Owen Davis
@odavis.bsky.social
Senior economist at the New York City Independent Budget Office. Interests: Aging, work, public policy, technology.
I think it's important that AI tools get stress-tested and held to account for bad info. Need to push back on the tendency for people to treat them as magical oracles. But believing the opposite, that most genAI is just constantly wrong, is a real misperception.
March 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I think it's important that AI tools get stress-tested and held to account for bad info. Need to push back on the tendency for people to treat them as magical oracles. But believing the opposite, that most genAI is just constantly wrong, is a real misperception.
If you look at this Paris Marx tweet quoted above and the responses to it, you see a lot of people confidently asserting that generative AI is factually incorrect most of the time. I've found this to be a pretty pervasive belief in certain quarters.
March 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
If you look at this Paris Marx tweet quoted above and the responses to it, you see a lot of people confidently asserting that generative AI is factually incorrect most of the time. I've found this to be a pretty pervasive belief in certain quarters.
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March 7, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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Curious what you make of scholarly survey work like this looking at broad usage patterns. This has ~10% of U.S. respondents using genAI tools every day at work as of late 2024. www.nber.org/papers/w32966
The Rapid Adoption of Generative AI
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February 18, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Curious what you make of scholarly survey work like this looking at broad usage patterns. This has ~10% of U.S. respondents using genAI tools every day at work as of late 2024. www.nber.org/papers/w32966
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List of CDC information that appears to have been taken down so far:
1. CDC Atlas
2. CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
3. HRSA Target
4. Language removed for LGBT work
5. CDC Social Vulnerability Index
1. CDC Atlas
2. CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
3. HRSA Target
4. Language removed for LGBT work
5. CDC Social Vulnerability Index
January 31, 2025 at 6:03 PM
List of CDC information that appears to have been taken down so far:
1. CDC Atlas
2. CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
3. HRSA Target
4. Language removed for LGBT work
5. CDC Social Vulnerability Index
1. CDC Atlas
2. CDC Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System
3. HRSA Target
4. Language removed for LGBT work
5. CDC Social Vulnerability Index