Bailey 🕸️🕷️🦇
@bkacsmar.bsky.social
Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta. Amii Fellow. Human-centered privacy enhanced data science e.g., ML, MPC, PSI, etc.
My group is PUPS, Practical Usable Privacy and Security
https://bkacsmar.github.io//
My group is PUPS, Practical Usable Privacy and Security
https://bkacsmar.github.io//
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As I settle in to Calgary, I am looking to hire one MSc and one PhD student to start in Fall 2026. These positions are fully-funded. My research is at the intersection of privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) and software engineering, with an emphasis on human-centered approaches. [1/6]
November 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
As I settle in to Calgary, I am looking to hire one MSc and one PhD student to start in Fall 2026. These positions are fully-funded. My research is at the intersection of privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) and software engineering, with an emphasis on human-centered approaches. [1/6]
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Hell yeah
Some good news!
“Boston City Council has voted unanimously to ban its government from using facial recognition technology, including the police department, making it the largest city on the East Coast to do so.”
www.builtinboston.com/articles/bos...
“Boston City Council has voted unanimously to ban its government from using facial recognition technology, including the police department, making it the largest city on the East Coast to do so.”
www.builtinboston.com/articles/bos...
Boston Police Can No Longer Use Facial Recognition Software | Built In Boston
The law makes it illegal for city officials to “obtain, retain, possess, access, or use” facial recognition technology, acknowledging that it “has the potential to harm communities of color who are al...
www.builtinboston.com
October 29, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Hell yeah
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If anyone at CSCW is doing or knows about work studying how athletes are dealing with online security/harassment issues or how sports (like the WNBA) become focal points for clickbait, AI slop, or political propaganda… come find me, I want to chat!
October 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
If anyone at CSCW is doing or knows about work studying how athletes are dealing with online security/harassment issues or how sports (like the WNBA) become focal points for clickbait, AI slop, or political propaganda… come find me, I want to chat!
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Loving this approach to AI safety youtu.be/c4aEj41Q7Q0
You, too, can beg for a place in the bunker! replacement.ai/safety/
You, too, can beg for a place in the bunker! replacement.ai/safety/
Don’t do anything silly with our AIs
YouTube video by ReplacementAI
youtu.be
October 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Loving this approach to AI safety youtu.be/c4aEj41Q7Q0
You, too, can beg for a place in the bunker! replacement.ai/safety/
You, too, can beg for a place in the bunker! replacement.ai/safety/
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Announcing (w @adamsmith.xyz @thejonullman.bsky.social) the 2025 edition of the Foundations of Responsible Computing Job Market Profiles!
Check out 40 job market candidates in mathematical research in computation and society writ large!
Link:
drive.google.com/file/d/1zvsr...
Check out 40 job market candidates in mathematical research in computation and society writ large!
Link:
drive.google.com/file/d/1zvsr...
October 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Announcing (w @adamsmith.xyz @thejonullman.bsky.social) the 2025 edition of the Foundations of Responsible Computing Job Market Profiles!
Check out 40 job market candidates in mathematical research in computation and society writ large!
Link:
drive.google.com/file/d/1zvsr...
Check out 40 job market candidates in mathematical research in computation and society writ large!
Link:
drive.google.com/file/d/1zvsr...
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TMLR is looking for additional reviewers and action editors! Please sign up to keep the initiative strong and vibrant.
As Transactions on Machine Learning Research (TMLR) grows in number of submissions, we are looking for more reviewers and action editors. Please sign up!
Only one paper to review at a time and <= 6 per year, reviewers report greater satisfaction than reviewing for conferences!
Only one paper to review at a time and <= 6 per year, reviewers report greater satisfaction than reviewing for conferences!
October 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
TMLR is looking for additional reviewers and action editors! Please sign up to keep the initiative strong and vibrant.
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This is the advice I consistently give people about trying AI: use something you know very well already, so you can actually determine the quality of the output for yourself, and get some idea of how the sausage is being made
The "AI" responses that Google gives about me and my work are consistently error-prone, which I know because I am me. If I know Google's "AI" responses give incorrect answers about things I know about, I can't trust it to give correct answers about things I don't know. So, no, I don't use it.
