Our position paper, "AI Welfare Is Bullshit" just got accepted to ICML 2026 @icmlconf.bsky.social!
The AI welfare agenda has already begun to attract institutional investment at organizations such an @anthropic.com.
We argue that this idea is essentially Frankfurtian Bullshit.
Shahan Ali Memon
📢 Our paper 🤯🧠 "Brainrot: Deskilling and Addiction are Overlooked AI Risks" has been accepted at the ACM Fairness, Accountability & Transparency (FAccT) conference 2026. The preprint is available: 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2605.03512 TL;DR 🧵 follows 👇 1/5
New blog: I am worried by NLP research culture
NLG and NLP are mostly much better in 2026 than when I got my PhD in 1990. Unfortunately research culture has gotten *worse” in this period, which really worries me as I retire.
ehudreiter.com/2026/06/08/n...
My first last-author paper is out!
If you saw this dog below and someone showed you the second image, would you consider them the same word/concept?
(more examples in Ada's thread)
We study if VLMs agree with humans on this and revisit old questions around shape vs. texture bias in vision
Can you boost your AI review scores by asking an LLM to rewrite your paper?
Yes! We call it paper laundering
Our @icmlconf.bsky.social spotlight paper argues current AI reviewers aren't ready to automate peer review, and outlines what a science of peer review automation should look like
🧵👇 #ICML2026
LLMs have been widely reported as left-wing biased. The finding has shaped policy and debate — with Trump banning "Woke AI".
Our new paper challenges this story.
It's not that the models are biased. It's that they think the auditor is. 🧵
w/ michelleschimmel.bsky.socialarxiv.org/pdf/2604.27633
Thoughts on metascientific consequences of AI-generated slides & ideas diluting the impression that speakers are commited to what they present. Science runs on personal attachment more than we admit. If it were a cake mix, how wouldn we add back an egg?
statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/05/28/w...
The scope of AI safety and alignment work in generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has so far mostly been limited to harms related to: (a) discrimination and hate speech, (b) harmful/inappropriat...
arxiv.org
In most ways NLG and NLP are much better in 2026 than when I got my PhD in 1990. Unfortunately research culture has gotten *worse” in this period, which really worries me as I retire. We have…
Just uploaded a new plant blog post on my website 🥰🪴🌸
excited to share that i'll be pursuing my phd in computer science at @csail.mit.edu starting this fall 🥳 🎓 i'm so grateful to be coadvised by the literal dream team: Jacob Andreas, @mbakker.bsky.social, and @mitchellgordon.bsky.social 🙌
Super excited to finally announce my latest research “Would you still call this Dax? Novel Visual References in VLMs and Humans”!
We studied how vision-language models (VLMs) adopt new visual concepts and map them to language compared to humans, and found that…
