"GenAI is the elephant in the room here. A lot of articles about industry layoffs are always saying it doesn't appear that it's about AI just because no one from the company says: "Yeah we're firing the art teams to replace them with AI" 🎯 @stevenzapataart.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sp4g...

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Apparently there is *no way for authors to opt out of AI generated podcasts* displayed prominently on the ACM digital library publication page. #chi2026

📚 Check out our curated Feminist HCI CHI ’26 program, highlighting feminist and social justice-oriented work: tinyurl.com/CHIfeministp...

💻 Not going to Barcelona?
There will be a parallel Stitch & Bitch online session at the same time (1415 CET / 1315 BST).
Join here: lnkd.in/ePSnmuRp

There are more AI health tools than ever—but how well do they work? Specialized chatbots might make a difference for people with limited health-care access. Without more testing, we don't know if they’ll help or harm.

Given how little access to healthcare many people have, health chatbots could have real benefits — but the lack of independent testing makes it impossible to know whether those benefits outweigh the risks. www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/30/1...

This is the situation we find ourselves in

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This distrust in Al is reflected across the research conducted within this project-including the literature review, public and professional surveys, and deliberative workshops in this research. Distrust will have a significant impact not only on citizens' acceptance of Al-based products and services, but also on their willingness to provide data for commercial and public sector Al-based products and services. Without trust and with broader fear of Al, individuals express a reluctance or discomfort in engaging with Al. This restricts their ability to build Al skills.

however, sadly, the paper pitches this as a "trust issue" but people are right now to trust this stuff! Also complete failure to recognise that tools need to be worthy of trust, not that people should give their trust more freely

Picture of the auditorium stage. Information about the conference on the projected screen.

Stats about the conference over the years.

It sounds cliché, but I am honestly very excited to be here for the first time! #aies2025 Looking forward to learning from this single track conference, and of course, presenting our RAI umbrella review!

The deadline for submissions to our workshop on "Resisting AI solutionism" has been extended to 9th March (AoE)! #chi2025 #sigchi

5 years after it appeared, things we know and still don't know about COVID Five years after the virus that causes COVID emerged in China it still holds some mysteries.

After almost five years, the estimated global death toll for Covid is somewhere around 20 million, making it one of the deadliest outbreaks of communicable disease in human history.

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Very excited ✨ to be organising this with an amazing team including: Velvet Spors, @michaelmuller.bsky.social, @maiciolfi.bsky.social, Shaowen Bardzell, @fractalecho.bsky.social, Karin Hansson & Ivana Feldfeber

Join our hybrid workshop on "Resisting AI Solutionism" at #chi2025! Submit a 2-3 page position paper by 27th Feb telling us about ways of resisting, challenging and reimagining AI, or about cases when it's difficult to do so. More info upcoming on: t.co/BPjm4k6Qut

For the love of god please do not send your AI note taking app to a meeting you can't attend. If you're there, and can make a compelling case for why we should allow this bot to record and analyze people's words we can have that convo person to person. But if you're not even there, absolutely not.