Reviewing of applications will begin on Monday, Jan 19. #FAccT #FAccT2025 #CHI2025 #ACL2025 #ICML2025 #NeurIPS2025 #FAccT2026 #CHI2026 #ACL2026 #ICML2026 #NeurIPS2026

📣 It's again that time of the year 🤩 - our internship call for the FATE team @ MSR Montreal and our collaborators is now up! 🎉🎉

We are broadly looking for candidates interested in perceptions, evaluation, uses, and impacts of AI!

#FAccT #FAccT2025 #CHI2025 #NeurIPS2025 #ACL2025

ACM FAccT - Organization

Following my role as #FAccT2025 General Co-Chair, I'm pleased to have been elected to the ACM FAccT Executive Committee. I look forward to continuing to serve this interdisciplinary community in the new capacity over the coming years. Hope to see many of you at #FAccT2026 in Montreal!

Liberatory Collections and Ethical AI: Reimagining AI Development from Black Community Archives and Datasets | Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

This week, I taught this wonderful paper from #FAccT2025 in my CS course.

Is this a "survey paper"? Or a "position paper"? Or ... ?

Should its inclusion in arXiv face extra boundaries that randomly generated eval bench numbers go up papers don't face?

Genuine question despite my phrasing!

A gift to myself after an intense year of general chairing #FAccT2025 -- 2 weeks of disconnection in Iceland, and in particular, completing the epic 55 km Laugavegur trek in the Icelandic otherworldly wilderness. Thanks to everyone who has patiently waited for my responses. Now onto new challenges!

Redo.io - Data science for justice reform A data and analytics platform for legal professionals working to correct sentencing disparities, wrongful convictions, and other systemic injustices.

Transparent AI in action ⚖️

At #FAccT2025 in Athens, Redoio.info + OpenProBono showed how AI systems can support criminal reform + legal aid workflows.

A glimpse of what ethical, people-centered #JusticeTech can deliver.

🔗 programs.sigchi.org/facct/2025/p...

#AI4Justice #AccessToJustice

THE AI CON How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want

Further reading:

The AI Con by Alex Hana and Emily Bender - thecon.ai

Priya Goswami's Digital Bharat - programs.sigchi.org/facct/2025/p...

#FAccT2025 #TechPolitics #CareWork #DataWork #Representation #AIWorkers #ComputerSaysMaybe

8/8

A fantastic #FAccT2025 edition of the excellent Computer Says Maybe podcast - including me on @weandai.bsky.social workshops about material & sociotechnical concepts of AI for marginalised communities

Also really great chats from other sessions @facct.bsky.social - www.themaybe.org/podcast/afte...

After having such a great time at #CHI2025 and #FAccT2025, I wanted to share some of my favorite recent papers here!

I'll aim to post new ones throughout the summer and will tag all the authors I can find on Bsky. Please feel welcome to chime in with thoughts / paper recs / etc.!!

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✨ That's a wrap on the 2025 #ACM FAccT conference!

A huge thank you to all our attendees, presenters, sponsors, and organizers for making #FAcct2025 a resounding success! 👏

Until next time, keep pushing the boundaries of equitable tech for all 🚀

AI Narrative Breakdown. A Critical Assessment of Power and Promise | Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

Yay, out now: "AI #Narrative Breakdown. A Critical Assessment of #Power & #Promise", doi.org/10.1145/3715...

"This article scrutinizes & deconstructs the pervasive narratives that are shaping the societal engagement with #artificial #intelligence (AI)"

#ChatGPT #FAccT2025 #ACM @facct.bsky.social

Thank you to everyone who joined Partnership on AI and Data & Society for our mixer at FAccT 2025! It was a pleasure to connect with researchers, advocates, and practitioners who are actively shaping what participatory AI can look like in practice.

See you next year!

#ParticipatoryAI #FAccT2025

I think the community's ability to look inwards and be self-critical is part of what makes it special, and this is something I believe is important to preserve even when there is disagreement on how to do things or perhaps just different theories of change #facct2025

FAccT is such a special community & many of us have invested a lot of service time/effort to support it over the years. I do believe engaging with uncomfortable questions & dialogue is important even when there is criticism (which can be hard to hear, can feel unfair/demotivating & sucks) #facct2025

Maria has been such a key leader of the FAccT community, and as ever her insights are worth taking time to sit with.

Many thanks for your years of service @mariadearteaga.bsky.social! And while you deserve a rest, I hope you'll still be an active part of the community.

#FAccT2025

I could not agree with this more. The positive energy and support we give each other keeps us going. #FAccT2025

The end of #FAccT2025 marks the end of my 3-year term as FAccT EC, which followed a 2-year term as DEI Chair. It has been an honor to serve this community and watch it mature.

@sashamtl.bsky.social‬ ‪and @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social‬ presenting arxiV:2409.14160 at ACM Facct 2025

At ACM #Facct2025, learning that LLMs face diminishing returns & comparatively worse task-specific performance when fixating on a larger scale. arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160 (paper by ‪@sashamtl.bsky.social‬
‪@gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social‬ & ‪@meredithmeredith.bsky.social‬)

What a fantastic conference #FAccT2025! Very grateful to @metaxa.net @asiabiega.bsky.social and @sciorestis.bsky.social for their stellar job as GCs, and @jennwv.bsky.social @shakirm.bsky.social Sina Fazelpour and Talia Gillis for putting together a great program as PCs!

#FAccT2025

a suggestion to monitor policy impacts of FAccT papers, to coordinate listservs on this topic, to share lessons learned across institutions about policy advocacy

#FAccT2025

a question to the audience about how many of us know people who couldn’t attend because of political reasons, who can’t keep their heads down because their work is inherently political, how many people have reached out to local organizers like AAUP

#FAccT2025

a clarification from organizers that sponsors have no power over FAccT, example of a sponsor in the past that wanted to fund a best paper award and select the best paper, and FAccT said no

Wholeheartedly enjoyed my time in #FAccT2025 in Athens (not so much the heat wave). It’s an open, welcoming, human-facing, an truly interdisciplinary community where the most timely & crucial questions are being asked and explored. Having a gorgeous city as the backdrop certainly didn’t harm either.

#FAccT2025

a suggestion to offer translations of proceedings, especially in language of host location

a suggestion for scheduling that puts papers and crafts in parallel

call to defend threatened communities and coworkers esp related to Gaza, build coalitions, how to hold tech sector to account

#FAccT2025

a suggestion for best reviewer awards to incentivize higher quality reviews

a comment about advice to “keep your head down” amidst the current geopolitical situation

a comment about climate concerns with the conference and international travel

#FAccT2025

I won’t be able to capture all the public comments and q&a but will try to summarize.

a strong call to not include sponsors that build military tech and for more transparency about how sponsors are approved

a call to stay in conversation between those fighting “inside” and “outside”

#FAccT2025

BIG NEWS: #FAccT2026 will be in MONTREAL!

#FAccT2025

Updates: New blog, adding new members, accepting bids for conference locations, more continuity and knowledge transfer.

#FAccT2025

Sponsorship selection process: 54 potential sponsors were shared with Steering Committee, private deliberation led to 10 objections and votes were held. One potential sponsor was not approved. All meta details of this process online.

#FAccT2025

ACM will be leading a task force on research ethics (collusion rings, etc)