Congratulations to NatureLM-audio authors David Robinson, Marius Miron, Masato Hagiwara, and Olivier Pietquin on this huge accomplishment. We're looking forward to presenting at ICLR 2026 in April. #ICLR2025

So proud of the Earth Species Project (ESP) team!

We need to be able to trust AI agents to behave the way we want them to. As Ryan Greenblatt and his team at Redwood Research have found, AI systems are all too willing to mislead. #YourUndividedAttention Watch - youtu.be/POe5-BgULmg Listen - bit.ly/4jEXrka

Was a pleasure to share our progress with Kenneth Cukier at The Economist and explore how we are developing and using AI at Earth Species Project (ESP) to help us listen to nature in ways we never have before. Think about what we might learn...

📢#BioDCASE2025 is here! This new challenge brings DCASE-style evaluation to #bioacoustics—applying #machinelearning to better understand the sounds of the natural world. ESP helped organize one of this year’s tasks & we can’t wait to see you tackle it👇🏽 biodcase.github.io

📢 We've open-sourced NatureLM-audio, the first audio-language foundation model for #bioacoustics. Trained on large-scale animal vocalization, human speech & music datasets, the model enables zero-shot classification, detection & querying across diverse species & environments 👇🏽

AI’s potential benefits are incredible. But right now, we’re sleepwalking into a dangerous world that no one wants. In my new TED talk, I argue this doesn’t have to be inevitable. It’s essential we snap out of the trance, face the dangerous implications of our current path, and

I sat down with Center For Humane Technology co-founder Randy Fernando on this week’s episode of #YourUndividedAttention to cut through the hype around AGI and discuss practical roadmaps for a more humane future. 📺 Watch - youtu.be/FpaNVbVWkYI 🎧 Listen - bit.ly/3SdKfGc

2024 was a pivotal year for ESP—we launched new models & benchmarks, open-sourced NatureLM-audio & led conversations on interspecies understanding. Dive into our 2024 Annual Report for a glimpse into our progress ⬇️ earthspecies.org/blog/a-new-cha…

We're in the final window before AI becomes fully entangled with our society. I spoke with Sam Hammond, the chief economist of the Foundation for American Innovation to explore how we might still get this right. Watch - lnkd.in/gRDgEacW Listen - bit.ly/4jG7ynj

ESP enters our next phase from a place of clarity and momentum—a testament to the incredible foundation Katie Zacarian has built over the past three years. I’m honored to step into the role of interim CEO as we keep our sights set on a more ecocentric planet.

Join us in working to break the Interspecies understanding barrier at NeurIPS Conference 2025!

What if AI could give us a Rosetta Stone for the natural world - letting us listen to the languages of life around us? If that possibility sparks something in you, help us bring this conversation to #SXSW2026 by tapping the heart on our proposal.

I spoke with Camille Carlton, CHT's Policy Director, about the tragic death of Adam Raine, who took his own life after months of manipulation by ChatGPT. We need to shift these incentives & design more humane AI now. Watch- lnkd.in/gS7MwhfZ Listen- bit.ly/47aCABi

🚨Tristan Harris and I are doing our annual Ask Us Anything episode of YUA 🚨 It’s been another insane year, with AI moving faster than any technology before it and we know you have questions. Please send a short (~60s) video clip with your question to: [email protected].

The Montreal Protocol proved global coordination isn't impossible when we stop accepting inevitability. As we face runaway AI, we need that same urgency. New YUA episode with Susan Solomon: Watch - lnkd.in/gCQ5iMnF Listen - bit.ly/4gmSUkY

💡How can we build #AI models that generalize across species + tasks? 🐦🐋🐒 This is a fundamental question for our work at ESP and it’s the topic of our most recent paper and blog post: earthspecies.org/blog/what-matt… 🧵Read below for more👇 #MachineLearning #Bioacoustics

Each year I look forward to our Ask Us Anything episode. Getting to hear from you directly is such a treat. This week Tristan Harris and I explore your great questions. Check it out: Watch - youtu.be/TsXZ5zJ0xRw Listen - bit.ly/473WY6H

In this week’s episode of Your Undivided Attention, Tristan Harris and I imagine what the world might look like if we had sprung into action and fixed the harms of social media when we first saw them. Check it out.

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