JD Vance @jd-vance-1.bsky.social Christian, husband, dad. Vice President of the United States.
jdvance.com
Nicolas Papernot @nicolaspapernot.bsky.social Security and Privacy of Machine Learning at UofT, Vector Institute, and Google 🇨🇦🇫🇷🇪🇺 Co-Director of Canadian AI Safety Institute (CAISI) Research Program at CIFAR. Opinions mine
Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social Hopeful technologist.
Community tech, careful innovation, socially progressive tech policy.
https://www.careful.industries
https://hopeful.technology
https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet
DMs don't work but hello@careful.industries will find me
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.
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/
Jess Hamrick @jhamrick.bsky.social Building open models @ Reflection AI. Previously: Google DeepMind, UC Berkeley, MIT. I post about: AI 🤖, flowers 🌷, parenting 👶, public transit 🚆. She/her.
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk @cser.bsky.social Cambridge University interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study and mitigation of risks that could lead to human extinction or civilizational collapse.
John Springford @johnspringford.bsky.social Economist and occasional politics dabbler. Working on a project to improve labour markets. Associate fellow, Centre for European Reform. Visiting fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Bath University. Accusations of bad faith or lying = block.
Jonathan Stray @jonathanstray.com Knowing things is a solved problem. Getting along is not. Working on AI, media, and inter-group conflict @CHAI_Berkeley. Got here from computational journalism.
Jay Van Bavel, PhD @jayvanbavel.bsky.social Professor of Psychology at NYU (jayvanbavel.com) | Author of The Power of Us Book (powerofus.online) | Director of NYU Center for Conflict & Cooperation | trying to write a new book about collective decisions
Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com Investigative reporter NYT. Helping cover President Trump, his administration and circle of friends -- without fear or favor. I write about people and power. My contact on Signal: EricLiptonNYT.01
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.
Phil Williams @philinvestigates.com Defending democracy. Confronting hate. Speaking truth to power - and the angry mob. NewsChannel 5 chief investigative reporter. Chancellor, duPont, Peabody awards. RTDNA Lifetime Achievement. Pulitzer finalist. Per John Oliver: “Nashville’s Nosiest Bitch.”
Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com tech & society @washingtonpost.com
stories: https://drewharwell.com/
videos: tiktok.com/@drewharwell
+ instagram.com/drewharwell
Jonathan Frankle @jfrankle.com Chief AI Scientist at Databricks. Founding team at MosaicML. MIT/Princeton alum. Lottery ticket enthusiast. Working on data intelligence.
Chris Webster 🔶 @handle.invalid I do infosec and IT work for Open Phil.
Trying to get better at lifting weights, making cocktails, and Magic: The Gathering.
Blog at christopher-webster.com ✌️
Malo Bourgon @malo.online CEO at Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI, @intelligence.org)
Centre for Cities @centreforcities.bsky.social The Centre for Cities is an independent think tank dedicated to improving the economies of the UK's largest cities and towns
Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social Writes the most popular UK Substack (samf.substack.com)
Author of Sunday Times bestselling book "Failed State". (An Economist and Financial Times Book of the Year for 2024). Working on book two.
Senior fellow: Institute for Government
karpathy @karpathy.bsky.social AI @ OpenAI, Tesla, Stanford
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
Hugging Face @hf.co The AI community building the future!
Robin Hanson @robinhanson.bsky.social Let’s skip witty repartee & discuss fundamental questions. Views are mine, not GMU’s or Virginia’s. Books: http://ageofem.com, http://elephantinthebrain.com
Cate Hall @cate.bsky.social born at the right time
CEO @ Astera
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
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias.bsky.social
Chris Summerfield @summerfieldlab.bsky.social Neuronerd, Prof, head of HIP lab in Experimental Psychology, Oxford. Researcher, UK AI Safety Institute. https://humaninformationprocessing.com/.
Re:State @re-state.bsky.social Formerly Reform think tank. Re:State is an independent, cross-party public services think tank. We don’t want to tweak, we want to transform.
Sara Hooker @sarahooker.bsky.social I lead Cohere For AI. Formerly Research
Google Brain. ML Efficiency, LLMs,
@trustworthy_ml.
Jeff Dean @jeffdean.bsky.social Google Chief Scientist, Gemini Lead. Opinions stated here are my own, not those of Google. Gemini, TensorFlow, MapReduce, Bigtable, Spanner, ML things, ...
Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social Professor of Ethics & Technology @ Hertie School, Berlin. Interests: Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Behavioural Ecology; Cooperation; Digital Governance. Social media policy: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html
Andrew Strait @agstrait.bsky.social UK AI Security Institute
Former Ada Lovelace Institute, Google, DeepMind, OII
Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social Professor of AI, society, media and democracy + Political Communication, U Amsterdam || Director of Digital Democracy Centre, SDU || AlgoSoc || AIMD || Mix of work and private stuff ||
🇩🇰🇳🇱🇪🇺🏃🏼🧪☕️🍿🐶🟥🦋
Siobhan Mackenzie Hall @smhall97.bsky.social 🇿🇦 | Fairness in AI | University of Oxford | Deep Learning Indaba | Internships: Google DeepMind || Microsoft Research
https://siobhanmackenziehall.com/
Pepa Atanasova @apepa.bsky.social Assistant Professor, University of Copenhagen; interpretability, xAI, factuality, accountability, xAI diagnostics https://apepa.github.io/
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
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/
John Bachelor @johndbachelor.bsky.social
Bluesky @bsky.app official Bluesky account (check username👆)
Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app
Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social Climber 🇪🇬 |Chief AI Scientist at @ainowinstitute.bsky.social | Safety engineer (nuclear, defense, software & AI/ML) | TIME 100 AI | MIT 35 U 35
x-Trail of Bits, OpenAI, Microsoft Research
https://www.heidyk.com/
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
David Pfau @davidpfau.com So far I have not found the science, but the numbers keep on circling me.
Views my own, unfortunately.
Dylan Hadfield-Menell @dhadfieldmenell.bsky.social Assistant Prof of AI & Decision-Making @MIT EECS
I run the Algorithmic Alignment Group (https://algorithmicalignment.csail.mit.edu/) in CSAIL.
I work on value (mis)alignment in AI systems.
https://people.csail.mit.edu/dhm/
Vitalik Buterin @vitalik.ca
roon @roon.bsky.social AGI researchoor
@esyudkowsky.bsky.social @esyudkowsky.bsky.social
Risto Uuk @ristouuk.bsky.social Head of European Policy and Research @ Future of Life Institute | PhD Researcher @ KU Leuven | Author, forthcoming Wiley book “The AI Endgame” (2027)
Herbie @herbiebradley.com a generalist agent
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/
Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Author of Prophecy ("Witty and surprising...intelligent" - NYT) and Privacy Is Power (An Economist Book of the Year). TED Speaker. Posts about #privacy, #AIethics, #philosophy, #philtech
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Maike Osborne @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 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
David Duvenaud @davidduvenaud.bsky.social Machine learning prof at U Toronto. Working on evals and AGI governance.
Yarin @yaringal.bsky.social Associate Professor of Machine Learning, University of Oxford;
OATML Group Leader;
Director of Research at the UK government's AI Safety Institute (formerly UK Taskforce on Frontier AI)
Britain Remade @britainremade.bsky.social 🇬🇧 Britain Remade is a campaign to promote economic growth. We put forward practical solutions to the problems holding Britain back.
Join the Campaign at https://www.britainremade.co.uk/
Alexander Iosad @iosad.fyi Progress, policy, practice. Past: TBI, edtech VC, history of science DPhil.
AI & tech optimist, not solutionist. Fan of universities, state capacity, 🏏. School governor, occasionally. Diasporan ✡️.
Centre for British Progress @britishprogress.org The Centre for British Progress is a non-partisan think tank on a mission to accelerate and shape an era of British growth and progress; evolved from @ukdayone.bsky.social.
Website: https://britishprogress.org/
Julia Willemyns @jujulemons.bsky.social Founder @ukdayone.bsky.social, working to put the UK at frontier of progress + achieve the highest living standards in the world
Bella Forristal @bellaforristal.bsky.social I was so close to 1k Twitter followers but here we are ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Effective altruism, veganism, various weakly-held takes on things | she/her | https://admonymous.co/bellaforristal
Alexander Berger @albrgr.bsky.social CEO of Coefficient Giving
Toby Ord @tobyord.bsky.social Senior Researcher at Oxford University.
Author — The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity.
tobyord.com
Alex Savard 🔸 @visably.bsky.social Designing for good.
🔸 Giving 10% at GivingWhatWeCan.org
@yudkowsky.bsky.social @yudkowsky.bsky.social
Julia Wise @juliawise.bsky.social Trying for human-compatible humans
Paul Crowley @ciphergoth.org I don't really come here any more sorry!
