Hassan Sami Adnan

Behind the scenes earlier at the @OxfordUnion preparing for #TheRajDebate as the first ever Elected Member of the Secretary’s Committee from @ReubenCollege! #TheOxfordUnion #ReubenCollege #debate #debatingsociety #OxfordUnion #opposition #bangladesh #PlatinumJubilee

The #JapanTravel app that I’ve been working on is now in #beta if anyone wants to give it a spin. It is aimed for first time travelers as well as pros. A culmination of travel guides, todos, checklists and more that I used for my own travels. #Japan testflight.apple.com/join/eUdvTKam

There will be no AI jobpocalypse. The story that AI will lead to massive unemployment is stoking unnecessary fear. AI — like any other technology — does affect jobs, but telling overblown stories of large-scale unemployment is irresponsible and damaging. Let’s put a stop to it. I’ve expressed skepticism about the jobpocalypse in previous posts. I’m glad to see that the popular press is now pushing back on this narrative. The image below features some recent headlines. Software engineering is the sector most affected by AI tools, as coding agents race ahead. Yet hiring of software engineers remains strong! So while there are examples of AI taking away jobs, the trends strongly suggest the net job creation is vastly greater than the job destruction — just like earlier waves of technology. Further, despite all the exciting progress in AI, the U.S. unemployment rate remains a healthy 4.3%. Why is the AI jobpocalypse narrative so popular? For one thing, frontier AI labs have a strong incentive to tell stories that make AI technology sound more powerful. At their most extreme, they promote science-fiction scenarios of AI “taking over” and causing human extinction. If a technology can replace many employees, surely that technology must be very valuable! Also, a lot of SaaS software companies charge around $100-$1000 per user/year. But if an AI company can replace an employee who makes $100,000 — or make them 50% more productive — then charging even $10,000 starts to look reasonable. By anchoring not to typical SaaS prices but to salaries of employees, AI companies can charge a lot more. Additionally, businesses have a strong incentive to talk about layoffs as if they were caused by AI. After all, talking about how they’re using AI to be far more productive with fewer staff makes them look smart. This is a better message than admitting they overhired during the pandemic when capital was abundant due to low interest rates and a massive government financial stimulus. To be clear, I recognize that AI is causing a lot of people’s work to change. This is hard. This is stressful. (And to some, it can be fun.) I empathize with everyone affected. At the same time, this is very different from predicting a collapse of the job market. Societies are capable of telling themselves stories for years that have little basis in reality and lead to poor society-wide decision making. For example, fears over nuclear plant safety led to under-investment in nuclear power. Fears of the “population bomb” in the 1960s led countries to implement harsh policies to reduce their populations. And worries about dietary fat led governments to promote unhealthy high-sugar diets for decades. Now that mainstream media is openly skeptical about the jobpocalypse, I hope these stories will start to lose their teeth (much like fears of AI-driven human extinction have). Contrary to the predictions of an AI jobpocalypse, I predict the opposite: There will be an AI jobapalooza! AI will lead to a lot more good AI engineering jobs, and I’m also optimistic about the future of the overall job market. What AI engineers do will be different from traditional software engineering, and many of these jobs will be in businesses other than traditional large employers of developers. In non-AI roles, too, the skills needed will change because of AI. That makes this a good time to encourage more people to become proficient in AI, and make sure they’re ready for the different but plentiful jobs of the future! [Original text in The Batch newsletter.]

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🍂 #Autumn #shotoniPhone #iPhone17ProMax #nofilter #Berlin

Great to be back at #PyConJP and to reunite with the crew and our friends in Japan! Yet another great #PyCon promoting #python and its lovely #community. /w @saadifti @ssharmeen @py_STEM @terapyon @shimizukawa @takanory Missing rest of the crew: @HaqueIshfaq @AtiaAmin1 #PyConJapan

Crazy lines at the reopening of the Apple Ginza store right now in Japan. Well over 1000 people.

Yeh the 8x on the iPhone 17 Pro is pretty sick.

Thanks @UniofOxford for featuring my photo!

All systems go. Tune in to #WWDC25.

Absolutely delighted to be at #AIMI2025 in @Stanford. The 1st Panel was very informative. Looks like USA is indeed spearheading the AI paradigm shift also in Medicine. #HealthAI #MedicalAI #AIinnovation #MedTech @StanfordAIMI

Off to San Francisco all the way from Berlin to attend the #AIMI2025 and the #Stanford #AI week at @Stanford University. Looking forward to meeting pioneers in the Health AI field and learn as much as I can. Say hi if you’re at the event.

📊 Just released Parquet Converter - a Python tool I built to convert text-based files to parquet. ✅ CSV/TXT to Parquet ✅ Batch processing ✅ Memory optimization Try it: pip install parquet-converter sami5001.github.io/parquet-conver… #Python #DataScience #OpenSource #healthdata

@Micro_Yunha @MIT @MITBiology @MITEECS @MIT_SCC Congratulations!

It’s official!🎉I’m thrilled to announce that I will be joining @MIT as an assistant professor in a shared appointment between @MITBiology, @MITEECS and @MIT_SCC this fall. My lab will couple ML and high throughput experimentation to harness the remarkable functional diversity of microbial genomes. If you are excited about the intersection of AI and microbiology, please get in touch! It’s been an incredible journey building @tatta_bio with @ancornman1 to advance AI infrastructure for biology, and I will continue to further our mission as chief scientist. I am so grateful for all the support I received from my mentors, colleagues and collaborators over the years: @pgirguis, @sokrypton, @simroux_virus, @AlexJProbst, @annedekas

Our recent paper now online in iScience. A technical implementation framework for deploying health AI at scale, to ensure accountable, responsible, and transparent deployment of AI/ML models. #xAI #reinforcementLearning #scalableAI #AI #healthcare cell.com/iscience/fullt…

Excited to share our latest work published in iScience. We present a novel technical implementation framework to deploy Artificial Intelligence at scale for healthcare. It can help facilitate digital health designers, developers, patient groups, policymakers, and other stakeholders, to co-create and solve issues throughout the lifecycle of designing, developing, deploying, monitoring, and maintaining algorithmic models. #ExplainableArtificialIntelligence #xAI #digitalhealthimplementation #digitalhealthdesign #humanCenteredAI #designinnovation #designthinking #reinforcementlearning #machinelearning cell.com/iscience/fullt…

Found a cool app for the Mac. Even though I'm posting this to get a 35% off coupon, I cant avoid saying it's freaking cool: lo.cafe/notchnook

@AnveeBhutani @jqasociety Congratulations dear Anvee!! Keep rocking 🤘

I'm excited to announce I've been selected as a Marcellus Policy Fellow with the John Quincy Adams Society @jqasociety. As my project for the next few months, I'll be researching and reporting on the human cost of the US coalition operation in Yemen in the last year.

Working on some Macrodata Refinement. Finding the scary numbers... #Severance 🎈 lumon-industries.com

I learned yesterday the video I made in 2017 explaining how Bitcoin works was taken down, and my channel received a copyright strike (despite it being 100% my own content). The request seems to have been issued by a company chainpatrol, on behalf of Arbitrum, whose website says they "makes use of advanced LLM scanning" for "Brand Protection for Leading Web3 Companies" I could be wrong, but it sounds like there's a decent chance this means some bot managed to convince YouTube's bots that some re-upload of that video (of which there has been an incessant onslaught) was the original, and successfully issue the takedown and copyright strike request. It's naturally a little worrying that it should be possible to use these tools to issue fake takedown requests, considering that it only takes 3 to delete an entire channel.

Things look a little different around Lumon. #Severance Season 2 premieres January 17 on Apple TV+