Melanie Mitchell
@MelMitchell1
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Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Mostly posting on https://t.co/4NpA2IL5Va (at-melaniemitchell). More thoughts at https://t.co/nC43NHRozX.
Santa Fe, NM
Joined September 2011
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Congratulations to SFI Professor Melanie Mitchell (@MelMitchell1), a winner of the 2025 National Academies Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications (@SciCommAwards). Mitchell is recognized for her writing and podcasting on topics related to AI and
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New paper from my group: "Do AI Models Perform Human-like Abstract Reasoning Across Modalities?" ⬇️
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A response to the NY Times' Thomas Friedman's "magical thinking" on AI ⬇️
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The Santa Fe Institute is now accepting applications for the 2026 Complexity Postdoctoral Fellowships! Complexity fellows contribute to SFI’s research and collaborate with leading researchers worldwide. If you recently completed your PhD in any scientific discipline and are
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In my latest (and last!) column for Science’s Expert Voices series, I write about the reasons behind AI chatbots’ “deceptive” behaviors (and why Claude threatened a fictional CEO with blackmail). https://t.co/0RglZ9c38a
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A few weeks ago, a colleague of mine needed to collect and format some data from a website, and he asked the latest version of Anthropic’s generative AI system, Claude, for help. Claude cheerfully...
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I was interviewed by the journalist Jessica Nordell for her newsletter. We discussed some deep questions related to AI touching on humanities, politics, & dualistic assumptions underlying the conception of "intelligence" in AI. I hope you will read it! ⬇️
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New paper: "Large Language Models & Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective" (D. Krakauer, J. Krakauer, M. Mitchell). We look at claims of "emergent capabilities" & "emergent intelligence" in LLMs from perspective of what emergence means in complexity science. ⬇️
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I reviewed "These Strange New Minds: How AI Learned to Talk and What It Means" by Chris Summerfield. ⬇️
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Today I learned that the composer David Cope has died. He was the inventor of "Experiments in Musical Intelligence" (EMI), & visionary pioneer in computer-generated music. I wrote about his work in my 2019 book. I posted some excerpts from it in my blog: ⬇️
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NSF is now interpreting this as, "Yes, but only as long as the project equally expands participation of overrepresented groups too." (2/3)
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A sad/bad day for US Science. By law, Broader Impacts review criteria must include as a goal: "Expanding participation of women and individuals from underrepresented groups in STEM." (1/3)
Today, NSF announced it is terminating awards not aligned with agency priorities, ensuring current & new awards are consistent with our mission. We are committed to creating opportunities for all Americans everywhere, without exclusion of any groups. More: https://t.co/REPzzlI1qG
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Vote here: https://t.co/k2ftQXf7Zr (You will need to create an account if you don't have one already.)
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