Been Kim

@_beenkim

Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, PhD from MIT. Make machines empower people.

people.csail.mit.edu/beenkim/

Joined August 2011

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Been Kim
@_beenkim
Sep 17
This piece by Scott Aaronson is like the sharpest knife that cuts through the messy, politicized discussions on AI, the risk, if we should be alarmed or not, why and what we should do. If you don't want to do anything useful today, you've done something productive by reading
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The Age of Wonders and Terrors
Twenty years ago, when the idea of AI taking over the world in our lifetimes still struck most of us as the unconstrained fantasy of those who knew too much science fiction and too little science, …
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Been Kim
@_beenkim
Sep 11
If you are feeling sad about an AI (presumably) solving Navier–Stokes, you are not alone. Drama aside, the fact that it only took a matter of days hits differently. Terry Tao’s words resonate deeply here: "The mathematical community functions, in many ways, as a miniature
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A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics
I am proud to be among the list of 25 initial signatories — all Fields Medallists — to the declaration below, which grew out of discussions between ourselves over the last week. We have…
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Been Kim
@_beenkim
Jul 10
I’m giving a talk tmr at PhilML workshop at 10:35am! Please note that they’ll be actual philosophers (other speakers!) at the workshop too, so come by for some spicy thinking questions for you to ponder as you travel back home... :) It’s a great way to end icml.
Been Kim
@_beenkim
Jul 6
Flying to ICML ✈️ I’ll be spending the week either at the conference or at restaurants/street food stations eating at least 4 meals a day. Also giving a keynote at PhilML workshop on 11th:)
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Been Kim
@_beenkim
Feb 4
Prompt engineering is still a black box. Why does changing X drastically change Y? Are there governing rules behind this evolution? Our new work proposes a simple way to uncover factors that might matter when refining prompts 👇
Neha Kalibhat
@NehaKalibhat
Feb 4
Thrilled to share that our paper on "Interpreting and Controlling Model Behavior via Constitutions for Atomic Concept Edits" has been accepted at AISTATS 2026! 🚀🚀 Read more about how input mutations can be mapped to interpretable behavioral insights. arxiv.org/abs/2602.00092 🧵
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