Shakir Mohamed
@shakirm.bsky.social
AI, sociotechnical systems, social purpose. Research director at Google DeepMind. Cofounder and Chair at Deep Learning Indaba. FAccT2025 co-program chair. shakirm.com
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“The postwar order rested on three pillars: American hegemony, the fossil-fuel energy system, and an open, multilateral trading order. America has now attacked each pillar at the foundation of its hydrocarbon global order.” —
New: @katemac.bsky.social & I
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
New: @katemac.bsky.social & I
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
July 5, 2025 at 9:18 PM
“The postwar order rested on three pillars: American hegemony, the fossil-fuel energy system, and an open, multilateral trading order. America has now attacked each pillar at the foundation of its hydrocarbon global order.” —
New: @katemac.bsky.social & I
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
New: @katemac.bsky.social & I
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/bri...
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🚨AISTATS workshop proposals open!
Big News: For the first time, there will be a day of workshops at #AISTATS 2026, in Tangier, Morocco 🌴🇲🇦
Quentin Berthet @qberthet.bsky.social and I are workshop chairs.
virtual.aistats.org/Conferences/...
Deadline: Oct 17, AOE
Big News: For the first time, there will be a day of workshops at #AISTATS 2026, in Tangier, Morocco 🌴🇲🇦
Quentin Berthet @qberthet.bsky.social and I are workshop chairs.
virtual.aistats.org/Conferences/...
Deadline: Oct 17, AOE
Call for Workshops
virtual.aistats.org
August 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
🚨AISTATS workshop proposals open!
Big News: For the first time, there will be a day of workshops at #AISTATS 2026, in Tangier, Morocco 🌴🇲🇦
Quentin Berthet @qberthet.bsky.social and I are workshop chairs.
virtual.aistats.org/Conferences/...
Deadline: Oct 17, AOE
Big News: For the first time, there will be a day of workshops at #AISTATS 2026, in Tangier, Morocco 🌴🇲🇦
Quentin Berthet @qberthet.bsky.social and I are workshop chairs.
virtual.aistats.org/Conferences/...
Deadline: Oct 17, AOE
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A flagship keynote panel at #DLI2025 delved into the critical topic of AI policy and national strategies for Africa.
The panel featured insights from Jane Munga, Barbara Glover, Virginia Dignum, and Vukosi Marivate. The session also included a special message from H.E. Ms. Lerato D. Mataboge.
The panel featured insights from Jane Munga, Barbara Glover, Virginia Dignum, and Vukosi Marivate. The session also included a special message from H.E. Ms. Lerato D. Mataboge.
August 21, 2025 at 5:33 AM
A flagship keynote panel at #DLI2025 delved into the critical topic of AI policy and national strategies for Africa.
The panel featured insights from Jane Munga, Barbara Glover, Virginia Dignum, and Vukosi Marivate. The session also included a special message from H.E. Ms. Lerato D. Mataboge.
The panel featured insights from Jane Munga, Barbara Glover, Virginia Dignum, and Vukosi Marivate. The session also included a special message from H.E. Ms. Lerato D. Mataboge.
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#DLI2025 kicks off with opening remarks from the General Chairs, Bruno Ssekiwere, Pierrette Mahoro Mastel & Tejumade Afonja 🌍
They emphasised collaboration, community building & innovation in advancing Africa’s ML ecosystem, and shared why Rwanda is a fitting host this year ✨
#indaba2025 #Urunana
They emphasised collaboration, community building & innovation in advancing Africa’s ML ecosystem, and shared why Rwanda is a fitting host this year ✨
#indaba2025 #Urunana
August 18, 2025 at 10:34 AM
#DLI2025 kicks off with opening remarks from the General Chairs, Bruno Ssekiwere, Pierrette Mahoro Mastel & Tejumade Afonja 🌍
They emphasised collaboration, community building & innovation in advancing Africa’s ML ecosystem, and shared why Rwanda is a fitting host this year ✨
#indaba2025 #Urunana
They emphasised collaboration, community building & innovation in advancing Africa’s ML ecosystem, and shared why Rwanda is a fitting host this year ✨
#indaba2025 #Urunana
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A thought-provoking keynote at #DLI2025 by Verena Rieser!
Her talk challenged the idea of a single “gold standard” for AI alignment. It was a call to action: moving beyond narrow safety metrics to embrace a pluralistic approach that accounts for our diverse, and sometimes conflicting, human values.
