bart fish @bartfish.bsky.social luddites > grifters
Power Tools: A critique of genAI & it’s toolmen.
www.powertoolsofai.com
Albert Lloreta @albertlloreta.cat Cultura, internet, història, macarrons.
allr.cat
pfe.cat
Shifter.pt @shifter.pt O Shifter é uma revista de reflexão e crítica sobre tecnologia, sociedade e cultura.
Jeremy Cohen @jeremyfcohen.bsky.social Assistant Professor @ McMaster University.
Anthropologist of religion. Immortality, transhumanism, conspiracy theories and technology.
Vegan. Dad. ADHD haver. TalkDeath.com co-founder.
Gil Durán @gilduran.com California writer. Ida Tarbell stan.
Author: NYT Bestselling “The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy.” https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Nerd-Reich/Gil-Duran/9781668221402
Newsletter: http://www.thenerdreich.com
Alvaro Sabu @alvarosabu.bsky.social Creative Software Engineer
Author of TresJS @tresjs_dev
Content creator AlvaroDevLabs 🎥
Former founder of Porsche Digital Bcn.
Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social Romanista. Buy my book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/665171/the-cruelty-is-the-point-by-adam-serwer/
Jennifer Riggins @jkriggins.bsky.social tech journalist • developer productivity pundit • pro writer since 2003 • 8yo mom • ‘inimitable’ ‘force of nature’ ‘a little bit sweary’ ‘bubbly… thoughtful… respectful’ ‘connector of people, but not afraid to throw a pebble in the water’ ‘one I can trust’
ex/ante @exante.bsky.social backing the future of agentic tech
buildexante.com
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.
m mosier @mmosier.bsky.social democracy, risk & resilience | law + emergent technology |
Zoe Weinberg @zoew.bsky.social
Zeve Sanderson @handle.invalid Executive Director @csmapnyu.org
Angeleno living in NY. Figuring out snow and social media
Michael Garfield @michaelgarfield.bsky.social Author, artist, father, scholar, Global Weirding tour guide. Once a paleontologist and still a songwriter + experimental guitarist. Former SFI, Long Now, Mozilla. Writing on bio, psych, tech, and wisdom @ HumansOnTheLoop.com
Juliet Shen @julietshen.online product @roost.tools. just another extremely earnest and Very Online idealist. long time Trust & Safety person full of personal opinions like the skeets below
https://julietshen.online/
Rupert Manfredi @ruperts.world https://telepath.computer
https://television.run/
Isabela @1s4.bsky.social Brazuka / Diretora Executiva do torproject.org / O que é importante: Software Livre + Democratização da Informação + Privacidade + Futebol + Praia + Dança
Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com Free-range shit-talker, user agency and democracy enjoyor, governance-fixated technologist. https://bumblefudge.com
Evan Miyazono @miyazono.bsky.social Presumption of innocence for people, not software
riley ♥ they/them @ryw.bsky.social loved and loving <3 principal @ emergentresearch.net, research @ mit
Beth Goldberg @bgoldberg.bsky.social Fan of applied research for gnarly tech policy and product questions | Head of Research at Jigsaw (Google) | Lecturer at Yale Jackson School | Lurking for laughs and spicy discussion sections
Ryan @depatchedmode.bsky.social just a designer
Steven Puri @stevenpuri.bsky.social Helping remote workers focus, finish faster & feel healthy. Founder @thesukha.co
| ex-studio exec/producer @ Fox, DreamWorks, Sony
| daily yogi
Danny @heyitsdb.bsky.social VC at BlueYard, ex. product, lover of lasagna and contemporary dance.
glenn poppe @pop.pe recalculating…
🌼 pop.pe
🌳 oakland, ca
Anastasia @ana.bsky.social Building Better Half | coined agentic tech | run the Agentic Tech Podcast | write, speak, and host events on tech & human agency
https://www.better-half.ai/
http://agentictech.substack.com
Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social Software, systems, and society. 💎 @ipfs.tech Fdn Director, Google Forms inventor, velodrome racer, safe streets advocate. Philly + everywhere.
