THREAD: Under a new law, thousands of prisoners in Louisiana have been cut off from ever getting a chance at parole.

Why?

Because an algorithm said so. 1/

It’s soon publication day for our book. Very excited to see it in print.

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Finally my article on temporalities of welfare automation is out. I am exploring three temporal tropes. The manuscript was initially lost in some kind of review loop but is finally seeing the light. Time in academia is weird thing...
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Updated Keywords for Media, Culture & Information textaural.com/keywords/ with Resistance Stefania Milan; Programmable politics @simonlindgren.bsky.social en.bsky.social @annekaun.bsky.social sky.social; Convenience @msteinbrg.bsky.social brg.bsky.social @joshua-neves.bsky.social eves.bsky.social

Künstliche Intelligenz im öffentlichen Sektor Der UNESCO Fachbeirat "Ethik der Künstlichen Intelligenz" lädt in Kooperation mit dem Institut für Technikfolgen-Abschätzung der ÖAW und der ÖAW-Kommission „Demokratie in Digitalen Gesellschaften“ zu ...

🔮 @annekaun.bsky.social will give a keynote on #AI in the #publicsector on 10th March in #Vienna. Afterwards we'll discuss in a panel with @allhutter.bsky.social @bprainsack.bsky.social Stefanie Büchner and Peter Biegelbauer. #UNESCO @oeaw.bsky.social

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Skrivit i facktidningen om Pirates of the Caribbean II: Dead man’s chest. Även om forskarens roll som offentlig intellektuell. universitetslararen.se/2024/12/18/f...

Check out our paper on how we now live in an age of Programmable Politics #programmablepolitics @annekaun.bsky.social

Vanishing act: The disappearance of printed newspapers - Fredrik Stiernstedt, Anne Kaun, 2024 Although it has been said for some decades that printed newspapers are dying, they are still in existence; however, Swedish newspapers have entered a new era. T...

our article on the disappearance of printed news is out! you can print it out if you prefer paper or read it on screen. in any case read it.

Fredrik Stiernstedt & Anne Kaun (2024). Vanishing Act: The Disappearance of Printed Newspapers. Journalism. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Artificiell intelligens i offentlig sektor – ja, men på rätt sätt | Dagens Arena Utvecklingen måste ske på rätt grunder med välfärd och medborgarintresse i centrum.

Jag skrev en sak som kopplar ihop AI kommissionens färdplan för Sverige med Försäkringskassans AI verktyg för att identifiera bidragsfusk. Trodde att just det senare skulle få mer uppmärksamhet i den offentliga debatten. Men tydligen inte.

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Me and @annekaun.bsky.social have published a piece introducing the notion of "Programmable Politics" as an emerging keyword that highlights the impact of platform architectures, algorithms, AI, and non-human agency on the political landscape 🤖 doi.org/10.1177/0163...

NEW from @davidthewid.bsky.social @meredithmeredith.bsky.social and I in Nature: we break down the political economy around ‘open’ AI and how it’s been wielded in corporate lobbying to exacerbate rather than reduce corporate concentration. Read here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The first entry in #AskeXmas:

"The Digital Backlash and the Paradoxes of Disconnection", edited by @krisalbris.bsky.social, @annekaun.bsky.social, and others. A whole book about the cultural pushback against the thorough digitalization of modern life.

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Sweden’s Suspicion Machine Behind a veil of secrecy, the social security agency deploys discriminatory algorithms searching for fraud epidemic it has invented

Hot off the presses! New investigation from @lhreports.bsky.social reveals that "secretive algorithms deployed in Sweden's vaunted welfare system cast suspicion on innocent women & migrants while ignoring men & the affluent." www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

I do a lot of FOIA and I’m used to stonewalling. But Sweden surprised me. After 3 years of telling me no, a high level official at Sweden’s welfare agency Försäkringskassan accidentally left me on cc, writing “Now we must hope that we are done with him.”

OpenAI is funding research into 'AI morality' | TechCrunch OpenAI is funding academic research at Duke into algorithms that can predict humans' moral judgements.

Arsonists funding research on fire safety.

CHRISTINA GRATORP: Millenniumhaveriet är bara ett exempel Varför liknar så ofta teknikupphandlingar i offentliga sektorn en arbetsmaknadsåtgärd för ingenjörer? Christina Gratorp påminner om pusselbiten som saknas: marknadsekonomin.

Har skrivit om den offentliga sektorns många havererade IT-upphandlingar
www.expressen.se/kultur/ide/m...

Om du bara har tid med en debattartikel idag, läs den här! www.dn.se/debatt/nar-d...

Mera bildning åt alla. Läs vår nya sommarkurs Digitala medier, desinformation och källkritik på distans! Sista ansökningsdag imorgon 15/3. Högt aktuell och redan ganska stark söktryck men det finns plats till dig med: www.sh.se/program--kur...

Vi skriver i dagens arena om kriminalvård och teknologi som icke-lösning: www.dagensarena.se/opinion/tekn...

Are you enjoying your in between days of drifting but are starting to get a bit bored? Perfect state for reading an accessible article on the role of Swedish welfare service centers for the digitalization ideology varsågod journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

MKV-podden is back with a new episode! This time with our dear friend Jannie Møller Hartley discussing her latest book on Data Publics open.spotify.com/episode/4kMW...

This first review of our book Prison Media published by @mitpress.bsky.social in the distribution matters series ed. by Joshua Braun and Ramon Lobato really moved me. It came at the very right moment. mitpress.mit.edu/978026254549...

DN Debatt. ”En trygg vård kräver människor – inte maskiner” Fem experter på vård och samhällsfrågor om riskerna med att den som ringer 1177 möts av en chattbot och inte en person.

Bra inlägg om automatiserad vård och vårdrådgivning av bl.a. @annekaun.bsky.social