Cynthia Khoo @cyn-k.bsky.social 👩🏻💻 Tech & human rights lawyer @ tekhnoslaw.ca
⚖️ Senior Fellow @citizenlab.ca | fmr @cippic.bsky.social | fmr @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social
🎓 LLM @cdtsuottawaclts.bsky.social | JD @UVicLaw
🤸🏻♀️ Capoeirista
Ro Encarnación @rone.bsky.social PhD in progress at Penn HCI. I work on HCI + algorithmic justice + public sector AI policy.
roencarnacion.com
Madeleine Daepp @mdaepp.bsky.social Civic technologist studying AI + democracy. Research Director @cdt.org, currently on civic leave from Microsoft Research. PhD MIT. Concerned about generative propaganda but have handed my entire life over to Claude. Views my own. madeleinedaepp.com
Mor Naaman @informor.bsky.social Cornell Tech professor (information science, AI-mediated Communication, trustworthiness of our information ecosystem). New York City. Taller in person. Opinions my own.
botvinick.bsky.social @botvinick.bsky.social Anthropic, leading work on AI and the rule of law
Yale Law School, resident fellow
Dr. Nathan C. Walker @drnatewalker.bsky.social Principal Investigator at the AI Ethics Lab at Rutgers University and Expert AI Trainer in law and education at OpenAI.
B! 🐝 Cavello (they/them) @b-cavello.bsky.social activist, aspiring-polymath, problematic feminist working to better this world
@b_cavello@mastodon.publicinterest.town
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Nick Garcia @nickgarcia.bsky.social 🤖 & ⚖️ | 🕹️ & 🎲 | DC & 🗽
Currently @ Public Knowledge
Meg Young @megyoung0.bsky.social Director, AI Civics @datasociety
Amos Toh @amostoh.bsky.social senior counsel, Brennan Center for Justice. interested in all the ways money in tech helps and hurts. he/him, 🇸🇬 in 🇺🇸
The Internet Ethics program--Markkula Center for Applied Ethics @iethics.bsky.social Irina Raicu behind the keyboard.
Khari Johnson @khari.bsky.social proud dad, snack enthusiast, tech reporter at CalMatters/The Markup, formerly at WIRED and VentureBeat
Signal —> kharijohnson.67
WABA Cargo Bike Library @wababikelibrary.bsky.social Borrow a cargo bike - free!
@AdamEisgrau @adameisgrau.bsky.social #FairUse fighter for @ChamberofProgress’ Generate & Create campaign. JD, Hill staffer, long-time tech wonk. Amateur photographer, jazz lover, art junkie, avid house plant killer.
p. sampson @psampson.net cs phd @ penn, nsf-grfp fellow, spelman alum.
💭 people, platforms, power.
they/she. 🧋 🍑 🧑🏾💻
https://psampson.net
Lauren Goode @laurengoode.bsky.social WIRED Senior Correspondent covering Silicon Valley and its impact beyond. Send tips to Signal handle ChaoticGoode.12. (No PR pitches please)
Raza Panjwani @tabularaza.net Stuff and things. Fan of tinkering, carbohydrates, the New York Mets, outlaw hacker pancreases, and Oxford commas.
Personal account, etc.
Travis Hall @travisrh.bsky.social Director of State Engagement for the Center for Democracy and Technology. Tech policy and parenting.
Drew Courtney @drewcourt.bsky.social Working for civil rights and civil liberties in tech. Lover of cities in general, DC in particular. Also: books, tea, bikes, etc. Comms Director at @cdt.org but all opinions are my dog's
Solon Barocas @s010n.bsky.social Researcher, Microsoft Research
Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle.bsky.social D.C. reporter, @notus.com Former: @51st.news, WAMU, and DCist.
Partnership on AI @partnershipai.bsky.social A non-profit bringing together academic, civil society, industry, & media organizations to address the most important and difficult questions concerning AI.
Dan Wuori @danwuori.bsky.social Educator, Author of The Daycare Myth: What We Get Wrong About Early Care and Education (and What We Should Do About It)
Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social Making data & AI work for people & society.
