Stevie Chancellor
@schancellor.bsky.social
Assistant prof at UMN CS. Human-centered AI, online communities, risky mental health behaviors. Mom, lifter, nerd, haver of opinions.
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If you're following this story in the NYT by @kashhill.bsky.social, I recommend @schancellor.bsky.social's post that breaks down why AI is bad at therapy. Pretty much everything she she warns about shows up in this story, which is heartbreaking
notatechdemo.substack.com/p/why-ai-can...
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August 27, 2025 at 1:22 PM
If you're following this story in the NYT by @kashhill.bsky.social, I recommend @schancellor.bsky.social's post that breaks down why AI is bad at therapy. Pretty much everything she she warns about shows up in this story, which is heartbreaking
notatechdemo.substack.com/p/why-ai-can...
notatechdemo.substack.com/p/why-ai-can...
What is it going to take to get companies to care about this and do something? It's been a tough day reading this great report by @kashhill.bsky.social on the risks of chatbots.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
A Teen Was Suicidal. ChatGPT Was the Friend He Confided In.
www.nytimes.com
August 27, 2025 at 2:28 AM
What is it going to take to get companies to care about this and do something? It's been a tough day reading this great report by @kashhill.bsky.social on the risks of chatbots.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...
Hi friends! I've been writing about AI safety and mental health. Two articles up lately
- What data about screen timers tell us about chatbot timers, and
- Why chatbots can't replace your therapist.
Brief 🧵to summarize, find both here - notatechdemo.substack.com
- What data about screen timers tell us about chatbot timers, and
- Why chatbots can't replace your therapist.
Brief 🧵to summarize, find both here - notatechdemo.substack.com
This Is Not a Tech Demo | Stevie Chancellor | Substack
Honest takes on AI, mental health, social media, and what it means to live well. From a CS professor who studies the intersection professionally and navigates it personally. Click to read This Is Not ...
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August 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Hi friends! I've been writing about AI safety and mental health. Two articles up lately
- What data about screen timers tell us about chatbot timers, and
- Why chatbots can't replace your therapist.
Brief 🧵to summarize, find both here - notatechdemo.substack.com
- What data about screen timers tell us about chatbot timers, and
- Why chatbots can't replace your therapist.
Brief 🧵to summarize, find both here - notatechdemo.substack.com
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"We have Trivial Pursuit now, so if you’d just give it a try, maybe you’d realize that this vacation can still be saved. So sit down, shut up, and tell me who Gerald Ford’s vice president was."
Can You Believe This Cabin Has Trivial Pursuit?
Kids, come quick! While this little cabin may not have Wi-Fi, TV, or even bathrooms, you know what it does have? A well-worn copy of Trivial Pursui...
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August 10, 2025 at 1:29 AM
"We have Trivial Pursuit now, so if you’d just give it a try, maybe you’d realize that this vacation can still be saved. So sit down, shut up, and tell me who Gerald Ford’s vice president was."
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The best place to find me now is on Substack for long-form writing!
✨📬👋
(insert self-promo emojis here)
Seriously though. I started a Substack.
It’s called This Is Not a Tech Demo. I'm writing about AI, mental health, social media, and how to live better with tech.
🔗 notatechdemo.substack.com
✨📬👋
(insert self-promo emojis here)
Seriously though. I started a Substack.
It’s called This Is Not a Tech Demo. I'm writing about AI, mental health, social media, and how to live better with tech.
🔗 notatechdemo.substack.com
This Is Not a Tech Demo | Stevie Chancellor | Substack
Honest takes on AI, mental health, social media, and what it means to live well. From a CS professor who studies the intersection professionally and navigates it personally. Click to read This Is Not ...
notatechdemo.substack.com
July 31, 2025 at 1:05 AM
The best place to find me now is on Substack for long-form writing!
✨📬👋
(insert self-promo emojis here)
Seriously though. I started a Substack.
It’s called This Is Not a Tech Demo. I'm writing about AI, mental health, social media, and how to live better with tech.
🔗 notatechdemo.substack.com
✨📬👋
(insert self-promo emojis here)
Seriously though. I started a Substack.
It’s called This Is Not a Tech Demo. I'm writing about AI, mental health, social media, and how to live better with tech.
🔗 notatechdemo.substack.com
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The thing about interdisciplinary work is everyone gets to misunderstand you from a unique angle
June 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
The thing about interdisciplinary work is everyone gets to misunderstand you from a unique angle
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I've been working on something! It's not nearly done yet, but I thought no need to gatekeep the work in progress. This is an AI ethics "syllabus" based on a post-hoc curation of hundreds of short form videos I've made for social media, to make the content more accessible. bit.ly/ai-ethics-sy...
