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Suresh Venkatasubramanian
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Director, Center for Tech Responsibility@Brown. FAccT OG. AI Bill of Rights coauthor. Former tech advisor to President Biden @WHOSTP. He/him/his. Posts my own.

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian is an Indian computer scientist and professor at Brown University. In 2021, Prof. Venkatasubramanian was appointed to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, advising on matters relating to fairness and bias in tech systems. He was formerly a professor at the University of Utah. He is known for his contributions in computational geometry and differential privacy, and his work has been covered by news outlets such as Science Friday, NBC News, and Gizmodo. He also runs the Geomblog, which has received coverage from the New York Times, Hacker News, KDnuggets and other media outlets. He has served as associate editor of the International Journal of Computational Geometry and Applications and as the academic editor of PeerJ Computer Science, and on program committees for the IEEE International Conference on Data Mining, the SIAM Conference on Data Mining, NIPS, SIGKDD, SODA, and STACS. .. more

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 1d
Those of us who have worked on progressive domestic policy at the federal level are used to negotiating with a seemingly immovable NSC apparatus that often invokes ambiguous or unspecifiable national security concerns as a reason to kill any number of civil/human rights priorities.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 1d
I worked in a Democratic presidential administration and, even then, DHS was very often the most problematic, obstinate part of negotiating a civil/human rights provision into executive branch policy.

I have been thinking about this a lot in recent weeks and want to offer a short 🧵with reflections:

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 3d
When I was at the White House my team wrote policy that specifically addressed this - the use of often discriminatory facial recognition tools in law enforcement contexts or other areas where civil rights were in play. The image below was the worst case scenario - what we were trying to avoid. 1/3

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 3d
What is .... an algorithm?
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Things we hoped for when we wrote the A.I. Bill of Rights under @alondra.bsky.social at the White House in 2022: new legislation, executive action, holding tech companies accountable

Things that we *literally* would not have believed: a Jeopardy! clue in 2026

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2022's A.I. Bill of Rights says no to "discrimination by" these, the sets of instructions that computers rely on to problem solve

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 3d
Things we hoped for when we wrote the A.I. Bill of Rights under @alondra.bsky.social at the White House in 2022: new legislation, executive action, holding tech companies accountable

Things that we *literally* would not have believed: a Jeopardy! clue in 2026

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2022's A.I. Bill of Rights says no to "discrimination by" these, the sets of instructions that computers rely on to problem solve

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 4d
This is a sharp and perceptive point.
alondra.bsky.social Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 5d
🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The mirage of AI deregulation
One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...
www.science.org

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 4d
The article is amazing. I strongly recommend reading the whole thing for anyone interested in scaling properties. The thoughtfulness of the scientific process is refreshing (sadly, because it should be the norm for ML papers)
nsaphra.bsky.social Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 4d
This post on scale discontinuities by @ericjmichaud.bsky.social has my best citation yet ericjmichaud.com/quanta/

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Naomi Saphra @nsaphra.bsky.social · 4d
This post on scale discontinuities by @ericjmichaud.bsky.social has my best citation yet ericjmichaud.com/quanta/

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 5d
🧵 Trump administration AI policy is widely described as deregulatory. This description is misleading. What's happening is not the absence of governance but its rearrangement--intensive state intervention operating through mechanisms we don't typically call regulation. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The mirage of AI deregulation
One of the most interventionist approaches to technology governance in the United States in a generation has cloaked itself in the language of deregulation. In early December 2025, President Donald Tr...
www.science.org

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John S. @cloudsurfer.bsky.social · 9d
The Rolling Pebbles

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Sariel Har-Peled @sarielhp.bsky.social · 9d
Stationary stone?

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 9d
Led Balloon
md.ekstrandom.net Michael Ekstrand @md.ekstrandom.net · 9d
Slightly diminish a band:

Jefferson Kite
alexandraerin.com 🏳️‍⚧️ Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] @alexandraerin.com · 10d
Slightly diminish a band:

They Might Be Unusually Large

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Mississippi Today @mississippitoday.org · 9d
Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins

A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil…
Suspect arrested in predawn fire that left parts of Mississippi’s largest synagogue in charred ruins
A fire heavily damaged Jackson’s only synagogue before dawn Saturday – the same house of worship that was firebombed by the Ku Klux Klan in 1967 because the rabbi had been an advocate for civil rights.
mississippitoday.org

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Michael Ekstrand @md.ekstrandom.net · 9d
Slightly diminish a band:

Jefferson Kite
alexandraerin.com 🏳️‍⚧️ Alexandra Merideth Erin [she/her] @alexandraerin.com · 10d
Slightly diminish a band:

They Might Be Unusually Large
flawedhowl.bsky.social DSM-6 Spoilers @flawedhowl.bsky.social · 10d
Slightly diminish a band

Something Something

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ACLU @aclu.org · 10d
We released a new report in partnership with the Center for Tech Responsibility at Brown University on how policymakers and researchers can better analyze AI legislation to protect our civil rights and liberties.
Making Sense of AI Policy Using Computational Tools | TechPolicy.Press
A new report examines how to use computational tools to evaluate policy, with AI policy as a case study.
www.techpolicy.press

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 10d
apropos of nothing at all.... www.nobelpeaceprize.org/press/press-...
A Nobel Prize cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred - Nobel Peace Prize
www.nobelpeaceprize.org

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 10d
How much is Slack paying you :):)

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 11d
is it a fancy LLM? and is it something that provides useful and relevant feedback? how is it being trained to do that? and is there a non-deli paper that describes said process of training?

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 11d
I don't know if it is. Presumably the ICML organizers do. The structure of these interventions is basically to address "authors as DDOS attack on ICML" :), with the hope that this will free up reviewers.

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 11d
The new policy on deli papers (aka thinly sliced:)) seems quite strong and new. I wonder how it will play out. In brief, authors have to disclose all papers they are submitting as prior work to the one under review. I'm also not encouraged by the "use our LLM to review your work"

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 12d
I am seen.

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In Otter News @in-otter-news.bsky.social · 14d
Here are some otters hammock hugging - Enjoy!

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Kyle Lo @kylelo.bsky.social · 14d
some citation graphs data pipelines will create new "paper" nodes based on extracted bibstrings from PDFs

so in 2026 the papers we hallucinated in 2025 might end up being "real" papers on gscholar or sthn lol

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 14d
given the way fast bowlers are breaking down, I'd guess they are NOT using PEDs because that's one value add there - for recovery from injury (unlike the EPO stuff that seems cycling specific)

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 14d
This is beginning to sound like an episode of Wait Wait Don't tell me where you have to identify the true news story from the fake ones :)

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 15d
Not sure why that would help. Some amount of adrenaline is a good thing for a batsman :)

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 16d
One aspect of SVMs that are enduring is the idea of high dimensional representations that allow for simple classifiers. You see a lot of that emerging in LLM land as well.

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 19d
Yes. A standard measure might be the ranking distance (number of swaps needed to go from one order to the other). I don't have data on prior years though.

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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 19d
Why it's hard to predict NFL standings. This is a comparison of preseason and current standings.
A graphical comparison of preseason and current NFL rankings with preseason on the left and current on the right, with color coded curved connecting each teams position.

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Joshua Grochow @joshuagrochow.bsky.social · 20d
Oh, but did you know that b/c of the number-theoretics of 2026, the year allows us to give a dynamical reformulation of the P vs NP problem (A Millennium Prize Problem, worth $1M), thereby showing both that it is the wrong question to ask and that P is different from NP. (10 pages, written with AGI)