James Landay
@jlanday.bsky.social
Professor of Computer Science, Stanford - HCI & Design, Co-Founder & Co-Director Stanford HAI @stanfordhai.bsky.social
This Friday, I will be speaking at #TNW in Amsterdam about why “AI for Good” isn’t good enough – and what we should be doing instead.
Human-centered AI doesn’t mean just user-centered design, but also requires a community- and society-centered approach.
@stanfordhai.bsky.social
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Human-centered AI doesn’t mean just user-centered design, but also requires a community- and society-centered approach.
@stanfordhai.bsky.social
lnkd.in/gxwUxgrA
June 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
This Friday, I will be speaking at #TNW in Amsterdam about why “AI for Good” isn’t good enough – and what we should be doing instead.
Human-centered AI doesn’t mean just user-centered design, but also requires a community- and society-centered approach.
@stanfordhai.bsky.social
lnkd.in/gxwUxgrA
Human-centered AI doesn’t mean just user-centered design, but also requires a community- and society-centered approach.
@stanfordhai.bsky.social
lnkd.in/gxwUxgrA
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At today's seminar, Dave Patterson and Andy Konwinski discussed themes from their paper "Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives," arguing that we are still in the early days of practical AI, and that collaborative efforts can guide AI's impact. @jlanday.bsky.social hai.stanford.edu/events/andy-...
May 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
At today's seminar, Dave Patterson and Andy Konwinski discussed themes from their paper "Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives," arguing that we are still in the early days of practical AI, and that collaborative efforts can guide AI's impact. @jlanday.bsky.social hai.stanford.edu/events/andy-...
Please reshare! Important piece on science, health, and technology research funding.
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Medical and Scientific Research Makes America Great
Those who care about America's global leadership, should be alarmed by deep funding cuts to the NSF and NIH.
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May 25, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Please reshare! Important piece on science, health, and technology research funding.
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Check out the great recent PhD grad and uber HCI hacker @jackieyang_ on the last cool piece of his LLM-powered multimodal dev tool! See at #chi2025 at 4:20 in G304! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
GenieWizard: Multimodal App Feature Discovery with Large Language Models | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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April 30, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Check out the great recent PhD grad and uber HCI hacker @jackieyang_ on the last cool piece of his LLM-powered multimodal dev tool! See at #chi2025 at 4:20 in G304! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Check out this cool paper presentation by star student @mjoerke at #chi2025 on an AI agent that performs a best practices coaching onboarding interview for a creating fitness plan (Motivational interviewing and Active Choices (tm)) now in G304.
April 29, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Check out this cool paper presentation by star student @mjoerke at #chi2025 on an AI agent that performs a best practices coaching onboarding interview for a creating fitness plan (Motivational interviewing and Active Choices (tm)) now in G304.
Come see the incredible Nava Haghighi present on a new way to think about the ontologies embedded in LLMs #chi2025 in G303 now (11:10 AM). programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
Conference Programs
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April 29, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Come see the incredible Nava Haghighi present on a new way to think about the ontologies embedded in LLMs #chi2025 in G303 now (11:10 AM). programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
Just saw this great journalistic theatre at The Marsh in The Mission (SF). Really recommend you see it.
April 20, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Just saw this great journalistic theatre at The Marsh in The Mission (SF). Really recommend you see it.
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"Unlike purely digital AI, robots interact physically with people. Thus, user experience is non-negotiable." HAI Co-Director @jlanday.bsky.social calls for a human-centered approach to designing AI-powered robotics at this week's HAI Spring Conference: hai.stanford.edu/news/stanfor...
Stanford HAI Conference Explores Robotics in a Human-Centered World: Hype, Hope, and Future Directions | Stanford HAI
Scholars zeroed in on the need for data, generalization, and better human experience.
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April 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"Unlike purely digital AI, robots interact physically with people. Thus, user experience is non-negotiable." HAI Co-Director @jlanday.bsky.social calls for a human-centered approach to designing AI-powered robotics at this week's HAI Spring Conference: hai.stanford.edu/news/stanfor...
