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Alondra Nelson

@alondra.bsky.social

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Scholar, author, policy advisor
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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)'s avatar Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off) @wolvendamien.bsky.social
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"How do you regulate a fever dream? …[Because] it *can* be regulated."

@alondra.bsky.social spittin straight 🔥🔥🔥, as usual, on this week's Moral Repair podcast with Annanda Barclay and Keisha McKenzie

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Kate Starbird's avatar Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social
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Brandy Zadrozny notes a shift in momentum around attacks on mis- and disinformation researchers. Indeed, we are feeling encouraged by recent developments. And, though the costs have gone (across multiple dimensions), our work continues. www.nbcnews.com/tech/misinfo...

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Ted Underwood 🦋's avatar Ted Underwood 🦋 @tedunderwood.me
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A paper about the benefits and risks of open-weights foundation models. What is said is not very surprising. What is notable is, who signed on. There's an effort here to organize a broad defense of open AI, stretching from Stella Biderman to Alondra Nelson. #MLSky 🤖

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Alondra Nelson's avatar Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social
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Perhaps. The answers we saw all looked reasonable and credible. But then elections officials and elections experts took a look and found the replies riddled with inaccuracies. This is why we are for expert-driven, domain-specific testing.

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Tyler King's avatar Tyler King @tylerking.bsky.social
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Models insisted voting by text was legal in California, that voting precincts didn’t exist in a majority-black district, and said voters could wear campaign paraphernalia to the polls (they can’t).

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Alondra Nelson's avatar Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social
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I write with @juliaangwin.com about our study that showed 50% of AI models’ responses to questions voters might ask were inaccurate.

Government must hold companies accountable, including through the privacy law called for by POTUS in his powerful #SOTU speech.

www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

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Sonja van Wichelen's avatar Sonja van Wichelen @sonjavw.bsky.social
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Last day to submit your abstract for the EASST-4S meeting! Consider joining Ann Kelly and me in the open panel (P396) “Probing Openness in Biomedical Platforms: Global Health meets Open Science”. And so psyched to announce @alondra.bsky.social will act as discussant! nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

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Casey Newton's avatar Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social
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Bluesky added a million followers yesterday. So take the number of followers you added yesterday and subtract it from a million and that’s how many people rejected you

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Alondra Nelson's avatar Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social
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Yes, I have been tracking this! It reminded me a bit of how cassette tapes of speeches of incarcerated activists used to circulate in the 1960s and 1970s

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Alondra Nelson's avatar Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social
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How to regulate AI? One strategy: existing rules and laws do apply to AI. “While robocall scams using AI-generated voices were already considered illegal, Thursday’s ruling clarified that generating a voice with AI for a robocall is illegal in itself”

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Alondra Nelson's avatar Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social
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"AI regulation doesn't staunch innovation, it enables it. And it's a critical tool in our ongoing efforts to prevent the proliferation of deepfakes."

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Pam Herd's avatar Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social
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This is huge. In a state system, where budgets are tight, this will effectively shrink sociology departments in Florida's higher ed system. You lose students taking soc classes for gen ed, but then downstream majors because they don't get exposed to the discipline.

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Phil Lewis's avatar Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social
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Exonerated Five member Yusef Salaam has won a seat on the New York City Council, more than three decades after he was wrongfully accused and convicted as a teenager

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Hypervisible 's avatar Hypervisible @hypervisible.bsky.social
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One company’s research estimates “that even in situations designed to prevent it from happening, chatbots invent information at least 3 percent of the time — and as high as 27 percent.”

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EM Simpson's avatar EM Simpson @emsetc.bsky.social
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Again, relying on for-profit orgs for public goods like public health maybe wasn't our best idea.

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Hetan Shah's avatar Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social
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Inspiring place to close from @alondra.bsky.social with this quote from DuBois - the future is not written - we can help to shape it

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Hetan Shah's avatar Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social
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‘Years of sociotechnical research show that advanced digital technologies, left unchecked, are used to pursue power and profit at the expense of human rights, social justice, and democracy.’ This piece by @alondra.bsky.social challenges a narrow concept of safety
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Sarah E. Minnis, PhD's avatar Sarah E. Minnis, PhD @drseminnis.bsky.social
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The Brooklyn Public Library has announced that any teenager in America is now eligible for a Brooklyn Public Library card. Teens can sign out ebooks + audiobooks from wherever they live. The move is designed to combat censorship, with some titles listed as "always available." 📚

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Robinson Meyer's avatar Robinson Meyer @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social
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For years, people have been saying that EVs will require fewer workers than gas cars do.

It’s become a truism repeated by CEOs, politicians, workers, and journalists.

But actual evidence suggests it’s not true — and in fact, EVs might even need *more* workers.

heatmap.news/electric-veh...

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Will Oremus's avatar Will Oremus @oremus.bsky.social
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Amazon’s Alexa has been telling people the 2020 presidential election was “stolen by a massive amount of election fraud.” The voice assistant cites Rumble as its source. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

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Kate Starbird's avatar Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social
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Fake press release about U.S. aid to Israel spreads on X and seeds fake news articles that appear in Google results for Top Stories, demonstrating just how vulnerable we are to manipulation, the cross-platform nature of disinformation, and the cesspool that is X. www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne...

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