Lukas Muttenthaler

Senior Researcher @AIgnostics & @ExplainableML | ex-@GoogleDeepMind | PhD in ML from @TUBerlin @bifoldberlin @MPI_CBS | Representations in 🧠 & 🤖| #FirstGen

[Lukas Muttenthaler @lukas_mut]

🥳I am incredibly humbled and grateful to share that our work, "Aligning machine and human visual representations across abstraction levels," has been published today in @Nature: https://t.co/Zhjih0CSKt For more information see @AndrewLampinen’s post below ⬇️

[Andrew Lampinen @AndrewLampinen]

What aspects of human knowledge do vision models like CLIP fail to capture, and how can we improve them? We suggest models miss key global organization; aligning them makes them more robust. Check out @lukas_mut's work, finally out (in @Nature!?) + our new blogpost! 1/4

[Andrew Lampinen @AndrewLampinen]

Really glad to see this work out (and honored to be included on it) — I think it does a great job of concretizing some of the intuitions I've had about effects of scaling! Check out the thread for a great summary

[Badr AlKhamissi @bkhmsi]

Good morning #ICLR2026 ☀️

The Re-Align workshop kicks off in 30 minutes! A full day on what we can actually do with representational alignment, from brains to language models to agents.

Schedule in the thread 👇

[Frieda Born @FriedaBorn]

Can context-sensitivity improve human–machine alignment in VFMs? We show that incorporating context improves modeling of human similarity decisions.

🎉Accepted to ReAlign @iclr_conf!
Now on @arxiv: https://t.co/GATXzSFFod
Joint first-authored work with amazing Tom Neuhäuser. 1/5

[Lukas Muttenthaler @lukas_mut]

@sarahookr @sarahookr I sent you an email to an email address that I found online but I am not sure this email address actually exists. I don’t know how else to contact you. I am interested in what you are doing at adaption labs.

[Lukas Muttenthaler @lukas_mut]

@hashjenni Oil?

[Lukas Muttenthaler @lukas_mut]

@BernieSanders I mean it’s pretty obvious that this is about controlling oil (and potentially other natural resources that exist in Iran) rather than nuclear weapons or freedom of speech for the people in Iran.

[Lukas Muttenthaler @lukas_mut]

@SenSanders I mean it’s pretty obvious that this is about controlling oil (and potentially other natural resources that exist in Iran) rather than nuclear weapons or freedom of speech for the people in Iran.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

A statement from Anthropic CEO, Dario Amodei, on our discussions with the Department of War.

https://t.co/rM77LJejuk

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

This is out of control.

Pete Hegseth wants to use AI to fire weapons without human input. And he's willing to blackmail a private company in order to do it.

He is a threat to our safety and must be fired immediately.

[Lukas Muttenthaler @lukas_mut]

@JeffDean Please @JeffDean support @AnthropicAI on this!

[Lukas Muttenthaler @lukas_mut]

@sergeynazarovx + no hobbies, no physical exercise, no friends, etc.

[Frieda Born @FriedaBorn]

🎉Happy to share that this work is now published in @CommsPsychol.

🔗You can find the final version here: https://t.co/9BNra7ppNY

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change — all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

[Helmholtz Institute for Human-Centered AI @cpilab]

🚨 Hiring in Munich 🇩🇪: 2 open-topic PhD positions in human & machine learning (TVöD E13 80%).
Start ~June 2026 (flexible). Deadline: March 2, 2026.
Details in thread 👇 (RTs appreciated)
@HelmholtzMunich
@helmholtz_ai
@ELLISforEurope

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Black History Month is a time to recognize the lived, shared experience of all Black folks who have fundamentally shaped, challenged, and ultimately strengthened America. It’s about taking an unvarnished look at the past so that we can create a better future. As we mark 100 years of celebrating Black history, let’s honor the sacrifices of the leaders who came before us, and recommit ourselves to continuing their work.

