Rui-Jie Yew
@r-jy.bsky.social
In the beginning of November, Kate and I met to think more about how to continue the work from our tech policy press blogpost on AI sovereignty.
She mentioned she’d been reading Laleh Khalili's works on oil in the Middle East and that she couldn’t get AI out of her head.
She mentioned she’d been reading Laleh Khalili's works on oil in the Middle East and that she couldn’t get AI out of her head.
'Sovereignty' Myth-Making in the AI Race
Tech companies stand to gain by encouraging the illusion of a race for 'sovereign' AI, write Rui-Jie Yew, Kate Elizabeth Creasey, Suresh Venkatasubramanian.
www.techpolicy.press
January 24, 2026 at 6:26 AM
In the beginning of November, Kate and I met to think more about how to continue the work from our tech policy press blogpost on AI sovereignty.
She mentioned she’d been reading Laleh Khalili's works on oil in the Middle East and that she couldn’t get AI out of her head.
She mentioned she’d been reading Laleh Khalili's works on oil in the Middle East and that she couldn’t get AI out of her head.
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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
January 10, 2026 at 10:37 PM
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.
Excited to be starting as a Law and Society Fellow at the @simonsinstitute.bsky.social in Berkeley next week. Looking forward to connecting with friends, old and new!
January 8, 2026 at 9:34 PM
Excited to be starting as a Law and Society Fellow at the @simonsinstitute.bsky.social in Berkeley next week. Looking forward to connecting with friends, old and new!
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New post by @michelleding.bsky.social on resources for the Brown community in the aftermath of the shooting. open.substack.com/pub/michelle...
Caring for yourself and each other
Resources for the Brown community, friends, family, loved ones and how to support us
open.substack.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
New post by @michelleding.bsky.social on resources for the Brown community in the aftermath of the shooting. open.substack.com/pub/michelle...
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📍 Come to the #NeurIPS2025 Position Paper Panel at 3:30PM where @princessacintaqia.bsky.social will be speaking about our work: "Stop the Nonconsensual Use of Nude Images in Research". I’m also around and happy to chat!
Learn more: www.safedigitalintimacy.org/datasets
More info below!
Learn more: www.safedigitalintimacy.org/datasets
More info below!
December 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
📍 Come to the #NeurIPS2025 Position Paper Panel at 3:30PM where @princessacintaqia.bsky.social will be speaking about our work: "Stop the Nonconsensual Use of Nude Images in Research". I’m also around and happy to chat!
Learn more: www.safedigitalintimacy.org/datasets
More info below!
Learn more: www.safedigitalintimacy.org/datasets
More info below!
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Very glad to be a part of a new paper detailing how developers and developer platforms can prevent AIG-NCII, a form of image based sexual abuse that disproportionately harms women and girls. Thanks to all the collaborators and Max Kamachee & @scasper.bsky.social for leading this important project!
Did you know that one base model is responsible for 94% of model-tagged NSFW AI videos on CivitAI?
This new paper studies how a small number of models power the non-consensual AI video deepfake ecosystem and why their developers could have predicted and mitigated this.
This new paper studies how a small number of models power the non-consensual AI video deepfake ecosystem and why their developers could have predicted and mitigated this.
December 4, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Very glad to be a part of a new paper detailing how developers and developer platforms can prevent AIG-NCII, a form of image based sexual abuse that disproportionately harms women and girls. Thanks to all the collaborators and Max Kamachee & @scasper.bsky.social for leading this important project!
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Thanks to collaborators! This was a really interesting paper for me to work on, and it took a special group of interdisciplinary people to get it done.
Max Kamachee
@r-jy.bsky.social
@michelleding.bsky.social
@ankareuel.bsky.social
@stellaathena.bsky.social
@dhadfieldmenell.bsky.social
Max Kamachee
@r-jy.bsky.social
@michelleding.bsky.social
@ankareuel.bsky.social
@stellaathena.bsky.social
@dhadfieldmenell.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Thanks to collaborators! This was a really interesting paper for me to work on, and it took a special group of interdisciplinary people to get it done.