I’m surprised you don’t use ai answer engines in research you currently do with Google
October 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
This is the advice I consistently give people about trying AI: use something you know very well already, so you can actually determine the quality of the output for yourself, and get some idea of how the sausage is being made
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Yeah. They found much higher rates of diabetes in the descendants of residential school survivors in Canada.
CW: very dark history & systemic starving of Indigenous children.
www.cbc.ca/radio/unrese...
CW: very dark history & systemic starving of Indigenous children.
www.cbc.ca/radio/unrese...
The dark history of Canada's Food Guide: How experiments on Indigenous children shaped nutrition policy | CBC Radio
Nutritional experiments were performed on intentionally malnourished Indigenous children in residential schools in the 1940s and ’50s. These experiments are directly connected to Canada’s Food Guide, ...
www.cbc.ca
September 29, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Yeah. They found much higher rates of diabetes in the descendants of residential school survivors in Canada.
CW: very dark history & systemic starving of Indigenous children.
www.cbc.ca/radio/unrese...
CW: very dark history & systemic starving of Indigenous children.
www.cbc.ca/radio/unrese...
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2.
Dr. @danyaalraza.com recently warned that the growth in private for-profit primary care clinics is a slippery slope that includes the potential to monetize your health and Rx data with big pharmaceutical companies.
www.pressreader.com/canada/toron...
Dr. @danyaalraza.com recently warned that the growth in private for-profit primary care clinics is a slippery slope that includes the potential to monetize your health and Rx data with big pharmaceutical companies.
www.pressreader.com/canada/toron...
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September 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM
2.
Dr. @danyaalraza.com recently warned that the growth in private for-profit primary care clinics is a slippery slope that includes the potential to monetize your health and Rx data with big pharmaceutical companies.
www.pressreader.com/canada/toron...
Dr. @danyaalraza.com recently warned that the growth in private for-profit primary care clinics is a slippery slope that includes the potential to monetize your health and Rx data with big pharmaceutical companies.
www.pressreader.com/canada/toron...
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floating a thought for feedback:
if the liar's dividend is the benefit bad actors can receive from a world in which there is so much doubt about what is real and what isn't,
I was thinking about "the librarian's dividend" re: the value of the people and institutions who help us evaluate information
if the liar's dividend is the benefit bad actors can receive from a world in which there is so much doubt about what is real and what isn't,
I was thinking about "the librarian's dividend" re: the value of the people and institutions who help us evaluate information
September 29, 2025 at 4:00 PM
floating a thought for feedback:
if the liar's dividend is the benefit bad actors can receive from a world in which there is so much doubt about what is real and what isn't,
I was thinking about "the librarian's dividend" re: the value of the people and institutions who help us evaluate information
if the liar's dividend is the benefit bad actors can receive from a world in which there is so much doubt about what is real and what isn't,
I was thinking about "the librarian's dividend" re: the value of the people and institutions who help us evaluate information
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I think I am wonderful person, who is never inherently malicious , and should always be thought of wonderfully
AND
If you designed a system around that being true I would cuss you out because if I am those things ?
I want you to be protected if I’m NOT
AND
If you designed a system around that being true I would cuss you out because if I am those things ?
I want you to be protected if I’m NOT
September 28, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I think I am wonderful person, who is never inherently malicious , and should always be thought of wonderfully
AND
If you designed a system around that being true I would cuss you out because if I am those things ?
I want you to be protected if I’m NOT
AND
If you designed a system around that being true I would cuss you out because if I am those things ?
I want you to be protected if I’m NOT
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Given funding uncertainty, we wrote about why depts & faculty should try to communicate openly with PhD applicants about any changes to their admissions processes, including if it's "nothing has changed".
Let's do what we can (when we can) to prevent cascading anxiety.
cra.org/crn/2025/09/...
Let's do what we can (when we can) to prevent cascading anxiety.
cra.org/crn/2025/09/...
