Anjana Susarla
asusarla.bsky.social
Anjana Susarla
@asusarla.bsky.social
Omura-Saxena Professor of Responsible AI at the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University.

Some of my general writings can be found at: https://anjanasusarla.substack.com
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“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives
www.scientificamerican.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Loved this piece from @yashicadutt.bsky.social

I belong to IIT educated Indian diaspora. At the same time, I lived in a small village in South India in my high school years which gave me a window into a different set of life experiences

yashicadutt.substack.com/p/zarna-garg...
Zarna Garg and the myth of the Indian American monolith
What the latest comments by one of the most popular Indian American stand up comics reveal about our culture
yashicadutt.substack.com
December 8, 2025 at 11:22 PM
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Florida #AIBillofRights meets the Blueprint for an #AIBillofRights

🤝 Safe and Effective Systems
🤝 Algorithmic Discrimination Protections
🤝 Data Privacy
🤝 Notice and Explanation

bidenwhitehouse.archives.gov/ostp/ai-bill...
December 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.”

The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.

It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.

Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Exclusive: Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders
“This is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that we represent.”
www.miamiherald.com
December 6, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Folks should stop platforming this hateful person (whose entire comedic shtick consists of regurgitating tropes about Indian-Americans)..

www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-bigge...
Trump’s Biggest Problem Isn’t His Grift: Comedian
Zarna Garg sat down with The Daily Beast Podcast to discuss some of the unexpected ways the Indian-American community has found common ground with the MAGA leader.
www.thedailybeast.com
December 5, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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Medical case study of a woman who developed AI-associated psychosis notes that sleep deprivation played a significant role (I've seen that too!) and that the woman found GPT-5 "much harder to manipulate"

innovationscns.com/youre-not-cr...
“You're Not Crazy”: A Case of New-onset AI-associated Psychosis - Innovations in Clinical Neuroscience
Peer-reviewed evidence-based information in neuroscience research and practice, including psychiatry, neurology, psychology
innovationscns.com
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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New: AI chatbots can change voters' minds, according to a pair of in-depth studies published just now in Science and Nature.

How they do it is interesting — and concerning. Gift link: wapo.st/49RSstP
Voters’ minds are hard to change. AI chatbots are surprisingly good at it.
New research suggests AI chatbots can shift people’s political views more effectively than campaign ads on TV.
wapo.st
December 4, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Kavanaugh Stop.
Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:
December 3, 2025 at 5:53 PM
I have written about the different types of state level regulations for @us.theconversation.com

Potentially this could set up states' efforts on a collision course with Federal courts or with future executive orders .
Meta, Andreessen Horowitz, OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman have collectively thrown "well more" than $100 million into political influence campaigns to "aggressively oppose" any candidates they perceive as enemies of "innovation policy.”

www.wsj.com/tech/ai/tech...
Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation
Some are battling state AI laws and threatening to punish candidates who oppose rapid deployment of the technology.
www.wsj.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Happy Thanksgiving
November 28, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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Many people don't know this but arXiv is maintained and operated by @cornelltech.bsky.social (that does NOT mean you can send me complaints or feature requests!)

Everyone in the community should be excited that arXiv got $7M to upgrade from Schmidt Sciences, NASA

news.cornell.edu/stories/2025...
$7M grant from NASA, Schmidt Sciences to upgrade arXiv | Cornell Chronicle
The funding will help arXiv – which is maintained and operated by Cornell Tech – finish migrating to cloud infrastructure and modernizing its code.
news.cornell.edu
November 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
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Insurers are now seeking to exclude AI from corporate policies because the risks are too unpredictable and liability is unclear. This is a signal: we cannot rely on insurance markets or tort law to protect against AI harms. We need actual governance and policy.
Insurers AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots and to retreat from coverage of AI risk as multibillion-dollar claims mount

www.ft.com/content/abfe...
Insurers retreat from AI cover as risk of multibillion-dollar claims mounts
AIG, Great American and WR Berkley seek permission to limit liability from AI agents and chatbots
www.ft.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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I’ve spent almost seven years covering Meta and have had a good deal of exposure to internal work product on teen well-being. But a Friday filing in the school district social media litigation breaks some ground on Meta’s causal findings regarding social media harm.

www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
www.reuters.com
November 23, 2025 at 12:48 AM
I'm finally reading this book - very impressive and exhaustive account based on careful research! Please read it..
Sam Altman isn't keen on you reading my book. EMPIRE OF AI is based on 300+ interviews, 7 yrs covering AI, and my time as the first reporter who got extensive access to OpenAI. I sought OpenAI's perspective throughout. For months they said it was coming. It never did. Pre-order here: empireofai.com.
November 22, 2025 at 9:33 PM
isn’t this really about an older person not wanting to be upstaged by a younger and charismatic person so he will be very nice to him..
Trump says more nice things about Mamdani and they shake hands
November 21, 2025 at 9:49 PM
We need new versions of classic movies like “his girl Friday” to make journalists‘ and reporters’ jobs look great
Per the Bureau of Labor Statistics, American journalists' median salary in 2024 was $60,280. Work hours are irregular, with night and weekend assignments common, and some roles entail occupational hazards. The profession is decline, with employment decreasing each year. www.bls.gov/ooh/media-an...
November 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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Finally here! I've been working on this article for a few months now.

Whatever podcast clips are ubiquitous, spreading truly vile misogyny everywhere online. But almost nothing is known about the show.

Well, I aim to change that. My investigation.

www.salon.com/2025/11/21/t...
The online clip factory that's radicalizing teen boys - Salon.com
How a wildly popular YouTube “dating” show heaps mockery on women to create "so many more incels”
www.salon.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.

Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I am old enough to remember the movie Ring (about a cursed videotape that causes harm to whoever views it) was considered to be a horror movie #algorithmicliability #AIsafety
November 21, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Maybe one could term this poetic justice ..
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Posting from the next workshop: Image Integrity in Research: Detecting Manipulation and Embedding Trustworthy Practices, led by Matt McCoy @proofigai.bsky.social , who shows a 'Hype cycle of his career" 😂
LLM as a tool -> LLM as an analyst -> LLM as a scientist?
github.com/HKUST-KnowCo...
#AIMOS2025
November 20, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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A US federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Facebook-owner Meta is not a monopolist in a case brought by the Federal Trade Commission over its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. Tech Policy Press associate editor Cristiano Lima-Strong looks at some of the key arguments in the ruling.
Key Excerpts: Meta Wins Bout with FTC Over Instagram, WhatsApp Deals | TechPolicy.Press
A US federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Facebook-owner Meta is not a monopolist. Cristiano Lima-Strong looks at some of the key arguments in the ruling.
www.techpolicy.press
November 18, 2025 at 10:35 PM
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Meta isn't a monopoly, a judge ruled today, because it competes with YouTube and TikTok.

Story by @naominix.bsky.social: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Meta is not an illegal monopoly, judge rules
District Judge James E. Boasberg rejected the Federal Trade Commission’s argument that Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp violated antitrust laws.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Just a few years ago the economics profession completely marginalized @claudia-sahm.bsky.social for speaking out on this matter.
Summers conferred with Epstein frequently about how to extract sexual favors from a Harvard econ grad (AB '04, PhD '09)

The grad is from China

Epstein and Summers referred to her by the codename "Peril"

Racism and sexual exploitation in one efficient package

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As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:11 PM