@piotrmirowski
Research scientist in machine learning at Google DeepMind, theatre director and co-founder of Improbotics, visiting researcher at Goldsmiths. Ex-Bell Labs, Microsoft, PhD at NYU. Work in AI for weather and climate & AI for artistic creativity. he/him.
In 2016, 1000s of AI researchers and business leaders signed this open letter calling for a ban on lethal autonomous weapons. futureoflife.org/open-letter/... Worth having a little scroll through some of the names highlighted in the top 100.
Picture of Marjane Satrapi alongside a quote from her. The quote reads: The world is not divided into countries. The world is not divided between East and West. You are American, I am Iranian, we don't know each other, but we talk together and we understand each other perfectly. The difference between you and your government is much bigger than the difference between you and me. And the difference between me and my government is much bigger than the difference between me and you. And our governments are very much the same... - Marjane Satrapi, Iranian-French graphic novelist
Thinking about this quote from Persepolis creator Marjane Satrapi again.
Hello Anthony, I am the co-founder and director of improbotics.org - improv comedy with AI and robots, which we started 10 years ago, in a more civilized time.
I found your post very funny.
“Instead of building an alternative new media ecosystem and amplifying each other’s work, the left focuses more on competition than the right. […] age-old leftist tendency toward infighting”.
Some hope: “Now, many on the left are leaving internal battles behind”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
I post politically on eXtwitter and no science/tech, and here only post on science/tech. But we must not look away from what is happening right now, out in the open with no regard for morality or human life. Do not look away.
🤖🎭 Robot Fringe 2026 | London
Experimental robotics + daring performance + wild ideas, showcased at ICSR + Art 2026 (1–4 July).
📍 Senate House, London
🗓 Thu 2 July 2026 (evening)
Hosted by Heather Knight & Piotr Mirowski
Submission: 🔗 robotfringe.com
#ICSR2026
The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.
Well argued article about the current state of things
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Forensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
And our work on Fabula:
youtube.com/watch?v=YH7sZ2GN_m0&feature=youtu.be
"AI and Non-Western Art Worlds: Reimagining Critical AI Futures through Artistic Inquiry and Situated Dialogue" (CHI 2025) dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
"A robot walks into a bar: Can language models serve as creativity support tools for comedy? an evaluation of llms’ humour alignment with comedians" (FAccT 2024) dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...
To learn more about what we have been doing, here is a sample of our recent work:
"Co-Writing Screenplays and Theatre Scripts with Language Models: Evaluation by Industry Professionals" (CHI 2023) dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....
Interested? Please submit an application on the Google Careers website ("Student Researcher, 2026"): www.google.com/about/career...
and send me an email to piotrmirowski+sr2026 [at] google [dot] com. Please include "[SR 2026]" in the subject line and tell me how you think about AI for creativity.
You will be designing tools and evaluation methods to support writers in their creative process.
The role will tentatively start in March-April 2026 and will be based on site in London.
I will host a student researcher at Google DeepMind and am looking for PhD students interested in the intersection of creative writing and human-computer interaction.
Your work will contribute to moving beyond generative AI towards formative AI.
Very excited to be able to talk about something I've been working on for a while now - we're working with Commonwealth Fusion Systems, IMO the leading fusion startup in the world, to take our work on AI and tokamaks and make it work at the frontier of fusion energy. deepmind.google/discover/blo...
Video footage from Open Research day on 17 May 2025 at Battersea Arts Centre, feat. Natalia Korczakowska, Teatr Studio, Pricilla Lee, Sung Im Her and her dance company, and filmed by Google DeepMind Productions.
Work by Richard Evans with Ben Wedin, Piotr Mirowski, Reinald Kim Amployo, Richard Galt, Duncan Williams, Rida Qadri, Sian Gooding, Lucia Lopez Rivilla, João G. M. Araújo, Jaume Sanchez Elias, Erin Drake Kajioka, Edward Grefenstette, Emily Conn, Satinder Singh Baveja, Laura Rimell, Shakir Mohamed.
So, are you into writing? Then register your interest for Fabula at: deepmind.google.com/frontiers/fa...
We are inviting further writers to try Fabula and see if it is useful for learning, structuring ideas, and supporting human creativity. On the video: playwright Natalia Korczakowska, Artistic Director of STUDIO teatrgaleria in Warsaw, discusses her creative process.
We ran many workshop studies with our prototype, sought critical feedback from diverse industry experts on subjects ranging from the writing process, narratology, screen production, and cultural localisation, who discussed their creative practice and commented on AI ethics and on the Fabula app.
We are a small team passionate about interactive fiction, theatre, theatrical improvisation and computational creativity, and have been developing Fabula using principles of participatory AI, taking critical feedback from the industry in and integrating it within our process.
Fabula is not a story generator – it is a tool to empower a writer as they go through the creative process of exploring their story, by giving them coherent AI-based suggestions that allow them to iterate on versions of their stories, characters and story arc.
Fabula is a co-creation tool that enables writers to quickly review, revise, and iterate on a story plan and script. We crafted detailed instructions to build a story's structure, based on classical narratology, and power the app using Google DeepMind’s latest version of Gemini.
Research prototype, early access announcement and participatory AI! I am really excited to invite you to try Fabula, an experimental app designed to serve as a writing tool for screenwriters and playwrights of all skill levels. We invite critical feedback: read the thread below!
youtu.be/YH7sZ2GN_m0
Really honoured to have participated, alongside Rida Qadri, to this @britishcouncil.bsky.social report on exploring the importance of artists, cultural organisations, and creative industries to technological advancement.
www.britishcouncil.org/research-ins...
Visionary theatre director Natalia Korczakowska from Teatr Studio invites you to witness her open research and rehearsal of “AlphaGo_Lee: Theory of Sacrifice”. Extremely lucky to join her cast of creatives to discuss limits, ethics and potential of LLMs in writing.
bac.org.uk/whats-on/alp...
With gratitude to Google Research/Arts & Culture/DeepMind, Katherine Heller, Andrew Smart, Kory Mathewson, Chelsey Fleming, Pamela Peter-Agbia, Eva Kozanecka, Xiao Ma and Shakir Mohamed, and above all Aroussiak Gabriellan, Farbod Mehr, Fuchsia Hart, Huma Gupta, Morehshin Allahyari, Pamela Karimi.
We just published and presented our findings in a sociotechnical AI research paper at Human Factors in Computing (CHI 2025): “AI and Non-Western Art Worlds: Reimagining Critical AI Futures through Artistic Inquiry and Situated Dialogue", jointly authored by Rida Qadri, Remi Denton and yours truly.