Her talk challenged the idea of a single “gold standard” for AI alignment. It was a call to action: moving beyond narrow safety metrics to embrace a pluralistic approach that accounts for our diverse, and sometimes conflicting, human values.
August 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
A thought-provoking keynote at #DLI2025 by Verena Rieser!
Her talk challenged the idea of a single “gold standard” for AI alignment. It was a call to action: moving beyond narrow safety metrics to embrace a pluralistic approach that accounts for our diverse, and sometimes conflicting, human values.
Her talk challenged the idea of a single “gold standard” for AI alignment. It was a call to action: moving beyond narrow safety metrics to embrace a pluralistic approach that accounts for our diverse, and sometimes conflicting, human values.
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What an incredible keynote by Max Welling!
He’s challenging us to look beyond chatbots to the "fifth paradigm of scientific discovery": AI4Science. His talk explores how AI is transforming everything from predicting the weather to accelerating molecular simulations.
#DLI2025 #Indaba2025
He’s challenging us to look beyond chatbots to the "fifth paradigm of scientific discovery": AI4Science. His talk explores how AI is transforming everything from predicting the weather to accelerating molecular simulations.
#DLI2025 #Indaba2025
August 18, 2025 at 4:29 PM
What an incredible keynote by Max Welling!
He’s challenging us to look beyond chatbots to the "fifth paradigm of scientific discovery": AI4Science. His talk explores how AI is transforming everything from predicting the weather to accelerating molecular simulations.
#DLI2025 #Indaba2025
He’s challenging us to look beyond chatbots to the "fifth paradigm of scientific discovery": AI4Science. His talk explores how AI is transforming everything from predicting the weather to accelerating molecular simulations.
#DLI2025 #Indaba2025
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We were honoured to host our Faculty Panel Session, a crucial step in ensuring faculty and academia are at the heart of the conversation.
The session was a reminder that the classroom is where future innovators are shaped.
The session was a reminder that the classroom is where future innovators are shaped.
August 19, 2025 at 2:09 PM
We were honoured to host our Faculty Panel Session, a crucial step in ensuring faculty and academia are at the heart of the conversation.
The session was a reminder that the classroom is where future innovators are shaped.
The session was a reminder that the classroom is where future innovators are shaped.
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Your #FAccT2025 General Chairs @sciorestis.bsky.social, @metaxa.net, and I, reporting from the venue.
We're looking forward to welcoming you to the Athens Conservatoire or online!
We're looking forward to welcoming you to the Athens Conservatoire or online!
June 22, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Your #FAccT2025 General Chairs @sciorestis.bsky.social, @metaxa.net, and I, reporting from the venue.
We're looking forward to welcoming you to the Athens Conservatoire or online!
We're looking forward to welcoming you to the Athens Conservatoire or online!
We are at #facct2025 in Athens and discussing the latest research in building safe, fair and accountable AI technologies. 🚀🚀
June 23, 2025 at 6:26 AM
We are at #facct2025 in Athens and discussing the latest research in building safe, fair and accountable AI technologies. 🚀🚀
Just 5 days left for the abstract submission deadline for @facct.bsky.social 😱 A slow trickle of submissions coming in and can’t wait to see the full set. good luck to everyone writing and planning to submit 🤞🏽🚀
January 11, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Just 5 days left for the abstract submission deadline for @facct.bsky.social 😱 A slow trickle of submissions coming in and can’t wait to see the full set. good luck to everyone writing and planning to submit 🤞🏽🚀
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🎄 Merry Christmas! 🎄
🔔 As Advent ends, the 12 Days of Christmas🎄begin!
Join me for a deeper dive into the initiatives shown in this map - from Data Science Africa to @ai.cam.ac.uk - as we explore practical responses to AI challenges.
the-atomic-human.ai/reflections/...
🔔 As Advent ends, the 12 Days of Christmas🎄begin!
Join me for a deeper dive into the initiatives shown in this map - from Data Science Africa to @ai.cam.ac.uk - as we explore practical responses to AI challenges.
the-atomic-human.ai/reflections/...
December 25, 2024 at 9:32 AM
🎄 Merry Christmas! 🎄
🔔 As Advent ends, the 12 Days of Christmas🎄begin!
