Join us for a special workshop on Governance at the Technological Frontier: Translating Research into Policy for AI Oversight.
Keynotes by California State Senator Jerry McNerney and Suresh Venkatasubramanian.
Thursday, 4/30, 1–5:30 p.m. Registration required.
simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/go...
My new book "Artificial Religion" is published today by @mitpress.bsky.social !!!
mitpress.mit.edu/978026205221...
The misunderstandings go both ways, too. I’ve written about the implications of formal abstraction a couple times: 1) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... (coders need to stop trying to formalize social concepts); 2) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... (judges need to understand the normativity built into tech)
I have another new piece just out, considering the intersection of #surveillance and #ScienceFiction, this time in the context of the the ideologies of tech oligarchs, in Science as Culture, edited by @keanbirch.bsky.social and Les Levidow...
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
A detailed digital illustration of a Casio F-91W digital watch on a dark background, showing the time 09:25:38 on Saturday the 4th. The watch features the classic black resin case and band with blue accent lines and the iconic WR (water resist) badge.
This is absolutely beautiful and very well done.
> Nothing you own is finished. Everything exists in a state of permanent incompletion, permanently needing.
https://www.terrygodier
@bnerlich.bsky.social 10 AI metaphors and their implications in today’s Observer!
Excellent title
“The findings expose a problem emerging across the AI industry: tools that are designed to be useful and intimate are also quietly measuring the people who use them—and obscuring their own hand in the work they help produce.”
Screencap from Ghost in the Shell Stand-Alone Complex showing Batou and a Tachikoma. The shot has been altered to show the Tachikoma handing Batou a copy of the preprint.
Sneak preview of a new preprint looking at adoption of Generative AI in the cybercrime underground: arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29545 we use a very large crime forum dataset to explore how cybercrime actors are adopting (or not) these tools - a phenomenon we call 'vibercrime'
The Digital Regulators Cooperation Forum published it's take on the future of agentic AI and cross regulatory implications www.drcf.org.uk/publications...
Will always reshare privacy related cards
A great piece from @eryk.bsky.social on agentic AI*
"A decision, by another name, is an expression of desire, and when we are no longer aware of how our desires engage with the world, we lose touch with ourselves and our place within the social fabric."
mail.cyberneticforests.com/toward-a-cri...
Briefly breaking character to recommend this book.
Oh, this looks interesting!
fresh off the press from yours truly: oecs.mit.edu/pub/b61joemo...
I offer an overview of algorithmic bias. I trace its historical roots, examine canonical scholarship and notable real-world incidents, and explore how algorithmic bias emerged as a field of study
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Which is several removes from linguistics and doing its own thing. But opened up an interest in the analysis of political language which stuck
1st year PhD in a politics dept really struggling with methodology questions on how to get at the politics of surveillance. Flicked through an obscure conference proceedings found at random in Chris Pierson's office. That took me to political discourse analysis...
“Refuge, the UK’s largest specialist domestic violence organisation, has revealed that referrals to its Technology-Facilitated Abuse and Economic Empowerment team rose by more than 62% in 2025 compared with the previous year.”
If you're using your phone or laptop and thinking everything feels super glitchy and janky, you're not alone. But it's not necessarily AI's fault. My latest for @inc.com pinpoints what's going on www.inc.com/chris-stokel...
This week's post is about #AI, #metaphors and magic, and, inspired by @davemurrayrust.bsky.social and @mlucel.bsky.social, how to deal with the enchantment through design makingsciencepublic.com/2026/02/27/m...
Social workers’ AI tool makes ‘gibberish’ transcripts of accounts from children www.theguardian.com/education/20...
Yes, I think so. Essentially, services offering an AI powered variant on the polygraph
Can anybody point me towards any academic research on AI lie detectors? Evaluative studies or critical STS perspectives perhaps?
The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”
We wanted to draw attention to this in one of our agent scenarios: that there are likely to be privacy impacts based on people being able to easily task agents to find information on other people. The harassment part is outside our remit, but very likely.
