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# Welcome to the Hugging Face ML & Society Team Page!

We're a multidisciplinary team working on research and regulatory questions related to AI systems &mdash; their (open) development, governance, and impact on society at large.

## Team Members

- [Yacine Jernite](https://huggingface.co/yjernite), Head of ML & Society
- [Sasha Luccioni](https://huggingface.co/sasha), AI & Climate Lead
- [Giada Pistilli](https://huggingface.co/giadap), Principal Ethicist
- [Lucie-Aimée Kaffee](https://huggingface.co/frimelle), Applied Policy Researcher, EU Policy

We also work closely with [Irene Solaiman](https://huggingface.co/irenesolaiman) (Chief Policy Officer),
and [Avijit Ghosh](https://huggingface.co/evijit), (Applied Policy Researcher) in the policy team,
and with [Meg Mitchell](https://huggingface.co/meg) (Chief Ethics Scientist), and [Bruna Trevelin](https://huggingface.co/brunatrevelin) (Legal Counsel) on various topics!

## Resources

### Team's Blog Posts

See a non-exhaustive list of our team's recent writings below:

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  - [What kind of environmental impacts are AI companies disclosing? (And can we compare them?)| 09/17/2025](https://huggingface.co/blog/sasha/environmental-impact-disclosures)
  - [Advertisement, Privacy, and Intimacy: Lessons from Social Media for Conversational AI | 09/01/25](https://huggingface.co/blog/giadap/privacy-conversational-ai)
  - [Old Maps, New Terrain: Updating Labour Taxonomies for the AI Era | 08/20/2025](https://huggingface.co/blog/frimelle/ai-labour-taxonomies)
  - [The GPT-OSS models are here… and they’re energy-efficient! | 08/07/25](https://huggingface.co/blog/sasha/gpt-oss-energy)
  - [How Your Utility Bills Are Subsidizing Power-Hungry AI | 08/06/25](https://www.techpolicy.press/how-your-utility-bills-are-subsidizing-power-hungry-ai/)
  - [What Open-Source Developers Need to Know about the EU AI Act's Rules for GPAI Models | 08/04/25](https://huggingface.co/blog/yjernite/eu-act-os-guideai)
  - [AI Companionship: Why We Need to Evaluate How AI Systems Handle Emotional Bonds |07/21/25](https://huggingface.co/blog/giadap/evaluating-companionship)
  - [What is the Hugging Face Community Building? | 07/15/25](https://huggingface.co/blog/evijit/hf-hub-ecosystem-overview)
  - [Can AI Be Consentful? Rethinking Permission in the Age of Synthetic Everything | 07/08/25](https://huggingface.co/blog/giadap/consentful-ai)
  - [How Much Power does a SOTA Open Video Model Use? ⚡🎥 | 07/02/25](https://huggingface.co/blog/jdelavande/text-to-video-energy-cost)
  - [Whose Voice Do We Hear When AI Speaks? | 06/20/25](https://huggingface.co/blog/giadap/when-ai-speaks)
  - [Open Source AI: A Cornerstone of Digital Sovereignty | 06/11/25](https://huggingface.co/blog/frimelle/sovereignty-and-open-source)
  - [AI Policy @🤗: Response to the 2025 National AI R&D Strategic Plan | 06/02/25](https://huggingface.co/blog/evijit/us-ai-research-strategy-rfi)
  - [Bigger isn't always better: how to choose the most efficient model for context-specific tasks 🌱🧑🏼‍💻 | 05/28/25](https://huggingface.co/blog/sasha/energy-efficiency-bigger-better)
  - [Highlights from the First ICLR 2025 Watermarking Workshop | 05/14/25](https://huggingface.co/blog/hadyelsahar/watermarking-iclr2025)
  - [AI Personas: The Impact of Design Choices | 05/07/25](https://huggingface.co/blog/giadap/ai-personas)
  - [Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Why Open Source is a Win for Sustainability | 05/07/25](https://huggingface.co/blog/sasha/reduce-reuse-recycle)
  - [Consent by Design: Approaches to User Data in Open AI Ecosystems | 04/17/25](https://huggingface.co/blog/giadap/consent-by-design)
  - [AI Models Hiding Their Energy Footprint? Here’s What You Can Do| 04/14/25](https://huggingface.co/blog/sasha/energy-score-call-to-action)
  - [Empowering Public Organizations: Preparing Your Data for the AI Era | 04/10/25](https://huggingface.co/blog/evijit/public-org-data-ai)
  - [Are AI Agents Sustainable? It depends | 04/07/25](https://huggingface.co/blog/sasha/ai-agent-sustainability)
  - [I Clicked “I Agree”, But What Am I Really Consenting To? | 03/26/25](https://huggingface.co/blog/giadap/beyond-consent)
  - [AI Policy @🤗: Response to the White House AI Action Plan RFI | 03/19/25](https://huggingface.co/blog/ai-action-wh-2025)
  - [🇪🇺 EU AI Act: Comments on the Third Code of Practice Draft 🇪🇺  | 03/13/25](https://huggingface.co/blog/frimelle/eu-third-cop-draft)
  - [Announcing AI Energy Score Ratings | 02/11/25](https://huggingface.co/blog/sasha/announcing-ai-energy-score)
  - [Announcing the winners of the Frugal AI Challenge 🌱 | 02/11/25](https://huggingface.co/blog/frugal-ai-challenge/announcing-the-challenge-winners)
  - [From Hippocrates to AI: Reflections on the Evolution of Consent | 02/04/25](https://huggingface.co/blog/giadap/evolution-of-consent)
  - [AI Agents Are Here. What Now? | 01/13/25](https://huggingface.co/blog/ethics-soc-7)
  - [🇪🇺✍️ EU AI Act: Systemic Risks in the First CoP Draft Comments ✍️🇪🇺 | 12/12/24](https://huggingface.co/blog/yjernite/eu-draft-cop-risks)
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