Throw back to a cloud inversion on Beinn Eighe a year ago. If you have the chance, explore the Scottish Highlands!

The Hungarian government often mails people “National Consultations” paid for by taxpayers, asking violently condescending questions:

“Do you wanna raise taxes?”
A: “Yes, I like paying more to fund those who don’t work.”
B: “No.”

Then they use the results to fake support for their agenda…

The @braiduk.bsky.social gathering did an amazing job with presenting artists and researchers who address real-world questions around AI by actually engaging with people and learning from them. After hearing two weeks of technical talks at CHAI and RLDM, this was a most welcome break of pace.

I had the most amazing time at RLDM learning a lot about RL and agent foundations, catching up with and meeting new friends.

Two things that really stood out to me are:
- Agency is Frame Dependent by from Dave Abel
- Rethinking Foundations of Continual RL by Michael Bowling

#RLDM2025

Preprint alert 🎉 Introducing the Agentic eXplanations via Interrogative Simulations (AXIS) algo.

AXIS integrates multi-agent simulators with LLMs by having the LLMs interrogate the simulator with counterfactual queries over multiple rounds for explaining agent behaviour.

arxiv.org/pdf/2505.17801

90-year-old Masako Wakamiya at the final keynote of #CHI2025 shared a cautiously optimistic vision of the future of AI and humanity, especially for the elderly, as we enter the age of 100-year-long lives. Her speech and work is truly inspiring.

Oh yeah. In English, because apparently it sounds sophisticated, or at least that is what I have heard on the internet... So it must be true

The #CHI2025 plushie is looking too cute:

#CHI2025 has a badge tag for rejected author. 🥲I couldn't resist getting one for future use.

I am going to CHI'25. I am super excited for this, so reach out if you are there!

I will be presenting our work titled "People Attribute Purpose to Autonomous Vehicles When Explaining Their Behavior: Insights from Cognitive Science for Explainable AI" dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

🧵 1/7 #CHI2025

'AI Safety for Everyone' is out now in @natmachintell.nature.com! Through an analysis of 383 papers, we find a rich landscape of methods that cover a much larger domain than mainstream notions of AI safety. Our takeaway: Epistemic inclusivity is important, the knowledge is there, we only need use it

Took an 18km walk today along the beautiful sand dunes of East Lothian. Standing in the horizontal rain, I couldn't help but feel the dramatic beauty of the landscape. Scotland is so beautiful when you get out of the city.

Call for papers! 🎉 If you have felt confused about evaluation in explainable AI, this workshop is for you! We are excited to go to Bologna @ ECAI'25 as we try to build better methods for evaluating XAI. Can't wait to see what ideas the community will bring!
sites.google.com/view/excd-20...

I am glad to see some action against shower-in-a-cans at the university gym. For far too long have our noses been invaded by such famous fragrances as "Aqua Bergamot" and "Black Vanilla".

Nobel Peace laureate and journalist legend Maria Ressa at #IASEAI25: We need 'radical collaboration' to make facts, not lies, the norm again, especially in the GenAI fueled content craze.