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Not a news to many, but I will be starting as a professor (W3) at TU Darmstadt in June 2026 and setup another branch of our Adaptive Intelligence group.
Our group in Tokyo at RIKEN AIP will continue as it is. So if you are visiting Japan, still welcome to visit us!
Also, I am hiring! Please share!
4 PhD positions https://career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt/j
ob/54256
2 post-doc positions https://www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt/job/54268
Pokémon Go players thought they were catching Pikachus.
They were actually building the nervous system for robot civilization.
500M humans. 30B images. Zero consent forms.
The game was the harvest.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/10/1134099/how-pokemon-go-is-helping-robots-deliver-pizza-on-time/
“TikTok and Meta risked safety to win algorithm arms race, whistleblowers say”
4 postdoc positions are available at TU Darmstadt and Centre for Excellence on Reasonable AI.
I am part of the Active AI group. Please help me spread the word.
Description: https://hessian.ai/projects/reasonable-ai-rai/
Application portal: https://www.career.tu-darmstadt.de/tu-darmstadt/job/52370
“The President also called Anthropic "woke" and accused it of being an "out-of-control, Radical Left AI company run by people who have no idea what the real World is all about".”
“Trump [posted] that Anthropic "better get their act together, and be helpful during this phase out period, or I will use the Full Power of the Presidency to make them comply, with major civil and criminal consequences to follow."”
"Don’t go to the US – not with Trump in charge": the UK tourist with a valid visa detained by ICE for 6 weeks.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/21/karen-newton-valid-visa-detained-ice
Karen Newton was in America on the trip of a lifetime when she was shackled, transported and held for weeks on end. With tourism to the US under increasing strain, she says, ‘If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone’
AI used by governments to distort the reality. Are we proud of our scientific achievements now that it has lead to a world where truth can be so easily distorted?
What is worse is that AI has big role to play in it this time.
“And 24 years ago, as I gave my talk in a New York City still traumatised by 9/11, did I too make the mistake of thinking the post-World War Two order, underpinned, as it was, by American might, was the new permanent normal? I think I did.
For we did not foresee then a world in which trust in traditional sources of news and information would be corroded by a rising cynicism, turbo-charged by social media and, increasingly now, AI.”
“democracy, the rule of law, accountable government are not naturally occurring phenomena; they are not even, historically speaking, normal. They have to be fought for, built, sustained, defended.”
This article argues that Europe,Canada and other middle powers are finally facing the American use of force that the rest of world has experienced like for ever (can confirm as a south Asian).
Must read!
geeknik
Joseph Salmon
Pierre Alquier