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Margaret Mitchell
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Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse.
Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face .. more

Margaret Mitchell is a computer scientist who works on algorithmic bias and fairness in machine learning. She is most well known for her work on automatically removing undesired biases concerning demographic groups from machine learning models, as well as more transparent reporting of their intended use. .. more

Computer science 94%
Psychology 5%
i think we all need to step back and realize that peak art was made when neolithic pot in the shape of a pig was fired

This older piece from Anthropic's CEO on developing a creator-compensation economic model is incredible to see. Disagree with some things, but it's fantastic to see this level of thinking at the intersection of ethics and profit.
Source: www.courtlistener.com/docket/69058...

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Yes, agree re: supporting good journalism!!
A lot of people I like are gone from WaPo, but good call there may be others who are awesome.

Time to get Nitasha's latest work then cancel a WaPo subscription (if you have it). =/
My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

Yay! Noooooooooooooooooo.
My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

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"You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right." "I had given up my seat before, but this day, I was especially tired. Tired from my work as a seamstress, and tired from the ache in my heart." - Rosa Parks, born today in 1913 (as Hertford's College Chaplain reminded us.

💙💙 Thank you for this work.

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NEW: I went undercover, as a human poster, on the social network designed just for AI agents.

The site isn’t a novel breakthrough; it’s simply a crude rehashing of sci-fi fantasies for the hype machine’s true believers.

My latest for @wired.com:

www.wired.com/story/i-infi...
I Infiltrated Moltbook, the AI-Only Social Network Where Humans Aren't Allowed
I went undercover on Moltbook and loved role-playing as a conscious bot. But rather than a novel breakthrough, the AI-only site is a crude rehashing of sci-fi fantasies.
www.wired.com

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"The fixation on proving LLMs are conducting something "akin to thought" could just as easily be framed as questions about why it is capable of resembling thought"
Post from @eryk.bsky.social on a paper I hadn't the stomach to deconstruct. <3
mail.cyberneticforests.com/th/?ref=cybe...
Unreasonable Effectiveness
Seriously: Machines Do Not Need to Think to Be Thought About 💡As I am immersed in PhD research I am at risk of becoming increasingly dense and nerdy. So I am adding a "nerd rating" to posts from now ...
mail.cyberneticforests.com

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Without her work, the “intricately accurate” navigation and timing of GPS would not have been possible. ❤️
You can totally point out that some aspects of AI are overhyped, you can believe that AGI is not possible, you can criticize how the companies and governments developing AI are using or being coopted by these tools. There is a lot to criticize.

But "it doesn't work and is fake" is just wrong now.

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Then surely if you can't say it's 'safe' it should be banned from anywhere kids could be? I don't know why this isn't being used as an argument to keep it out of ordinary protests and restrict for only the most seriously violent riot control.

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I recorded this today, in Portland, Oregon, at a huge march to the ICE facility in SW. The crowd was full of cyclists who had ridden there in memory of Alex Pretti; members of several labor unions; and ordinary citizens of every age, including this little girl. So of course ICE deployed tear gas.
Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning

I was sent this video of agents at her door:

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Literally obsessed with this pic I got of one Cedar Waxwing getting very mad at another for drinking in the same spot as him despite there being a whole stream

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Literally obsessed with this pic I got of one Cedar Waxwing getting very mad at another for drinking in the same spot as him despite there being a whole stream

lol I will not join you on this hill.
I’ll be down by the river, fishing the references I know exist **somewhere** even if I didn’t catch them earlier.

Stochastic parroting *is* powerful. For me, that’s the whole point. It’s not a minimization, it’s a reality check/grounding on what the technology technically (mathematically) is…
That’s not to say it’s not cool/helpful/interesting/etc.

‘ “the prerogative state,” only becomes visible to you when you do something that the powers that be don’t like. Then suddenly you’re in a realm where the rule of law does not exist”’
Really helpful piece from @sigalsamuel.bsky.social

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You are living in a "dual state." Acting morally begins with understanding that.

My latest for @vox.com:

www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Your friends are still acting like everything is normal in America. What do you do?
All Americans live in a “dual state.” Here’s what that means — and how to help others see it.
www.vox.com
Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him.

“When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."
We are opening an investigation into Grok because we believe that X may have breached the DSA.

We have seen antisemitic content, non-consensual deepfakes of women, and child sexual abuse material.

In Europe, no company will make money by violating our fundamental rights.

link.europa.eu/Fh8h84

Reposted by Joanna Bryson

This statement below is a really big deal for the U.S.A. The NRA is a bedrock institution of our Second Amendment of the Constitution; and I reckon many supporters of the current president are members of this organization.

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His last action was helping someone in need being assaulted, while fighting to support his community. We can only hope all can be as much as he was.

When people take the Oath of Office in the US, they swear to support the Constitution.This is what the 4th amendment to the Constitution asserts:
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated”
Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)

Yeah, and it's also just one study that (by design) doesn't have real ecological validity.
My sense is that putting on militia outfits + being told that peers are bad, go get 'em, strongly affects perception + action...but am less familiar with supporting academic studies.