Max Kamachee
@r-jy.bsky.social
@michelleding.bsky.social
@ankareuel.bsky.social
@stellaathena.bsky.social
@dhadfieldmenell.bsky.social
Max Kamachee
@r-jy.bsky.social
@michelleding.bsky.social
@ankareuel.bsky.social
@stellaathena.bsky.social
@dhadfieldmenell.bsky.social
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ACM members/computing researchers who should be members interested in contributing should join the subcommittee's mailing list!
One of our goals here is to build policy coalitions across institutions so we can do more as a collective 💪 and balance special interest groups.
One of our goals here is to build policy coalitions across institutions so we can do more as a collective 💪 and balance special interest groups.
@reniebird.bsky.social and I have just been appointed to co-Chair @TheOfficialACM's US Technology Policy Committee’s Subcommittee on AI and Algorithms. cs.brown.edu/news/2025/11...
Serena Booth And Suresh Venkatasubramanian Co-Chair ACM’s US Technology Policy Committee’s Subcommittee On AI And Algorithms
Brown CS faculty members Serena Booth and Suresh Venkatasubramanian have just been appointed to co-chair the AI and Algorithms Subcommittee, whose recent work includes responses to government RFIs, te...
cs.brown.edu
November 25, 2025 at 5:43 PM
ACM members/computing researchers who should be members interested in contributing should join the subcommittee's mailing list!
One of our goals here is to build policy coalitions across institutions so we can do more as a collective 💪 and balance special interest groups.
One of our goals here is to build policy coalitions across institutions so we can do more as a collective 💪 and balance special interest groups.
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Can't work because AWS?
It's a good time to read this piece if you haven't! www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...
It's a good time to read this piece if you haven't! www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...
We Need To Rewild The Internet | NOEMA
The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists.
www.noemamag.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Can't work because AWS?
It's a good time to read this piece if you haven't! www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...
It's a good time to read this piece if you haven't! www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-r...
Technologies like synthetic data, evaluations, and red-teaming are often framed as enhancing AI privacy and safety. But what if their effects lie elsewhere?
In a new paper with @realbrianjudge.bsky.social at #EAAMO25, we pull back the curtain on AI safety's toolkit. (1/n)
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22872
In a new paper with @realbrianjudge.bsky.social at #EAAMO25, we pull back the curtain on AI safety's toolkit. (1/n)
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22872
arxiv.org
October 17, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Technologies like synthetic data, evaluations, and red-teaming are often framed as enhancing AI privacy and safety. But what if their effects lie elsewhere?
In a new paper with @realbrianjudge.bsky.social at #EAAMO25, we pull back the curtain on AI safety's toolkit. (1/n)
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22872
In a new paper with @realbrianjudge.bsky.social at #EAAMO25, we pull back the curtain on AI safety's toolkit. (1/n)
arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22872
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Hi #COLM2025! 🇨🇦 I will be presenting a talk on the importance of community-driven LLM evaluations based on an opinion abstract I wrote with Jo Kavishe, @victorojewale.bsky.social and @geomblog.bsky.social tomorrow at 9:30am in 524b for solar-colm.github.io
Hope to see you there!
Hope to see you there!
Third Workshop on Socially Responsible Language Modelling Research (SoLaR) 2025
COLM 2025 in-person Workshop, October 10th at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal, Canada
solar-colm.github.io
October 9, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Hi #COLM2025! 🇨🇦 I will be presenting a talk on the importance of community-driven LLM evaluations based on an opinion abstract I wrote with Jo Kavishe, @victorojewale.bsky.social and @geomblog.bsky.social tomorrow at 9:30am in 524b for solar-colm.github.io
Hope to see you there!
Hope to see you there!
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Great policy brief from @datasociety.bsky.social - happy to see that it draws from award-winning work by @r-jy.bsky.social and @lucyq.bsky.social at AIES last year.
