Daniel Khashabi 🕊️
@DanielKhashabi
I play with intuitions and data. Now: @jhuclsp @jhucompsci Past: @allen_ai @uwnlp @Penn @cogcomp, @Illinois_Alma, @MSFTResearch He/Him
Looking to benchmark your web-based AI agent? Consider TurkingBench! See @KevLXu 's post for details.
Ever wondered how LLMs stack up against human crowdsource workers? I'm thrilled to share "TurkingBench", a benchmark of web-based tasks for multi-modal and interactive AI agents. Draft: arxiv.org/abs/2403.11905 Project: turkingbench.github.io Code: github.com/JHU-CLSP/turki…
My NYT op-ed this morning I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It. nytimes.com/2025/07/15/opi… via @NYTOpinion
Congratulations to @adveisner, @ghadfield, @DanielKhashabi, @TomLippincott, @ben_vandurme, and @ZiangXiao on their @JohnsHopkins Discovery Awards! cs.jhu.edu/news/cs-facult…
What’s really going on inside LLMs when they handle non-English queries? @BafnaNiyati's recent work introduces the **translation barrier hypothesis**, a framework for understanding multilingual model behavior. This hypothesis says that : (1) Multilingual generation, internally,…
📢When LLMs solve tasks with a mid-to-low resource input/target language, their output quality is poor. We know that. But can we pin down what breaks inside the LLM? We introduce the 💥translation barrier hypothesis💥 for failed multilingual generation. arxiv.org/abs/2506.22724
📢When LLMs solve tasks with a mid-to-low resource input/target language, their output quality is poor. We know that. But can we pin down what breaks inside the LLM? We introduce the 💥translation barrier hypothesis💥 for failed multilingual generation. arxiv.org/abs/2506.22724
War with Iran would be the most catastrophic US foreign policy decision since the invasion of Iraq. It would give Trump vast new authoritarian powers. Americans of both parties oppose it overwhelmingly. So why are @SenSchumer and @RepJeffries so silent? nytimes.com/2025/06/20/opi…
My daily problems pale compared to any picture that I am seeing from Gaza. No child should grow up like this. There is **no** justification whatsoever for this horror. If you have 5 minutes, call your representatives. This cannot continue--not in our name, not with our tax…
Gaza faces a severe humanitarian crisis as Israeli restrictions on aid lead to widespread malnutrition and starvation, with hospitals overwhelmed by malnourished children. wapo.st/4o5O2Ek
Six years ago @jackclarkSF and I proposed regulatory markets as a new model for AI governance that would attract more investment---money and brains—in a democratically legitimate way, fostering AI innovation while ensuring these powerful technologies don’t destabilize or harm…
Accepted to #COLM2025 ! Thanks to all my collaborators and see you in Montreal!
👁️Recent works use LLMs for social simulations—but can these agents help shape effective policies? 💥Our new paper tackles a bold question many have wondered about: Can generative agent societies simulate to inform public health policy? 🔗: arxiv.org/abs/2503.09639
Dismayed by the official sanctions that the US government has decided to impose on the UN Special Rapporteur, @FranceskAlbs We recall that Special Rapporteurs are independent experts. They are not appointed to please governments or to be popular but to deliver their mandate.…
It is unconscionable that American taxpayers are paying for these killings. Shame, shame on Donald Trump and the complicity of everyone who continues to look the other way. apnews.com/article/palest…
Outrageous. Yesterday the Trump admin announced $30M for GHF—the shadowy group at the center of the scheme to replace humanitarian aid orgs in Gaza w/ mercenaries, leading to the killing of starving civilians trying to collect food. Taxpayers shouldn't be paying for this outrage.…
In all the dystopian movies about the collapse of democracy and how we'll live in authoritarian corporation-led "states," none predicted that the beginning of the end of democracy would be governments imprisoning citizens for protesting a genocide committed by an "allied" state.
Paris Gestapo Police. Imagine living in a world where you could get arrested , suspended or beat up for saying don't kill children, because it might hurt the feelings of the killers. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
This hypothesis says that 1) Multilingual generation uses a model-internal task-solving→translation cascade. 2) Translation failure *despite task-solving success* is a large part of the problem. That is, the model often solves the task but fails to articulate the answer.
My interview with @camanpour. While advocates of attacking Iran don’t say it US attack on Iran could end up with American boots on ground…another costly forever war
“The United States is going down a path that will ultimately mean boots on the ground.” Middle East expert @vali_nasr wargames potential American intervention in Iran.
Awful. As @PeterBeinart notes, neither @SenSchumer nor @RepJeffries have signed on to requiring Trump to get cong authorization for war with Iran. As I argued (see below) there should be a bipartisan coalition here. Where is it? nytimes.com/2025/06/20/opi…
Theoretically, there should be a coalition of Dems and Republicans prepared to support this resolution requiring congressional authorization for war w/Iran. Dems tell me they expect some defections (infuriating) but bigger test is on MAGA-GOP side. 4/ newrepublic.com/article/196919…
Israel kills 51 people waiting for flour Read this again and again
Israeli forces kill 51 Palestinians waiting for flour at Gaza aid site, witnesses and rescuers say bbc.in/3ZWJ9mL
Ted Cruz on Iran. Full interview tomorrow.
Bombs don’t know the difference.
To the Iranian people: The world knows that you’re different than the Islamic Regime
Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995
Is this the “imminent threat” that Israel used to scuttle negotiations and launch a war of aggression that could turn the Middle East and beyond into a ball of fire?!! The deception is more blatant than Iraq!! #iranisraelwar
US intelligence assessed just weeks ago that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon “The IC [Intelligence Community] continues to assess that Iran is not building a nuclear weapon and Supreme Leader Khamanei has not authorized the nuclear weapons program he suspended in 2003.…