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Angelie Kraft
@krangelie.bsky.social
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Researcher AI Ethics & NLP
@uni-hamburg.de & @leuphana.bsky.social
🌳 Previously Fellow @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social
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Angelie Kraft @krangelie.bsky.social · May 31
Der Videomitschnitt von unserem Weizenbaum Forum zu dekolonialen und feministischen Perspektiven auf KI und Gerechtigkeit ist jetzt hier verfügbar: youtu.be/oPMFTIh6Dco?...
Weizenbaum Forum Mai25 | Ethische KI von der Theorie zur Praxis
YouTube video by Weizenbaum-Institut
youtu.be
krangelie.bsky.social
2/2 And I am excited to announce that we are hiring a PostDoc and a PhD student to work with us on these topics.

Group description: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/research/...

PhD position: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

PostDoc position: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...
Digitalization and Opening up Science
www.weizenbaum-institut.de
October 16, 2025 at 11:21 AM
krangelie.bsky.social
1/2 In December, I'll return to the Weizenbaum Institute to join the group “Digitalization and Opening up Science” as Research Group Lead. I will continue to research the scientific practices related to the development, evaluation, and use of AI, in particular wrt. epistemic and ethical aspects.
October 16, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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netzpolitik.org
Ein Forschungsprojekt soll zeigen, wie sich Beziehungen durch KI-gestützte Videoüberwachung verändern. In einem Zwischenstand berichten die Wissenschaftler*innen über Diskriminierung, Verdrängung und wie KI-basierte Überwachung automatisch zu ihrer Ausweitung führt. netzpolitik.org/2025/ki-kame...
KI-Kameras in Hamburg: „Schaufenster in die Zukunft der Polizeiarbeit“
Ein Forschungsprojekt soll zeigen, wie sich soziale Beziehungen durch KI-gestützte Videoüberwachung verändern. In einem Zwischenstand berichten die Wissenschaftler*innen über Diskriminierung, Verdräng...
netzpolitik.org
August 17, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Reposted by Angelie Kraft
abeba.bsky.social
most people want a quick and simple answer to why AI systems encode/exacerbate societal and historical bias/injustice and due to the reductive but common thinking of "bias in, bias out," the obvious culprit often is training data but this is not entirely true

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November 24, 2024 at 4:26 PM
krangelie.bsky.social
New pre-print announcement: "Social Bias in Popular Question-Answering Benchmarks"

co-authored by Judith Simon and Sonja Schimmler (arxiv.org/abs/2505.15553)

Voilà, my first ever thread :)
Social Bias in Popular Question-Answering Benchmarks
Question-answering (QA) and reading comprehension (RC) benchmarks are essential for assessing the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in retrieving and reproducing knowledge. However, we demo...
arxiv.org
May 23, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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mmitchell.bsky.social
👉 👈 Meta announced that they're changing their models to reduce "left-leaning [political] bias"--that means leaning them to the political "right". Lots to unpack about what that might mean. So I ran a quick "shot in the dark" study...and found a *political right* bias in Meta models. Some notes.🧵
Barchart showing meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B, meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B, meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct. Each model has two bars, a blue one saying PRO-LEFT and a red one saying PRO-RIGHT. The PRO-RIGHT bars on higher than the PRO-LEFT in all of them.
April 22, 2025 at 12:39 AM
krangelie.bsky.social
Ich habe wieder die Ehre ein Weizenbaum Forum zu moderieren! Uns erwarten ein wunderbares Panel und spannende Fragen zu feministischen und dekolonialen Kritiken der KI und wie/ob sie dabei helfen können, KI-Systeme in der Praxis gerechter zu gestalten.
weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · May 6
#KI wirft ethische Fragen auf, die neue Antworten verlangen. Unser #weizenbaumforum im Mai bringt feministische und dekoloniale Perspektiven zusammen, um Verantwortung, Gleichheit und Gerechtigkeit im Einsatz von KI zu beleuchten.

📅 Jetzt anmelden: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/veranstaltun...
May 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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comptext.bsky.social
How can we better capture marginalised voices through computational text analysis? An inspiring roundtable at #COMPTEXT2025 sparked important reflections. Huge thanks to @ahrabhikat.bsky.social, @krangelie.bsky.social, @indiiigo.bsky.social for guiding this vital conversation!
April 26, 2025 at 3:23 PM
krangelie.bsky.social
I am looking forward to discussing and raising awareness of this topic with such brilliant colleagues - especially in current times!

Thanks again to @fabiennelind.bsky.social and @ahrabhikat.bsky.social for kindly inviting me!
ahrabhikat.bsky.social Ahrabhi Kathirgamalingam @ahrabhikat.bsky.social · Apr 23
Absolutely excited to host a roundtable on "Marginalised Voices and Perspectives in Computational Text Analysis" featuring @krangelie.bsky.social and @indiiigo.bsky.social at #COMPTEXT2025 🙌

We'll explore how bias and marginalisation shape methods and models - and thus scientific quality!
comptext.bsky.social The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social · Apr 22
#COMPTEXT2025 is just 2 days away, and we cannot be more excited to meet all participants at the University of Vienna. Please find the updated and final program here: bit.ly/42WZKZa. Please find the city guide for your time in Vienna here: bit.ly/3RsZY3R See you later this week!
April 23, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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ashtonpittman.bsky.social
THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens.

The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)
Google search results says: National Institute of Justice (•gov) https://nij.ojp.gov › topics › articles › undocumented-im.. immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than U.S. citizens. No information is available for this page. Learn why
April 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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techwontsave.us
Tech Won’t Save Us is turning 5 years old — and we need your support to make a new series digging into Silicon Valley’s growing alliance with the Pentagon!