Sign up for our fortnightly newsletter: https://adalovelaceinstitute.org//newsletter-subscribe
Federation of American Scientists @scientistsorg.bsky.social Striving for a safer world since 1945
science policy | nuclear weapons | clean energy | STEM education | artificial intelligence | data privacy | much much more
Clara Langevin @cclangevin.bsky.social AI Policy Specialist at @scientistsorg.bsky.social I think about AI policy in the US and Brazil- all views are my own. Lifelong Cruzeirense 💙🦊💫
@awo.agency @awo.agency
Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social EU law and tech policy, mostly musings on content moderation, platform governance, privacy, AI. Now: Co-Founder & Director @awo.agency. Fellow at Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Then: EU Parliament. UN. Mozilla. PhD in EU law.
Katherine Lee @katherinelee.bsky.social Researcher at OpenAI and at the GenLaw Center.
I just want things to work (:
https://katelee168.github.io/
A. Feder Cooper @afedercooper.bsky.social ML prof @ Yale, mischief executive officer
https://attention-is-not-all-you-need.github.io
The AI Disclosures Project @ai-disclosures.bsky.social Architecting healthy AI markets by @timoreilly.bsky.social & @ilan-strauss.bsky.social
Substack: https://asimovaddendum.substack.com
www.ai-disclosures.org
https://huggingface.co/Disclosures-SSRC
https://github.com/AI-Disclosures-Project
Sam Gregory @samgregory.bsky.social AI + emerging tech + epistemic resilience; 'Prepare, Don't Panic' initiative on media manipulation/generative AI. TED speaker on deepfakes, https://www.samgregory.info, @samgregory on Twitter/X. PhD Westminster. Former Executive Director WITNESS.
Jerremy Holland @jerremy.bsky.social Director of AI Research at Apple. Board Chair for Partnership on AI. Photographer. Musician.
JennyLDavis @jenny-l-davis.bsky.social Sociologist of emergent tech. Dog content enthusiast. https://www.jennyldavis.com/
Shahar Avin @shaharavin.bsky.social ITH. UK AISI.
TSR. Dad. Views my own?
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Helen Toner @hlntnr.bsky.social AI, national security, China. Part of the founding team at @csetgeorgetown.bsky.social (opinions my own). Author of Rising Tide on substack: helentoner.substack.com
Microsoft Research @msftresearch.bsky.social We advance science and technology to benefit humanity.
http://microsoft.com/research
Hanna Wallach @hannawallach.bsky.social VP and Distinguished Scientist at Microsoft Research NYC. AI evaluation and measurement, responsible AI, computational social science, machine learning. She/her.
One photo a day since January 2018: https://www.instagram.com/logisticaggression/
Cynthia Wong @cynthiaw.bsky.social
Shakir Mohamed @shakirm.bsky.social AI, sociotechnical systems, social purpose. Research director at Google DeepMind. Cofounder and Chair at Deep Learning Indaba. FAccT2025 co-program chair. shakirm.com
Gabriel Nicholas @gaben.bsky.social Writing about tech policy. Senior Policy Advisor at NTIA, research at Center for Democracy & Technology.
Tatiana @tatianarice.bsky.social Deputy Director, U.S. Legislation @ FPF ⏩ | (mostly) tech-optimist | #blacklivesmatter | tweets ≠ legal advice
Borhane Blili-Hamelin @borhane.bsky.social He, him | Data Scientist @ TD Bank | Improving AI Governance | Views my own
https://borhane.xyz
Aviya Skowron @aviya.bsky.social Head of Policy at EleutherAI. They/them. Working at the intersection of open source and AI policy. Former philosophlete.
Jenn Wortman Vaughan @jennwv.bsky.social Sr. Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research, NYC // Machine Learning, Responsible AI, Transparency, Intelligibility, Human-AI Interaction // WiML Co-founder // Former NeurIPS & current FAccT Program Co-chair // Brooklyn, NY // http://jennwv.com
Wesley Hanwen Deng @wesleydeng.bsky.social Ph.D. @ CMU HCII. Developing tools and processes to support Responsible AI practices on the ground.
Currently focusing on AI red-teaming, auditing, and impact assessment.
Prev. Microsoft Research, Berkeley EECS.
https://www.wesleydeng.com
Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social Subscribe to my tech and online culture newsletter UserMag.co
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Björn O'Connor-López @keirlamont.bsky.social Data law and policy
I don't rock the boat, but it's always unsteady.