Join me for a deeper dive into the initiatives shown in this map - from Data Science Africa to @ai.cam.ac.uk - as we explore practical responses to AI challenges.
the-atomic-human.ai/reflections/...
🔔 As Advent ends, the 12 Days of Christmas🎄begin!
Join me for a deeper dive into the initiatives shown in this map - from Data Science Africa to @ai.cam.ac.uk - as we explore practical responses to AI challenges.
the-atomic-human.ai/reflections/...
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Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.
Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty
Women faculty are more likely to leave their jobs than men, most often due to workplace climate, rather than work-life balance.
scim.ag
December 23, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.
Deadline for faculty research grants up to $60k is 27 Jan! “The Research Scholar Program provides unrestricted gifts to support research at institutions around the world, and is focused on funding world-class research conducted by early-career professors”
google.submittable.com/submit/ac6d7...
google.submittable.com/submit/ac6d7...
Google - Research Scholar (RS) Application
Submission Deadline: The deadline for all final applications is Monday, January 27, 2025, at 11:59:59 PM AoE (UTC-12) (the deadline shown above will adjust to the timezone you are located in). All app...
google.submittable.com
December 23, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Deadline for faculty research grants up to $60k is 27 Jan! “The Research Scholar Program provides unrestricted gifts to support research at institutions around the world, and is focused on funding world-class research conducted by early-career professors”
google.submittable.com/submit/ac6d7...
google.submittable.com/submit/ac6d7...
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📢 ICML Call for Papers is out
The CfP is live here: icml.cc/Conferences/..., and we also just released a blog post summarizing major updates this year: medium.com/@icml2025pc/...
The CfP is live here: icml.cc/Conferences/..., and we also just released a blog post summarizing major updates this year: medium.com/@icml2025pc/...
ICML 2025 Call for Papers
icml.cc
December 22, 2024 at 7:51 PM
📢 ICML Call for Papers is out
The CfP is live here: icml.cc/Conferences/..., and we also just released a blog post summarizing major updates this year: medium.com/@icml2025pc/...
The CfP is live here: icml.cc/Conferences/..., and we also just released a blog post summarizing major updates this year: medium.com/@icml2025pc/...
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"Contrails, formed by aircraft engines, are a major component of aviation’s impact on anthropogenic climate change. [...] This study demonstrates that per-flight detectable contrail avoidance is feasible in commercial aviation." www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Feasibility test of per-flight contrail avoidance in commercial aviation - Communications Engineering
Vapour trails (contrails) from aircraft make a substantial contribution to aviation’s climate impact. Here we execute a per-flight contrail avoidance feasibility test through altitude adjustments base...
www.nature.com
December 21, 2024 at 6:23 PM
"Contrails, formed by aircraft engines, are a major component of aviation’s impact on anthropogenic climate change. [...] This study demonstrates that per-flight detectable contrail avoidance is feasible in commercial aviation." www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Reminder: The #FAccT2025 submission deadlines are roughly one month away! Abstracts are due January 15th and full papers on January 22nd. See the full CfP here: facctconference.org/2025/cfp
ACM FAccT - 2025 CFP
facctconference.org
December 17, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Reminder: The #FAccT2025 submission deadlines are roughly one month away! Abstracts are due January 15th and full papers on January 22nd. See the full CfP here: facctconference.org/2025/cfp
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Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.
More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
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More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
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December 17, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.
More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
1/10
More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
1/10
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For my first post on Bluesky .. I'll start by announcing our 2025 edition of EEML which will be in Sarajevo :) ! I'm really excited about it and hope to see many of you there. Please follow the website (and Bluesky account) for more details which are coming soon ..
Hello Bluesky! 🦋
This will be the official account of the Eastern European Machine Learning (EEML) community.
Follow us for news regarding our summer schools, workshops, education/community initiatives, and more!
This will be the official account of the Eastern European Machine Learning (EEML) community.
Follow us for news regarding our summer schools, workshops, education/community initiatives, and more!
December 15, 2024 at 6:39 PM
For my first post on Bluesky .. I'll start by announcing our 2025 edition of EEML which will be in Sarajevo :) ! I'm really excited about it and hope to see many of you there. Please follow the website (and Bluesky account) for more details which are coming soon ..
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Could language games (and playing many of them) be the renewable energy that Ilya was hinting at yesterday? They do address two core challenges of self-improvement -- let's discuss!