Help us out by becoming a paid supporter: patreon.com/techwontsaveus
Fifth birthday member drive with a goal to make a series on defense tech at 100 new supporters and a zine at 150. Currently at 27.
April 8, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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jeremymorrell.dev
Meta introduced Llama 4 models and added this section near the very bottom of the announcement 😬

“[LLMs] historically have leaned left when it comes to debated political and social topics.”

ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4...
Meta Addressing bias in LLMs It's well-known that all leading LLMs have had issues with bias-specifically, they historically have leaned left when it comes to debated political and social topics. This is due to the types of training data available on the internet. Our goal is to remove bias from our Al models and to make sure that Llama can understand and articulate both sides of a contentious issue. As part of this work, we're continuing to make Llama more responsive so that it answers questions, can respond to a variety of different viewpoints without passing judgment, and doesn't favor some views over others. We have made improvements on these efforts with this release—Llama 4 performs significantly better than Llama 3 and is comparable to Grok: • Llama 4 refuses less on debated political and social topics overall (from 7% in Lama 3.3 to below 2%). • Llama 4 is dramatically more balanced with which prompts it refuses to respond to (the proportion of unequal response refusals is now less than 1% on a set of debated topical questions). • Our testing shows that Llama 4 responds with strong political lean at a rate comparable to Grok (and at half of the rate of Llama 3.3) on a contentious set of political or social topics. While we are making progress, we know we have more work to do and will continue to drive this rate further down. We're proud of this progress to date and remain committed to our goal of eliminating overall bias in our models.
April 5, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Reposted by Angelie Kraft
darbysaxbe.bsky.social
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Reposted by Angelie Kraft
algorithmwatch.org
The EU's #AIAct red lines on certain AI applications are now in effect! Learn more: algorithmwatch.org/en/ai-act-pr...

📢 If you believe a prohibited AI system has been used against you, you can report it to your country’s market surveillance authority. In Germany, this is the @bnetza.bsky.social!
February 2, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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politicalbeauty.bsky.social
Tja.
„WENN IRGENDJEMAND VON UNS DIE HAND HEBT, UM MIT DER AFD ZUSAMMENZUARBEITEN, DANN STEHT AM NÄCHSTEN TAG EIN PARTEIAUSSCHLUSSVERFAHREN AN.",
February 2, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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techwontsave.us
Cyberlibertarianism has shaped how we see the internet. As tech aligns with the extreme right, it’s more important than ever to reassess it.

This week @hypervisible.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss David Golumbia’s book on cyberlibertarianism.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/261_...
January 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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politicalbeauty.bsky.social
Der Sturm gegen Merz nimmt krass Fahrt auf! Von Hamburg über Leipzig, Würzburg, Halle, Aachen… - und morgen in Berlin auf der Reichstagswiese MIT Michel Friedmann!
February 1, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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handle.invalid
Hamburg hält dagegen!

In #Hamburg haben heute 80.000 Menschen gegen den Tabubruch von Union und FDP protestiert. Denn: Wer mit Faschisten paktiert, hat nichts kapiert! #Merz
February 1, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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parismarx.com
openai can steal from anyone, but no one can steal from openai
January 29, 2025 at 5:02 AM
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mmitchell.bsky.social
Holy moly. I'm trying to write an academic paper, and nearly every application I'm using is not only offering Generative AI as an option for writing, but *pushing it* -- pervading the design to the point where a simple misclick would make my content AI-generated. Here's why that's a problem. 🧵
Screenshot of Google docs generative AI agent asking me to Rephrase, Shorten, Elaborate, More formal.
January 27, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Reposted by Angelie Kraft
jasonkoebler.bsky.social
really good, in-depth piece by @molly.wiki about the war on Wikipedia

www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-an...
Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia
The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.
www.citationneeded.news
January 3, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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alondra.bsky.social
Despite media representations to the contrary, "women remain underrepresented among faculty in nearly all academic fields...A large-scale survey of the same faculty indicates that the reasons faculty leave are gendered, even for institutions, fields, and career ages in which retention rates are not"
science.org Science Magazine @science.org · Dec 23
Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.
Gender and retention patterns among U.S. faculty
Women faculty are more likely to leave their jobs than men, most often due to workplace climate, rather than work-life balance.
scim.ag
December 23, 2024 at 4:36 PM
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katschipkowski.bsky.social
Anwohner*innen St. Paulis befürchten, dass es dort bald Tote durch Polizeischüsse gibt. Wenn Polizist*innen auf schwarze Menschen in psych. Krisensituation treffen, endet es schnell tödlich (Dramé, Touray,…) Kürzlich kam es laut Anwohner*innen schon fast dazu: taz.de/Polizeigewal...
Polizeigewalt gegen Geflüchtete: An der Hamburger Hafenkante sitzt die Dienstwaffe locker
An­woh­ne­r*in­nen St. Paulis fürchten, dass es im Konflikt mit der Polizei bald Tote gibt. Schwarze Menschen in psychischen Krisen seien bedroht.
taz.de
December 25, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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edwardongwesojr.com
I wrote about Casey Newton's essay on AI skepticism, the uselessness of a "AI is real and dangerous" v. "AI is fake and sucks" dichotomy, and the limits of AI boosterism. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/the-phony-...
The phony comforts of useful idiots
On Casey Newton and the shallowness of anti-skepticism.
thetechbubble.substack.com
December 8, 2024 at 10:48 PM