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"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov
February 19, 2025 at 6:57 PM
"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov
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NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
https://propub.li/43487Tj
https://propub.li/43487Tj
Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared.
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
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February 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.
https://propub.li/43487Tj
https://propub.li/43487Tj
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Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Democracy requires your courage.
February 20, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.
Democracy requires your courage.
Democracy requires your courage.
Our thoughts on DeepSeek.
In this collection of perspectives, @stanfordhai.bsky.social senior fellows offer a multidisciplinary discussion of what #DeepSeek means for AI and society at large. hai.stanford.edu/news/how-dis...
@chrmanning.bsky.social @jlanday.bsky.social @yejinchoinka.bsky.social @amyzegart.bsky.social
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How Disruptive Is DeepSeek? Stanford HAI Faculty Discuss China’s New Model
Experts weigh in on the implications of DeepSeek’s open-source model and its impact on technology, geopolitics, the arts, and more.
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February 14, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Our thoughts on DeepSeek.
Test New App to Motivate Physical Activity!
@Stanford we are testing a unique app to help motivate you to be physically active. 18 or older, fluent in English & own an iPhone? Take our eligibility survey: bit.ly/physical-act.... Participants must share iPhone health data as part of this 4-week study
@Stanford we are testing a unique app to help motivate you to be physically active. 18 or older, fluent in English & own an iPhone? Take our eligibility survey: bit.ly/physical-act.... Participants must share iPhone health data as part of this 4-week study
February 13, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Test New App to Motivate Physical Activity!
@Stanford we are testing a unique app to help motivate you to be physically active. 18 or older, fluent in English & own an iPhone? Take our eligibility survey: bit.ly/physical-act.... Participants must share iPhone health data as part of this 4-week study
@Stanford we are testing a unique app to help motivate you to be physically active. 18 or older, fluent in English & own an iPhone? Take our eligibility survey: bit.ly/physical-act.... Participants must share iPhone health data as part of this 4-week study
Here are some of the reflections of the @stanfordhai.bsky.social team (including me) on things we heard during our participation in Davos last week. hai.stanford.edu/news/hai-dav...
HAI at Davos: Key Insights on AI From the World Economic Forum
Stanford HAI faculty joined world leaders and policymakers to discuss AI trends, shifting U.S. policy, the future of diversity efforts, and more.
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January 31, 2025 at 1:46 AM
Here are some of the reflections of the @stanfordhai.bsky.social team (including me) on things we heard during our participation in Davos last week. hai.stanford.edu/news/hai-dav...
Fun conversation with @inafried.bsky.social
WATCH: Our co-director @jlanday.bsky.social spoke with @axios.com @inafried.bsky.social at DLD25, joining innovators and visionaries at the event's 20th year. "We need to make sure we guide AI in a positive way, because it won't end up being good by itself." www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_yQ...
Human-centered AI (Landay, Fried) | DLD25
YouTube video by DLD Conference
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January 25, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Fun conversation with @inafried.bsky.social
Fun event and a great museum!
Last week, our co-director @jlanday.bsky.social joined national leaders from health, tech, education, and policy in Bentonville for #ThinkHealth: AI for Healthy Communities, an event co-hosted by @stanfordmedicine.bsky.social and Alice L. Walton School of Medicine. med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
January 18, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Fun event and a great museum!
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Fun podcast conversation (~20 min) explaining my view on human-centered AI.
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"The case for human-centered AI"
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@stanfordhai.bsky.social
"The case for human-centered AI"
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The case for human-centered AI
Maximizing generative AI’s promise while minimizing its misuse requires an inclusive approach that puts humans first.
www.mckinsey.com
January 4, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Fun podcast conversation (~20 min) explaining my view on human-centered AI.
@stanfordhai.bsky.social
"The case for human-centered AI"
www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...
@stanfordhai.bsky.social
"The case for human-centered AI"
www.mckinsey.com/capabilities...
If need something to put you to sleep on flights this week, check out this interview I did with @rbaltman.bsky.social on his The Future of Everything podcast. It's a good summary of some of the latest research in my group & at @stanfordhai.bsky.social. engineering.stanford.edu/news/future-...
