#AI4Innovation I use AI to study the drivers of innovation and discovery @KnowLab @DSI_UChicago

Joined March 2020
Excited to share our @DSI_UChicago new work accepted by ICLR 2026, with the remarkable Siyang Wu, Sida Li, Ari Holtzman @universeinanegg, and @profjamesevans James Evans! Link: lnkd.in/gd9YZNBh A thread (1/n)
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We're looking for folks with a PhD in econ, quantitative social science, CS/stats, or related and >= 4 years post-PhD experience. Ideally you work (a lot) with AI tools too and have written papers in the areas we're targeting. Here's the link to apply: google.com/about/careers/app…
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Come work with us @JHUCompSci! We're hiring tenure-track faculty in all areas, with a particular focus on - AI systems - AI safety and security - AI reasoning and alignment - AI ethics, policy, and governance apply.interfolio.com/194231 (DMs are open if you have any questions)
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We're hiring Applied AI faculty at UChicago Booth! This is a great fit for AI researchers who want to go into academia but don't see themselves being traditional CS professors (e.g., managing a big lab of students). apply.interfolio.com/194344 You might be right for this if: (1) You want to take the IC track. Industry has realized that talented researchers don't all want to be managers, so most companies have an Individual Contributor (IC) track that you can stay on as you become senior. This typically isn't an option in CS academia---your job from PhD -> faculty often becomes very different, one of funding and managing a lab. Lots of people like this, but a lot don't. At Booth, it's possible to stay an IC researcher---or run a much smaller research group if you want. (2) You want to not worry about funding. Almost all of my funding comes directly from the department, so I don't have to write many grants (in fact, you could choose to live an entirely grant-less lifestyle if you wish). Speaking to my PhD friends who went on to top CS departments, this is a major source of pain in the current funding environment. (3) You want to do slow science. We emphasize quality, not quantity. We want people who might only write one paper a year, but whose work goes on to have a big impact on the field. Impact can be measured in many different ways as well, not just by the number of citations you get. I'm entering my second year at Booth and have really enjoyed my time here, as someone who was in a CS dept from undergrad (UToronto) through PhD (Stanford).
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Job Opportunities Alert: Associate Professor of Data Science: apply.interfolio.com/194358 Assistant Professor of Data Science: apply.interfolio.com/194104 EOE / Vet / Disability
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Looking for postdocs+PhDs to help lead a large-scale study of the effects of long-term AI use, a collaboration between Berkeley+@TransluceAI+others! Funding+positions available (postdocs/visiting researchers/Transluce affiliations). Please reshare; application in next tweet!
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I'm hiring! 2 RAs/PhD positions: johanneswachs.com/jobs/phd.h… 1 postdoc: johanneswachs.com/jobs/postd… This for a project on the geography and economics of software development, pre and post-AI era. Appreciate your referrals and suggestions!
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This is going to have really negative effects on American competitiveness and innovation in 5-10 years and was completely avoidable
I've written 70+ recommendation letters for students applying graduate programs in my career. This is the saddest one I have to redo. // A former undergrad student got denial of entrance with a 5-year ban, when flying to the US for PhD study. As usual, no reason was given. I can't imagine what he have gone through.
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I've written 70+ recommendation letters for students applying graduate programs in my career. This is the saddest one I have to redo. // A former undergrad student got denial of entrance with a 5-year ban, when flying to the US for PhD study. As usual, no reason was given. I can't imagine what he have gone through.
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All social science Core classes at UChicago will transition to an “analog” approach for the upcoming academic year, restricting in-classroom technology use and banning AI-assisted writing and grading for students and professors. chicagomaroon.com/53262/news…
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Exciting faculty opening at Northwestern's McCormick School of Engineering, in partnership with Northwestern Innovation Institute. This candidate can be placed in any department within the Engineering school, with initial preference in IEMS or ESAM. It's open-ranked with a preference for senior candidates. I'm chairing the committee with @noshir and Danny Abrams. Please help us spread the word! and please feel free to get in touch if interested!
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✨ We’re excited to announce the Rising Stars in Data Science 2026 workshop! This year’s workshop will take place November 9-10, 2026, at @UChicago, in collaboration with @Harvard, @HDSIUCSD, and @StanfordHAI 🔗 datascience.uchicago.edu/res…
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It's time for another edition of interesting things at ICSSI #ICSSI2026! 🧵 1. Did AlphaFold supercharge bio research and drug discovery? Hill and Stein show: - Tldr: No, not really - Existing structural biologists didn't get replaced (yay!), arguably got more efficient - Increased use by other biologists - No increase in drug discovery (boo!)
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7. We're screwed (Honglin Bao's new paper)
6. Lots of presenters using Claude for slides. But... why?? It's not actually good for that (yet). Slides are crowded, 15 different fonts, etc.
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Exciting tenure-line hiring at @KelloggSchool!! Led by Northwestern Innovation Institute. Open to all ranks, including junior, adv junior, and senior. Can be hosted in any Kellogg dept as the tenure home. focus area: innovation / science of science / AI.
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Some news: As of June 30, I'll be on leave from Stanford at Anthropic. I'm joining the Anthropic Institute, where I'll continue my research on AI and our economic future and give seminars and talks as always. 1/3
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Welcome to the neighborhood, Obama Presidential Center.
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"AI's imagination is bounded by what has already been written in the training corpora. Non-reasoning language models collapse into a narrow "hivemind" of similar ideas." arxiv.org/abs/2606.08251 I've reviewed a couple AI-written papers now, and this was exactly my thoughts. 1/2
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Things look good for AI as a “normal technology” so far. LLMs have rapidly impacted coding, but few other professions; and even in coding it’s hard to see value generation. Bottlenecks, regulation, other frictions keeping humans complementary and relevant
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A reporting checklist for large language models in behavioural science dlvr.it/TSxtMM
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“AI agents will outperform humans at almost all jobs by 2026–2027.” - The forecast is everywhere. So we built the exam to test that claim, on real labor-market aligned work. On the hardest tier, top agents pass 2.6%. Meet Agents' Last Exam (ALE), a rolling benchmark measuring whether agents can actually do real jobs. 🧵👇
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