Bhargavi Ganesh
@bhargaviganesh.bsky.social
PhD Student at University of Edinburgh, focusing on AI governance
Tourist in the waking world
Tourist in the waking world
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Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
November 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
Yes, THAT Pope.
6 more days to submit to this call for papers for the inaugural Accountable AI conference at Wharton. Should be an interesting interdisciplinary conversation!
🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨
The Wharton Accountable AI Lab is hosting the 1st Accountable AI Research Conference at @Wharton on Feb 6, 2026.
Focus: law, ethics, governance & policy shaping real-world AI practice.
Submissions due: Oct 27, 2025. Learn more:
ai-analytics.wharton.upenn.edu/wharton-acco...
Accountable AI Research Conference Accountable AI Research Conference
The first Accountable AI Research Conference will bring together scholars from law and other fields. The risks and limitations of AI have been the subject of scholarly attention for many years. Yet th...
ai-analytics.wharton.upenn.edu
October 21, 2025 at 11:37 AM
6 more days to submit to this call for papers for the inaugural Accountable AI conference at Wharton. Should be an interesting interdisciplinary conversation!
Really excited to present one of the papers coming out of my PhD at the AI, Ethics and Society (AIES) conference tomorrow called "The ‘Wild West’ of Medicine: Exploring the Emergence of ‘Grassroots’ AI Governance in Radiology". Link here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI.... Thread on the paper below 👇
View of The ‘Wild West’ of Medicine: Exploring the Emergence of ‘Grassroots’ AI Governance in Radiology
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October 21, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Really excited to present one of the papers coming out of my PhD at the AI, Ethics and Society (AIES) conference tomorrow called "The ‘Wild West’ of Medicine: Exploring the Emergence of ‘Grassroots’ AI Governance in Radiology". Link here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI.... Thread on the paper below 👇
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They've lost the 9yos
September 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
They've lost the 9yos
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🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
An ELSI for AI: Learning from genetics to govern algorithms
In the United States, the summer of 2025 will be remembered as artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) cruel summer—a season when the unheeded risks and dangers of AI became undeniably clear. Recent months h...
www.science.org
September 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM
🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Research: low productivity gains from AI may stem from employees using AI to produce "workslop", or low-effort, passable work that creates more work for others (Harvard Business Review)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
September 23, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Research: low productivity gains from AI may stem from employees using AI to produce "workslop", or low-effort, passable work that creates more work for others (Harvard Business Review)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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California’s DMV says Tesla should lose its license to sell cars in the state, as the company fights allegations of misleading drivers into thinking its vehicles can operate autonomously without human oversight.
Tesla fights two court battles over claims it misled consumers about automated driving
Tesla is fighting cases in Miami and California alleging it dangerously misled consumers about its Autopilot technology, including the driver in a fatal crash.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 22, 2025 at 5:05 PM
California’s DMV says Tesla should lose its license to sell cars in the state, as the company fights allegations of misleading drivers into thinking its vehicles can operate autonomously without human oversight.
These things seem to bear repeating over and over again
Me, a rube: governments procure a technology when a specific need is identified.
UK: “lol, no”
UK: “lol, no”
OpenAI signs deal with UK to find government uses for its models
Wide-ranging agreement with artificial intelligence firm behind ChatGPT comes after similar UK deal with Google
www.theguardian.com
July 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
These things seem to bear repeating over and over again
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Beautiful, and thoughtful. For just one example, see this excerpt. I'm increasingly captivated by the idea that "attention is all you need" is both the rallying cry for transformers and an exhortation for us to preserve ours.
July 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Beautiful, and thoughtful. For just one example, see this excerpt. I'm increasingly captivated by the idea that "attention is all you need" is both the rallying cry for transformers and an exhortation for us to preserve ours.
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We are wildly unprepared to think about and manage water as the precious and limited resource it truly is.
Because electricity is more costly for data centers than water, companies often prioritize building their facilities in places with cheap power, even if the area is drought stricken. “Water is an afterthought”...The thinking is, ‘Someone will figure that out later.’”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/t...
Their Water Taps Ran Dry When Meta Built Next Door
www.nytimes.com
July 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
We are wildly unprepared to think about and manage water as the precious and limited resource it truly is.
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New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
June 18, 2025 at 7:32 AM
New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays.
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn.
arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...
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"Business Insider identified 1,240 data centers in America already built or approved for construction at the end of last year — the most comprehensive tally to date. That's nearly four times the number in 2010."
AI's promise is still taking shape. The costs of its data centers are already here.
Data center costs in electricity and water have been hard to pin down. We dug up documents to figure out the impact of AI infrastructure.
www.businessinsider.com
June 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"Business Insider identified 1,240 data centers in America already built or approved for construction at the end of last year — the most comprehensive tally to date. That's nearly four times the number in 2010."
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Call for Papers - The Politics of AI: Governance, Resistance, Alternatives www.criticalinfralab.net/preview/?id=...
We invite proposals for our symposium that offer critical perspectives on AI & environment, AI & society, and the political economy of AI. Please share widely!
We invite proposals for our symposium that offer critical perspectives on AI & environment, AI & society, and the political economy of AI. Please share widely!
June 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Call for Papers - The Politics of AI: Governance, Resistance, Alternatives www.criticalinfralab.net/preview/?id=...
We invite proposals for our symposium that offer critical perspectives on AI & environment, AI & society, and the political economy of AI. Please share widely!