Cobun Zweifel-Keegan @cobun.bsky.social Privacy, data protection, AI governance. Translating policy to practice. Some friction is good friction. D.C. policy lawyer by day, Colorado forest creature by night. (he / him)
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson @profferguson.bsky.social Law Prof. GWU, Tech & Justice. Author: “Your Data Will Be Used Against You,” “The Rise of Big Data Policing,” “Why Jury Duty Matters,” and “The Law of Law School.”
Jules Polonetsky @julespolonetsky.bsky.social CEO, Future of Privacy Forum
FPF.org
MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com Our in depth reporting on innovation reveals and explains what’s happening now to help you know what’s coming next.
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TechTonic Justice @techtonicjustice.bsky.social For the people AI leaves behind. A multidimensional, community-based effort to strengthen local justice movements + build long-term power. Launched 11/19/24. Founder: @kevindeliban.bsky.social
Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/techtonicjustice
Kevin De Liban @kevindeliban.bsky.social founder @techtonicjustice.bsky.social | defeated Medicaid care-cutting algorithm | legal aid lawyer | rapper | economic + racial + AI justice | sci-fi + fantasy | Warriors | he/him
Learn more of how AI harms low-income people: techtonicjustice.org
Dean W. Ball @deanwb.bsky.social
https://hyperdimensional.co
Ari Ezra Waldman @ariezra.bsky.social Law professor at UC Irvine, studying law, technology, society, and queer civil rights. 🏳️🌈
Dad to Peabody.
Riana @riana.bsky.social Tech policy researcher at Stanford. Former litigator. Anger is an energy. Dum spiro spero. she/her
Mary Anne Franks @maryannefranks.bsky.social Law Professor at George Washington Law. President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative. Author of Fearless Speech (2024) and The Cult of the Constitution (2019). First Amendment, civil rights, technology, criminal law, family law, firearms law.
Rebecca Crootof @crootof.bsky.social I tend to write about #TechLaw (see www.techlawbook.com), war and military AI (especially #WarTorts), and bizarre torts hypos.
Nancy Litchfield Hicks Professor of Law, University of Richmond; Affiliate Fellow, Yale ISP; 2024 ELSI Visiting Scholar, DARPA.
Elizabeth Joh @elizabethjoh.bsky.social Law Prof at UC Davis Law; co-host of the 99pi Breakdown of the Constitution https://99percentinvisible.org/book-club/
Non-practicing optimist.
Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social public law, science, technology
hannahbw.com
Tim Harper @tharper.bsky.social Elections and Democracy Lead @cendemtech.bsky.social | Fmr Elections policy at Meta
Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com NYT Bestselling Author – ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (HarperCollins/Mariner) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
Fmr White House Sr Policy Advisor | Fmr Sr Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Contact: fieldsmeyer.com
More: amifieldsmeyer.substack.com
Simone Zhang @sxz.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Sociology at NYU. Classification, prediction, and AI in decision-making, social policy, and law.
www.simonezhang.com
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
Kat Duffy @rightsduff.bsky.social Full time: Momlife + working on tech, rights, societal impacts, democracy, foreign affairs. Major enthusiast of biking, bourboning, pie making, home renos, kitchen design, and travel.
nabiha syed @nabiha.bsky.social Executive Director @ Mozilla Foundation
Mama to Musa and Ibi
Definitely have cookies in my purse
Katie Harbath @katieharbath.bsky.social Work at intersection of tech and democracy. Fmr Facebook. Newsletter writer: anchorchange.substack.com
Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot.bsky.social Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social Co-Founder at Zentropi. Formerly Head of Trust & Safety at OpenAI, of Community Policy at Airbnb, and of Content Policy Facebook. Strictly cold takes.
Alex Stamos @stamos.org CPO/CSO of Corridor.dev, teaching at Stanford.
Sheera Frenkel @sheeraf.bsky.social NYTimes reporter and co-author of NYT bestseller “An Ugly Truth” with Cecilia Kang.
Tell me a story. (Ideally through a non-work device using Signal. Find me via my username sheera.11)
Emily Bell @emilybell.bsky.social Prof Columbia J School. Director Tow Center . Writes Guardian + elsewhere. Lives in airports…views are my own, thank goodness
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)
Yoel Roth @yoyoel.com Internet sanitation enthusiast and full-time corgi wrangler.
