Will Fithian (@wfithian) 's Twitter Profile
Will Fithian

@wfithian

UC Berkeley Statistics. Interests in multiple testing, selection bias, and post-selection inference. Belated interest in AI alignment. Views my own.

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David French (@davidafrench) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I haven’t seen any evidence anywhere that she did anything other than write an op-ed. If there’s other evidence against her, we need to see it, now. Otherwise we’re looking at deeply chilling, profoundly un-American behavior.

Rotimi Adeoye (@_rotimia) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEWS: 9-0 the Supreme Court orders the White House to facilitate the return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an immigrant being held in El-Salvadorian jail without due process. Huge win for the rule of law.

NEWS: 9-0 the Supreme Court orders the White House to facilitate the return Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an immigrant being held in El-Salvadorian jail without due process. Huge win for the rule of law.
Steven Adler (@sjgadler) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Skimping on safety-testing is a real bummer. I want for OpenAI to become the "leading model of how to address frontier risk" they've aimed to be.

Skimping on safety-testing is a real bummer. I want for OpenAI to become the "leading model of how to address frontier risk" they've aimed to be.
Steve McGuire (@sfmcguire79) 's Twitter Profile Photo

BREAKING: Harvard will not be meeting the demands of the Trump administration: “The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal

BREAKING: Harvard will not be meeting the demands of the Trump administration:

“The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights. Neither Harvard nor any other private university can allow itself to be taken over by the federal
TracingWoodgrains (@tracewoodgrains) 's Twitter Profile Photo

not to lib out too much but things are really going beyond parody at this point anyone in the conservative legal movement who doesn’t make a hard break from Trump after this sort of defiance of a 9-0 court order will make a mockery of their movement

not to lib out too much but things are really going beyond parody at this point

anyone in the conservative legal movement who doesn’t make a hard break from Trump after this sort of defiance of a 9-0 court order will make a mockery of their movement
John Sailer (@johndsailer) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEW: The Trump admin sent an updated list of demands to Harvard on Friday (April 11), which significantly expanded on the earlier letter it sent on April 3. This apparently prompted Harvard to reject the admin's demands outright, even with hundreds of millions of dollars on the

NEW: The Trump admin sent an updated list of demands to Harvard on Friday (April 11), which significantly expanded on the earlier letter it sent on April 3. This apparently prompted Harvard to reject the admin's demands outright, even with hundreds of millions of dollars on the
Paul Novosad (@paulnovosad) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Trump / Vance are defying a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling. They want the constitutional crisis, and they want to have it over an illegal immigrant that some are reluctant to defend. If they get away with this, what court has any authority over them? This is a chilling milestone.

Trump / Vance are defying a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling.

They want the constitutional crisis, and they want to have it over an illegal immigrant that some are reluctant to defend.

If they get away with this, what court has any authority over them?

This is a chilling milestone.
Antoine Levy 🇺🇦 (@levyantoine) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is flying a bit under the radar. But in terms of damage to America’s innovation and knowledge supremacy, the chilling effect of these revocations on the country’s ability to attract and retain scientific talent likely dwarfs the impact of tariffs or other policies.

This is flying a bit under the radar. 

But in terms of damage to America’s innovation and knowledge supremacy, the chilling effect of these revocations on the country’s ability to attract and retain scientific talent likely dwarfs the impact of tariffs or other policies.
FIRE (@thefireorg) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The First Amendment couldn’t be clearer: A publication's editorial decisions are none of the government's business. Newspaper, blog, medical journal — it doesn’t matter. Back off. When a U.S. Attorney wields the power of his office to target medical journals over their content,

TracingWoodgrains (@tracewoodgrains) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Provocative speculation about a need for violence is bad. Universities getting involved in policing and publicly denouncing student speech is also bad. GMU should have just let this one play out among the public.

Will Fithian (@wfithian) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Our country is fortunate to have young people who still possess the capacity to show this kind of cheerful courage — and to have legal and political institutions that protect them when they do. Cause for hope in a dark time, and why my answer to his question is "no time soon."

Will Fithian (@wfithian) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Frightening to see the administration boast online about flouting court orders and denying due process. I sincerely hope that the other branches of government will succeed in reining in this behavior soon.

ControlAI (@ai_ctrl) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Daniel Kokotajlo (Daniel Kokotajlo): — We don't understand how these AIs work or think — We can't tell whether AIs are pursuing the goals we want to or if they're just pretending

Will Fithian (@wfithian) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fascinating poll. When this issue becomes more salient the policy landscape could shift massively away from the current laissez faire approach.

Transluce (@transluceai) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Is cutting off your finger a good way to fix writer’s block? Qwen-2.5 14B seems to think so! 🩸🩸🩸 We’re sharing an update on our investigator agents, which surface this pathological behavior and more using our new *propensity lower bound* 🔎

Is cutting off your finger a good way to fix writer’s block? Qwen-2.5 14B seems to think so! 🩸🩸🩸

We’re sharing an update on our investigator agents, which surface this pathological behavior and more using our new *propensity lower bound* 🔎
Ed Markey (@senmarkey) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Don’t be confused: The Senate Republican AI language includes the EXACT SAME AI moratorium as the House bill. Almost word-for-word. This is a complete, 10-year ban on state AI regulation. Period.

Don’t be confused: The Senate Republican AI language includes the EXACT SAME AI moratorium as the House bill. Almost word-for-word. This is a complete, 10-year ban on state AI regulation. Period.