Guiding PhD Applicants with Clear Communication: CRA-E Calls for Openness in Computing Admissions
By Evan Peck, Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, CRA-E Board Member; Michael Hilton, Teaching Professor, Institute for Software Research, Carnegie Mellon University, CRA-E Co-Cha…
cra.org
September 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Given funding uncertainty, we wrote about why depts & faculty should try to communicate openly with PhD applicants about any changes to their admissions processes, including if it's "nothing has changed".
Let's do what we can (when we can) to prevent cascading anxiety.
cra.org/crn/2025/09/...
Let's do what we can (when we can) to prevent cascading anxiety.
cra.org/crn/2025/09/...
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Why do you constantly act like the only danger is them willingly turning it over ?
Oh right because you need the straw man argument to be condescending
And live the idea of avoiding
- social engineering
- malicious hacking
- long term observation
- general human error
Oh right because you need the straw man argument to be condescending
And live the idea of avoiding
- social engineering
- malicious hacking
- long term observation
- general human error
A political organizing group is far more likely to fight the government on its membership data to the bitter end than, say, a social media organization or a media organization like your Rewire who includes the same disclaimer.
For Indivisible, caving would be seppuku.
For Indivisible, caving would be seppuku.
September 17, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Why do you constantly act like the only danger is them willingly turning it over ?
Oh right because you need the straw man argument to be condescending
And live the idea of avoiding
- social engineering
- malicious hacking
- long term observation
- general human error
Oh right because you need the straw man argument to be condescending
And live the idea of avoiding
- social engineering
- malicious hacking
- long term observation
- general human error
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📢Adam Smith, @gautamkamath.com, and I are putting together a list of job market candidates in Foundations of Responsible Computing! Last year's list was a great success so we're keeping it going!
If you want to be included, or nominate someone, see link in the replies!
If you want to be included, or nominate someone, see link in the replies!
September 15, 2025 at 12:41 PM
📢Adam Smith, @gautamkamath.com, and I are putting together a list of job market candidates in Foundations of Responsible Computing! Last year's list was a great success so we're keeping it going!
If you want to be included, or nominate someone, see link in the replies!
If you want to be included, or nominate someone, see link in the replies!
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Job alert! 🌸🏔️ The UW iSchool is hiring for *two* TT faculty positions, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined. It's pretty here!
Applications due November 15th 2025 (priority deadline).
Link: apply.interfolio.com/171020
Applications due November 15th 2025 (priority deadline).
Link: apply.interfolio.com/171020
September 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Job alert! 🌸🏔️ The UW iSchool is hiring for *two* TT faculty positions, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined. It's pretty here!
Applications due November 15th 2025 (priority deadline).
Link: apply.interfolio.com/171020
Applications due November 15th 2025 (priority deadline).
Link: apply.interfolio.com/171020
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Oh and coincidentally, huge all-purpose models also have more environmental impact than smaller models. (Was thinking of @sashamtl.bsky.social's work but here's a recent overview of this topic: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/c...)
Can You Choose an A.I. Model That Harms the Planet Less?
www.nytimes.com
August 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Oh and coincidentally, huge all-purpose models also have more environmental impact than smaller models. (Was thinking of @sashamtl.bsky.social's work but here's a recent overview of this topic: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/c...)
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Having seen much of the discourse around the new ChatGPT release, I think that a huge part of the problem is the idea that big commercial LLMs should be all-purpose.
It is absolutely absurd that the exact same technology would be used as a companion chatbot AND as an enterprise productivity tool.
It is absolutely absurd that the exact same technology would be used as a companion chatbot AND as an enterprise productivity tool.
August 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Having seen much of the discourse around the new ChatGPT release, I think that a huge part of the problem is the idea that big commercial LLMs should be all-purpose.
It is absolutely absurd that the exact same technology would be used as a companion chatbot AND as an enterprise productivity tool.
It is absolutely absurd that the exact same technology would be used as a companion chatbot AND as an enterprise productivity tool.
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My dissertation is now available online! The diss applies trans and feminist theory to analyze structural injustices in 3 of my empirical studies of AI governance & policymaking. Give it a look if you're concerned about power dynamics in AI policy
www.proquest.com/docview/3234...
www.proquest.com/docview/3234...
