James Landay

Why AI likely to change jobs, not kill them Experts say impact could be more modest than some forecast.

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This Friday, I will be speaking at #TNW in Amsterdam about why “AI for Good” isn’t good enough – and what we should be doing instead.

Human-centered AI doesn’t mean just user-centered design, but also requires a community- and society-centered approach.
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At today's seminar, Dave Patterson and Andy Konwinski discussed themes from their paper "Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives," arguing that we are still in the early days of practical AI, and that collaborative efforts can guide AI's impact. @jlanday.bsky.social hai.stanford.edu/events/andy-...

Medical and Scientific Research Makes America Great Those who care about America's global leadership, should be alarmed by deep funding cuts to the NSF and NIH.

Please reshare! Important piece on science, health, and technology research funding.

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‪@jackieyang_ rocking it!‬

GenieWizard: Multimodal App Feature Discovery with Large Language Models | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Check out the great recent PhD grad and uber HCI hacker ⁦‪@jackieyang_‬⁩ on the last cool piece of his LLM-powered multimodal dev tool! See at #chi2025 at 4:20 in G304! dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

This presentation was so good. Nava made a complicated subject very understandable.

GPTCoach: Towards LLM-Based Physical Activity Coaching | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Paper at dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Check out this cool paper presentation by star student @mjoerke at #chi2025 on an AI agent that performs a best practices coaching onboarding interview for a creating fitness plan (Motivational interviewing and Active Choices (tm)) now in G304.

Ontologies in Design: How Imagining a Tree Reveals Possibilities and Assumptions in Large Language Models | Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

The paper dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Come see the incredible Nava Haghighi present on a new way to think about the ontologies embedded in LLMs #chi2025 in G303 now (11:10 AM). programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

Just saw this great journalistic theatre at The Marsh in The Mission (SF). Really recommend you see it.

Stanford HAI Conference Explores Robotics in a Human-Centered World: Hype, Hope, and Future Directions | Stanford HAI Scholars zeroed in on the need for data, generalization, and better human experience.

"Unlike purely digital AI, robots interact physically with people. Thus, user experience is non-negotiable." HAI Co-Director @jlanday.bsky.social calls for a human-centered approach to designing AI-powered robotics at this week's HAI Spring Conference: hai.stanford.edu/news/stanfor...

"Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage." -- @govpritzker.illinois.gov

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

https://propub.li/43487Tj

Tyranny requires your fear, your silence, and your compliance.

Democracy requires your courage.

Our thoughts on DeepSeek.

Test New App to Motivate Physical Activity!
@Stanford we are testing a unique app to help motivate you to be physically active. 18 or older, fluent in English & own an iPhone? Take our eligibility survey: bit.ly/physical-act.... Participants must share iPhone health data as part of this 4-week study

HAI at Davos: Key Insights on AI From the World Economic Forum Stanford HAI faculty joined world leaders and policymakers to discuss AI trends, shifting U.S. policy, the future of diversity efforts, and more.

Here are some of the reflections of the @stanfordhai.bsky.social team (including me) on things we heard during our participation in Davos last week. hai.stanford.edu/news/hai-dav...

Fun conversation with @inafried.bsky.social

Fun event and a great museum!

Thanks!

Never forget.

The case for human-centered AI Maximizing generative AI’s promise while minimizing its misuse requires an inclusive approach that puts humans first.

Fun podcast conversation (~20 min) explaining my view on human-centered AI.
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"The case for human-centered AI"
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The future of AI coaching A computer scientist bringing AI to the classroom and the gym looks ahead to a world where AI coaches help make us smarter … and healthier.

If need something to put you to sleep on flights this week, check out this interview I did with @rbaltman.bsky.social on his The Future of Everything podcast. It's a good summary of some of the latest research in my group & at @stanfordhai.bsky.social. engineering.stanford.edu/news/future-...

Protest poster with white text on a black background titled “Science For The People”. Underneath, an illustration of a red upraised forearm with a fist clenching strips of computer printout tapes. Underneath the illustration, it reads “Computer Workers - Join With Other Workers. Make Computers Serve The People! Atlantic City ’71.” At the bottom, two addresses are shown: “CPP, Dolphin Center, 137A W 14th St, NY 10011” and “SESPA, Science for the People Center, 9 Walden St, J.P., Mass, 0213.” (The last digit of the ZIP code is clipped from the image.)

oh my yes detroithistorical.pastperfectonline.com/archive/DC6A...

#labor #TechLabor #LaborHistory #1u

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Hallucination is totally the wrong word, implying it is perceiving the world incorrectly.

But it's generating false, plausible sounding statements. Confabulation is literally the perfect word.

So, let's all please start referring to any junk that an LLM makes up as "confabulations".

Thanks! This was a fun interview with Russ Altman.

Peter Thiel has been going “democracy is bad because women vote against libertarianism” for like a quarter century and people are still doing this “Silicon Valley was forced right” thing

Hi Fei-Fei!