person
Janelle Shane
AI Weirdness; optics researcher and AI humorist
Research scientist at Boulder Nonlinear Systems; author of the 'AI Weirdness' blog and the book 'You Look Like a Thing and I Love You'. Public communicator of how ML systems fail in unexpected, illuminating ways.
current Research Scientist, Boulder Nonlinear Systems
Strategy positions
AI skepticmixed
AGI risk narratives overstated; real harms are mundane and currentArgues AI failures, both funny and concerning, are pedagogically important; pushes back on hype while taking misuse risks seriously.
AIs are weird. They generalize from data in ways that humans don't, and the ways they fail tell us as much about them as the ways they succeed.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.