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A small creature who likes to run around in universities. Prof. @Harvard_Law, @HSEAS, + @Kennedy_School; @EFF board mbr; director of @BKCHarvard and @HLSLib.

Cambridge, MA, USA
Joined March 2007
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Or as some would call it, "taxes."
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RT @Joseph_Fasano_: for those who are feeling drained
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Join us!.
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lil (library innovation lab)
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LIL is looking for a Product and Research Manager to help create, shape, and execute on our portfolio of open knowledge projects. PRMs work across every piece of the LIL ecosystem, from software experimentation to convening of events. Learn more at
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RT @BKCHarvard: Catch @zittrain's episode on Offline with @jonfavs, "Hugs From Your Late Mom, Interdimensional Chats, and College Cheating:….
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RT @hk_net: The wonderful @zittrain on #AI with @jonfavs
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RT @jackclarkSF: The final report from Gov Newsom’s working group on AI frontier models is out and it touches on things we @AnthropicAI car….
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1M public domain books now available digitally, through our Institutional Data Initiative at Harvard.
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Today we released Institutional Books 1.0, a 242B token dataset from Harvard Library's collections, refined for accuracy and usability. 🧵
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RT @zjasper666: Re: “At Secret Math Meeting, Researchers Struggle to Outsmart AI” — What Actually Happened. Just saw a news report about th….
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RT @kevinroose: I’m calling for a six-month moratorium on AI progress. Not for safety, just so I can take a nap.
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RT @curl_justin: Should judges use LLMs like ChatGPT to determine the meaning of legal text? . Whatever your answer, it’s already happening….
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RT @HarvardWCFIA: "People are already trusting today’s friendly, patient, often insightful AIs for facts and guidance on nearly any issue,"….
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Here's the link -
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AI is often thought of as a black box -- no way to know what's going on inside. That's changing in eye-opening ways. Researchers are finding "beliefs" models are forming as they converse, and how those beliefs correlate to what the models say and how they say it. See next reply.
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RT @TheAtlantic: When you peer inside a large language model’s black box, you can see what it tells you when it thinks you’re rich—and what….
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A little more on the Magna Carta
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RT @jimsciutto: What they thought was a $27 copy turned out to be an original Magna Carta. A true hidden treasure for @Harvard as Law Profe….
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RT @dave_clay: This has made my morning. What a wonderful discovery at Harvard Law School.
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RT @j_kalla: NEW WORKING PAPER. Many people warn that LLMs pose threats to democratic societies through their persuasive capabilities. How….
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RT @jacklgoldsmith: Executive Functions is hiring Summer and Fall interns.
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RT @random_walker: If you don't have time to read a 15,000 word paper — not a breezy read, as it's a compressed version of a book's worth o….
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