Edgar Duenez-Guzman
@eaduenez.bsky.social
AI researcher, Cooperative AI, AI for Social Good, Multi Agent Systems, Game Theory, Evolutionary Biology.
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Edgar Duenez-Guzman
@eaduenez.bsky.social
· Mar 17
Doing AI Differently: London Workshop
An International Initiative Integrating Humanities into the Core of AI Development. Doing AI Differently is led by The Alan Turing Institute, University of Edinburgh…
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Honoured to give a Keynote at Doing AI Differently organised by The Alan Turing Institute, @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, and @ukri.org.
"Defending human autonomy in the age of AI enshittification", what I consider to be the single most pressing problem facing humanity.
vimeo.com/event/498174...
"Defending human autonomy in the age of AI enshittification", what I consider to be the single most pressing problem facing humanity.
vimeo.com/event/498174...
I once hoped discrimination was a dying relic. But what if it's a cognitive "bug"?
At #DeepMind, we asked a critical question: Could bias emerge on its own, even in AI without any human social baggage?
Our new research in @pnas.org has some startling answers.
#AI #Bias #Psychology #CognitiveScience
At #DeepMind, we asked a critical question: Could bias emerge on its own, even in AI without any human social baggage?
Our new research in @pnas.org has some startling answers.
#AI #Bias #Psychology #CognitiveScience
June 16, 2025 at 10:25 PM
I once hoped discrimination was a dying relic. But what if it's a cognitive "bug"?
At #DeepMind, we asked a critical question: Could bias emerge on its own, even in AI without any human social baggage?
Our new research in @pnas.org has some startling answers.
#AI #Bias #Psychology #CognitiveScience
At #DeepMind, we asked a critical question: Could bias emerge on its own, even in AI without any human social baggage?
Our new research in @pnas.org has some startling answers.
#AI #Bias #Psychology #CognitiveScience
Honoured to give a Keynote at Doing AI Differently organised by The Alan Turing Institute, @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, and @ukri.org.
"Defending human autonomy in the age of AI enshittification", what I consider to be the single most pressing problem facing humanity.
vimeo.com/event/498174...
"Defending human autonomy in the age of AI enshittification", what I consider to be the single most pressing problem facing humanity.
vimeo.com/event/498174...
Doing AI Differently: London Workshop
An International Initiative Integrating Humanities into the Core of AI Development. Doing AI Differently is led by The Alan Turing Institute, University of Edinburgh…
vimeo.com
March 17, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Honoured to give a Keynote at Doing AI Differently organised by The Alan Turing Institute, @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social, and @ukri.org.
"Defending human autonomy in the age of AI enshittification", what I consider to be the single most pressing problem facing humanity.
vimeo.com/event/498174...
"Defending human autonomy in the age of AI enshittification", what I consider to be the single most pressing problem facing humanity.
vimeo.com/event/498174...
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I finished a video: youtu.be/1_JbJTeLZJs
Simulating the Evolution of Aging
YouTube video by Primer
youtu.be
February 1, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I finished a video: youtu.be/1_JbJTeLZJs
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New:
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
February 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
New:
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
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The cruelty is the point, as @adamserwer.bsky.social
wrote in 2018
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
wrote in 2018
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Cruelty Is the Point
Trump and his supporters find community by rejoicing in the suffering of those they hate and fear.
www.theatlantic.com
February 19, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The cruelty is the point, as @adamserwer.bsky.social
wrote in 2018
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
wrote in 2018
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths
February 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths
Another example of bad AI practices, with a great take from Pluralistic. TL;DR, no, you cannot train an AI Vision model to predict MBA performance from headshots (other than to measure preexisting human bias).
pluralistic.net/2025/02/17/c...
pluralistic.net/2025/02/17/c...
Pluralistic: Business school professors trained an AI to judge workers’ personalities based on their faces (17 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
February 17, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Another example of bad AI practices, with a great take from Pluralistic. TL;DR, no, you cannot train an AI Vision model to predict MBA performance from headshots (other than to measure preexisting human bias).
pluralistic.net/2025/02/17/c...
pluralistic.net/2025/02/17/c...