AI Ethics with Professor Casey
AI Ethics with Professor Casey bit.ly/ai-ethics-syllabus For nearly five years, I've (Casey Fiesler aka Professor Casey) been creating social media content (largely on TikTok and Instagram) about art...
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June 11, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I've been working on something! It's not nearly done yet, but I thought no need to gatekeep the work in progress. This is an AI ethics "syllabus" based on a post-hoc curation of hundreds of short form videos I've made for social media, to make the content more accessible. bit.ly/ai-ethics-sy...
New blog (by me!) finding research identity with Agre's Critical Technical Practice: medium.com/@stevie-chan...
CTP taught me my interdisciplinary #hcai work was a powerful strategy to build socially-relevant AI. I hope others embrace the cross-cutting identity as much as Agre helped me to.
CTP taught me my interdisciplinary #hcai work was a powerful strategy to build socially-relevant AI. I hope others embrace the cross-cutting identity as much as Agre helped me to.
From Magic 8 Ball to Prism: Phil Agre and Critical Technical Practice
Why AI research needs people who can both build systems and critique them — a lesson from 1997 that’s still relevant
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June 10, 2025 at 3:49 PM
New blog (by me!) finding research identity with Agre's Critical Technical Practice: medium.com/@stevie-chan...
CTP taught me my interdisciplinary #hcai work was a powerful strategy to build socially-relevant AI. I hope others embrace the cross-cutting identity as much as Agre helped me to.
CTP taught me my interdisciplinary #hcai work was a powerful strategy to build socially-relevant AI. I hope others embrace the cross-cutting identity as much as Agre helped me to.
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Tip for PhD applicants reaching out to prospective advisors: Don’t use an LLM to write these emails. It’s not a great first impression to express your admiration for a recent paper the faculty member published if that paper does not exist.
June 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Tip for PhD applicants reaching out to prospective advisors: Don’t use an LLM to write these emails. It’s not a great first impression to express your admiration for a recent paper the faculty member published if that paper does not exist.
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"It just really comes as a shock that such accomplished intellectuals, who’ve spent their entire careers pushing the upper bounds of human achievement, could be judgy about a machine that runs the entirety of human imagination through a shredder and glues together what comes out."
A Company Reminder for Everyone to Talk Nicely About the Giant Plagiarism Machine
Hey team. It’s your CEO. I know your time is valuable, so I’ll cut right to the chase: It’s come to my attention that some of you have been bad-mou...
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May 21, 2025 at 1:40 AM
"It just really comes as a shock that such accomplished intellectuals, who’ve spent their entire careers pushing the upper bounds of human achievement, could be judgy about a machine that runs the entirety of human imagination through a shredder and glues together what comes out."
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Another week, another research ethics controversy.
TL;DR Researchers released a public dataset of 2B+ messages from 4M+ users on 3k+ "public" Discord servers. Usernames/IDs are anonymized.
But let's unpack this one... 🧵
www.404media.co/researchers-...
TL;DR Researchers released a public dataset of 2B+ messages from 4M+ users on 3k+ "public" Discord servers. Usernames/IDs are anonymized.
But let's unpack this one... 🧵
www.404media.co/researchers-...
Researchers Scrape 2 Billion Discord Messages and Publish Them Online
A Brazilian team used Discord’s API to scrape 10% of its open servers.
www.404media.co
May 21, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Another week, another research ethics controversy.
TL;DR Researchers released a public dataset of 2B+ messages from 4M+ users on 3k+ "public" Discord servers. Usernames/IDs are anonymized.
But let's unpack this one... 🧵
www.404media.co/researchers-...
TL;DR Researchers released a public dataset of 2B+ messages from 4M+ users on 3k+ "public" Discord servers. Usernames/IDs are anonymized.
But let's unpack this one... 🧵
www.404media.co/researchers-...
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ICE Deports Mariner Moose Back to Canada: tinyurl.com/vswvxhrr
May 9, 2025 at 9:53 PM
ICE Deports Mariner Moose Back to Canada: tinyurl.com/vswvxhrr
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"Finally—finally!—we can reroute those dangerous funds from writing workshops and elementary school jazz ensembles into more important things. Like tax breaks for billionaires. And tanks."
Phew, for a Minute There, I Thought the Arts Were Going to Get Too Much Funding
“Dozens of US arts organizations have been notified that offers of government grants have been terminated, hours after Donald Trump proposed elimin...
