveyalba.com / ask for my Signal
Hayden Field @haydenfield.bsky.social Senior AI reporter at The Verge.
6 years covering the AI industry's power dynamics, societal implications & the AI arms race. Previously: CNBC, Morning Brew, Protocol, etc.
DM me off the record on Signal: haydenfield.11
Sanjush Dalmia @sanjushdalmia.bsky.social Science and Technology Policy | Fellow @britishprogress.org | Member @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social | NHS Doctor and Medical Researcher
Prev: Science Policy Advisor to Labour, Science Policy Lead at UK Day One
Manchester / Leeds
issielapowsky.bsky.social @issielapowsky.bsky.social Journalist covering tech, politics, and national affairs. Formerly WIRED and Protocol. Work featured in The New York Times, Fast Company, Inc., The Atlantic, and more. www.issielapowsky.com
Signal: issielapowsky.08
Carl Franzen @carlfranzen.bsky.social late 30s, executive editor @venturebeat.com, fiction writer, AI strategist
Niall Firth @niallfirth.bsky.social Executive editor, newsroom. MIT Technology Review
Shira Ovide @shiraovide.bsky.social Writes about A.I. for the Washington Post. New Yorker. Bird watcher. Grumpy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/shira-ovide/
Elliot Jones @elliotmjones.bsky.social Research Scientist @ UK AI Security Institute
https://www.admonymous.co/elliot-jones
Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org Co-founder at Asana and Good Ventures (a funding partner of Coefficient Giving). Strange looper. You can just build the things you want to see in the world.
“Criminally underliked”
Malo Bourgon @malo.online CEO at Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI, @intelligence.org)
nitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social technology mother @ the washington post. baddie in the digital badlands. signal: nitasha.10
Trevor Levin @trevorlevin.bsky.social Trying to help the world navigate potentially transformative technologies, currently via AI Governance and Policy at Coefficient Giving. Enjoyer of acoustic guitars, history books, and plant-based foods.
harry law @harrylaw.bsky.social Thinking about thinking machines | University of Cambridge and Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence | Previously Google DeepMind
Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com tech & society @washingtonpost.com
stories: https://drewharwell.com/
videos: tiktok.com/@drewharwell
+ instagram.com/drewharwell
Will Douglas Heaven @willdouglasheaven.bsky.social Senior AI Editor at MIT Technology Review / Signal: strawbilly.69
hailey schoelkopf @hails.computer
Max Zeff @mzeff.bsky.social Writing - mostly about AI - for WIRED. I am maxwell, I am max, but I am not well. On signal at Mzeff.88
Gillian Hadfield @ghadfield.bsky.social Economist and legal scholar turned AI researcher focused on AI alignment and governance. Prof of government and policy and computer science at Johns Hopkins where I run the Normativity Lab. Recruiting CS postdocs and PhD students. gillianhadfield.org
Vitalik Buterin @vitalik.ca
roon @roon.bsky.social AGI researchoor
Daniel @growingdaniel.bsky.social I’m asking you to do something well
roon @tszzl.bsky.social
Cate Hall @cate.bsky.social born at the right time
CEO @ Astera
Tom Chivers @tomchivers.bsky.social "Far too nice to be a journalist," per Terry Pratchett. Lead writer on Semafor's Flagship newsletter. DMs open; chiversthomas(a)gmail.
Latest book, Everything is Predictable: geni.us/EIPBook
Podcast, The Studies Show: https://www.thestudiesshowpod.com
William Eden @weden.bsky.social
Eli Dourado @elidourado.com On a sacred quest to increase the pace of economic growth at the Abundance Institute. On the side of the builders. tfp/acc 🚀
@dwarkesh.bsky.social @dwarkesh.bsky.social
dylan matthews @dylanmatt.bsky.social i write for vox
Peter Wildeford @peterwildeford.bsky.social Globally ranked top 20 forecaster, former data scientist
As seen on TV! The Daily Show, Good Morning America
Protecting liberty and prosperity in the age of superintelligence
Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
Miles Brundage @milesbrundage.bsky.social AI policy researcher, wife guy, fan of cute animals and sci-fi, executive director of AVERI, Substacker
Joshua Gans @joshgans.bsky.social Professor at University of Toronto
Seb Krier @sebkrier.com friendly deep sea dweller
Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social I run The Update newsletter: www.update.news
Book: academic.oup.com/book/56384
Shakeel @shakeelhashim.com Writing about AI policy at Transformer. Supporting AI journalism with grants at Tarbell. Prev: AI safety and EA comms; journalist at The Economist, Protocol, Finimize. London.
https://transformernews.ai
Daniel Eth (yes, Eth is my actual last name) @daniel-eth.bsky.social AI alignment & memes | "known for his humorous and insightful tweets" - Bing/GPT-4 | prev: @FHIOxford
Ben Hayum @profoundlyyyy.bsky.social
Maxwell Tabarrok @mtabarrok.bsky.social Econ, Math, History, Progress
https://maximumprogress.substack.com/
Geoffrey Irving @girving.bsky.social Cofounder and Chief Scientist at Resolution. Alignment will be solved eventually, but not necessarily in time. Previously UK AISI, DeepMind, OpenAI, Google Brain, etc.
Chris Olah @colah.bsky.social Reverse engineering neural networks at Anthropic. Previously Distill, OpenAI, Google Brain.Personal account.
Samuel Hammond @hamandcheese.bsky.social Social policy synthesizer. www.secondbest.ca
Aaron Bergman @aaronbergman18.bsky.social 👎: suffering | 👍: EA, AI alignment, decoupling, R, cringe, amateur pharmacology + programming | Georgetown '22 (math+econ+phil) | Career status: 🤷♂️
@jackclarksf.bsky.social @jackclarksf.bsky.social Anthropic and Import AI. Previously OpenAI, Bloomberg, The Register. Weird futures.