August 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
My dissertation is now available online! The diss applies trans and feminist theory to analyze structural injustices in 3 of my empirical studies of AI governance & policymaking. Give it a look if you're concerned about power dynamics in AI policy
www.proquest.com/docview/3234...
www.proquest.com/docview/3234...
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Gender, Online Safety, and Sexuality (GOSS) Workshop is back at SOUPS 2025! Research on GOSS-related topics is more important than ever.
August 5, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Gender, Online Safety, and Sexuality (GOSS) Workshop is back at SOUPS 2025! Research on GOSS-related topics is more important than ever.
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Was talking to a student who wasn't sure about why one would get a PhD. So I wrote up a list of reasons!
www.eugenevinitsky.com/posts/reason...
www.eugenevinitsky.com/posts/reason...
Eugene Vinitsky
www.eugenevinitsky.com
July 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Was talking to a student who wasn't sure about why one would get a PhD. So I wrote up a list of reasons!
www.eugenevinitsky.com/posts/reason...
www.eugenevinitsky.com/posts/reason...
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Backstory: “AI in Bangladesh is a side quest,” they dismissed. I disagreed. 170 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁.
Glad to see Northeastern University spotlighting our work on Majority-World #AI governance and why we must act now"
#academicsky #RAI
www.khoury.northeastern.edu/the-fight-to...
Glad to see Northeastern University spotlighting our work on Majority-World #AI governance and why we must act now"
#academicsky #RAI
www.khoury.northeastern.edu/the-fight-to...
The fight to get AI right in Bangladesh, the world’s eighth-most populous country - Khoury College of Computer Sciences
When Khoury College Assistant Professor Upol Ehsan sat for an AI-focused interview with Channel24, one of the largest TV channels in his native Bangladesh, he did not anticipate what would […]
www.khoury.northeastern.edu
July 25, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Backstory: “AI in Bangladesh is a side quest,” they dismissed. I disagreed. 170 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁.
Glad to see Northeastern University spotlighting our work on Majority-World #AI governance and why we must act now"
#academicsky #RAI
www.khoury.northeastern.edu/the-fight-to...
Glad to see Northeastern University spotlighting our work on Majority-World #AI governance and why we must act now"
#academicsky #RAI
www.khoury.northeastern.edu/the-fight-to...
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📣 Co-Constructing the Future of Digital Intimacy Workshop at CSCW 2025: futureofdigitalintimacy.github.io
⭐ We are seeking participants & lightning talk speakers!
⭐ Apply by August 15: bit.ly/digital-inti...
⭐ Hybrid workshop for scholars and practitioners across disciplines
⭐ We are seeking participants & lightning talk speakers!
⭐ Apply by August 15: bit.ly/digital-inti...
⭐ Hybrid workshop for scholars and practitioners across disciplines
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July 22, 2025 at 5:06 PM
📣 Co-Constructing the Future of Digital Intimacy Workshop at CSCW 2025: futureofdigitalintimacy.github.io
⭐ We are seeking participants & lightning talk speakers!
⭐ Apply by August 15: bit.ly/digital-inti...
⭐ Hybrid workshop for scholars and practitioners across disciplines
⭐ We are seeking participants & lightning talk speakers!
⭐ Apply by August 15: bit.ly/digital-inti...
⭐ Hybrid workshop for scholars and practitioners across disciplines
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Thank you all for attending PETS 2025! Special shoutout to General Chair @adamaviv.bsky.social for hosting, to Program Chairs @zubair-shafiq.bsky.social and @ikben-robjansen.bsky.social , and stellar volunteers for making it a success. See you next time ✨
📅 Submit to PETS 2026 Issue 2: Aug 31, 2025
📅 Submit to PETS 2026 Issue 2: Aug 31, 2025
July 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Thank you all for attending PETS 2025! Special shoutout to General Chair @adamaviv.bsky.social for hosting, to Program Chairs @zubair-shafiq.bsky.social and @ikben-robjansen.bsky.social , and stellar volunteers for making it a success. See you next time ✨
📅 Submit to PETS 2026 Issue 2: Aug 31, 2025
📅 Submit to PETS 2026 Issue 2: Aug 31, 2025