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Posts by Karen Smiley (Everyday Ethical AI)
What a cool idea. You might enjoy my friend Celeste Garciaâs new spec fiction novel (I was an ARC reader):
AI BABY is âa humorous take on the AI apocalypse â a âperfectâ new girl arrives at an elite Seattle prep school & threatens Zoeyâs dominance & Ivy League dreamsâ
Congratulations, Lisa!!
Uh, no, I am not struggling with balancing fast deployment with ethical concerns. I was wondering about the value of whatâs in the certification guideline and whether experts think it covers the right concerns.
As I inquired of your colleague Angelou Salvz, what is your connection to ReadShark?
I wasnât actually worried about compliance gaps and audits - more wondering about the value of whatâs in the certification guideline and whether folks think it covers the right concerns.
What is your connection to ReadShark?
Big thanks to @productsattitude.bsky.social for agreeing to be featured as my 100th guest in the AI, Software, & Wetware interview series! sixpeas.substack.com/p/aisw-100-a...
Canât wait for folks to read your tips on coping with AI in advertising & marketing, Lisa!
Folks can check out the details of Lisaâs chapter here: aieverywhere.lovable.app/authors/lisa...
Hi Katie, I posted my AI usage (or non-usage) policy in 2024 when I started writing on Substack. IIRC Noemi Apetri also has one? I also included guidance on writing an AI usage policy in my Everyday Ethical AI book. Happy to share links if you like! Iâm curious to see what examples you find.
It's been a joy to work with this amazing group of 24 authors on bringing "AI Everywhere, Volume 1: How Women Are Changing The World With Artificial Intelligence" to life. Learn more about our authors and their chapters here: aieverywherebooks.com
Republicans are trying to strip 69 million women of their right to vote, not by amendment, but through bureaucracy. In addition to reminding our senators not to fund the gestapo today, let's take a moment to remind them that stripping women of their right to vote is Un-American
Great article, Jessica - I restacked it. Data quality matters, and the 3Cs (consent, credit, compensation) matter.
@lilyspacebsky.bsky.social you might be interested in Elettra Fiumiâs innovative work in cinema, including her latest (Mamma Robot) which is winning festival awards. She writes, directs, produces, and more. See my AISW interview with her for links to her work: open.substack.com/pub/sixpeas/...
Short answer: âit dependsâ. #GenAI tools *can* contribute to reduced thinking skills and learning. They *can* also enhance thinking skills and help people learn. The full reports on the MIT & CMU/MSFT studies cited by BBC point out nuances that most summaries tend to omit; worth reading the details.
Illustration of two Black people standing in front of a white board displaying business charts. One person appears to be pregnant.
Photo of two people in an office. Both are large or fat.
Photo of a white older woman speaking on a phone while seated in front of a computer monitor.
Representation matters. Did you know weâve curated a list of sites that specialize in stock photos and illustrations featuring people from marginalized, underestimated groups? (Some are free, and some for a fee.)
betterallies.com/photos/
I donât see any pricing information, not even on the signup page. Where can we find it? Thanks.
Bsky tells me you are already in my personal starter pack and list, and in the SheWritesAI starter pack and list. It might not show you to you when you look at the lists, because you don't need to follow yourself ;) You should be all set though!
The @shewritesai.org starter pack is here - enjoy: bsky.app/starter-pack... đ
That's hilariously bad
I have a starter pack on everyday ethical AI bsky.app/starter-pack...
and there's the @shewritesai.org starter pack which is all AI, but broader than just tech policy
Love this, Dinah - thank you for sharing your story of how your daughter learned that women could be engineers too!
AI is now âguessingâ kidsâ ages by scanning their chats, clicks, and even their selfies.
If you care about online safety, AI ethics, or just want to understand whatâs happening behind the scenes, give this one a read. @itscourtneyhart.bsky.social
codelikeagirl.substack.com/p/age-predic...
Three AI tools.
One simple prompt.
Zero images her son could recognise as home.
This story isnât just about bias in training data, itâs about erasure, power, and who gets to be ârealâ in AI.
Read it, then run the experiment where you live.
codelikeagirl.substack.com/p/ai-when-it...
Iâm so glad my book resonated with you, @kellystories.bsky.social ! Practical things we can all do about using AI, and AI using us, were and are my main goal.
My recently-published article with @hartzog.bsky.social The Great Scrape: The Clash Between Scraping and Privacy, 113 California L Rev 1521 (2025) with Prof Woodrow Hartzog papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Are we burning out fasterâwith better tools?
@kimdoyal.bsky.social says:
âIf AI gives us the ability to do more, we think we should do more.â
Maybe itâs time to build slower, deeper, and more human.
Read: codelikeagirl.substack.com/p/what-if-we...
Curious about what our 500+ #SheWritesAI writers have to say about #AI and #data? Coming out in a few hours: a digest summarizing the past two weeks, featuring over 400 articles. The top 10 list includes 2 excellent articles by @productsattitude.bsky.social - come and see what you've been missing!
Love this, Noelia: "The purpose is transparency! The outcome for me is mental clarity; the outcome for my clients is, hopefully, trust." We all HAVE an AI policy, even if it's not conscious or written down; thinking about our values and tasks and writing it down is a valuable action anyone can do.
#ChatGPT says there's an "Open Substack mirror" that can bypass our #AI training opt-outs. But it might be more like a funhouse mirror. Check out these annoying and odd discoveries we made in the past week while using #LLMs to analyze our AI, Software, & Wetware interviews on #EverydayEthicalAI.
Welcome!
Appreciate @codelikeagirl.bsky.social for highlighting how the @shewritesai.org directory started and how itâs growing into a community to support #WomenInAI !
#DiversityInTech #ArtificialIntelligence