
Gerard de Melo
@gdm3000
AI Professor
at Hasso Plattner Institute + University of Potsdam
Prev. Rutgers (USA), Tsinghua (Beijing)
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Erik Brynjolfsson Erik Brynjolfsson of Stanford HAI Stanford Digital Economy Lab We have a long runway: For many tasks, even when AI outperforms humans, for a while humans in conjunction with machines will still be better. Need research on how to manage this transition. With Yoshua Bengio, Danielle



AI chatbots regularly get basic facts wrong. Can they learn to say “I don’t know?” The Future of Everything on the biggest challenges for companies and researchers: Stopping the hallucinations wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-hal… via The Wall Street Journal

Regulating AI only if technically feasible? What if someone wants to build a nuclear plant in the middle of Paris and argues it's not technically feasible to ensure its safety? – Stuart Russell w/ Yoshua Bengio, Dawn Song (Berkeley), Irakli Beridze, Head AI, UNICRI, United Nations (UN), Xue Lan


And more friends found at the Hugging Face party at STATION F tonight! Yann Leger Edouard Bonlieu Gerard de Melo


AI optimism vs. pessimism: Despite concerning developments, need to be optimistic in our actions, e.g. need massive compute for academia/civil society Fei-Fei Li Fei-Fei Li, @robreich (Stanford), Tino Cuéllar (Carnegie Endowment), Josephine Teo Josephine Teo (Singaporean minister) at


Programmer jobs as canary in the coal mine for job displacement? Traditionally safe career, but special properties – AI solutions testable/verifiable! panel w/ Blaise Agüera y Arcas Blaise Agüera (@blaiseaguera.bsky.social) (Google CTO of Technology & Society) Erik Brynjolfsson Erik Brynjolfsson (Stanford) Terah





Bluesky has overtaken its flailing rival X in hosting posts related to new academic research, indicating the platform is fast becoming the go-to place for scholars to share their work, reports Paddy Jack timeshighereducation.com/news/xs-domina…



Come & work with me the Hasso Plattner Institute & Brent Mittelstadt @bmittelstadt.bsky.social & Chris Russell Oxford Internet Institute I am looking for 3 post docs on the governance of emergent tech. CS: tinyurl.com/yr5bvnn5 Ethics: tinyurl.com/yc2e2km4 Law: tinyurl.com/4rbhcndp Application deadline is 15.06.2025.


OpenAI's Benedict Kerres at our Hasso-Plattner-Institut Tech Leadership Conference: ChatGPT used for relationship and health advice a lot in Germany


🎤Meet the Language, Data & Knowledge (LDK) Conference invited speakers! 🔸Gerard de Melo Gerard de Melo (Hasso-Plattner-Institut)-"The More You Know: Towards Knowledgeable AI" 🔹Marta Villegas (BSC-CNS)-Expert in multilingual NLP & HPC 🔸Roberto Navigli (SapienzaNLP)-Pioneer in lexical semantics & AI 🎟️: 2025.ldk-conf.org/registration/