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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
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/
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
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: Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics and the Unsettled Past, Body and 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…
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
David Manheim @davidmanheim.alter.org.il Humanity's future can be amazing - let's make sure it is. Visiting lecturer at the Technion, founder https://alter.org.il, Superforecaster, Pardee RAND graduate.
Stefan Schubert @stefanschubert.bsky.social I run The Update newsletter: www.update.news Book: academic.oup.com/book/56384
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
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
Sean O hEigeartaigh @sean-o-h.bsky.social Academic, AI nerd and science nerd more broadly. Currently obsessed with stravinsky (not sure how that happened).
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.
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)
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
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, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
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)
Jeff Sebo @jeffsebo.bsky.social Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, Director of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection, Director of the Center for Mind, Ethics, and Policy, and Co-Director of the Wild Animal Welfare Program, New York University. jeffsebo.net
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
Agus 🔎🔸 @agucova.bsky.social Accelerate AI safety. 🔗 agus.sh
Alec Stapp @alecstapp.bsky.social Co-founder IFP
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.
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
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.
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
Garrison Lovely @garrisonlovely.bsky.social Author of Obsolete: The AI Industry's Trillion Dollar Race to Replace You—and How to Stop It (Nation Books). https://orbooks.com/catalog/obsolete/ Bylines: NYT, Nature, BBC, Bloomberg, MIT Tech Review, TIME + others
Seb Krier @sebk.bsky.social friendly deep sea dweller
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
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
Sam Bowman @sleepinyourhat.bsky.social AI safety at Anthropic, on leave from a faculty job at NYU. Views not employers'. I think you should join Giving What We Can. cims.nyu.edu/~sbowman
Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
Martin Kleppmann @martin.kleppmann.com Associate Professor at @cst.cam.ac.uk, researching decentralised systems and security protocols. Advisor to the Bluesky team. Wrote “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” (O’Reilly). he/him
N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social Writer. She/her.
Maggie Appleton @maggieappleton.com Staff Research Engineer @githubnext.com. But actually a designer. Adores digital gardening, end-user development, and embodied cognition. Makes visual essays about design, programming, and anthropology. 📍 London 🌱 maggieappleton.com
@necaris.net @necaris.net
𝙼𝚊𝚝𝚝𝚑𝚎𝚠 𝙷𝚊𝚗𝚜𝚘𝚗 @geoskeptic.bsky.social Matthew is just this guy, you know? Remote sensing, open-source and geospatial @element84
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Datawrapper @datawrapper.de Enrich your stories with charts, maps, and tables – interactive, responsive, and on brand. Questions? Write us: datawrapper.de/contact-us
Tom Standage @tomstandage.bsky.social Author, deputy editor at The Economist, maker of pizzas, drummer, gamer, history nerd
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.
BeaconDB @beacondb.net https://beacondb.net/
Nathan Freitas @nathan.freitas.net There are so many essential problems to solve in the world, why limit yourself to smart juicers and photo filters? mastodon @n8fr8@ohai.social Also me: https://nathan.freitas.net https://guardianproject.info https://tibetaction.net
Tom MacWright @macwright.com bikes, runs, makes val.town, writes macwright.com, open source, geo, music, sewing and other stuff. twitter archive: https://bsky.app/profile/archive.macwright.com
Martin Fleischmann @martinfleischmann.net Researcher. Cities, urban morphology, human geography & spatial data science. Open source software developer. #python #cities #open_science https://martinfleischmann.net
Grant McKenzie @grantdmckenzie.bsky.social Associate Professor of Spatial Data Science at McGill University. Place • Mobility • Privacy. https://grantmckenzie.com
Data Rescue Project #DataRescue @datarescueproject.org Public Access to Public Data is a Public Good. We want to ensure our data are not gone forever. Read more about our efforts: https://www.datarescueproject.org/press/
kepano @stephango.com making @obsidian.md
UCL Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) @casaucl.bsky.social Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis | @thebartlettucl.bsky.social | Website: ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/casa
Ben Harries @ben-harries.bsky.social Scalable Sustainable Land Use + Nature Tech Data Engineer @ Land App Ex: food-tech Founder, Satellite Apps Catapult + CXL intern
XBOW @xbow.com Bringing AI to offensive security by autonomously finding and exploiting web vulnerabilities. https://xbow.com/
Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com I bloop about the politics of technology and host the Computer Says Maybe podcast: https://www.themaybe.org/podcast
Brendan Dolan-Gavitt @moyix.net AI researcher at XBOW. Security, RE, ML. PGP http://keybase.io/moyix/
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
Cate Hall @cate.bsky.social born at the right time CEO @ Astera
Club of Rome @clubofrome.org Drawing on the unique, collective know-how of our 100+ members we seek to define comprehensive solutions to the complex, interconnected challenges of our world. www.clubofrome.org
Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸 @genmon.fyi building inanimate.tech / blogger at interconnected.org
David Frum @davidfrum.bsky.social Staff writer for the Atlantic. Host of the David Frum Show webcast. Formerly ... quite a lot of things. Washington DC and Wellington, Ontario. Reach me via Producer@TheDavidFrumShow.com DMs open to followers
Albert Wenger @albertwenger.bsky.social VC at usv.com, blog at continuations.com, book at worldaftercapital.org
Eirini Malliaraki @irinimalliaraki.bsky.social Born half beast, half goddess & will die as a machine
Jason Sawle @gis4schools.bsky.social Global Schools Manager at Esri. Supporting schools to teach with and about GIS. Working on the new National Geographic MapMaker app www.esri.com/mapmaker. #GIS4Good #Equity #CTE #XR He/Him/His. Views are my own. Ally 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
@kernel0x.bsky.social @kernel0x.bsky.social
Mike Masnick @masnick.com Techdirt guy. Writes about social media, copyright, free speech, content moderation, civil liberties and stuff like that. Once wrote a paper that may have helped inspire this service & now I'm on its board: https://bit.ly/protocolnotplatform
Why @why.bsky.world Wandering Wizard Utopian General Partner @mana.inc 🌳
MJ @marcjohnson.xyz marcjohnson.xyz