Tim G. J. Rudner
@timrudner
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Assistant Professor, @UofT & @VectorInst. Machine Learning, AI Safety, AI Governance. Prev: Rhodes Scholar, @UniofOxford, @Yale.
Toronto + New Haven + NYC
Joined December 2015
I was honored to be named a Rising Star in Gen AI by @UMassAmherst @manningcics! Thank you to my students and my colleagues, and to @NYUDataScience for the great article!
CDS Instructor @timrudner was recently named a “Rising Star in Generative AI” by @UMassAmherst, won a Notable Paper at AISTATS 2024 with @KempeLab & @andrewgwils, and earned a NeurIPS Spotlight for showing Stable Diffusion models excel in control tasks. https://t.co/nDbaRyQJ5s
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Great opportunity!
I would encourage technical AI types to consider working in grantmaking! Schmidt Sciences is hiring for a unique position where you get to continue your own research at the same time Link:
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Huge. However, in all my work as an action editor at TMLR, very few papers were forwarded to ICLR. I think reviewers are more forgiving at TMLR (they're told to not hyperfocus on perceived impact, which is a good thing since we're rubbish at forecasting impact), but I think
We at TMLR are proud to announce that selected papers will now be eligible for an opportunity to present at the joint NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR Journal-to-Conference (J2C) Track: https://t.co/CyjZtqbnBS
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We at TMLR are proud to announce that selected papers will now be eligible for an opportunity to present at the joint NeurIPS/ICML/ICLR Journal-to-Conference (J2C) Track: https://t.co/CyjZtqbnBS
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Great news! We’re excited to announce that selected papers published in the Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) will now be…
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📢The Information Society Project (@yaleisp) at @YaleLawSch is recruiting a new batch of *Resident Fellows*! It's a great community and a good opportunity for anyone interested in the intersection of *AI governance and the law*. Deadline: Dec 31 Apply: https://t.co/VdcjwlWM00
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📢Exciting opportunity: @CSETGeorgetown is hiring a Research or Senior Fellow to help lead their **frontier AI policy research efforts**. I've been working with CSET since 2019 and continue to be impressed by the quality and impact of CSET's work! https://t.co/4MhXqsFx6t
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TMLR is a great venue with a consistently high level of review quality! Want to contribute? Volunteer to serve as a **reviewer** or **action editor** below! 🚀
As Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) grows in number of submissions, we are looking for more reviewers and action editors. Please sign up! Only one paper to review at a time and <= 6 per year, reviewers report greater satisfaction than reviewing for conferences!
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🚨 Check out our awesome students/postdocs' papers at #COLM2025 and say hi to them (several are on the job market or hiring) --> -- Archiki, David are on the post-PhD job market! -- Elias finished his postdoc & is now faculty at UT-Austin CS and looking to admit PhD students!
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Great new course on AI Safety and Alignment at @UniofOxford taught by @FazlBarez! If you want to pursue a PhD in AI safety or AI governance at @CompSciOxford with me as a co-advisor ( https://t.co/pFVl29bwB5), apply to the AIMS CDT (@aims_oxford)! Apply:
ox.ac.uk
About the courseThe EPSRC CDT in Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems (AIMS) is a research-based course combining machine learning, robotics, vision, control, and cyber-physical systems, with
🚨New AI Safety Course @aims_oxford! I’m thrilled to launch a new called AI Safety & Alignment (AISAA) course on the foundations & frontier research of making advanced AI systems safe and aligned at @UniofOxford what to expect 👇 https://t.co/r9YHS3XJhR
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BREAKING: Governor @GavinNewsom just signed our groundbreaking AI bill, SB 53, to promote AI innovation (creating a public cloud called CalCompute), require transparency around AI lab safety practices & protect whistleblowers at AI labs who report risk of catastrophic harm. 🧵
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This is very exciting and a big step towards the kind of AI governance we need!
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📢 Applications are open for the 2026–27 ISP Resident Fellowship at Yale Law School. We especially encourage research on AI and the digital public sphere, including free speech, content moderation, privacy, antitrust, and algorithmic governance. More info:
law.yale.edu
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Totally agree on those directions---great list! (Check out the rest of the thread!!
I've told you that I think AGI is coming, soon. And that I think this should motivate you as you make personal and professional and research decisions. And I've talked about a few specific ways it might feed into that decision making process. Now here are some particular project
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It was a pleasure speaking at @YaleLawSch yesterday! Thank you for having me, @yaleisp!
This week’s surprise Ideas Lunch examined “formal guarantees” and artificial intelligence. Thank you to @timrudner for a magnificent presentation!
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Tomorrow’s ISP Ideas Lunch update: We’re excited to host @timrudner (U. Toronto & Vector Institute) for his talk on “formal guarantees” in AI + key AI safety concepts
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We are now open to receive applications for entry in October 2026. Deadline is 28th January 2026. @aims_oxford @UniofOxford
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I made a 1-page document on the case for AI x-risk. It's intended to inform, not to convince. It mostly links to other articles I've found myself sending people.
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Lots of great talks in this thread!
Last month we held a workshop on Post-AGI outcomes. Here’s a thread of all the talks! 🧵 https://t.co/fBp2wLe8ST
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A new letter from 47 academic researchers in support of @Scott_Wiener's SB 53 was covered this morning in Politico. It's great to see such strong support from across California for this important measure!
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Democracy rewired is a 5-part series exploring how AI is reshaping democratic values — from individual agency to global sovereignty. The big question: can AI strengthen democracy?
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I'm thrilled to join the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society as a Faculty Affiliate!
🚀Exciting news — SRI welcomes 24 new faculty affiliates for 2025–26, our largest cohort yet! They bring expertise in AI safety, digital culture, health innovation, & sustainability — all dedicated to shaping tech for the public good. Meet them: https://t.co/cmIV7ay5IA
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