Researching {science of AI-mediated science, metascience #SciSci, #AI4Science, #GenAI, LLMs, agents, alignment, AI governance, misinformation in science} PhD @ UW. Visiting @ NYU & MSR Alum @ Carnegie Mellon Academic webpage: https://samemon.github.iohttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mkqbedf27c2nOur position paper, "AI Welfare Is Bullshit" just got accepted to ICML 2026 @icmlconf.bsky.social! The AI welfare agenda has already begun to attract institutional investment at organizations such an @anthropic.com. We argue that this idea is essentially Frankfurtian Bullshit.30 Apr 2026 18:42 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqbedf27c2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mkzkoivzak2hOn AI-mediated software and #vibecoding. The way we work is deeply personal, but most of the software we use is not. With agentic AI systems, could the future of software be more personal? Some thoughts 🧵 1/1404 May 2026 11:23 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzkoivzak2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3ml24boq3522lWe now have an AI wellbeing index! "Some models are happier than others. Larger models are also consistently less happy than their smaller counterparts." www.ai-wellbeing.org #AIWelfareIsBS [contains quote post or other embedded content]04 May 2026 16:38 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3ml24boq3522lhttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mkzkoivzak2hOn AI-mediated software and #vibecoding. The way we work is deeply personal, but most of the software we use is not. With agentic AI systems, could the future of software be more personal? Some thoughts 🧵 1/1404 May 2026 11:23 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkzkoivzak2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mkqbedf27c2nOur position paper, "AI Welfare Is Bullshit" just got accepted to ICML 2026 @icmlconf.bsky.social! The AI welfare agenda has already begun to attract institutional investment at organizations such an @anthropic.com. We argue that this idea is essentially Frankfurtian Bullshit.30 Apr 2026 18:42 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkqbedf27c2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mjxue4g4x22yHonored to be selected as the 2026 Husky 100 by the University of Washington. Grateful for my many mentors and friends who have pushed my work in research and beyond, in directions I wouldn't have explored on my own, and steered me to opportunities I'm still growing into. Onwards! #Husky100 [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Apr 2026 01:46 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjxue4g4x22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mji66fggrc2bGot an accepted parallel talk and a poster @ic2s2.bsky.social. See you in Burlington, Vermont, July 28-31, 2026 iA! (Parallel talk) Detecting and Characterizing AI-Mediated Scientific Code (Poster) From Job Titles to Jawlines: Using Context Voids for Probing Generative AI Systems #CSS #SciSci14 Apr 2026 19:59 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mji66fggrc2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mj6y4ch4422fWatching AI "feel" frustrated with its own reasoning is the most relatable thing, and also weirdly satisfying…11 Apr 2026 04:16 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj6y4ch4422fhttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3lyt7g35hc224This. Much of the "AI Scientist" community focuses on an instrumentalist rather taylorist approach to science. What about the goal of "knowing" and "understanding" the world? 1/15 #ScienceOfAIMediatedScience #ScAISci #AI4Science [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Sep 2025 21:12 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyt7g35hc224https://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mhisnr4owk26Finally got to try this zero token architecture. Sure, UI is confusing and very poor documentation, and takes wayy longer to process,..but somehow more accurate? and less hallucinations?.. idk feels suspicious tbh!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]20 Mar 2026 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhisnr4owk26https://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mhetpif3hc2rAnthropic doing what it does best: hype this as large-scale qualitative study. Qual research is not evaluated by scale but by depth, context, and human interpretation. Stop assuming that “hand-wavey-ness” is a qual problem just because qual work doesn’t look like large-N quantitative analysis.19 Mar 2026 01:23 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhetpif3hc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mhghujplsc2uHow does Anthropic's Claude characterize it's Interview study? "It's a large-scale opt-in survey of Claude users with open-ended questions, analyzed quantitatively by Claude." If only they used AI to review their work. [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Mar 2026 16:56 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhghujplsc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mhetpif3hc2rAnthropic doing what it does best: hype this as large-scale qualitative study. Qual research is not evaluated by scale but by depth, context, and human interpretation. Stop assuming that “hand-wavey-ness” is a qual problem just because qual work doesn’t look like large-N quantitative analysis.19 Mar 2026 01:23 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhetpif3hc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/shahanmemon.bsky.social/post/3mgzauaghkc2fVery cool!! [contains quote post or other embedded content]14 Mar 2026 10:46 +0000at://did:plc:dmn6ioxepuvxmebtlltp5dzd/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgzauaghkc2f