Check out our new research on the North-South divide of AI compute with @ViliLe and @_ZoeHawkins_ covered by one of my favourite journalists, @billyperrigo, in @TIME 🎉 https://t.co/OtFIiY7dZY

Join us for the final OxDEG seminar next Mon, 1 Dec 1:30-3pm GMT for Dr Jenna Burrell's talk: The Preservation of Embodied Masculinity in Rural Tech-Altered Workplaces - online only, register below! 💻💥 https://t.co/N6qE7hI3si

Join us next Mon 17 Nov 3:30-5pm GMT for Dr Tea Kamushadze's talk: Yard-Chapels and Neighbourhood Religiosity in Post-Soviet Urban Space, Georgia: Civic Functions and Community Life 📚 📍See you at Banbury Road or online via Zoom (link below)! https://t.co/dqIQ3twRmI

In partnership with the OECD's AI Policy Observatory, the researchers present a methodology to help countries track and estimate the availability and global physical distribution of public cloud compute for AI. https://t.co/1qwIiySf0M

Check out our new research on The Geography of AI Compute with @_ZoeHawkins_ @ViliLe and our collaborators at @OECD AI Policy Observatory 😌

What is "compute," and why does it matter for AI policy? AI compute refers to hardware and software needed to train and run AI models. As AI systems grow more complex, demand for compute rises. Researchers @boxiwu_ + @_ZoeHawkins_ share more:

Join us next Monday 3:30pm GMT for Professor Courtney Handman's seminar "For every species, a language: AI, interspecies communication, and the democratization of language to nonhuman worlds" - this one will be online only via Zoom 👏 Register here:

Excited to co-convene the @OxDEG Seminars this academic year with YanQing Wang and academics from @oiioxford and @oxford_anthro - check out our term card and see you online/offline for all things digital ethnography! 👏

Whenever you see Palantir win a civilian government contract (I'm looking at you UK), consider the ways in which they'll use your private data towards these purposes.

Excited to be speaking on AI safety evaluations @knightcolumbia later this week with these wonderful speakers (and many more)! Come join us in person in NYC if you can or online :)

Datacenter capex is going to 0 Grok struggling deploying Anthropic extremely low rate limits for paid + Cursor Google not offering 2.5 on API OAI not serving o3, struggling to serve 4o image Azure, still not serving many models including o1, o3, deep research, 4.5

🚨 BREAKING Police have raided a Quaker meeting house and arrested six young people meeting to discuss concerns about the climate crisis and the Gaza genocide. On 27 March, more than 20 officers - some carrying tasers - reportedly forced their way into Westminster Meeting House

There's a lot going on, but we should not let this slip under the radar—Google and OpenAI are cynically seizing on the Trump admin's hawkish, US-first AI policy instincts to make a play at gutting artists' copyright protections once and for all.

1/ I've been revisiting Jeffrey Ding's book *Technology and the Rise of Great Powers* ahead of a long-overdue podcast interview with him. His central argument is most persuasive: Tech diffusion and not leading-sector 0-to-1 innovation ultimately matters more in national power.

It's always interesting to me that despite how abysmally inaccurate these models are, their use is justified through alleged need for "speed". If you're willing to deploy a model with 25-50% accuracy for speed gains, just do away with the model and indiscriminately bomb at scale.

Signal President Meredith Whittaker calls out agentic AI as having ‘profound’ security and privacy issues

Looking forward to joining @OxDEG this Monday to share my ethnographic research on local data centre resistance in the UK. Sign-up below or join IRL in Oxford ☺️

Free speech no longer exists in the US government. For @TheAtlantic I spoke with 12+ federal workers in 6 agencies who said the Trump admin’s actions have led to pervasive self-censorship, even on issues some view as critical to national security. 1/ https://t.co/7IhSWhJ76a

UW’s @TechPolicyLab and I invite applications for a 2-year Postdoctoral Researcher position in "AI Alignment with Ethical Principles" focusing on language technologies, societal impact, and tech policy. Kindly share! https://t.co/08pfHQ59Ml Priority review deadline: 3/28/2025

📣New preprint!📣We’ve long known humans tend to anthropomorphize computers. But with the rise of social AI applications, like AI companions, studying this is now more crucial than ever. We introduce a new method for *empirically evaluating* anthropomorphic behaviors in LLMs🧵

1/ One year ago, Sinica found a new home after The China Project ceased operations. It’s been a year of rebuilding, growing, and reaffirming my core mission. If you value thoughtful, in-depth discussions on China, I hope you’ll consider supporting my work. 🧵⬇️