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May 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
"Finally—finally!—we can reroute those dangerous funds from writing workshops and elementary school jazz ensembles into more important things. Like tax breaks for billionaires. And tanks."
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Thinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.
May 4, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Thinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.
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🧵I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be going to @facct.bsky.social this June to present timely work on why current LLMs cannot safely **replace** therapists.
We find...⤵️
We find...⤵️
April 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
🧵I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be going to @facct.bsky.social this June to present timely work on why current LLMs cannot safely **replace** therapists.
We find...⤵️
We find...⤵️
I wrote up a take about how the Trump Administration's pressure on NIH to cute indirect costs to 15% will stifle American scientific leadership and hurt American jobs. Please share this broadly - this issue transcends my normal scientist friends. medium.com/@stevie-chan...
Cutting Indirect Costs for Universities Hurts Americans
Or why the NIH’s proposed cut on indirect costs to 15% will cost American jobs and hamper the US’s scientific leadership.
medium.com
February 21, 2025 at 5:34 PM
I wrote up a take about how the Trump Administration's pressure on NIH to cute indirect costs to 15% will stifle American scientific leadership and hurt American jobs. Please share this broadly - this issue transcends my normal scientist friends. medium.com/@stevie-chan...
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"You want to stop, but the amount of time and energy you’ve put into this makes it hard to quit."
Elden Ring or Tenure-Track Professor?
1. You’ve invested an enormous amount of time and energy, and you still have no idea what is happening. 2. Everybody you meet speaks in half riddle...
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February 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
"You want to stop, but the amount of time and energy you’ve put into this makes it hard to quit."
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Breaking news: 22 states are suing to block NIH’s cutting of indirect costs.
See our updated story on the Friday night news and its aftermath. scim.ag/4hTJQ6v
See our updated story on the Friday night news and its aftermath. scim.ag/4hTJQ6v
NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage and lawsuit
Move to cut indirect cost rate to 15% could cost universities billions of dollars
scim.ag
February 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Breaking news: 22 states are suing to block NIH’s cutting of indirect costs.
See our updated story on the Friday night news and its aftermath. scim.ag/4hTJQ6v
See our updated story on the Friday night news and its aftermath. scim.ag/4hTJQ6v
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Vought is giving big banks and giant corporations the green light to scam families.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned over $21 billion to families cheated by Wall Street. Republicans have failed to gut it in Congress and in the courts. They will fail again.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned over $21 billion to families cheated by Wall Street. Republicans have failed to gut it in Congress and in the courts. They will fail again.
February 9, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Vought is giving big banks and giant corporations the green light to scam families.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned over $21 billion to families cheated by Wall Street. Republicans have failed to gut it in Congress and in the courts. They will fail again.
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has returned over $21 billion to families cheated by Wall Street. Republicans have failed to gut it in Congress and in the courts. They will fail again.
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Here are some facts about "facilities and administrative" (F&A) costs, what we in the business call "indirects" and what Musk is calling "overhead" as he tries to convince Americans with being ok with cutting billions on dollars from medical and public health research at universities & hospitals
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February 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Here are some facts about "facilities and administrative" (F&A) costs, what we in the business call "indirects" and what Musk is calling "overhead" as he tries to convince Americans with being ok with cutting billions on dollars from medical and public health research at universities & hospitals
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Idea for GenAI app: rewrite click bait headlines to normal headlines in the browser.
Input: you’ll never guess this one company organizing the best deals of the year
Output: Amazon has a modest sale on phone chargers
Input: you’ll never guess this one company organizing the best deals of the year
Output: Amazon has a modest sale on phone chargers
January 21, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Idea for GenAI app: rewrite click bait headlines to normal headlines in the browser.
Input: you’ll never guess this one company organizing the best deals of the year
Output: Amazon has a modest sale on phone chargers
Input: you’ll never guess this one company organizing the best deals of the year
Output: Amazon has a modest sale on phone chargers
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An absolutely shocking timeline showing how an Alaska sexual assault defendant has been able to prevent his case from going to trial since 2014 by getting judges to approve more than 70 delays so far. @propublica.org @adn.com
A “Horrendous” Alaska Sexual Assault Case, Delayed for a Decade
Four different judges have agreed to delay the trial more than 70 times in total. We pieced together a timeline of the delays using audio recordings and logs from every hearing.
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January 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
An absolutely shocking timeline showing how an Alaska sexual assault defendant has been able to prevent his case from going to trial since 2014 by getting judges to approve more than 70 delays so far. @propublica.org @adn.com
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