Alexa Hagerty
@alexahagerty.bsky.social
Meditative anthropologist, author of Still Life With Bones, a New York Book Review Editors' choice, named one of the Best Books 2023 by The New Yorker, BookPage, and FT readers. Researching & writing on human rights, tech, resistance, and otherwise futures
Really proud of this report. Our focus is Sign Language AI, but the core message applies everywhere: communities affected by AI should lead its procurement. When we get this right, we build better services for everyone. Full report available now.
Our latest report, authored by @louhicky.bsky.social @alexahagerty.bsky.social and Rose Powell, looks at how a Deaf-led governance model could improve how public institutions commission BSL AI tools.
It sets out 8️⃣ recommendations for procurement teams, policy leaders, and oversight bodies:
It sets out 8️⃣ recommendations for procurement teams, policy leaders, and oversight bodies:
September 4, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Really proud of this report. Our focus is Sign Language AI, but the core message applies everywhere: communities affected by AI should lead its procurement. When we get this right, we build better services for everyone. Full report available now.
Still Life with Bones has won the 2024 Méndez Book Award. I share this incredible honor with the families and forensic teams whose stories are told in the book #FAFG, #EAAF, #CAMIT, @dhrc-fhi.bsky.social
humanrights.fhi.duke.edu/story/still-...
humanrights.fhi.duke.edu/story/still-...
Still Life with Bones wins 2024 Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America | Duke ...
Still Life with Bones wins 2024 Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America - Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute
humanrights.fhi.duke.edu
January 12, 2024 at 4:16 PM
Still Life with Bones has won the 2024 Méndez Book Award. I share this incredible honor with the families and forensic teams whose stories are told in the book #FAFG, #EAAF, #CAMIT, @dhrc-fhi.bsky.social
humanrights.fhi.duke.edu/story/still-...
humanrights.fhi.duke.edu/story/still-...
“Feminism in Argentina has been a driving force in the struggle for women’s rights...which is why it is so important for the global libertarian ultra-right to try to discipline Argentinian women." If you care about reproductive justice, keep your eye on Argentina www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
‘All feminists are under attack’: ultra-right threat in Milei’s Argentina forces writer into e...
The new president’s rightwing supporters are targeting journalists and women’s rights activists – but the fight goes on
www.theguardian.com
January 10, 2024 at 12:14 PM
“Feminism in Argentina has been a driving force in the struggle for women’s rights...which is why it is so important for the global libertarian ultra-right to try to discipline Argentinian women." If you care about reproductive justice, keep your eye on Argentina www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
Thrilled to share work on AI + reproductive rights in Argentina with my 💛 collaborators #DiegoJemio & #FlorenciaAranda. 🔥 Intro Syed Mustafa Ali, @mysdick.bsky.social, Sarah Dillon, Matthew L. Jones, Jonnie Penn, Richard Staley + more 🔥 @lukestark.bsky.social, @aaronmendonplasek.bsky.social & more!
January 8, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Thrilled to share work on AI + reproductive rights in Argentina with my 💛 collaborators #DiegoJemio & #FlorenciaAranda. 🔥 Intro Syed Mustafa Ali, @mysdick.bsky.social, Sarah Dillon, Matthew L. Jones, Jonnie Penn, Richard Staley + more 🔥 @lukestark.bsky.social, @aaronmendonplasek.bsky.social & more!
I'm thrilled that the legendary #KramerBooks
picked Still Life with Bones for the Kramers Choice Award 2023! How wonderful to have the staff of one of my favorite bookshops choose my book as one of their favorites! Support independent bookstores!
bookshop.org/lists/2023-k...?
picked Still Life with Bones for the Kramers Choice Award 2023! How wonderful to have the staff of one of my favorite bookshops choose my book as one of their favorites! Support independent bookstores!
bookshop.org/lists/2023-k...?
December 19, 2023 at 3:25 PM
I'm thrilled that the legendary #KramerBooks
picked Still Life with Bones for the Kramers Choice Award 2023! How wonderful to have the staff of one of my favorite bookshops choose my book as one of their favorites! Support independent bookstores!
bookshop.org/lists/2023-k...?
picked Still Life with Bones for the Kramers Choice Award 2023! How wonderful to have the staff of one of my favorite bookshops choose my book as one of their favorites! Support independent bookstores!
bookshop.org/lists/2023-k...?
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EXCLUSIVE: With less than a year to go to the US elections, Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is not only getting basic facts wrong, but it's making up scandals about candidates and recommending far-right Telegram channels filled with election conspiracies
www.wired.com/story/micros...
www.wired.com/story/micros...
Microsoft’s AI Chatbot Replies to Election Questions With Conspiracies, Fake Scandals, and Lies
Research shared exclusively with WIRED shows that Copilot, Microsoft’s AI chatbot, often responds to questions about elections with lies and conspiracy theories.
www.wired.com
December 15, 2023 at 2:19 PM
EXCLUSIVE: With less than a year to go to the US elections, Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is not only getting basic facts wrong, but it's making up scandals about candidates and recommending far-right Telegram channels filled with election conspiracies
www.wired.com/story/micros...
www.wired.com/story/micros...
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They are really just looking at every business and asking “how can we make it more racist and discriminatory and hide it behind ‘AI’?” www.fastcompany.com/90998949/deb...
December 15, 2023 at 7:19 PM
They are really just looking at every business and asking “how can we make it more racist and discriminatory and hide it behind ‘AI’?” www.fastcompany.com/90998949/deb...
This sensitive piece captures so much of the book, the stories of families of the missing, the profound work of the forensic teams, and how it all informs my research on AI
www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/b...
www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/b...
New York Times
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2023 at 5:20 PM
This sensitive piece captures so much of the book, the stories of families of the missing, the profound work of the forensic teams, and how it all informs my research on AI
www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/b...
www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/b...
Please share! My TEDx talk is live! Years of research packed into minutes. I coin the term "Princes of AI," I quote @hypervisible.bsky.social, I talk dangerous data and the surprising link between your phone and genocidal violence. I talk softly but I'm angry as hell. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya7h...
Dangerous Data: How your phone threatens your human rights | Alexa Hagerty, PhD | TEDxJacksonville
Are unchecked advances in Artificial Intelligence creating a human rights crisis? In this eye-opening and urgent talk, Dr. Alexa Hagerty details the dangers ...
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December 15, 2023 at 5:08 PM
Please share! My TEDx talk is live! Years of research packed into minutes. I coin the term "Princes of AI," I quote @hypervisible.bsky.social, I talk dangerous data and the surprising link between your phone and genocidal violence. I talk softly but I'm angry as hell. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya7h...
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One lesson about the disabling systems attack on the British Library that I hope more people take away:
Library & archives systems infrastructure is generally invisible and incredibly important. We need resources & people to manage it all. Help us to advocate for funding.
Library & archives systems infrastructure is generally invisible and incredibly important. We need resources & people to manage it all. Help us to advocate for funding.
December 15, 2023 at 12:47 PM
One lesson about the disabling systems attack on the British Library that I hope more people take away:
Library & archives systems infrastructure is generally invisible and incredibly important. We need resources & people to manage it all. Help us to advocate for funding.
Library & archives systems infrastructure is generally invisible and incredibly important. We need resources & people to manage it all. Help us to advocate for funding.
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Hell yeah! Stories Are Weapons is on Publishers Weekly's most anticipated list for spring 2024!
December 15, 2023 at 1:47 AM
Hell yeah! Stories Are Weapons is on Publishers Weekly's most anticipated list for spring 2024!