phd candidate at penn state ist, feminist science studies, ai ethics. 🌈he/him. perpetually busy reading things I don’t understand. koutianqi.infohttps://bsky.app/profile/koutianqi.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/koutianqi.bsky.social/post/3m3kx76x5322lNew conceptual paper (w/Dana Calacci and Cindy Lin) at #ACM #AAAI #AIES2025 on why there’s no accountability for social claims in so-called “general-purpose” Machine Learning research. I will present the paper on the 21st on a gargantuan poster;) Paper: lnkd.in/ePn8USDx My website: koutianqi.info19 Oct 2025 18:39 +0000at://did:plc:osgo5rugou2fe6hd2ff3ehpd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m3kx76x5322lhttps://bsky.app/profile/koutianqi.bsky.social/post/3m36umh2yrc2tTechnical debt, generalizability debt, no one talking about boycott debt.14 Oct 2025 23:21 +0000at://did:plc:osgo5rugou2fe6hd2ff3ehpd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m36umh2yrc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/koutianqi.bsky.social/post/3m27vde54ds2eMy home institution, Penn State, is on the precipice of having a grad student union! I am so proud of all the work we’ve done.02 Oct 2025 15:41 +0000at://did:plc:osgo5rugou2fe6hd2ff3ehpd/app.bsky.feed.post/3m27vde54ds2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/koutianqi.bsky.social/post/3lwarwucjs22q1/ 🚨 Our paper (w/ @dana.witchy.business & Cindy Lin) is accepted to AAAI/ACM #AIES2025! 📷 arxiv.org/pdf/2508.08739 ⚠️ ML papers make broad/implicit social claims - but these often don’t match reality. We call this mismatch the claim-reality gap. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.0873913 Aug 2025 02:32 +0000at://did:plc:osgo5rugou2fe6hd2ff3ehpd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwarwucjs22qhttps://bsky.app/profile/koutianqi.bsky.social/post/3lq6tslfbds2vAlready in town in LA for PLSC 2025!!!! Friends hit me up for coffee dinner or city walk;)!!!27 May 2025 23:29 +0000at://did:plc:osgo5rugou2fe6hd2ff3ehpd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lq6tslfbds2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/koutianqi.bsky.social/post/3lexw2ttjs222In his last blog Felix Hill talked about he cannot get away from AI wherever he is, yet so many online eulogies still mourn how good at it he was. This field really is so f’ed up. I’ll be angry writing my facct submission tmr.05 Jan 2025 05:44 +0000at://did:plc:osgo5rugou2fe6hd2ff3ehpd/app.bsky.feed.post/3lexw2ttjs222https://bsky.app/profile/koutianqi.bsky.social/post/3ldynrb4zdk2bLinked blog is on the current AI bubble - AI PhDs’s skills are in much lower demand than 10 years ago. The blogger very poignantly implied that innovation stagnation led to this. “Science” is replaced with rote training that BS/MS can take on with less compensation and more workable ego.23 Dec 2024 19:23 +0000at://did:plc:osgo5rugou2fe6hd2ff3ehpd/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldynrb4zdk2b