Maria De-Arteaga
@mariadearteaga.bsky.social
Associate Professor, ESADE | PhD, Machine Learning & Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon | Previously FAccT EC | Algorithmic fairness, human-AI collab | 🇨🇴 💚 she/her/ella.
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We've found DHS is giving local cops a new facial recognition app to find immigrants. Point camera at face, tells the cop to detain person or not. The app is available on Google's Play Store. Google took down apps that report ICE sightings but now hosts this app
www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...
www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...
DHS Gives Local Cops a Facial Recognition App To Find Immigrants
The app, called Mobile Identify and available on the Google Play Store, is specifically for local and regional law enforcement agencies working with ICE on immigration enforcement.
www.404media.co
November 5, 2025 at 2:07 PM
We've found DHS is giving local cops a new facial recognition app to find immigrants. Point camera at face, tells the cop to detain person or not. The app is available on Google's Play Store. Google took down apps that report ICE sightings but now hosts this app
www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...
www.404media.co/cbp-quietly-...
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We’re excited to release the Call for Papers for #FAccT2026 which will be held in Montreal, Canada in June 2026! Abstracts are due on January 8th, papers due on January 13th.
Call for Papers: facctconference.org/2026/cfp
Important info in thread →
Call for Papers: facctconference.org/2026/cfp
Important info in thread →
ACM FAccT - 2026 CFP
facctconference.org
October 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
We’re excited to release the Call for Papers for #FAccT2026 which will be held in Montreal, Canada in June 2026! Abstracts are due on January 8th, papers due on January 13th.
Call for Papers: facctconference.org/2026/cfp
Important info in thread →
Call for Papers: facctconference.org/2026/cfp
Important info in thread →
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aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.
It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’
During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 10, 2025 at 10:31 PM
aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage
Heading to AIES in a few weeks, looking forward to catching up with familiar faces and meeting new ones!
October 6, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Heading to AIES in a few weeks, looking forward to catching up with familiar faces and meeting new ones!
Big personal news: my family and I decided to leave the US and we are starting a new chapter in Europe. I am looking forward to building a new home in Barcelona, where I will join ESADE as a tenured Associate Professor this Fall.
August 4, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Big personal news: my family and I decided to leave the US and we are starting a new chapter in Europe. I am looking forward to building a new home in Barcelona, where I will join ESADE as a tenured Associate Professor this Fall.
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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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“Since AFP was founded in 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, some have been injured, others taken prisoner. But none of us remember witnessing colleagues die of hunger".
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July 21, 2025 at 8:56 PM
“Since AFP was founded in 1944, we have lost journalists in conflicts, some have been injured, others taken prisoner. But none of us remember witnessing colleagues die of hunger".
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We're happy to officially announce the location of #FAccT2026!
Next year's conference will be held in Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦
Su Lin Blodgett and Zeerak Talat will be General Chairs, and Michael Madaio will be PC Chair 🎉
(thanks to MindView for the photo!)
Next year's conference will be held in Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦
Su Lin Blodgett and Zeerak Talat will be General Chairs, and Michael Madaio will be PC Chair 🎉
(thanks to MindView for the photo!)
June 30, 2025 at 11:12 AM
We're happy to officially announce the location of #FAccT2026!
Next year's conference will be held in Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦
Su Lin Blodgett and Zeerak Talat will be General Chairs, and Michael Madaio will be PC Chair 🎉
(thanks to MindView for the photo!)
Next year's conference will be held in Montreal, Canada 🇨🇦
Su Lin Blodgett and Zeerak Talat will be General Chairs, and Michael Madaio will be PC Chair 🎉
(thanks to MindView for the photo!)
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.
June 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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.
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!
June 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
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!
Having a lot of FOMO not being able to be in person at #FAccT2025 but enjoying the virtual transmission 💻. Tomorrow Jakob will be presenting our paper "Perils of Label Indeterminacy: A Case Study on Prediction of Neurological Recovery After Cardiac Arrest".
June 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Having a lot of FOMO not being able to be in person at #FAccT2025 but enjoying the virtual transmission 💻. Tomorrow Jakob will be presenting our paper "Perils of Label Indeterminacy: A Case Study on Prediction of Neurological Recovery After Cardiac Arrest".