Jason Crawford @jasoncrawford.org The Roots of Progress (rootsofprogress.org)
Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org Our World in Data is a free, nonprofit website with a mission to increase understanding of the world’s largest problems and drive informed action to solve them. Based out of Oxford University (@ox.ac.uk), founded by @maxroser.bsky.social.
John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com Columnist and chief data reporter the Financial Times | Stories, stats & scatterplots | john.burn-murdoch@ft.com
📝 ft.com/jbm
Lynette Bye @lynettebye.bsky.social
Buck Shlegeris @bshlgrs.bsky.social
Giving What We Can🔸 @givingwhatwecan.bsky.social Home of the 🔸10% Pledge | Creating a global community who gives effectively and significantly
Habiba Banu 🔸 @habibabanu.bsky.social Co-founder http://spiro.ngo - TB screening and prevention charity focused on children
🔸 10% Pledge #103 with @givingwhatwecan.bsky.social
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.
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
Karen Levy @kareninkenya.bsky.social Founding Partner, Fit for Purpose. Proud Nairobian; mtoto wa pwani. Evidence seeker, social entrepreneur, up-scaler, worm slayer. Brown, LSE, YCombinator.
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
Seb Krier @sebkrier.com friendly deep sea dweller
@jacobtref.bsky.social @jacobtref.bsky.social blog.jacobtrefethen.com
OpenAI Foundation
science!
Saloni @scientificdiscovery.dev Co-founder & editor, Works in Progress. Writer, Scientific Discovery. Podcaster, Hard Drugs. Advisor, Coefficient Giving.
Newsletter: https://scientificdiscovery.dev
Podcast: https://harddrugs.worksinprogress.co
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Josh You @justjoshinyou.bsky.social researcher at Epoch AI. Views my own 🔸
80,000 Hours @80000hours.bsky.social You have 80,000 hours in your career.
This makes it your best opportunity to have a positive impact on the world.
https://80000hours.org
Fabio Kuhn 🔸 @mordaroso.bsky.social Director of Tech at Giving What We Can and Software Engineer at Giving Multiplier
Michael Plant @michaeldplant.bsky.social Moral philosopher and happiness nerd. Founder and Director, Happier Lives Institute. Postdoctoral Fellow, Oxford Unviersity. All views yours, weirdly.
Astral Codex Ten | Scott Alexander | Substack [Unofficial] @astralcodexten.com.web.brid.gy P(A|B) = [P(A)*P(B|A)]/P(B), all the rest is commentary. Click to read Astral Codex Ten, by Scott Alexander, a Substack publication.
🌉 bridged from 🌐 https://astralcodexten.com/: https://fed.brid.gy/web/astralcodexten.com
Alessandro @poli.sisti.ca Posts on public policy (in 🇨🇦 or abroad), humanities, classical music, altruism effective and ineffective. Many silly posts. Toronto-adjacent.
Daniel Filan 🔎 @danielfilan.com I'm mostly on superstimul.us now (profile is @sloeb) (also Twitter)
Agus 🔎🔸 @agucova.bsky.social Accelerate AI safety.
🔗 agus.sh
Arjun Panickssery @panickssery.bsky.social Effective Altruism | Spaced Repetition | Quoting Old Books | PELTIV Score of 190 (+6σ) | http://arjunpanickssery.substack.com
Frances Lorenz @franceslorenz.bsky.social Claude says I process my emotions externally.
Hannah Ritchie @hannahritchie.bsky.social Deputy Editor, Our World in Data
Senior Researcher, University of Oxford
Climate, energy, environment, all things data.
Matt Clancy @mattsclancy.bsky.social Runs Open Philanthropy’s Innovation Policy program. Creator of newthingsunderthesun.com, a living literature review about innovation. Website: mattsclancy.com.
Michael Nielsen @michaelnielsen.bsky.social Searching for the numinous
Australian Canadian, currently living in the US
https://michaelnotebook.com
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
Max Alexander @absurdlymax.bsky.social I do philosophy and a little math, also Effective Altruism. Every day things can get a bit better
@wdmacaskill.bsky.social @wdmacaskill.bsky.social
Sebastian Farquhar @sebfar.bsky.social Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind. AGI Alignment researcher. Views my dog's.
Jeroen 🔸 @ahappier.world 🎬 YouTuber (youtube.com/ahappierworldyt)
💡 Active in EA Belgium
🔸 10% Pledge #9211 at givingwhatwecan.org/pledge
📍 Brussels
🌱 #sentientist #effectivealtruism
"Yeroon" /jəˈʀuːn/ (he/him)