Gillian Hadfield

@ghadfield.bsky.social

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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

Promotional graphic on a bright green background announcing a new funding call, Scaling AI Safety for a Multi-Agent World, with a deadline of 9 August 2026. Logos along the bottom show the five funding partners, the Cooperative AI Foundation, Google DeepMind, Schmidt Sciences, ARIA (Advanced Research + Invention Agency), and Google.org.

Screenshot of a LinkedIn post by Jack Shanahan (Retired USAF; Project Maven/DoD JAIC; NCSI MIS; SCSP Defense Partnership), posted 3 hours ago. In the post, Shanahan weighs in on the Anthropic-Pentagon dispute, noting that despite his Project Maven background, he's sympathetic to Anthropic's position. He argues no current LLM should be used in fully lethal autonomous weapons systems, calling that a reasonable red line, and opposes mass surveillance of US citizens as a second red line. He criticizes the public nature of the dispute, calls the supply chain risk designation "laughable," questions invoking the DPA against the company's will, and advocates for shared government-industry-academia governance of frontier AI models.

Gillian Hadfield and Thomas Friedman stand together smiling in an office, each holding their respective books - Hadfield holds 'Rules for a Flat World' and Friedman holds 'The World is Flat.'