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Looking for posts about #FAccT2025? Check out our 🦋 custom feed 🦋 which is already lively and full of papers, events, and attendees for this year's conference in Athens!
Click the pin 📌 in the upper right hand corner to keep this feed quickly accessible.
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June 21, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Looking for posts about #FAccT2025? Check out our 🦋 custom feed 🦋 which is already lively and full of papers, events, and attendees for this year's conference in Athens!
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bsky.app/profile/mari...
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"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Why I’m Resigning from the NSF and Library of Congress
I cannot participate in systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging.
time.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:19 AM
"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging."
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council.
I wrote about my decision in TIME.
time.com/7285045/resi...
Targeted ads these days:
March 20, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Targeted ads these days:
"I am haunted because I am a mother"
This piece captures what reading Gaza news feels like as a mother. It is worth stopping whatever you are doing and taking a moment to sob; "The parents are cognizant that what they have endured is too much for the rest of us to passively consider."
This piece captures what reading Gaza news feels like as a mother. It is worth stopping whatever you are doing and taking a moment to sob; "The parents are cognizant that what they have endured is too much for the rest of us to passively consider."
It has been a year since I wrote this and still we’re watching Palestinian parents hold the bodies of their dead children, we are logging new deadliest days of a broadcasted genocide that the US funds & Israel refuses to end. inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...
On Parenthood and Genocide
A new mother and scholar of forced displacement writes about Israel's mass murder of Palestinian children in Gaza.
inthesetimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 7:48 PM
"I am haunted because I am a mother"
This piece captures what reading Gaza news feels like as a mother. It is worth stopping whatever you are doing and taking a moment to sob; "The parents are cognizant that what they have endured is too much for the rest of us to passively consider."
This piece captures what reading Gaza news feels like as a mother. It is worth stopping whatever you are doing and taking a moment to sob; "The parents are cognizant that what they have endured is too much for the rest of us to passively consider."
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The unlawful detention of Mahmoud Khalil is one of the most extreme threats to free speech in 50 years.
Trump is sending a message that people who speak out will be punished — but we have a message for him, too.
We'll see you in court.
Trump is sending a message that people who speak out will be punished — but we have a message for him, too.
We'll see you in court.
Opinion | This Is the Greatest Threat to Free Speech Since the Red Scare
Mahmoud Khalil’s detention is a frightening sign of an authoritarian slide.
www.nytimes.com
March 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The unlawful detention of Mahmoud Khalil is one of the most extreme threats to free speech in 50 years.
Trump is sending a message that people who speak out will be punished — but we have a message for him, too.
We'll see you in court.
Trump is sending a message that people who speak out will be punished — but we have a message for him, too.
We'll see you in court.
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Excellent statement from Nature’s editorial board.
The last section on “How to respond” is the most important.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The last section on “How to respond” is the most important.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
www.nature.com
March 10, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Excellent statement from Nature’s editorial board.
The last section on “How to respond” is the most important.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
The last section on “How to respond” is the most important.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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At U. Andes we are about to launch “Systems of Public Algorithms”, a platform that has 3 online repositories:
1️⃣ +600 AI systems in the public sector in LAC.
2️⃣ +300 regulatory projects and regulations on AI in LAC.
3️⃣ Almost 400 automated decision-making systems in the public sector in Colombia.
1️⃣ +600 AI systems in the public sector in LAC.
2️⃣ +300 regulatory projects and regulations on AI in LAC.
3️⃣ Almost 400 automated decision-making systems in the public sector in Colombia.
March 4, 2025 at 11:51 AM
At U. Andes we are about to launch “Systems of Public Algorithms”, a platform that has 3 online repositories:
1️⃣ +600 AI systems in the public sector in LAC.
2️⃣ +300 regulatory projects and regulations on AI in LAC.
3️⃣ Almost 400 automated decision-making systems in the public sector in Colombia.
1️⃣ +600 AI systems in the public sector in LAC.
2️⃣ +300 regulatory projects and regulations on AI in LAC.
3️⃣ Almost 400 automated decision-making systems in the public sector in Colombia.
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There is a new version of the Research Plan for NIST's AI Safety Consortium (AISIC) in response to EOs. I did a diff.
