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Asst. Prof. of Computer Science, Colorado State University. I hate technology. https://www.nikhilkrishnaswamy.com/ #AI #NLProc Add me to your war planning chats: NikhilKrishnaswamy.77

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Nikhil Krishnaswamy @nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social · 19d

We are hiring!

The Dept. of Computer Science at Colorado State University will be hiring 1 Tenure Track Assistant Professor in AI to start in fall 2026.

Please visit jobs.colostate.edu/postings/166... for details.

CSU is an EO employer and conducts background checks on all final candidates.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence

The Department of Computer Science at Colorado State University (CSU) invites applications for a tenure-track position at the level of assistant professor beginning fall 2026. A Ph.D. in computer scie...

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Nikhil Krishnaswamy @nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social · 14d

Weird, I literally just got something similar that also cited a fake paper I didn't write. Like, this happened 10 minutes ago

Nikhil Krishnaswamy @nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social · 14d

I'm back in the States, can we still get Tylenol here?

Nikhil Krishnaswamy @nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social · 19d

Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence

jobs.colostate.edu

Nikhil Krishnaswamy @nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social · 20d

We are excited to welcome @malihealikhani.bsky.social to ORIGen @ @colmweb.org for her keynote talk "Theory of Mind in Generative Models: From Uncertainty to Shared Meaning"! We look forward to this exciting speaker lineup in Montreal next month! #LLMs #AI #NLP #HCI

Keynote speaker Malihe Alikhani of Northeastern University

Nikhil Krishnaswamy @nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social · 20d

Oh we have a budget crisis? Repeal TABOR

Nikhil Krishnaswamy @nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social · 20d

@colorado.gov One reason I moved to Colorado is that it's like New Mexico with inferior green chile and better everything else. Your move

Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham @govmlg.bsky.social · 20d

America is taking notice—New Mexico's bold plan to offer no-cost child care to all families, regardless of income, is a model for other states. When we help families get ahead, we help our entire state and nation. Thanks to the @washingtonpost.com for this deep dive on our exciting announcement.

This state will be the first to offer free child care, regardless of income

New Mexico ranks last among all states on child well-being, but its Democratic governor has committed to be the first to offer free universal child care.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Nikhil Krishnaswamy @nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social · 21d

Genuinely think that no one is suffering more in the era of AI than guys named Al

Nikhil Krishnaswamy @nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social · 22d

Bluesky memory-holed my repost of that @theonion.com Charlie Kirk article. Clearly looking out for me.

Nikhil Krishnaswamy @nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social · 22d

Uh I filmed this one at my house last night though

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Nikhil Krishnaswamy @nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social · 23d

We are excited to welcome Bertram F. Malle of Brown University to ORIGen @ @colmweb.org for his invited talk "Could Generative Language Models Have Moral Trustworthiness?" #LLMs #AI #NLP #HCI

Invited speaker Bertram F. Malle of Brown University

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Nikhil Krishnaswamy @nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social · Sep 9

We are excited to welcome @andreasvlachos.bsky.social to ORIGen @ @colmweb.org for his invited talk "Toward Constructive Conversations"! #LLMs #AI #NLP #HCI

Invited speaker Andreas Vlachos of the University of Cambridge

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Nikhil Krishnaswamy @nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social · Sep 7

1.36 year error? I can get you down to the day just by knowing your birthdate, and no DNA. If you give me a few minutes I don't even need a calculator.

uk-nb.bsky.social @uk-nb.bsky.social · Sep 5

Researchers can accurately tell someone’s age using AI and just a bit of DNA

https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/117408/

At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, scientists created a new way to tell someone’s age using just a…

Researchers can accurately tell someone’s age using AI and just a bit of DNA - United Kingdom News Beep

At the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, scientists created a new way to tell someone’s age using just a bit of DNA. This method uses a blood sample and a small

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or
even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in
the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or
apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we
are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not
considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This
is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse
and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece,
we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology
industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to
relevant work to further inform our colleagues.

Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI
(black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are
in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are
both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and
Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf.
Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al.
2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA).

Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms
are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe.

Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles

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Nikhil Krishnaswamy @nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social · Sep 2

We are excited to welcome @qveraliao.bsky.social to the ORIGen workshop at @colmweb.org for her invited talk "Facilitating Appropriate Reliance on AI: Lessons from HCI Research"! October 10 at the Palais des Congrès in Montreal!

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · Aug 29

Colorado's delayed implementation of its AI Act shows how state govts struggle to regulate amid pressures from a "power-hungry federal government and a tech industry that insists that all meaningful regulations are a threat,” D&S’s @serena124.bsky.social‬ writes. www.techpolicy.press/in-delaying-...

In Delaying Its AI Law, Colorado Shows Tech Lobby's Power In State Politics | TechPolicy.Press

Colorado delayed implementation of its AI Act amid pressure from tech industry and business groups, Serena Oduro writes

www.techpolicy.press

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The Onion @theonion.com · Aug 25

Pros And Cons Of Using AI For Schoolwork https://theonion.com/pros-and-cons-of-using-ai-for-schoolwork/

PRO: Frees kids up for extra shifts at the plant
CON: Nagging guilt it was actually AI that earned that C-

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Nikhil Krishnaswamy @nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social · Aug 19

This was a bad schtick to commit to the morning before serving on a panel

Nikhil Krishnaswamy @nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social · Aug 19

Hereafter answering with "is that a sex thing?" every time anyone asks me about AI

#AI
#NLP
#LLMs

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Nikhil Krishnaswamy @nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social · Aug 17

Great article, followed by this ad 🤦‍♂️

Nikhil Krishnaswamy @nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social · Aug 15

The draft programme and list of accepted papers at ORIGen 2025 @ @colmweb.org is now available! We look forward to an excellent workshop in October! #AI #NLP #LLMs

Programme and list of accepted papers posted

The draft programme and list of accepted papers is now available here! Please check frequently as the camera-ready PDFs will be posted shortly. We look forward to an excellent workshop.

origen-workshop.github.io

Nikhil Krishnaswamy @nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social · Aug 15

LLMs aren't as interesting, cool, or mysterious as you think and you should probably be using them less.

Nikhil Krishnaswamy @nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social · Aug 12

What I say: I research how human cognition changes during interactions with AI systems.

What I mean: ChatGPT is making the kids stupid and you all know it

Nikhil Krishnaswamy @nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social · Aug 11

Speech act theory dying death by a thousand cuts

Nikhil Krishnaswamy @nikhilkrishnaswamy.bsky.social · Jul 28

If you are at #ACL2025 come check out our poster for "Frictional Agent Alignment Framework" tomorrow at 4 pm! A new take on LLM alignment for deliberation and collaboration—poster currently being used as a blanket for my 4yo daughter who is supposed to be napping but isn't
#NLP

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Dirk Hovy @dirkhovy.bsky.social · Jul 23

Reposting this since a number of people lately said they found it helpful. Good luck on the job market, everyone!

Dirk Hovy @dirkhovy.bsky.social · Jan 24

Over the last few years, several people from the @milanlp.bsky.social lab went onto the academic job market in #NLP. Based on the conversations with them, I collected some observations we shared internally. In case they are useful for others, though, here they are:
dirkhovy.com/post/2025_01...

How to professor | Dirk Hovy

It feels not long ago that I was worried about my job applications, but in reality, I have done this long enough that some of my first MSc supervisees are professors of their own now. Every few months...

dirkhovy.com

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