Joanna Bryson

@j2bryson.bsky.social

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Professor of Ethics & Technology @ Hertie School, Berlin. Interests: Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Behavioural Ecology; Cooperation; Digital Governance. Social media policy: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html .. more

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Joanna Joy Bryson is professor at Hertie School in Berlin. She works on Artificial Intelligence, ethics and collaborative cognition. She has been a British citizen since 2007.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · Feb 19

thread. correct numbers and data backing them come later, but this is the thrust.

Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · Feb 5

One thing I learned last week was that if you don’t count the BS market capitalisation bubble of 7 “AI” firms, the US economy as measured by the s&p 500 didn’t go up 13% last year; it went down 7%.

The EU may be a larger economy already. We need to get our own O2 mask on, then start helping others.

Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · Feb 5

Guess why there was no reporting of AI revenue?

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 1d

Google gave ICE this British STUDENT JOURNALIST's personal info bank account numbers while they were trying to detain him for attending a protest at a job fair at Cornell for just 5 minutes. Not a crime. He fled to Switzerland & EFF is representing him now. theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...

Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers

Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn't know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena now. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.

theintercept.com

Joe Robertson @joro.bsky.social · 1d

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

Idaho families sue over immigration raid that swept up hundreds, including U.S. citizens — NBC News

About 400 people, including children and U.S. citizens, were detained for four hours while they were denied food and water in the raid, according to the lawsuit.

apple.news

Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d

I searched my email for openid and it was the one thing that came up, and it had my login name, and I could get it to send me a password, but it was no longer openid anyway.

I had an undergrad student do a GREAT project on it with PGG back about 12 years ago, too bad it was never published!

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Elizabeth Cronise McLaughlin @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social · 1d

Breaking on MSNOW right now: the DOJ is tracking the search histories of Congresspeople in the unredacted Epstein files, and Pam Bondi is using those search histories in her Burn Book today.

This is surveillance of Democratic lawmakers as the review the Epstein files, and it is chilling.

Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d

The EPP (centre right for the European Parliament, kind of like US Republicans or UK Tories before Cambridge Analytica) just appointed a "former" Meta lobbyist to negotiate EU's revision of their #digitalGovernance, including the #GDPR. #privacy

www.linkedin.com/posts/max-sc...

#lobbyist #gdpr #legislator #cjeu | Max Schrems | 28 comments

🤮🤮🤮 You can't make it up and it's not April Fools Day yet: The European People's Party has just seriously appointed the former Meta #Lobbyist for Brussels (now a Finnish Member of Parliament) to negot...

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d

Hello world, I know I seem generous with time – I really want to help. But if I agree to meet you, please stop sending emails immediately after getting the appointment. If you want me to read questions sign forms check sound you can darn well wait until the window I've agreed to, not blag more time.

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Phillip Isola @phillipisola.bsky.social · 1d

Our grad-level "Deep Learning" course (MIT's 6.7960) is now freely available online through OpenCourseWare: ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-79...

Lecture videos, psets, and readings are all provided.

Had a lot of fun teaching this with @sarameghanbeery.bsky.social and @jeremybernste.in!

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · 1d

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Bondi crashes out over Epstein: "The Dow is over 50,000 dollars! I don't know why you're laughing. You're a great stock trader as I hear, Raskin. The Dow is over 50,000 right now. The S&P at almost 7,000, and the Nasdaq smashing records. That's what we should be talking about."

Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d

and @hertieschool.bsky.social PhD @chrisschmitz.ai , extensively!

Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d

Although not the main point of this post, I'm suddenly wondering whether Germany, France, and Canada were hurt by Brexit a lot more than the US and Japan were?

Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 1d

It’s possible to reduce emissions while growing the economy. Many countries have decoupled economic growth from CO₂ emissions, even if we take offshored production into account.

You can see this in the chart for a selection of large economies.

Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d

If you can't trust Google… theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...

Google Fulfilled ICE Subpoena Demanding Student Journalist’s Bank and Credit Card Numbers

Amandla Thomas-Johnson didn't know how much information ICE requested in a subpoena now. Google never gave him a chance to fight it.

theintercept.com

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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 1d

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 1d

I have been a little surprised that this shoe hadn't dropped already. The more that businesses become seen as extensions of a particular government's interests, the less that many other governments will want to have any relationship to them. See also the CapGemini brouhaha.