[Lukas Muttenthaler @lukas_mut]

@nsthorat It’s hopeful to see some of the senior people in tech finally speaking up.

[Nikhil Thorat @nsthorat]

The murder in Minneapolis by the government’s secret police this week has stirred something in me.

A mother was gunned down in the street by ICE, and the government doesn’t even have the decency to perform a scripted condolence. No matter which way the tires were pointing, this is a tragedy for her family, her children, and yet JD Vance, Palmer Lucky, and others instantly became the judge and the jury on twitter proclaiming the 37 year old white mother was a domestic terrorist and was trying to murder a federal officer; thus she *deserves* to be shot in the face. And you do too if you don’t comply.

Where is the humanity? How is everyone not terrified that this could happen to them, their mother, their sister? Isn’t it terrifying that the Vice President is immediately defending murder of american citizens?

I normally keep my politics quiet here because of how toxic twitter is and how annoying it can be to people who want a clean tech feed. Right now it just feels wrong not to say anything.

I haven’t quite been able to figure out the right words for how I feel. My first instinct is “fuck ICE” and “what the fuck is wrong with these people”. Those are my lizard brain reactions. But there’s something deeper that’s bothering me.

I can’t shake this feeling that the moral foundation that much of modern society stands upon is infected, and is festering. We teach kids that right and wrong exist, not to lie, that you don’t hurt people, and that you protect the vulnerable. And yet our highest elected officials encourage the burning and pillaging of these sacred lessons.

I could go on about how our current leadership just wants money and power, and they’re using immigrants as scapegoats to do so. Our economy is transforming rapidly, both with AI and because of greedy capitalist policies — the country is angry about legitimate things and democrats are not actually listening. Republicans are listening but are redirecting anger for their own power. The next 5 years are going to look a lot different because of technology; yet our heads are buried in the sand and we’re losing our way.

But maybe the only real thing we can do is to keep living and teaching the lessons of right and wrong, not to lie, that you don’t hurt people, and that you protect the vulnerable. Teach your kids these lessons in spite of Trump, Vance, Noem being lost beyond repair. Teach your kids that everyone deserves to be treated as a human being and not an object to be deported to a brutal prison cell.

I do believe that most people are still good, and that the best thing we can do to combat dehumanization by the government is more humanization of our neighbors. Go spend time with your republican cousins / neighbors and break bread with them. Don’t talk politics, play with their kids. Find common humanity.

But I don’t really have a call to action beyond this. I don’t really know what to do other than vote in November and refuse to pretend this is normal, publicly, even if it’s terrifying that you might get targeted and attacked. People in Nazi Germany stayed silent for this very fear, and we’re certainly living through a cosplay of that now.

The president called a 37 year old mother a domestic terrorist and that her 3 shots to the face by the gestapo was a tragedy of her own making.

The actual tragedy is that the Oval office propped up millions of people arguing about the direction of the tires of the car without having the humility to step back and ask if we want the government murdering civilians in broad daylight.

I am terribly sad for this country, our broken moral compass, and for hard working immigrants living in fear here. But I do believe we will eventually heal.

[nature @Nature]

More than 7,800 research grants terminated or frozen. Some 25,000 scientists and personnel gone from agencies. Proposed budget cuts of 35% — amounting to US$32 billion

These are just a few of the ways Donald Trump has downsized and disrupted US science
https://t.co/hgNaKdGsEa

[Vinod Khosla @vkhosla]

.@elonmusk doesn't want MAGA, he wants WAGA or "white America great again" as a racism is great and desirable" paradigm. All non-whites in @tesla, @SpaceX @X etc and all decent whites should quit and join our portfolio. Email us your linkedin!

[Lukas Muttenthaler @lukas_mut]

@richzou @ParsaTajik @xai I am curious: if you were raised by an immigrant mother, then why do you work at a company whose founder/ceo is openly and pretty clearly anti-immigrant?