“Privacy-preserving” isn’t as private as you might think. Our new brief, published in collab w @powerswitchaction.org & Coworker, exposes how so-called “privacy-preserving” technologies can actually enable *more* worker surveillance — and what we can do about it. datasociety.net/library/the-...
October 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Great policy brief from @datasociety.bsky.social - happy to see that it draws from award-winning work by @r-jy.bsky.social and @lucyq.bsky.social at AIES last year.
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“States should think very carefully about what they actually want to get out of this before spending hundreds of billions of dollars trying to indigenize the entire AI stack”
The myth of sovereign AI: Countries rely on U.S. and Chinese tech
As countries pursue self-sufficiency in AI, they risk depending on foreign companies, undermining their independence and their goals.
restofworld.org
September 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
“States should think very carefully about what they actually want to get out of this before spending hundreds of billions of dollars trying to indigenize the entire AI stack”
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I'm excited to be on the faculty job market this fall. I just updated my website with my CV.
stephencasper.com
I'm excited to be on the faculty job market this fall. I just updated my website with my CV.
stephencasper.com
Stephen Casper
Visit the post for more.
stephencasper.com
September 4, 2025 at 3:39 AM
📌📌📌
I'm excited to be on the faculty job market this fall. I just updated my website with my CV.
stephencasper.com
I'm excited to be on the faculty job market this fall. I just updated my website with my CV.
stephencasper.com
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First up, on September 5 @ 6 pm ET: a grounding conversation about how AI technologies are reshaping daily life, featuring D&S director of research @alicetiara.bsky.social, advisors @merbroussard.bsky.social & Mimi Ọnụọha, & board member @geomblog.bsky.social. www.showclix.com/event/unders...
August 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
First up, on September 5 @ 6 pm ET: a grounding conversation about how AI technologies are reshaping daily life, featuring D&S director of research @alicetiara.bsky.social, advisors @merbroussard.bsky.social & Mimi Ọnụọha, & board member @geomblog.bsky.social. www.showclix.com/event/unders...
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phrases coming up in my research discussions: "vegan LLMs", "beyond meat or impossible meat LLMs", "tech companies as mercantilists, or money launderers, or tax dodgers, or arms dealers". oh and also "code generation for XML parsers", and then "birthday paradox". What field am I in? good question.
August 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
phrases coming up in my research discussions: "vegan LLMs", "beyond meat or impossible meat LLMs", "tech companies as mercantilists, or money launderers, or tax dodgers, or arms dealers". oh and also "code generation for XML parsers", and then "birthday paradox". What field am I in? good question.
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Excited to be joining a great lineup of speakers at the Technical AI Governance workshop in Vancouver this summer
If you are working on AI governance, definitely consider submitting!
#ICML2025
If you are working on AI governance, definitely consider submitting!
#ICML2025
📣We’re thrilled to announce the first workshop on Technical AI Governance (TAIG) at #ICML2025 this July in Vancouver! Join us (& this stellar list of speakers) in bringing together technical & policy experts to shape the future of AI governance! www.taig-icml.com
April 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Excited to be joining a great lineup of speakers at the Technical AI Governance workshop in Vancouver this summer
If you are working on AI governance, definitely consider submitting!
#ICML2025
If you are working on AI governance, definitely consider submitting!
#ICML2025
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I'll be presenting a position paper about consumer protection and AI in the US at ICML. I have a surprisingly optimistic take: our legal structures are stronger than I anticipated when I went to work on this issue in Congress.
Is everything broken rn? Yes. Will it stay broken? That's on us.
Is everything broken rn? Yes. Will it stay broken? That's on us.
July 14, 2025 at 1:01 PM
I'll be presenting a position paper about consumer protection and AI in the US at ICML. I have a surprisingly optimistic take: our legal structures are stronger than I anticipated when I went to work on this issue in Congress.
