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
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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/
Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social Email salesman at Platformer.news and co-host at Hard Fork.
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
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab
https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
Books: The Future of Science is Civic, Auditing AI, The Social Life of DNA, Genetics & the Unsettled Past, Body & 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.
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
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. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
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.
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, Innovation and AI Policy | Committee @labourcid.bsky.social and Labour Digital | Fellow @britishprogress.org | NHS Doctor and Medical Researcher
Former Science Policy Advisor to Labour
Manchester / Leeds
sanjushdalmia.com
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
https://www.admonymous.co/elliot-jones
Agus 🔎🔸 @agucova.bsky.social Accelerate AI safety.
🔗 agus.sh
Alec Stapp @alecstapp.bsky.social Co-founder IFP
Malo Bourgon @malo.online CEO at Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI, @intelligence.org)
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 @sebkrier.com 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
Ben Fineman @benfineman.bsky.social Dad/husband. Public servant. Broadband and digital inclusion leader. Advocate for ethics in AI. Basement rockstar. Opinions are my own.
Bill Kramer @bkramer.bsky.social State policy nerd. https://www.multistate.us/resources/morning-multistate
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.
“Criminally underliked”
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)
Celia Ford @celiaford.bsky.social she/her/dr • trying to make the future better ✨
AI reporter @ transformernews.ai
also: thereplacement.substack.com
previously: @vox.com, @wired.com,
@theopennotebook.bsky.social
signal: @celia.08
portfolio: drceliaford.com
Jasper Jackson @jasperjackson.bsky.social Managing editor at Transformer. Ex-tech editor at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, also previously Guardian and New Statesman. Sometime media columnist. Signal: jasperjackson.01 https://www.transformernews.ai/
Effie Webb @efwebb.bsky.social AI Reporter at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism | signal 💬 @efw.40 / effiewebb@tbij.com
Transformer @transformernews.ai A publication about the power and politics of transformative AI. Subscribe for free: http://transformernews.ai/subscribe
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
Solana Policy Institute @solanainstitute.bsky.social A non-partisan, non-profit focused on educating policymakers on how decentralized networks like Solana are the future infrastructure of the digital economy.
winnie lau @winnie.bsky.social investing + exploring things at strobe, prev blocktower
Trista Kelley @tristakelley.bsky.social Markets, finance, crypto. London via Pittsburgh.
Jen Psaki @jenpsaki.bsky.social Mom of 2, Host of @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social Tuesday-Friday at 9pm ET on MS NOW.
Muyao @muyaoshen.bsky.social i write about magic money on the Internet | opinions are my own, and mostly about food | mshen118 (at) bloomberg dot net
Brian Eckhouse @brianreports.bsky.social Head of Bloomberg’s power, weather and natural disasters Americas team | Dad/concierge to a loquacious toddler | New Yorker in Los Angeles | Thoughts on the Mets and bagels mine and mine alone
Brian Barrett @brbarrett.bsky.social Executive Editor, WIRED
David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social Reporter @WIRED covering disinformation, online extremism, and election hucksters. https://www.wired.com/author/david-gilbert/
Got a tip? Get in touch
• Email: david.gilbert@wired.com
• Signal: @DavidGilbert.01
Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social Journalist @404Media.co
Signal: jason.404 // email: jason@404media.co
Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social Independent Journalist. Host of “The Jim Acosta Show” on Substack, YouTube and Apple Podcasts: Former Chief WH Correspondent. Author. https://substack.com/@jimacosta?r=lpd3z&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile Inquiries: go to jimacosta.com
Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social I cover digital threats for NBC News. Tip me! @kevincollier.01 on signal, kevin.collier@nbcuni.com. NYC, from West Virginia.
Runtime News @runtime.news Runtime is an independent news publication written for anyone working in and trying to make sense of the ever-changing enterprise tech industry. https://www.runtime.news/
Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social Senior Reporter @Wired covering platforms + power
https://www.wired.com/author/vittoria-elliott/
Signal: velliott88.18/vittoria89.82
elliott.vittoria@proton.me OR vittoria_elliott@wired.com
Paul Krugman @pkrugman.bsky.social Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM". Also Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the GC-CUNY Stone Center.
Unusual Whales @unusualwhales.bsky.social Skeet about markets and political corruption
Discord: http://bit.ly/3Bf2pNJ
Links: http://bit.ly/3V8D6Gb
Get $50-$5000 to trade: http://bit.ly/4ayctTD
Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Entrepreneur
Costplusdrugs.com
Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social Bronx boy. Cubs fan. Dad, husband, writer, podcaster and cable news host.
The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource out now.
https://sirenscallbook.com/
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)
Jill Bernstein @jillbernstein.bsky.social Editorial director, Fast Company
Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social energy, environment, climate reporter for The Washington Sun
email: annakramer@washsun.com
Signal: annakramer.54
Alfred Twu @alfredtwu.com Berkeley Rent Board Commissioner (@alfredtwu.net), California Democratic Party AAPI Caucus & CA Dem Renters Council Board, East Bay architect & commercial artist. Reblue/follow/like does not equal endorsement.
art: http://alfredtwu.com
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
Benjamin Schneider @benschneider.bsky.social Investigative and policy reporter at Remapping Debate. Previously at CityLab, SF Examiner. Author of "The Unfinished Metropolis": https://shorturl.at/PInVb
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
Lindsey Choo @lindseychoo.bsky.social Freelance reporter, covering culture, AI and creators. Work in Platformer, Forbes, WSJ, Protocol etc.
nikde @nikhileshde.bsky.social Reporter and other things @ CoinDesk. I take a lot of photos of airplanes. nikhileshde.74 on Signal, nik@coindesk.com. He/him. Views my own, etc
Caitlin Wolper Phillips @cwolper.bsky.social LA?! // sometimes I write about music & culture, sometimes I just copy edit // incredibly eager // famously auditioned for true grit & we bought a zoo — and yes I starred in both