Mark Riedl
@markriedl.bsky.social
AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Associate Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
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Come join our department! It’s the best place to work in the world (he said with 0 bias).
We are hiring!!
University of Alberta in Canada has three faculty positions open this cycle: one in network security, one in theory, and one in robotics/computer vision/graphics.
Deadline: January 12, 2026
Happy to answer any questions about UofA or Canada academia!!
Please share!! 😁
University of Alberta in Canada has three faculty positions open this cycle: one in network security, one in theory, and one in robotics/computer vision/graphics.
Deadline: January 12, 2026
Happy to answer any questions about UofA or Canada academia!!
Please share!! 😁
December 1, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Come join our department! It’s the best place to work in the world (he said with 0 bias).
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Well, it's either the video or the games... I guess will go with the video
November 30, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Well, it's either the video or the games... I guess will go with the video
The one constant of this administration is to use their power for profit
We just published a deep look into David Sacks, the White House's AI and Crypto czar. The story examines how he has been able keep hundreds of stakes in AI-related and crypto companies as he influences gov policy in those very industries.
Here's what we found:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Here's what we found:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/t...
Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The one constant of this administration is to use their power for profit
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Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
The only thing less human than these AI dub performances is the decision to sign off on them
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
A company this big can pay human actors a decent wage, not produce slop that intentionally removes the human element.
November 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
🧵⬇️
What fresh new hell is this? www.levernews.com/tech-giant-s...
Tech Giant Says AI Has A First Amendment Right To Raise Your Rent
Fresh off a Trump settlement, RealPage is trying to overturn New York’s anti-rent-gouging law.
www.levernews.com
November 30, 2025 at 2:38 PM
What fresh new hell is this? www.levernews.com/tech-giant-s...
Evergreen
Toad went back into the house. He got into bed and pulled the covers over his head again.
November 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Evergreen
Yes
Look around. The case for more, not less, liberal arts education - actual, real education in reading, writing, thinking, arguing, analyzing, & synthesizing by doing the actual hard work for which there is no substitute - is stronger than it’s ever been at any point in human history.
November 30, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Yes
A lot depends on how ads are implemented. On the side or integrated into the text output? The latter could be very persuasive but also impact th supposed neutrality if ChatGPT. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artific...
Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
OpenAI is now internally testing 'ads' inside ChatGPT that could redefine the web economy.
www.bleepingcomputer.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:16 PM
A lot depends on how ads are implemented. On the side or integrated into the text output? The latter could be very persuasive but also impact th supposed neutrality if ChatGPT. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/artific...
It was fun when image generators were pretty bad and it was obvious. I would intentionally pick absurd images for slides just to make people chuckle.
But now I don’t use it at all. In my most recent blog I hand-created the images.
But now I don’t use it at all. In my most recent blog I hand-created the images.
I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.
November 28, 2025 at 7:27 PM
It was fun when image generators were pretty bad and it was obvious. I would intentionally pick absurd images for slides just to make people chuckle.
But now I don’t use it at all. In my most recent blog I hand-created the images.
But now I don’t use it at all. In my most recent blog I hand-created the images.
This is very disturbing
This is by a large margin the most serious problem and mistake in conference peer review I have seen in my career. Apparently a many people were aware of this and many could find out who their reviewers were. This probably has created a large number of unnecessary enmities.
@iclr-conf.bsky.social
@iclr-conf.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
This is very disturbing
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Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
November 28, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Black Friday reminder: You can support independent bookstores and get great deals without lining the pockets of billionaires 😌
“if we don’t make S-risk profoundly disturbing, it will not sound worse than X-risk, and [our center] will then struggle to obtain large sums of money from impressionable Silicon Valley billionaires who have read a few tweets about AGI.”
From our summer intern at the Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers:
"S-risk is the risk that AGI doesn’t kill us all, but instead enslaves and tortures us for eternity (the ‘S’ stands for suffering). It was awesome to learn about it."
directing.attention.to/p/ill-never-...
"S-risk is the risk that AGI doesn’t kill us all, but instead enslaves and tortures us for eternity (the ‘S’ stands for suffering). It was awesome to learn about it."
directing.attention.to/p/ill-never-...