Irene Chen @irenetrampoline.bsky.social ML for healthcare and health equity. Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley and UCSF.
https://irenechen.net/
Ken Holstein @kenholstein.bsky.social HCI Prof at CMU HCII: thecoalalab.com
Research on:
- technologies to augment human thinking and learning
- participatory & responsible AI
- human-AI interaction
Capital Weather @capitalweather.com D.C.'s Trusted Weather Team
http://www.capitalweather.com | info@capitalweather.com
Pamela Samuelson @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social Professor, Berkeley Law School, who writes about challenges that new information technologies pose for intellectual property & other laws. Past Chair & member of Electronic Frontier Foundation Board & of Authors Alliance Board. Gardening is my best hobby
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
Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social I’m the founding executive editor of Heatmap News, a contributing Opinion writer for The New York Times, and the cohost of the Shift Key podcast.
📍NYC
John Verdi @johnverdi.bsky.social SVP of Policy, Future of Privacy Forum
Also https://mastodon.social/@johnverdi and https://twitter.com/johnverdi
Danny Weitzner @djweitzner.bsky.social MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab
Founder, MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative
Privacy, Cybersecurity, Free Speech, Surveillance, Computer Science & Law
https://internetpolicy.mit.edu/daniel-weitzner/
Paul Ohm @paulohm.bsky.social Lawprof Georgetown / Emacs and org-mode
Daniel Solove @daniel-solove.bsky.social I'm a law professor at GW Law School and an expert on privacy, AI, technology, and data security law. I also write about law, literature, and the humanities. More about me at https://danielsolove.com
Kevin Bankston @bankston.bsky.social CONVERGER at kevinbankston.substack.com. Senior Advisor on AI Governance @cdt.org. Teaching AI law @georgetownlaw.bsky.social. Imagining futures @imaginationasu.bsky.social. My opinions, not theirs.
James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social I’m a professor at Cornell Tech and Cornell Law School.
One of "a number of very informative people." -WSJ
The Information Society Project at Yale Law School @yaleisp.bsky.social The Information Society Project at Yale Law School is an intellectual center addressing issues at the intersection of law, tech & society. https://law.yale.edu/isp/community
Margot @margotkaminski.bsky.social Professor at Colorado Law. Data privacy, AI, speech.
Amanda Levendowski Tepski @tepski.tech writing Good Technologies: A Practical Primer for Lawyers (coming 2027 @ucpress.bsky.social)
teaching intellectual property, cyberlaw, privacy + technology @georgetownlaw.bsky.social
making prints, perfumes, + poems @ tepski.tech/art
Robyn Caplan @robyncaplan.bsky.social Assistant professor at Duke University. Tech policy, platform governance, mom.
I make bad jokes sometimes.
Nicole Wong @nicolewong.bsky.social Forever OOO. Formerly US Deputy CTO, also previously at Google, Twitter, Perkins Coie. Now board member for Mozilla Foundation, Tech Talent Project, CalMatters & Open Technology Fund. Currently studying words.
nsqe @nsqe.bsky.social Head of Privacy @Incode. Board member @ Engine.is. Does the infosec law stuff too. Queer. Dorky. Lawyer, not really searching for redemption. @nsqe basically everywhere.
Be less toxic on bsky challenge, difficulty level pretty easy actually
Christopher Soghoian @christopher.soghoian.net Work: Senior Advisor for Privacy and Cybersecurity, Office of Senator Ron Wyden.
Eric Goldman @ericgoldman.bsky.social Associate Dean for Research & Professor, Santa Clara Law. Internet Law, IP, Advertising Law. He/him. Website: http://www.ericgoldman.org. Email: egoldman@gmail.com
Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD @josephhall.org Astrophysicist turned advocate; guiding the globe to a safer, stronger Internet. Distinguished Technologist @internetsociety.org, https://josephhall.org/, (former CDT, NYU, Princeton CITP, Berkekey iSchool/Astro)
Tiffany C. Li @tiffanycli.bsky.social Law professor and writer. Expert on tech, privacy, AI, and sarcasm.
🐦: https://twitter.com/tiffanycli
🧵: https://www.threads.net/@tiffany.c.li
🐘: https://mastodon.social/@tiffanycli
TiffanyLi.com if you insist
Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social Law professor & journalist looking at tech geopolitics, free expression, internet law, online governance, & AI.
Senior Editor at Lawfare.
https://klonick.substack.com/
www.kateklonick.com
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