MH Tessler 🇺🇦

research scientist @GoogleDeepMind. previously MIT, Stanford. interested in society, language, humans, and coffee. enjoying living in the 🇬🇧

[MH Tessler 🇺🇦 @mhtessler]

I am really beyond words to be able to share with the world what @bakkermichiel, @summerfieldlab, and I and a truly world-class team @GoogleDeepMind worked on for the past 2 years. Out today in @ScienceMagazine, “AI can help humans find common ground in democratic deliberation”

[MH Tessler 🇺🇦 @mhtessler]

@scychan_brains @sebkrier OGI

[MH Tessler 🇺🇦 @mhtessler]

A great collaboration with @georgie_a_evans , @bakkermichiel , @IasonGabriel , Sophie Bridgers, @shubadubadub , Raphael Koster, @verena_rieser, @ancadianadragan , @mattbotvinick , and @summerfieldlab 9/9

[MH Tessler 🇺🇦 @mhtessler]

Democracy relies on the free exchange of views, but scaling faces a "trilemma": it's hard to balance Participation, Deliberation, and Equality simultaneously.

In our paper, first presented at @knightcolumbia we ask: Can AI help? https://t.co/vdx5kDSEUQ

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[MH Tessler 🇺🇦 @mhtessler]

AI isn't a panacea, but it offers a powerful tool to navigate democratic trade-offs.

We need more work on oversight and understanding strategic behavior in AI mediated deliberation, but the path to better citizen engagement is a little more clear we hope.

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[Ryan Lowe 🥞 @ryan_t_lowe]

Introducing: Full-Stack Alignment 🥞

A research program dedicated to co-aligning AI systems *and* institutions with what people value.

It's the most ambitious project I've ever undertaken.

Here's what we're doing: 🧵

[Sian Gooding @SianGooding]

🚨 I’m hosting a Student Researcher @GoogleDeepMind!

Join us on the Autonomous Assistants team (led by @egrefen ) to explore multi-agent communication—how agents learn to interact, coordinate, and solve tasks together.

DM me for details!

[Sian Gooding @SianGooding]

New paper alert from @GoogleDeepMind! 🚨 We've put LLMs to the test as writing co-pilots – how good are they really at helping us write? LLMs are increasingly used for open-ended tasks like writing assistance, but how do we assess their effectiveness? 🤔 https://t.co/gkwVW8KfHD

[MH Tessler 🇺🇦 @mhtessler]

Going beyond demographics to model individual variation in human judgments for AI alignment. Very happy to see this great work by Taylor reach the outside!

[Taylor Sorensen @ma_tay_]

🤔🤖Most AI systems assume there’s just one right answer—but many tasks have reasonable disagreement. How can we better model human variation? 🌍✨

We propose modeling at the individual-level using open-ended, textual value profiles! 🗣️📝

https://t.co/PUr3olk5u6
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[Tomer Ullman @TomerUllman]

woooooo!

Out in Child Development: "Learning Loopholes: The Development of Intentional Misunderstandings in Children"

paper: https://t.co/Jk8bQXrC8B

preprint: https://t.co/4P5LdBUs1m

[MH Tessler 🇺🇦 @mhtessler]

Very interesting demonstration of using AI for peace. Incredible effort

[Andrew Konya @Werdnamai]

Can AI help find common ground during active, real-world conflicts?

We worked with @ALLMEP to find common ground between Israeli & Palestinian peacebuilders after Oct 7 2023 using an iterative deliberative process combining LLMs, bridging algorithms, and collective dialogues

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[MH Tessler 🇺🇦 @mhtessler]

Even if you’re just thinking of changing priorities, I believe you should signal.

[Rohin Shah @rohinmshah]

We're hiring! Join an elite team that sets an AGI safety approach for all of Google -- both through development and implementation of the Frontier Safety Framework (FSF), and through research that enables a future stronger FSF.

[MH Tessler 🇺🇦 @mhtessler]

I’m at the Pizza Hut. I’m at the Taco Bell. I’m at the combination pizza, taco, sandwich, crepe, kebab, coffee takeaway.

[David Lindner @davlindner]

Want to join one of the best AI safety teams in the world?

We're hiring @GoogleDeepMind! We have open positions for research engineers and research scientists in the AGI Safety & Alignment and Gemini Safety teams.

Locations: London, Zurich, New York, Mountain View and SF