@melaniemitchell.bsky.social
Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
@melaniemitchell.bsky.socialMichael Jordan (the machine learning one): "Superintelligence is Science Fiction" 🔥🔥🔥
@melaniemitchell.bsky.social"Chasing its own tail-risk"
@melaniemitchell.bsky.socialI got insulted online by Scott Alexander! Fun times.
I guess he hasn't read any of my work since the 1980s.
@tanialombrozo.bsky.socialReposted by @melaniemitchell.bsky.socialOut today!
@melaniemitchell.bsky.socialWonderful news -- congrats!
@melaniemitchell.bsky.socialExcellent! Congratulations on taking big steps in this much needed direction.
@melaniemitchell.bsky.socialOMG this explains everything.
@melaniemitchell.bsky.socialGet it while it's still cheap!
@melaniemitchell.bsky.socialA good investment?
@melaniemitchell.bsky.socialTime to get shopping
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@melaniemitchell.bsky.socialRIP OPT? What an unmitigated disaster for everyone.
@natolambert.bsky.socialReposted by @melaniemitchell.bsky.socialA great read. I have similar feelings about how AI labs approach progress directly and without nurturing of scientific communities & intuition. The math research community went through the transition the fastest, so it was felt most. Other fields next. terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/11/a...
@melaniemitchell.bsky.social@melaniemitchell.bsky.socialAnyone else getting lots of (AI-written) emails offering to feature one's book at their large online book club? I've gotten several of these in the last week. There's something scammy going on but I'm not sure what the angle is.
@melaniemitchell.bsky.socialI wrote down my thoughts about the last several weeks of AI hell.
@melaniemitchell.bsky.socialIs this the most publicized resignation in history? (Maybe second, behind Richard Nixon.)
@melaniemitchell.bsky.socialWhat, an Anthropic researcher states (without evidence) that there is a 10% chance that AI will cause human extinction? Incredible, we have never before heard such a claim!
@melaniemitchell.bsky.socialCongratulations, Julian!
@melaniemitchell.bsky.socialHey @ericlipton.nytimes.com 👋
AI is not “evolving” on its own.
*People* are choosing how to build it. *People* are choosing how to train it. *People* are choosing how to run it.
Maybe the problem is that they are the *wrong people* to make these choices.