Here's how to save trillions in government spending... Hint, Elon wouldn't like it:
prospect.org/economy/2025...
prospect.org/economy/2025...
January 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Here's how to save trillions in government spending... Hint, Elon wouldn't like it:
prospect.org/economy/2025...
prospect.org/economy/2025...
Fantastic take on... well... rationality, mostly, but specifically about how revolutionaries need to think about consequences of their tearing down the status quo
pluralistic.net/2025/01/13/w...
pluralistic.net/2025/01/13/w...
Pluralistic: They were warned; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 4) (13 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
January 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Fantastic take on... well... rationality, mostly, but specifically about how revolutionaries need to think about consequences of their tearing down the status quo
pluralistic.net/2025/01/13/w...
pluralistic.net/2025/01/13/w...
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A brilliant colleague and wonderful soul Felix Hill recently passed away. This was a shock and in an effort to sort some things out, I wrote them down. Maybe this will help someone else, but at the very least it helped me. Rest in peace, Felix, you will be missed. www.janexwang.com/blog/2025/1/...
Felix — Jane X. Wang
From the moment I heard him give a talk, I knew I wanted to work with Felix . His ideas about generalization and situatedness made explicit thoughts that had been swirling around in my head, incohe...
www.janexwang.com
January 3, 2025 at 4:02 AM
A brilliant colleague and wonderful soul Felix Hill recently passed away. This was a shock and in an effort to sort some things out, I wrote them down. Maybe this will help someone else, but at the very least it helped me. Rest in peace, Felix, you will be missed. www.janexwang.com/blog/2025/1/...
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Felix Hill was such an incredible mentor — and occasional cold water swimming partner — to me. He's a huge part of why I joined DeepMind and how I've come to approach research. Even a month later, it's still hard to believe he's gone.
January 2, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Felix Hill was such an incredible mentor — and occasional cold water swimming partner — to me. He's a huge part of why I joined DeepMind and how I've come to approach research. Even a month later, it's still hard to believe he's gone.
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For Maths fans, 2025 is a square.
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education
January 1, 2025 at 1:56 PM
For Maths fans, 2025 is a square.
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education
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A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.
January 1, 2025 at 7:23 PM
A real photo and perfect metaphor heading into 2025.
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OpenAI whistleblower Suchir is dead. His mother has reasons to suspect foul play, below.
I hope that SFPD will reinvestigate.
His parents deserve justice, and given how central Suchir was to upcoming legal cases with hundreds of billions of dollars at stake, the world deserves answers.
I hope that SFPD will reinvestigate.
His parents deserve justice, and given how central Suchir was to upcoming legal cases with hundreds of billions of dollars at stake, the world deserves answers.
December 29, 2024 at 4:39 PM
OpenAI whistleblower Suchir is dead. His mother has reasons to suspect foul play, below.
I hope that SFPD will reinvestigate.
His parents deserve justice, and given how central Suchir was to upcoming legal cases with hundreds of billions of dollars at stake, the world deserves answers.
I hope that SFPD will reinvestigate.
His parents deserve justice, and given how central Suchir was to upcoming legal cases with hundreds of billions of dollars at stake, the world deserves answers.
In collective intelligence smarter units are not always better:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
For AI the lesson is that just making AIs more intelligent isn't necessarily going to make them better tools (or companions, or assistants)
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
For AI the lesson is that just making AIs more intelligent isn't necessarily going to make them better tools (or companions, or assistants)
Comparing cooperative geometric puzzle solving in ants versus humans | PNAS
Biological ensembles use collective intelligence to tackle challenges together, but
suboptimal coordination can undermine the effectiveness of grou...