Is everything broken rn? Yes. Will it stay broken? That's on us.
Is everything broken rn? Yes. Will it stay broken? That's on us.
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This is a very good piece about sovereignty as a service and you should read it. 🧵
July 7, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This is a very good piece about sovereignty as a service and you should read it. 🧵
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compelling piece on the distance between the rhetoric and the reality of sovereign AI
With their 'Sovereignty as a Service' offerings, tech companies are encouraging the illusion of a race for sovereign control of AI while being the true powers behind the scenes, write Rui-Jie Yew, Kate Elizabeth Creasey, Suresh Venkatasubramanian.
'Sovereignty' Myth-Making in the AI Race | TechPolicy.Press
Tech companies stand to gain by encouraging the illusion of a race for 'sovereign' AI, write Rui-Jie Yew, Kate Elizabeth Creasey, Suresh Venkatasubramanian.
www.techpolicy.press
July 7, 2025 at 1:54 PM
compelling piece on the distance between the rhetoric and the reality of sovereign AI
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Very excited to see this piece out in @techpolicypress.bsky.social today. This was written together with @r-jy.bsky.social and Kate Elizabeth Creasey (a historian here at Brown), and calls out what we think is a scary and interesting rhetorical shift.
www.techpolicy.press/sovereignty-...
www.techpolicy.press/sovereignty-...
'Sovereignty' Myth-Making in the AI Race | TechPolicy.Press
Tech companies stand to gain by encouraging the illusion of a race for 'sovereign' AI, write Rui-Jie Yew, Kate Elizabeth Creasey, Suresh Venkatasubramanian.
www.techpolicy.press
July 7, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Very excited to see this piece out in @techpolicypress.bsky.social today. This was written together with @r-jy.bsky.social and Kate Elizabeth Creasey (a historian here at Brown), and calls out what we think is a scary and interesting rhetorical shift.
www.techpolicy.press/sovereignty-...
www.techpolicy.press/sovereignty-...
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The welcome event and first keynote are getting started! 🎉🦉
Our first keynote is by Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Brown University) @geomblog.bsky.social
"Are we winning yet? FAccT, AI governance, and the shape of what comes next."
#FAccT2025
Our first keynote is by Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Brown University) @geomblog.bsky.social
"Are we winning yet? FAccT, AI governance, and the shape of what comes next."
#FAccT2025
June 23, 2025 at 6:16 AM
The welcome event and first keynote are getting started! 🎉🦉
Our first keynote is by Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Brown University) @geomblog.bsky.social
"Are we winning yet? FAccT, AI governance, and the shape of what comes next."
#FAccT2025
Our first keynote is by Suresh Venkatasubramanian (Brown University) @geomblog.bsky.social
"Are we winning yet? FAccT, AI governance, and the shape of what comes next."
#FAccT2025
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So the EU AI Act passed. Companies have to comply. AI regulation is here to stay. Right? Right?
FAccT 2025 paper with @r-jy.bsky.social and Bill Marino (not on bsky) 📜 incoming! 1/n
arxiv.org/abs/2506.01931
FAccT 2025 paper with @r-jy.bsky.social and Bill Marino (not on bsky) 📜 incoming! 1/n
arxiv.org/abs/2506.01931
Red Teaming AI Policy: A Taxonomy of Avoision and the EU AI Act
The shape of AI regulation is beginning to emerge, most prominently through the EU AI Act (the "AIA"). By 2027, the AIA will be in full effect, and firms are starting to adjust their behavior in light...
arxiv.org
June 12, 2025 at 10:33 PM
So the EU AI Act passed. Companies have to comply. AI regulation is here to stay. Right? Right?
FAccT 2025 paper with @r-jy.bsky.social and Bill Marino (not on bsky) 📜 incoming! 1/n
arxiv.org/abs/2506.01931
FAccT 2025 paper with @r-jy.bsky.social and Bill Marino (not on bsky) 📜 incoming! 1/n
arxiv.org/abs/2506.01931