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Alex "Sandy" Pentland
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Stanford HAI Fellow, Toshiba Professor MIT, Member US National Academies, UN Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data Board Member

Data & computational social scientist; human-centered AI; data privacy; Web3.0; resilient communities. .. more

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Shayne Longpre @shaynelongpre.bsky.social · Apr 14
Thrilled our global data ecosystem audit was accepted to #ICLR2025!

Empirically, it shows:

1️⃣ Soaring synthetic text data: ~10M tokens (pre-2018) to 100B+ (2024).

2️⃣ YouTube is now 70%+ of speech/video data but could block third-party collection.

3️⃣ <0.2% of data from Africa/South America.

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Alex "Sandy" Pentland @alex-pentland.bsky.social · May 7
Dino Pedreschi, @lucapappalardo.bsky.social, Emanuele Ferragina, Fosca Giannotti, Alistair Knott, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Virginia Dignum, Frank Dignum, Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Alessandro Vespignani, John Shawe-Taylor, Janos Kertesz, Tina Eliassi-Rad, Andrea Passarella, Yannis Ioannidis, Paul Lukowicz

Reposted by Luca Pappalardo

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Alex "Sandy" Pentland @alex-pentland.bsky.social · May 7
The full UN report is available here: hdr.undp.org/content/huma...

Our paper is here: sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Human Development Report 2025 | Human Development Reports
The 2025 Human Development Report explores the implications of artificial intelligence for human development and the choices we can make to ensure that it enhances human capabilities. Rather than atte...
hdr.undp.org

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Alex "Sandy" Pentland @alex-pentland.bsky.social · May 7
"Human-AI Coevolution" is mentioned in the United Nation's Human Development Report: "A Matter of Choice: People and Possibilities in the Age of AI". Honored to see our work be a part of int'l discussions on the future of human-AI interactions & ethical development of intelligent systems.

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Alex "Sandy" Pentland @alex-pentland.bsky.social · May 6
Great to see our research on #DigitalIdentities and #Human-AIagents featured on the @acm.org homepage, including an interview with Connection Science Faculty Lead Hossein Rahnama.

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Trading (Digital) Places – Communications of the ACM
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Alex "Sandy" Pentland @alex-pentland.bsky.social · Apr 28
See the full text of the bill here: leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTe...
leginfo.legislature.ca.gov

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Alex "Sandy" Pentland @alex-pentland.bsky.social · Apr 28
"By establishing a 'third-way' governing model, independent experts will be able to devise strong safety standards that also promote innovation while still being accountable to government leaders."

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Alex "Sandy" Pentland @alex-pentland.bsky.social · Apr 28
A "first-of-its-kind AI governance framework that is both nimble and built upon proven regulatory models that will continue to spur innovation and incentivize AI platforms to comply with state-of-the-art requirements to identify, monitor, and mitigate known, foreseeable risks."

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Alex "Sandy" Pentland @alex-pentland.bsky.social · Apr 28
We shared how "we believe that the framework outlined in this legislation is a novel and promising approach to ensuring that advanced AI systems can be an engine for innovation, while also ensuring that California can mitigate the risk of real world harm to persons and property."

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Alex "Sandy" Pentland @alex-pentland.bsky.social · Apr 28
The bill will establish Multi-stakeholder Regulatory Organizations (MROs) within California; private, standards-setting bodies designed to provide legal and regulatory clarity, accountability, and agility in an era of exponential AI progress.

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Alex "Sandy" Pentland @alex-pentland.bsky.social · Apr 28
Last week, I co-signed with 20+ computer science and AI scholars, researchers, and thought leaders on a letter which we sent to the California Legislature in support of Senate Bill (SB) 813 - sponsored by Sen. Jerry McNerney - being heard in CA Judiciary Committee tomorrow.
Prominent AI Scholars Back Private Governance Model in California
/PRNewswire/ -- Fathom, a nonprofit building the solutions society needs to thrive in an AI-driven world, today published an open letter to California...
www.prnewswire.com

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Alex "Sandy" Pentland @alex-pentland.bsky.social · Apr 17
Congratulations to the Data Provenance Initiative team on having the global data ecosystem audit being accepted to @iclr-conf.bsky.social's #ICLR2025! Outstanding work that continues to grow in breadth and scope, co-led by @shaynelongpre.bsky.social and Robert Mahari from MIT's Connection Science.
shaynelongpre.bsky.social Shayne Longpre @shaynelongpre.bsky.social · Apr 14
Thrilled our global data ecosystem audit was accepted to #ICLR2025!

Empirically, it shows:

1️⃣ Soaring synthetic text data: ~10M tokens (pre-2018) to 100B+ (2024).

2️⃣ YouTube is now 70%+ of speech/video data but could block third-party collection.

3️⃣ <0.2% of data from Africa/South America.

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Alex "Sandy" Pentland @alex-pentland.bsky.social · Apr 10
Great event on Tuesday at @stanfordhai.bsky.social convened by Dazza Greenwood and concluding talk by @tobinsouth.bsky.social around the legal landscape and challenges with #AIAgents. Recommend watching the recording and providing feedback here:
www.dazzagreenwood.com/p/ai-agents-...
AI Agents x Law Initiative
A New Stanford and Industry Initiative Launched Yesterday
www.dazzagreenwood.com

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Alex "Sandy" Pentland @alex-pentland.bsky.social · Apr 4
Next week ➡️ UN Behavioural Science Week 2025; April 7-11

Looking forward to being a part of the opening event for the providing remarks with Amandeep Gill about Advancing Behavioural Science in the UN with AI and Data.

🔗 Learn more & register here:
www.unbesciweek2025.org

#UNBeSciWeek2025
UN BeSci Week 2025 | United Nations
The 2025 UN Behavioural Science (BeSci) Week is taking place from April 7th–11th! Coordinated by the UN Behavioural Science Group, this year’s event will bring together colleagues from 46 UN Entities ...
www.unbesciweek2025.org

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Alex "Sandy" Pentland @alex-pentland.bsky.social · Mar 31
Join me and the @stanford.edu Cyber Policy Center within Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies tomorrow when we talk about Human-Compatible AI for Digital Media.

April 1 - 12:40-2pm Pacific - in person and over Zoom.

Full info here:
cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/events/april...
APRIL 1 | Human-Compatible AI for Digital Media
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Alex "Sandy" Pentland @alex-pentland.bsky.social · Mar 27
With Miapetra Kumpula-Natri, Parliament of Finland; @cristinacaffarra.bsky.social , @cepr.org - Centre for Economic Policy Research; Paul Samson, CIGI; and Christian Kastrop, Global Solutions Initiative

Moderated by: Jeb Bell, PLI

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Alex "Sandy" Pentland @alex-pentland.bsky.social · Mar 27
Looking forward to joining the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) Think7 Summit: Canada 2025 on April 2 with the Fair Data Economy Task Force, with policy recommendations for the G7.

See the full agenda and how to attend virtually - open to all: www.cigionline.org/events/think...
Think7 Summit: Canada 2025
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Alex "Sandy" Pentland @alex-pentland.bsky.social · Mar 26
Hello, Bluesky! Joining in here to keep the conversation going - let's connect.