My talk is today at 11:40am, West Meeting Room 220-222, #NeurIPS2024
language-gamification.github.io/schedule/
My talk is today at 11:40am, West Meeting Room 220-222, #NeurIPS2024
language-gamification.github.io/schedule/
Are there limits to what you can learn in a closed system? Do we need human feedback in training? Is scale all we need? Should we play language games? What even is "recursive self-improvement"?
Thoughts about this and more here:
arxiv.org/abs/2411.16905
Thoughts about this and more here:
arxiv.org/abs/2411.16905
Boundless Socratic Learning with Language Games
An agent trained within a closed system can master any desired capability, as long as the following three conditions hold: (a) it receives sufficiently informative and aligned feedback, (b) its covera...
arxiv.org
December 14, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Could language games (and playing many of them) be the renewable energy that Ilya was hinting at yesterday? They do address two core challenges of self-improvement -- let's discuss!
My talk is today at 11:40am, West Meeting Room 220-222, #NeurIPS2024
language-gamification.github.io/schedule/
My talk is today at 11:40am, West Meeting Room 220-222, #NeurIPS2024
language-gamification.github.io/schedule/
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Very good to see the renewal of the US-China science and technology pact. Even if it is reduced in scope, some limited cooperation is better than none at all, as we at the AI & Geopolitics Project argue in our latest report 'Moving Beyond Competition'.
US and China sign new science pact — but with severe restrictions
Amid tensions, the two nations agree on a path forward for research collaboration.
www.nature.com
December 13, 2024 at 4:30 PM
Very good to see the renewal of the US-China science and technology pact. Even if it is reduced in scope, some limited cooperation is better than none at all, as we at the AI & Geopolitics Project argue in our latest report 'Moving Beyond Competition'.
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Our new landscape review examines the foundations of participatory and inclusive data stewardship.
The review demonstrates the liveliness of debate around ‘data stewardship’ and aims to support future research and practice.
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/parti...
The review demonstrates the liveliness of debate around ‘data stewardship’ and aims to support future research and practice.
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/parti...
Participatory and inclusive data stewardship
A landscape review
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org
December 13, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Our new landscape review examines the foundations of participatory and inclusive data stewardship.
The review demonstrates the liveliness of debate around ‘data stewardship’ and aims to support future research and practice.
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/parti...
The review demonstrates the liveliness of debate around ‘data stewardship’ and aims to support future research and practice.
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/parti...
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I look forward to co-directing the Canadian AI Safety Institute (CAISI) Research Program at CIFAR with @catherineregis.bsky.social
We will be designing the program in the coming months and will soon share ways to get involved with this new community.
Read more here: cifar.ca/cifarnews/20...
We will be designing the program in the coming months and will soon share ways to get involved with this new community.
Read more here: cifar.ca/cifarnews/20...
December 12, 2024 at 7:36 PM
I look forward to co-directing the Canadian AI Safety Institute (CAISI) Research Program at CIFAR with @catherineregis.bsky.social
We will be designing the program in the coming months and will soon share ways to get involved with this new community.
Read more here: cifar.ca/cifarnews/20...
We will be designing the program in the coming months and will soon share ways to get involved with this new community.
Read more here: cifar.ca/cifarnews/20...
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Enjoyed reading this interview:
"...rather than talk about AI in Africa, we are instead trying to focus on the context of where you are on the continent rather than a definitive catch-all that ignores the massive differences in place and experience.”
wearecs.org/cs-magazine/...
"...rather than talk about AI in Africa, we are instead trying to focus on the context of where you are on the continent rather than a definitive catch-all that ignores the massive differences in place and experience.”
wearecs.org/cs-magazine/...
Vukosi Marivate: Finding Africa inside the machine - CS
It’s a sunny winter’s day in Joburg when I meet with Vukosi Marivate—a multi-hyphenate academic, entrepreneur and African Artificial Intelligence (AI)
wearecs.org
December 11, 2024 at 8:40 PM
Enjoyed reading this interview:
"...rather than talk about AI in Africa, we are instead trying to focus on the context of where you are on the continent rather than a definitive catch-all that ignores the massive differences in place and experience.”
wearecs.org/cs-magazine/...
"...rather than talk about AI in Africa, we are instead trying to focus on the context of where you are on the continent rather than a definitive catch-all that ignores the massive differences in place and experience.”
wearecs.org/cs-magazine/...