We invite proposals for our symposium that offer critical perspectives on AI & environment, AI & society, and the political economy of AI. Please share widely!
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Steph Wright of the Scottish AI Alliance asking exactly the right question at our @braiduk.bsky.social gathering in Manchester: ‘How can we change the narrative from ‘Are you ready for AI? How can we make you AI-ready?’ to ‘Is AI ready for you? Is it good enough yet to be in your life, or business?’
June 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Steph Wright of the Scottish AI Alliance asking exactly the right question at our @braiduk.bsky.social gathering in Manchester: ‘How can we change the narrative from ‘Are you ready for AI? How can we make you AI-ready?’ to ‘Is AI ready for you? Is it good enough yet to be in your life, or business?’
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....the Middle East, Latin America, or Russia and the Post-Soviet space, great power/imperial conflict, international law..technology/AI, or the international politics of the environment.
Deadline - Friday 27 June 2025
Apply here
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Deadline - Friday 27 June 2025
Apply here
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Job Details
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June 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
....the Middle East, Latin America, or Russia and the Post-Soviet space, great power/imperial conflict, international law..technology/AI, or the international politics of the environment.
Deadline - Friday 27 June 2025
Apply here
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Deadline - Friday 27 June 2025
Apply here
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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THREE 5-year Lectureships in IR at Oxford.
One person will have expertise in Historical and Interpretive Methods; another in Qualitative Methods, and a third in Quantitative Methods
We're looking for people with substantive expertise in historical international relations, the IR of Africa...
One person will have expertise in Historical and Interpretive Methods; another in Qualitative Methods, and a third in Quantitative Methods
We're looking for people with substantive expertise in historical international relations, the IR of Africa...
June 9, 2025 at 12:11 PM
THREE 5-year Lectureships in IR at Oxford.
One person will have expertise in Historical and Interpretive Methods; another in Qualitative Methods, and a third in Quantitative Methods
We're looking for people with substantive expertise in historical international relations, the IR of Africa...
One person will have expertise in Historical and Interpretive Methods; another in Qualitative Methods, and a third in Quantitative Methods
We're looking for people with substantive expertise in historical international relations, the IR of Africa...
Me every sunny day: God I love Scotland
April 11, 2025 at 10:19 AM
Me every sunny day: God I love Scotland
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“If my products are so good for everyone, why wouldn’t I guarantee its safety by holding myself to account? Who wins if we have biased, unsustainable, deceptive AI? Is it the 8 billionaires, or the other 8 billion people?” My interview @computerweekly.bsky.social & Seb Klovig tinyurl.com/4my8rke3
AI Action Summit review: Differing views cast doubt on AI’s ability to benefit whole of society | Computer Weekly
Governments, companies and civil society groups gathered at the third global AI summit discussed how the technology can be made to work for the benefit of everyone in society, but experts say competin...
www.computerweekly.com
March 18, 2025 at 8:41 AM
“If my products are so good for everyone, why wouldn’t I guarantee its safety by holding myself to account? Who wins if we have biased, unsustainable, deceptive AI? Is it the 8 billionaires, or the other 8 billion people?” My interview @computerweekly.bsky.social & Seb Klovig tinyurl.com/4my8rke3
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My colleague Peter Conti-Brown and I have a project connecting the dots between AI governance and financial regulation. Below is the first in a series of contributions from our recent workshop, by Penn Carey Law School regulatory expert Cary Coglianese.
open.substack.com/pub/petercon...
open.substack.com/pub/petercon...
Strategies for Regulating Artificial Intelligence - Guest Post, Cary Coglianese
As part of our series on AI Risk Management and Financial Regulation, our colleague Cary Coglianese builds on his work to describe some options for regulating AI risks.
open.substack.com
March 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
My colleague Peter Conti-Brown and I have a project connecting the dots between AI governance and financial regulation. Below is the first in a series of contributions from our recent workshop, by Penn Carey Law School regulatory expert Cary Coglianese.
open.substack.com/pub/petercon...
open.substack.com/pub/petercon...
Only in Scotland would you see a bunch of barbecues going in the park on a day that feels like 35F (2C)
March 14, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Only in Scotland would you see a bunch of barbecues going in the park on a day that feels like 35F (2C)
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The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
March 13, 2025 at 10:23 PM
The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.
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Hi all! I am looking to recruit an intern for this summer at Sony AI. The researcher should have documented expertise in qualitative studies and an interest in studying how responsible AI is conducted within organizations. Feel free to share widely!
tinyurl.com/hci-sony
tinyurl.com/hci-sony
HCI Intern (AI Ethics Team)
Sony AI America, a branch of Sony AI, is a remotely distributed organization spread across the U.S. and Canada. Sony AI is Sony’s new research organization pursuing the mission to use AI to unleash hu...
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March 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Hi all! I am looking to recruit an intern for this summer at Sony AI. The researcher should have documented expertise in qualitative studies and an interest in studying how responsible AI is conducted within organizations. Feel free to share widely!
tinyurl.com/hci-sony
tinyurl.com/hci-sony
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That went well
March 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
That went well
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Why would you report as fact a claim that even the person making it admits is entirely made up? www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
February 11, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Why would you report as fact a claim that even the person making it admits is entirely made up? www.thetimes.com/business-mon...
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BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy.
Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐
www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social
Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐
www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social
February 11, 2025 at 7:22 AM
BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy.
Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐
www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social
Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐
www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social