Chad Fowler @chadfowler.com GP&CTO @blueyard.com
Author, musician, speaker, developer
AT-proto based encrypted group chat protocol: @freeq.at
Regenerative Software with the Phoenix Architecture: https://aicoding.leaflet.pub/
https://chadfowler.com/
b5 @b5.bsky.social Worker crayon at n0.computer, we make iroh.computer
Chad Kohalyk @chadkoh.com Generous with Likes ❤️ 📸 🖊️ 📿 🙏 He/him 日本語 🙆♂️ #COYS #SurreyBC 🇨🇦
https://micro.chadkohalyk.com/about-me/
#PublicInterestTechnologist #buddhism #books #photography #japan
Also @protocolsforpublishers.com & @dwebyvr.org
PfP @kawaiirailroads.millie-may.net
Matthew Hodgson @arathorn.net project lead matrix.org | CEO/CTO Element
Boris @bmann.ca Web tinkerer. Pooling capital and collaboration.
What if we made things a little bit better?
Vivian Chong @viviacious.bsky.social 🛠️ Building AI youth safety tools at apgardai.com
John Doyle @jdcape.bsky.social CEO @ Cape
Scott Steinhardt @scottfromny.com Comms @ Reality Defender
Writer elsewhere
Posts are from me as a citizen
Love always wins
scottfromny.com
Emil Sayahi @sayahi.bsky.social
Kim Duffy @kimdhamilton.bsky.social Artisanal coder, decentralized identity standards doer, dog savior
Jad Esber @jad.bsky.social A meta-proposal for Twitter's bluesky project:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3816729
sharing in our study of cyberspace & helping pioneer its development.
nabiha syed @nabiha.bsky.social Executive Director @ Mozilla Foundation
Mama to Musa and Ibi
Definitely have cookies in my purse
Kevin McShane (Verified) @kevinmcshane.org Innie:
🛜 Editorial Director at @theverge.com
Outtie:
🖼️ Comics @kevincomics.com
🎥 YouTube @wrongwayshow.com
🤢 Commissions @badcaricatures.com
kevinmcshane.org
Pissedmagistus @pissedmagistus.bsky.social Cloud Daddy
The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social Métis (he/him) weareserfs.com
I explain the internet. Indigenous/LGBTQ+ activism and freedom for all are my jam.
Go watch youtube.com/@theserftimes and patreon.com/theserfs
Alice Thwaite @alicelthwaite.bsky.social Ethics by design.
Also likes: swimming, sewing, walking outside, and electronic music.
Based in London, UK.
Rest of World @restofworld.org We're a nonprofit publication covering global technology outside the West.
✉️ Sign up: https://restofworld.org/newsletters/global/
Dave Farley @davefarley77.bsky.social Software Engineer, Consultant & Author.
The Modern Software Engineering Channel: https://www.youtube.com/@ModernSoftwareEngineeringYT
Support Me On Patreon: https://bit.ly/ContinuousDeliveryPatreon
Valère Ndior @hvaloche.bsky.social 🖋️Law Professor - Université de Brest (UBO).
Chaire Institut universitaire de France. Team GEODE & Yale ISP.
💻International Law, Tech Regulation, Social Media, Digital Rights.
📖 Co-auteur "Etats et réseaux sociaux" (LGDJ)
https://grsomedia.wordpress.com
Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social Just asking questions.
Senior Editor, Lawfaremedia.org.
Send story ideas and tips to anna.bower@lawfaremedia.org
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
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
W.W.D.D.
Openvibe @openvibe.social The App for Connecting Open Social Web
Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, Threads in ONE app, in ONE feed ✨
https://openvibe.social
Emerson Victoria Johnston @idenarch.bsky.social currently researching the social history of the early internet (think algorithms, architectures, and archives)
tech policy @ stanford / comms and membership @ AoIR
masters x2 @ stanford / bachelors @ northeastern
first gen 🎓 | 🏳️🌈
Juan Sanchez @juanyobluesky.bsky.social Delivery Manager Suscripciones Digitales 🚀
💼 Guío a profesionales a crecer en su carrera y alcanzar mejores oportunidades. ⤷ +18 años liderando equipos ⤷ Más
https://carreraprofesional.com
Jorge Sánchez (xurxodev) @xurxodev.com Saber crear software de calidad te da libertad.
