ML prof @ Yale, mischief executive officer
https://afedercooper.info
A. Feder Cooper
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If you only read the NYT headline, you'd maybe think Kotlikoff's car was a malicious AI
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/u...
Sometimes it feels like some folks are losing the plot about what the goal of publishing research actually is. The goal is certainly not meant to be the productions of papers, but rather the production and communication of science.
The thing about AI in science is it could lead to way more papers *or* it could lead to each individual paper getting better. No one is forcing you to do the former!
My work with @marklemley.bsky.social and others on extracting copyrighted books from language models recently featured in the UK House of Lords, Communications and Digital Committee report on AI, copyright and the creative industries
publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ld...
Ok this is a truly great tweet
New book on the idea shelf: Hasok Chang: _Inventing Temperature: Measurement and Scientific Progress_
What even is temperature? The history of science is a struggle both to make consistent measurements and to think clearly about what they are actually measuring.
james.grimmelmann.net/idea-shelf
My latest paper discusses new tools @afedercooper.bsky.social and I, with others, are using to identify not just verbatim memorization in AI models but text that is extractable with only minor changes. We find significantly more memorization once we include non-exact copies.
arxiv.org/abs/2603.24917
I have a new blog post updating the story of how Cornell President Kotlikoff backed his car into a student. The trustee committee's investigation utterly failed to consider the central issue: whether his actions (rather than the others') were misconduct.
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3d.laboratorium.net/2026-05-22-h...
I wrote an op-ed: "[President Kotlikoff] should correct the record and accept responsibility for his dangerous driving. … A Cornell student who intentionally drove their car into someone else and then lied about it would be subject to disciplinary action … ."
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