The future of AI coaching
A computer scientist bringing AI to the classroom and the gym looks ahead to a world where AI coaches help make us smarter … and healthier.
engineering.stanford.edu
December 18, 2024 at 5:55 PM
If need something to put you to sleep on flights this week, check out this interview I did with @rbaltman.bsky.social on his The Future of Everything podcast. It's a good summary of some of the latest research in my group & at @stanfordhai.bsky.social. engineering.stanford.edu/news/future-...
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oh my yes detroithistorical.pastperfectonline.com/archive/DC6A...
#labor #TechLabor #LaborHistory #1u
#labor #TechLabor #LaborHistory #1u
December 15, 2024 at 4:19 PM
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Hallucination is totally the wrong word, implying it is perceiving the world incorrectly.
But it's generating false, plausible sounding statements. Confabulation is literally the perfect word.
So, let's all please start referring to any junk that an LLM makes up as "confabulations".
Hallucination is totally the wrong word, implying it is perceiving the world incorrectly.
But it's generating false, plausible sounding statements. Confabulation is literally the perfect word.
So, let's all please start referring to any junk that an LLM makes up as "confabulations".
petition to change the word describing ChatGPT's mistakes from 'hallucinations' to 'confabulations'
A hallucination is a false subjective sensory experience. ChatGPT doesn't have experiences!
It's just making up plausible-sounding bs, covering knowledge gaps. That's confabulation
A hallucination is a false subjective sensory experience. ChatGPT doesn't have experiences!
It's just making up plausible-sounding bs, covering knowledge gaps. That's confabulation
December 11, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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Hallucination is totally the wrong word, implying it is perceiving the world incorrectly.
But it's generating false, plausible sounding statements. Confabulation is literally the perfect word.
So, let's all please start referring to any junk that an LLM makes up as "confabulations".
Hallucination is totally the wrong word, implying it is perceiving the world incorrectly.
But it's generating false, plausible sounding statements. Confabulation is literally the perfect word.
So, let's all please start referring to any junk that an LLM makes up as "confabulations".
Thanks! This was a fun interview with Russ Altman.
#AI
for coaching, tutoring:
Professor James Landay
#Stanford
@jlanday.bsky.social
(podcast 30:53 w/transcript)
engineering.stanford.edu/news/future-...
Note:
"Human-centered AI".
#health #fitness #K12 #highereducation #STEMeducation #instructionaldesign #edtech #generativeAI #LLMs #AIethics
for coaching, tutoring:
Professor James Landay
#Stanford
@jlanday.bsky.social
(podcast 30:53 w/transcript)
engineering.stanford.edu/news/future-...
Note:
"Human-centered AI".
#health #fitness #K12 #highereducation #STEMeducation #instructionaldesign #edtech #generativeAI #LLMs #AIethics
The future of AI coaching
A computer scientist bringing AI to the classroom and the gym looks ahead to a world where AI coaches help make us smarter … and healthier.
engineering.stanford.edu
December 3, 2024 at 7:37 AM
Thanks! This was a fun interview with Russ Altman.
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Peter Thiel has been going “democracy is bad because women vote against libertarianism” for like a quarter century and people are still doing this “Silicon Valley was forced right” thing
November 30, 2024 at 2:33 PM
Peter Thiel has been going “democracy is bad because women vote against libertarianism” for like a quarter century and people are still doing this “Silicon Valley was forced right” thing
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Please come work with me at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab!
We're seeking a postdoctoral associate to explore exciting work focused on transformative AI.
Accepting applications now. The link is in the next post.
We're seeking a postdoctoral associate to explore exciting work focused on transformative AI.
Accepting applications now. The link is in the next post.
November 25, 2024 at 5:05 PM
Please come work with me at the Stanford Digital Economy Lab!
We're seeking a postdoctoral associate to explore exciting work focused on transformative AI.
Accepting applications now. The link is in the next post.
We're seeking a postdoctoral associate to explore exciting work focused on transformative AI.
Accepting applications now. The link is in the next post.