Escribo historias, consejos y experiencias.
https://xurxodev.com/libros
https://xurxodev.com/estudio-comunidad-xurxodev/
Joshua Walker @bigjosh84.bsky.social I take up space, even when the world says I shouldn’t.
Poet. Observer. Rebel of thought.
Every heartbeat a manifesto. Resisting always. 💙
2025 Pushcart & Best Microfiction Nominee
https://www.amazon.com/Least-Weird-Person-Awake/dp/B0GT1262KP
Virginia Dignum @vdignum.bsky.social 🇵🇹🇳🇱🇸🇪🇪🇺 Prof #A.I @umeauniversity; member @UN Advisory Group on AI; @wasp_hs; author; speaker; #responsibleAI https://bit.ly/2WxEkQU
Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
Gry Hasselbalch @gryhasselbalch.bsky.social AI/data ethics, EU/global tech policy & 🌍geo politics. 🇩🇰Think Tank Director. 🧐PhD and author of books.
www.gryhasselbalch.com
Tim Finin @tfinin.bsky.social UMBC CS prof. specializing in AI, knowledge representation & reasoning, & language understanding with applications to knowledge graphs, privacy, cybersecurity & more
• umbc.edu/~finin • ai.umbc.edu • csee.umbc.edu • ebiquity.umbc.edu •
Julien@Kindrobot @kindrobot.bsky.social Artificial intelligence
Sharing facts, thoughts & sources.
Français / English / Svenska
Andreas Theodorou @recklesscoding.com Faculty at the Polytechnic University of Catalunya (UPC), working on topics related to AI Governance, HRI, and human control.
Part of the Smart Sustainable Resources (SSR-UPC) and SINAPSI groups.
Sarah Porter @saraheporter.bsky.social Founder/CEO InspiredMinds | World Summit AI | United Nations AI advisor | UK / USA AI advisor | Ambassador Women and Girls | Endurance swimmer / trail runner ⚡️views are my own.
Marc Steen @marcsteen.bsky.social Senior research scientist at TNO.NL, Responsible Innovation. Book: ‘Ethics for people who work in tech’, http://ethicsforpeoplewhoworkintech.com and http://marcsteen.nl
Dr Christina J. Colclough @thewhynotlab.com Advocate for reshaping the digitalisation of work & workers | Founder of The Why Not Lab
Ethics of AI, workplace data & AI governance,
data rights. FRSA, member of OECD & UNESCO expert groups on A.I. Trade unionist. Live in 🇩🇰, work 🌏
www.thewhynotlab.com
Iyad Rahwan | إياد رهوان @iyadrahwan.bsky.social Director, Max Planck Center for Humans & Machines http://chm.mpib-berlin.mpg.de | Former prof. @MIT | Creator of http://moralmachine.net | Art: http://instagram.com/iyad.rahwan Web: rahwan.me
Frederike Kaltheuner @frederike.bsky.social Global tech policy & geopolitics advisor ✨
Also: @ainowinstitute.bsky.social
frederikekaltheuner.com
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
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
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/
Vincent Conitzer @conitzer.bsky.social AI professor. Director, Foundations of Cooperative AI Lab at Carnegie Mellon. Head of Technical AI Engagement, Institute for Ethics in AI (Oxford). Author, "Moral AI - And How We Get There."
https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~conitzer/
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
Wanda Muñoz @wmunoz.bsky.social 🌏Senior consultant
✅#ArtificialIntelligence #HumanRights #GenderEquality #HumanitarianAction #Feminism
🙋🏻♀️Member: Feminist #AI Research Network, UNESCO Women 4 Ethical AI, Forum on Arms Trade
🌺Writing, dancing, traveling
🇲🇽Peace, love, solidarity & justice
Manuela Battaglini @manuelabat.bsky.social AI Geopolicy | Researcher on the Democratic Governance of Cyberspace | Jurist | Let’s break monopolies | Tax the oligarchs | The Force is with me | @SecuoyaGroup
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)
Henrik Skaug Sætra / [spillteori] @futuritas.eu Technology, ethics, and philosophy. Oh, and some political science - more specifically political theory.