“I’ll never sleep again”
Our intern Clem Park writes about her rewarding summer at CAAAC, spent writing scenarios where an AGI enslaves and tortures humanity forever
directing.attention.to
November 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
“if we don’t make S-risk profoundly disturbing, it will not sound worse than X-risk, and [our center] will then struggle to obtain large sums of money from impressionable Silicon Valley billionaires who have read a few tweets about AGI.”
Yikes
Even the the damn twitter card for this Nature Scientific Reports is clearly AI Slop.
November 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Yikes
😭
![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
😭
SocArXiv has had enough of AI papers. Requires acceptance of those papers first. Exceptions are made for studies of the effects of AI in society.
1. Pausing new submissions about AI topics for 90 days. That is, papers about AI models, testing AI models, proposing AI models, theories about the future of AI, etc. We will make exceptions for papers that are already accepted for publication (or published) in peer-reviewed scholarly journals
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November 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
SocArXiv has had enough of AI papers. Requires acceptance of those papers first. Exceptions are made for studies of the effects of AI in society.
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ICYMI AAUP is starting a PAC news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
Professors Launch PAC to Fight Back Against Trump’s Attacks
The American Association of University Professors, a union whose members are fighting policies from the Trump administration and GOP Congress, launched a PAC this week to spend in federal elections.
news.bgov.com
November 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
ICYMI AAUP is starting a PAC news.bgov.com/bloomberg-go...
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Your homework “won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation” is actually a pretty low bar in a world where the blobfish is supposedly one of God’s creations.
I’m probably going to Hell now
I’m probably going to Hell now
November 26, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Your homework “won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation” is actually a pretty low bar in a world where the blobfish is supposedly one of God’s creations.
I’m probably going to Hell now
I’m probably going to Hell now
Pope says don’t use AI to cheat in school.
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
www.vulture.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Pope says don’t use AI to cheat in school.
I guess we will soon see if “don’t use unsafe thing to do unsafe things” is a sound legal defense.
Additionally, OpenAI argues its not liable because Raine, by using ChatGPT for self-harm, broke its terms of service
November 26, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I guess we will soon see if “don’t use unsafe thing to do unsafe things” is a sound legal defense.
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maybe i am going insane
November 24, 2025 at 6:49 PM
maybe i am going insane
Is it a pet rock? I hope it’s a pet rock
Altman and Ive tease a simple AI device aimed at calm, distraction-free computing, launching within two years.
Altman describes OpenAI's forthcoming AI device as more peaceful and calm than the iPhone | TechCrunch
Altman and Ive tease a simple AI device aimed at calm, distraction-free computing, launching within two years.
techcrunch.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Is it a pet rock? I hope it’s a pet rock
I thought Altman said they solved the problem /sarcastic
November 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I thought Altman said they solved the problem /sarcastic
Everyone is giving their ranking of star wars. Here is mine:
1. Dominion War
2. Romulan War
3. Great Sith War
4. Covenant War
5. Cylon War
6. Trade Federation War
7. War of the Worlds
8. Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative
9. Battle Beyond the Stars
1. Dominion War
2. Romulan War
3. Great Sith War
4. Covenant War
5. Cylon War
6. Trade Federation War
7. War of the Worlds
8. Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative
9. Battle Beyond the Stars
November 24, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Everyone is giving their ranking of star wars. Here is mine:
1. Dominion War
2. Romulan War
3. Great Sith War
4. Covenant War
5. Cylon War
6. Trade Federation War
7. War of the Worlds
8. Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative
9. Battle Beyond the Stars
1. Dominion War
2. Romulan War
3. Great Sith War
4. Covenant War
5. Cylon War
6. Trade Federation War
7. War of the Worlds
8. Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative
9. Battle Beyond the Stars
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Major insurers including AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley are asking U.S. regulators for permission to exclude AI-related liabilities from corporate policies. One underwriter describes the AI models’ outputs to the FT as "too much of a black box."
AI is too risky to insure, say people whose job is insuring risk | TechCrunch
Major insurers including AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley are asking U.S. regulators for permission to exclude AI-related liabilities from corporate policies. One underwriter describes the AI models’ outputs to the FT as "too much of a black box."
techcrunch.com
November 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Major insurers including AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley are asking U.S. regulators for permission to exclude AI-related liabilities from corporate policies. One underwriter describes the AI models’ outputs to the FT as "too much of a black box."
Make MTG mean Magic: The Gathering again
November 22, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Make MTG mean Magic: The Gathering again