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Peter Hall @peterha2l.bsky.social · 7d

The 2026 AAAS Mass Media Fellowship application is open! This program was one of the best experiences of my PhD, highly recommend it for anyone interested in #SciComm /Journalism. Happy to answer questions about the app or @technologyreview.com.

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AAAS Mass Media Science & Engineering Fellowship

This 10-week summer program places science, engineering, and mathematics students at media organizations nationwide. Fellows use their academic training as they research, write, and report today’s hea...

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Peter Hall @peterha2l.bsky.social · Aug 25

I got to hear a lot of varied perspectives in writing this piece, and I’m beyond excited to keep covering the successes and controversies surrounding AI’s place in science, especially in hypothesis creation, experimental design, and evaluations. If you are interested in #AIinScience, reach out! #AI

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Peter Hall @peterha2l.bsky.social · Aug 25

Zou believes AI agents could revolutionise scientific discovery. However, others in the scientific community (and many of the journals where science is dispersed and discussed) are worried it could push science 'to the median' and outcompete early-career researchers. #AIScientists #AIinScience

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Peter Hall @peterha2l.bsky.social · Aug 25

One of the final pieces I worked on as a fellow for Technology Review is now up. I profiled James Zou and covered both his Nature article and his upcoming conference #Agents4Science, where AI must be the primary author of submitted papers.

Link here: www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/22/1...

Meet the researcher hosting a scientific conference by and for AI

James Zou used virtual AI ‘scientists’ to find novel covid-19 treatments. Now, he’s having AI review and present all of the research at a controversial new conference.

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Peter Hall @peterha2l.bsky.social · Aug 20

New at Technology Review today. Some astrophysicists are worried we are due for a bad storm like the Carrington Event (the last superstorm, from 1859). Being able to predict bad storms will be needed to mitigate the havoc this would cause to electrical grids, satellites, etc. #SpaceSky #Space #NASA

MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · Aug 20

Surya, an AI model developed by NASA and IBM, tries to find hidden patterns in solar data to detect solar flares and winds.

NASA’s new AI model can predict when a solar storm may strike

Surya, an AI model developed by NASA and IBM, tries to find hidden patterns in solar data to detect solar flares and winds.

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Peter Hall @peterha2l.bsky.social · Aug 9

I don’t understand how people can believe this is true and also believe that the AI community is making serious strides toward AGI.

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Peter Hall @peterha2l.bsky.social · Aug 5

#A2A #MCP #OpenSource

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Peter Hall @peterha2l.bsky.social · Aug 5

Devs at all sorts of companies are already hard at work building MCP servers that will let AI agents send emails, edit databases, and more. But there’s still a long way to go to making sure these agents act safely, transparently, and efficiently. Read more at www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/04/1...

These protocols will help AI agents navigate our messy lives

Anthropic, Google, and others are developing better ways for agents to interact with our programs and each other, but there’s still more work to be done.

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Peter Hall @peterha2l.bsky.social · Jul 16

A little bit of data viz for @technologyreview.com today about where AI is impacting work. Check out some more charts and the rest of the story here: www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/16/1...

Graph displaying where VC bs. Federal contracts are being made in different emerging US localities, with data courtesy of the Brookings Institution

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Peter Hall @peterha2l.bsky.social · Jul 15

In any case, the work is featuring at an interesting-looking workshop this weekend, put on by @katherinelee.bsky.social, @vaidehipatil.bsky.social, and others. More info here: mugenworkshop.github.io

MUGen @ ICML 2025 - Workshop on Machine Unlearning for Generative AI

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Peter Hall @peterha2l.bsky.social · Jul 15

It seems like safety and responsible AI folks are pushing in a lot of possible directions at once, but one that I’ve found following (with some reservations) for a while has been machine unlearning. Here’s one potential app of it to combat audio deepfakes.

MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · Jul 15

This is an important step in stopping the rise of audio deepfakes.

AI text-to-speech programs could “unlearn” how to imitate certain people

New research shows models can be directly edited to hide selected voices, even when users specifically ask for them.

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Peter Hall @peterha2l.bsky.social · Jul 10

I was struck by Shawn Shan of @theglazeproject.bsky.social saying that artists know that techniques like theirs aren’t permanent solutions. What is the end game, then, I wonder. Policy? Negotiations? Leaving art as a career?

Peter Hall @peterha2l.bsky.social · Jul 10

New story out for @technologyreview.com today. Working artists are on the frontier of the impacts of AI, and seeing what people are doing in this space will give the the blueprints for everyone else.

MIT Technology Review @technologyreview.com · Jul 10

A new technique called LightShed will make it harder for artists to use existing protective tools to stop their work from being ingested for AI training. It’s the next step in a cat-and-mouse game—across technology, law, and culture—that has been going on between artists and AI proponents for years.

This tool strips away anti-AI protections from digital art

The proof-of-concept technology removes a layer of digital “poison” meant to disrupt AI models that scrape online images for training.

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