Ed Wilson @eddwilson.bsky.social · 1d

"Switzerland’s military has terminated its contract with Palantir… following a security audit… concluded that U.S. intelligence agencies could potentially access sensitive Swiss defense data… significant reputational warning for the data analytics firm"

www.newscase.com/palantirs-sw...

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Palantir's Swiss Exit Highlights Global Data Sovereignty Challenge | NewsCase

Switzerland's military has terminated its contract with Palantir Technologies Inc. following a security audit. The review concluded that U.S. intelligence ag

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d

"racial disparities persist even under explicit disclosure, while gender-related differences are more pronounced under name-based cues" I've worried for decades that "bias" has become entirely about gender at a cost to race – it's certainly where the guardrails are.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Who Invests, Who Gets Funded: Gender and Racial Bias in LLM-Generated Investment Advice - Journal of Business Ethics

Do large language models (LLMs) generate unbiased financial advice across investor and fund manager demographics? We develop a two-sided audit framework to evaluate demographic bias in LLM-generated i...

link.springer.com

Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d

An AI "live" music review scraped my first publication! Yes kids, "Autonomous agents" in 1995. The Reactive Accompanist: Adaptation and Behavior Decomposition in a Music System. In The Biology and Technology of Intelligent Autonomous Agents, Luc Steels (Ed.) Springer Berlin
arxiv.org/abs/2602.05064

A Design Space for Live Music Agents

Live music provides a uniquely rich setting for studying creativity and interaction due to its spontaneous nature. The pursuit of live music agents--intelligent systems supporting real-time music perf...

arxiv.org

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Renata Avila @avilarenata.bsky.social · 1d

Do you know of anyone using automation and AI creatively to monitor corporate accountability?

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Jeppe Mulich @jmulich.bsky.social · 1d

The conviction of Anna Kwok's father under the NSL is a new low for the Hong Kong police state.

Father of pro-democracy activist Anna Kwok first to be convicted under Hong Kong national security law

Officials arrested Kwok Yin-sang after he tried to end his daughter’s insurance policy and withdraw the funds

www.theguardian.com

Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d

I heard that from someone “well placed” but haven’t seen the data. But it’s consistent with the brexit nonbinding advisory ref, and obama’s initial win.

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Alice Stollmeyer @stollmeyer.bsky.social · 1d

EU leaders face a clear choice:

Pursue a growth agenda that won’t deliver, reinforcing the false narrative that EU 'red tape' shackles national economies and giving Euroskeptic far-right a free electoral boost.

Or confront reality and make the hard choices we need.

www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Europe is chasing the wrong fix for its growth crisis

The continent’s old growth model no longer works in today’s world. And EU leaders need a plan that matches the scale of this shift.

www.politico.eu

Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d

She mainly lost because Trump leveraged the large number of white uneducated men that think (possibly correctly)gambling on crypto is their only shot at a house & family. Harris got as many votes as HRC, who won the popular vote by 3M. But Trump & Musk found millions more who hadn’t been voting.

Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d

If the US crimes against humanity were affecting “only” the hundreds of millions of people residing in the US I might (might!) agree a global recession is a bigger deal. But shutting down the EPA and accelerating rather than combating the climate crisis? Shutting down USAID? Colluding with Russia?

Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sorry, how is a recession worse than the US collapsing into an “electoral autocracy”? I agree we are in for a 2008 style liquidity crisis, not only due to AI & also Trump disrupting the dollar for crypto but because China building by far the best cars. But concentration camps & surveillance?

Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d

Somehow I can’t believe the extent religion still impacts our politics, even concerning international consensus eg war crimes and crimes against humanity. I must be stupid.

Series of four cases (2 helpful & 2 unhelpful IMHO) that were sequential in my feed here, via @jackkennedy.ie and @rocher.lc

Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Religion. We need another treaty of Westphalia.

Emissary Of Night | ليلى @diplomatofnight.com · 2d

Every single president of the United States since Lyndon Baines Johnson has expressed public and private opposition to Israeli annexation of the occupied West Bank, but every single president since LBJ has also greenlit unconditional support while Israel annexes it anyway.

Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d

Agree Germany’s unquestioning support of Israel is now problematic, but it’s also to some extent literally in their / our constitution, due to the Holocaust. But so are prohibitions against war crimes, for the same reason. joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2025/09/wort...

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artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security

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