www.pnas.org
December 31, 2024 at 1:12 AM
In collective intelligence smarter units are not always better:
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
For AI the lesson is that just making AIs more intelligent isn't necessarily going to make them better tools (or companions, or assistants)
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
For AI the lesson is that just making AIs more intelligent isn't necessarily going to make them better tools (or companions, or assistants)
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Breaking news: A 2020 paper that sparked widespread enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine as a #COVID19 treatment has been retracted, following campaigning by scientists who alleged the research contained major scientific flaws and may have breached ethics regulations. scim.ag/4iR9bQ6
Infamous paper that popularized unproven COVID-19 treatment finally retracted
Study on hydroxychloroquine by Didier Raoult and colleagues gets pulled on ethical and scientific grounds
scim.ag
December 17, 2024 at 3:05 PM
Breaking news: A 2020 paper that sparked widespread enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine as a #COVID19 treatment has been retracted, following campaigning by scientists who alleged the research contained major scientific flaws and may have breached ethics regulations. scim.ag/4iR9bQ6
Enforced return to office leads workers to seek new jobs www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Thank you, Captain Obvious! 😁
Thank you, Captain Obvious! 😁
Enforced return to office leads workers to seek new jobs
Recruitment group says more applicants are turning down offers that do not include hybrid working
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Enforced return to office leads workers to seek new jobs www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Thank you, Captain Obvious! 😁
Thank you, Captain Obvious! 😁
Advice for budding AI researchers: read a paper every week.
It almost doesn't matter which paper. The goal is not to know the whole field (that's impossible), but to get very comfortable quickly understanding what an article is about and evaluate it's contribution in the context of the field.
It almost doesn't matter which paper. The goal is not to know the whole field (that's impossible), but to get very comfortable quickly understanding what an article is about and evaluate it's contribution in the context of the field.
November 25, 2024 at 3:15 PM
Advice for budding AI researchers: read a paper every week.
It almost doesn't matter which paper. The goal is not to know the whole field (that's impossible), but to get very comfortable quickly understanding what an article is about and evaluate it's contribution in the context of the field.
It almost doesn't matter which paper. The goal is not to know the whole field (that's impossible), but to get very comfortable quickly understanding what an article is about and evaluate it's contribution in the context of the field.
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Anyone knows how to quickly follow back people who follow me? Bonus points if there's a way to do it by having some profile information alongside the decision point.
I find it hard to just click on every person one by one, look at their profile, decide, and go back.
I find it hard to just click on every person one by one, look at their profile, decide, and go back.
November 25, 2024 at 2:37 PM
Anyone knows how to quickly follow back people who follow me? Bonus points if there's a way to do it by having some profile information alongside the decision point.
I find it hard to just click on every person one by one, look at their profile, decide, and go back.
I find it hard to just click on every person one by one, look at their profile, decide, and go back.
What are the best examples of AI products that are trying to explicitly empower humans?
Maybe search, maybe codegen? I think most use-cases are (actually) empowering corporations, and that worries me.
Maybe search, maybe codegen? I think most use-cases are (actually) empowering corporations, and that worries me.
November 25, 2024 at 2:14 PM
What are the best examples of AI products that are trying to explicitly empower humans?
Maybe search, maybe codegen? I think most use-cases are (actually) empowering corporations, and that worries me.
Maybe search, maybe codegen? I think most use-cases are (actually) empowering corporations, and that worries me.
Hey 'ma, that's me!
Lets fill out the multi-agent systems starter pack. RL, learning in games, certain kinds of HCI, collective intelligence, etc.
go.bsky.app/9gsefkW
go.bsky.app/9gsefkW
November 25, 2024 at 1:09 AM
Hey 'ma, that's me!
I cannot be the only one using peer review to keep up to date with research, right?
November 25, 2024 at 12:57 AM
I cannot be the only one using peer review to keep up to date with research, right?
It's great to see so many fantastic people here, but why does it still feel like doomscrolling? 🫠
November 22, 2024 at 11:05 PM
It's great to see so many fantastic people here, but why does it still feel like doomscrolling? 🫠