Out: safety, responsibility, sociotechnical, fairness, working w fed agencies, authenticating content, watermarking, RN of CBRN, autonomous replication, ctrl of physical systems
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Out: safety, responsibility, sociotechnical, fairness, working w fed agencies, authenticating content, watermarking, RN of CBRN, autonomous replication, ctrl of physical systems
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March 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
There is a new version of the Research Plan for NIST's AI Safety Consortium (AISIC) in response to EOs. I did a diff.
Out: safety, responsibility, sociotechnical, fairness, working w fed agencies, authenticating content, watermarking, RN of CBRN, autonomous replication, ctrl of physical systems
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Out: safety, responsibility, sociotechnical, fairness, working w fed agencies, authenticating content, watermarking, RN of CBRN, autonomous replication, ctrl of physical systems
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For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...
The foundations of America’s prosperity are being dismantled
Federal scientists warn that Americans could feel the effects of the new administration's devastating cuts for decades to come
www.technologyreview.com
February 21, 2025 at 1:01 PM
For decades, the US government has painstakingly kept American science #1 globally—and every facet of American life has improved because of it. The internet? Flu shot? Ozempic? All grew out of federally-funded research. Now all that's being dismantled. 1/ www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/21/1...
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We’ve confirmed the #FAccT2025 venue! We’re so excited to welcome you all on June 23-26 to the Athens Conservatoire in the heart of downtown Athens! 🦉🇬🇷🌊🏛️
www.athensconservatoire.gr/en-venuehire/
www.athensconservatoire.gr/en-venuehire/
ATHENS CONSERVATOIRE ARTS CENTRE | Venue Hire - ΩΔΕΙΟΝ ΑΘΗΝΩΝ
Στο εμβληματικό κτίριο του Ωδείου Αθηνών παρέχεται η δυνατότητα διοργάνωσης πολιτιστικών δράσεων, συνεδρίων, εταιρικών και κοινωνικών εκδηλώσεων.
www.athensconservatoire.gr
February 14, 2025 at 3:07 PM
We’ve confirmed the #FAccT2025 venue! We’re so excited to welcome you all on June 23-26 to the Athens Conservatoire in the heart of downtown Athens! 🦉🇬🇷🌊🏛️
www.athensconservatoire.gr/en-venuehire/
www.athensconservatoire.gr/en-venuehire/
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Calling all graduate students! The #FAccT2025 call is out for our Doctoral Colloquium.
Join us for connections, support, potential mentorship, etc.
Apply by February 12!
facctconference.org/2025/callfordc
Join us for connections, support, potential mentorship, etc.
Apply by February 12!
facctconference.org/2025/callfordc
ACM FAccT 2025 Doctoral Colloquium Call for Applications
facctconference.org
January 24, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Calling all graduate students! The #FAccT2025 call is out for our Doctoral Colloquium.
Join us for connections, support, potential mentorship, etc.
Apply by February 12!
facctconference.org/2025/callfordc
Join us for connections, support, potential mentorship, etc.
Apply by February 12!
facctconference.org/2025/callfordc
Meta's decision will have big implications beyond Facebook-mediated effects. In LatAm, for instance, Meta's fact-checking program indirectly supports many forms of essential journalism, as it constitutes a revenue source for some journalistic platforms scrambling for survival in the new media age.
January 8, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Meta's decision will have big implications beyond Facebook-mediated effects. In LatAm, for instance, Meta's fact-checking program indirectly supports many forms of essential journalism, as it constitutes a revenue source for some journalistic platforms scrambling for survival in the new media age.
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Reminder: The #FAccT2025 submission deadlines are roughly one month away! Abstracts are due January 15th and full papers on January 22nd. See the full CfP here: facctconference.org/2025/cfp
ACM FAccT - 2025 CFP
facctconference.org
December 17, 2024 at 8:24 PM
Reminder: The #FAccT2025 submission deadlines are roughly one month away! Abstracts are due January 15th and full papers on January 22nd. See the full CfP here: facctconference.org/2025/cfp
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November 20, 2024 at 8:43 PM
We're hiring a fully-funded Ph.D. student in Use-Inspired AI @ UT Austin starting Fall 2025! Join us to work on impactful AI/ML research addressing real-world challenges.
Learn more & apply: t.co/OPrxO3yMhf
Learn more & apply: t.co/OPrxO3yMhf