Congrats to members of the @StanfordHAI community recognized in the #Moonshots research competition launched by @LaudeInstitute
! Moonshots asked a simple question: how should AI actually be used to solve humanity’s hardest problems? (1/3)
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Stanford HAI Members Win Moonshots AI Research Competition Award
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Being Right Too Soon: Social Acceptance of Innovation
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So true. “Being right too soon is socially unacceptable”
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GenAI Generation Defined Born After 2022
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People born between 1997 and 2012 are called Gen Z. People born after 2013 are Gen Alpha. People born after 2022 are GenAI.
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Political Leadership and Global Destruction Concerns
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In America we just put those men in power and have them destroy the world. https://t.co/5nSINerZuC
— Bojan Tunguz (@tunguz) 15 avril 2026In America we just put those men in power and have them destroy the world.
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Power Concentration and Corruption: Risks Across Political Systems
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Power corrupts on the far left and the far right. Both rely on submission of the masses.
— 🖤 Christine (@christinelu) 15 avril 2026
Extreme concentration of authority, whether in a "proletarian" state or authoritarian populism, invites the same abuses.
Corruption among elites, suppressing dissent, and bending rules… pic.twitter.com/yNJLzDNrzNPower corrupts on the far left and the far right. Both rely on submission of the masses. Extreme concentration of authority, whether in a "proletarian" state or authoritarian populism, invites the same abuses. Corruption among elites, suppressing dissent, and bending rules
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AI Automation’s Hidden Cost: Eliminating Customer Intelligence
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BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now. The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own
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Central Planning Failures: Black Markets and Information Distortion
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“Central planning” for the USSR and China, etc meant government allocated resources without market prices or profit/loss signals.
— 🖤 Christine (@christinelu) 15 avril 2026
Result? Shortages everywhere. People (and government officials) turned to black markets an personal connections. They lied about production numbers… pic.twitter.com/sBwVGaUKGq“Central planning” for the USSR and China, etc meant government allocated resources without market prices or profit/loss signals. Result? Shortages everywhere. People (and government officials) turned to black markets an personal connections. They lied about production numbers
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Using LLMs to Review Tax Returns Before Signing
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Happy almost tax day. FYI: The most dollar-denominated impactful thing I've ever done for geeks, by sum of claims in my inbox, is the piece on salary negotiation. The second most impactful, rising fast, is "Have an LLM review your taxes before you sign them."
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AI Access to Personal Knowledge Raises Ethical Concerns
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This all changes once AI gets access to all of your tacit knowledge and can model your personality, desires, and motivations even better than you can.
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Human Civilization Coevolving with Technological Advancement
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Exactly right. Even before technology became as ubiquitous as the internet, human civilization far evolved beyond simple individual biological entities, or even small tribes that we had in primitive societies. We’ve been slowly coevolving with our technological progeny for many