Aza Raskin
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Co-founder for Center for Humane Technology & Earth Species Project. Co-Host of Your Undivided Attention.
San Francisco
Joined February 2008
While we've been fixated on the point technology overwhelms human strength, we've missed the point when technology undermines human weakness. That's the true 'singularity'. https://t.co/wbvi0Re8oW
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Meet our speakers for the AI for Non-Human Animal Communication workshop at @NeurIPSConf! 🐬 @LaelaSayigh – decoding dolphin communication 🦇 @oisinmacaodha – AI for biodiversity monitoring 🐦 Julie Elie – neural mechanisms of songbird & bat vocal learning
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In this week’s episode of Your Undivided Attention, @tristanharris and I imagine what the world might look like if we had sprung into action and fixed the harms of social media when we first saw them. Check it out.
In our annual Ask Us Anything episode, there was one question that kept coming up: The broken incentives behind social media, and now AI, have done so much damage to our society, but what is the alternative? In this week’s episode of Your Undivided Attention, @tristanharris and
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Each year I look forward to our Ask Us Anything episode. Getting to hear from you directly is such a treat. This week @tristanharris and I explore your great questions. Check it out: Watch - https://t.co/gK2uW4OMJz Listen - https://t.co/MqrSW0il2x
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💡How can we build #AI models that generalize across species + tasks? 🐦🐋🐒 This is a fundamental question for our work at ESP and it’s the topic of our most recent paper and blog post: https://t.co/T42v579i6u 🧵Read below for more👇 #MachineLearning #Bioacoustics
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The Montreal Protocol proved global coordination isn't impossible when we stop accepting inevitability. As we face runaway AI, we need that same urgency. New YUA episode with Susan Solomon: Watch - https://t.co/KqBWlUrVkL Listen -
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The ozone hole was a man-made crisis that posed a catastrophic risk to life on earth. Humanity could have just thrown up their hands and given up. Instead, we rallied together in an unprecedented way to fix the problem. How did that happen—and what can it teach us as we navigate
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🚨@tristanharris and I are doing our annual Ask Us Anything episode of YUA 🚨 It’s been another insane year, with AI moving faster than any technology before it and we know you have questions. Please send a short (~60s) video clip with your question to: undivided@humanetech.com.
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I spoke with Camille Carlton, CHT's Policy Director, about the tragic death of Adam Raine, who took his own life after months of manipulation by ChatGPT. We need to shift these incentives & design more humane AI now. Watch- https://t.co/R3CIe7C6Jg Listen- https://t.co/REYfl5rN5B
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What if AI could give us a Rosetta Stone for the natural world - letting us listen to the languages of life around us? If that possibility sparks something in you, help us bring this conversation to #SXSW2026 by tapping the heart on our proposal.
Over 8 million species share our planet—and until now we’ve only understood one. We've proposed a talk at #SXSW2026 all about how AI is helping us listen to the voices of nature. If you'd like to see us there, click the heart on our proposal to vote💚⬇️ https://t.co/55qq2K29aG
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Join us in working to break the Interspecies understanding barrier at @NeurIPSConf 2025!
📢 Call for Submissions ESP is organizing the AI for Non-Human Animal Communication workshop at @NeurIPSConf 2025! We welcome short papers & proposals that explore the use of AI in understanding animal communication. 🗓️ Deadline: Aug 31, 2025 🔗 https://t.co/bYnTZtJeSF
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ESP enters our next phase from a place of clarity and momentum—a testament to the incredible foundation @KatieZacarian has built over the past three years. I’m honored to step into the role of interim CEO as we keep our sights set on a more ecocentric planet.
Last quarter we celebrated big wins—from open-sourcing NatureLM-audio to launching new partnerships & projects. Today, we look ahead to a new chapter as @KatieZacarian passes the baton after 3 incredible years of leadership. Read more: https://t.co/5j8025oDj4
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We're in the final window before AI becomes fully entangled with our society. I spoke with Sam Hammond, the chief economist of the Foundation for American Innovation to explore how we might still get this right. Watch - https://t.co/CX7WSPcXzD Listen -
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2024 was a pivotal year for ESP—we launched new models & benchmarks, open-sourced NatureLM-audio & led conversations on interspecies understanding. Dive into our 2024 Annual Report for a glimpse into our progress ⬇️ https://t.co/WXRGn3nQMM
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AI’s potential benefits are incredible. But right now, we’re sleepwalking into a dangerous world that no one wants. In my new TED talk, I argue this doesn’t have to be inevitable. It’s essential we snap out of the trance, face the dangerous implications of our current path, and
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I sat down with @HumaneTech_ co-founder Randy Fernando on this week’s episode of #YourUndividedAttention to cut through the hype around AGI and discuss practical roadmaps for a more humane future. 📺 Watch - https://t.co/mKkGy8XYJg 🎧 Listen - https://t.co/tW7hrMcMiN
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📢 We've open-sourced NatureLM-audio, the first audio-language foundation model for #bioacoustics. Trained on large-scale animal vocalization, human speech & music datasets, the model enables zero-shot classification, detection & querying across diverse species & environments 👇🏽
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📢#BioDCASE2025 is here! This new challenge brings DCASE-style evaluation to #bioacoustics—applying #machinelearning to better understand the sounds of the natural world. ESP helped organize one of this year’s tasks & we can’t wait to see you tackle it👇🏽 https://t.co/OEibKZC19u
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Was a pleasure to share our progress with @kncukier at @TheEconomist and explore how we are developing and using AI at @earthspecies to help us listen to nature in ways we never have before. Think about what we might learn...
ESP co-founder, @aza spoke with @kncukier on the Babbage podcast by @TheEconomist, where he shared how we're leveraging AI to decode animal communication and working toward a future of interspecies understanding 🌍 https://t.co/HIzdhjdFVs
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We need to be able to trust AI agents to behave the way we want them to. As @RyanPGreenblatt and his team at @redwood_ai have found, AI systems are all too willing to mislead. #YourUndividedAttention Watch - https://t.co/pCoA2Ei7PT Listen - https://t.co/mXTARWO2rL
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So proud of the @earthspecies team!
🎉 Exciting news! Our paper on NatureLM-audio, the first large audio-language model for understanding animal sounds, has been accepted at ICLR 2025! 🐦🔊 A big step forward in using AI to support biodiversity and better understand the natural world. Check out the paper below!
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Congratulations to NatureLM-audio authors David Robinson, @nkundiushuti, @mhagiwara, and Olivier Pietquin on this huge accomplishment. We're looking forward to presenting at @iclr_conf in April. #ICLR2025
🎉 Exciting news! Our paper on NatureLM-audio, the first large audio-language model for understanding animal sounds, has been accepted at ICLR 2025! 🐦🔊 A big step forward in using AI to support biodiversity and better understand the natural world. Check out the paper below!
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