Associate professor at the University of Oslo.
My research: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=p
Andreas Krause @arkrause.bsky.social Professor at ETH Zurich
Serge Stinckwich @sergestinckwich.bsky.social Complex Systems Modelling and AI to Leave No One Behind | Responsible Computer Scientist
Tatiana Caldas-Löttiger @tatilottiger.bsky.social Legal Futurist | Humanist | AI Literacy, Ethics & Cultural Intelligence Advisor | International Speaker | LL. M in International Business & Trade Law and EU Law. #AI #AILiteracy #EthicalAI #CulturalIntelligence #AIlaw
Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
Gina Neff @ginasue.bsky.social Flower fan and AI expert. Professor of Responsible AI, QMUL; Director Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, Cambridge and fellow Magdalene College. Deputy CEO Responsible AI UK. https://linktr.ee/mctdcambridge?utm_source=linktree_admin_share
Mark Coeckelbergh @coeckelbergh.bsky.social Philosopher of technology | Professor at Philosophy Department University of Vienna | Author of AI Ethics, Why AI Undermines Democracy, and Artificial Religion | member UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI | https://coeckelbergh.net
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
Rumman Chowdhury @ruchowdh.bsky.social www.rummanchowdhury.com
www.humane-intelligence.org
CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence
US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
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
Zachary Lipton @zacharylipton.bsky.social Cofounder & CTO @ Abridge, Raj Reddy Associate Prof of ML @ CMU, occasional writer, relapsing 🎷, creator of d2l.ai & approximatelycorrect.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/
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
Miles Brundage @milesbrundage.bsky.social AI policy researcher, wife guy, fan of cute animals and sci-fi, executive director of AVERI, Substacker
Julian Togelius @togelius.bsky.social AI and Games Researcher at NYU. Head of AI at Nof1.
Rodney Brooks @rodneyabrooks.bsky.social Primarily Robotics and AI. Distinguishing hype-notism from plausibility one press release at a time. rodneybrooks.com/blog people.csail.mit.edu/brooks
Marietje Schaake @marietjeschaake.bsky.social Proud European 🇪🇺 Fellow at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🗞️Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
Grady Booch @booch.com scientist, storyteller, philosopher
computingthehumanexperience.com
Lynn Kaack @lynnhkaack.bsky.social Assistant Professor at Hertie School leading the AI and Climate Technology Policy Group, and affiliated with @hertiedatascience.bsky.social and @hertiesustain.bsky.social
Co-founder and Chair of @climatechangeai.bsky.social
https://lynnkaack.com
Louise A. Dennis @louiseadennis.bsky.social Computer Scientist, Doctor Who Fan.
Matthias Spielkamp @spielkamp.bsky.social Founder & ED AlgorithmWatch. Board member RSF Germany.
Alan Winfield @alan-winfield.bsky.social Engineer, roboethicist and pro-feminist. Interested in robots as working models of life, evolution, intelligence and culture. Prof Robot Ethics, Bristol Robotics Lab. Home page: https://people.uwe.ac.uk/Person/AlanWinfield
Nathalie A. Smuha @nathaliesmuha.bsky.social Legal scholar & Philosopher. Assistant Professor of Law @UofT Law. Author of 'Algorithmic Rule By Law' (CUP, 2025). Previously at EU Commission's AI HLEG, Council of Europe's CAI, KU Leuven & NYU Law. UChicago alum.
Emma Norling @emmanorling.bsky.social Professor in computer science education. Also still dabbles in agent-based modelling. And when I have time, love cooking, reading and playing in a brass band.
Meeri Haataja @meerihaataja.bsky.social CEO of Saidot
Valentine Goddard / AI Impact Alliance @allianceimpact.bsky.social Lawyer, artist, founder/ED, AI Impact Alliance (2017). Consultant/speaker/AI policy. Art-based engagement on social, legal, geoeconomic, equity, political (democratic) implications/governance of AI. Advisor @ UNESCO, UN, national, local & cultural orgs.