Ruth Starkman
@ruthstarkman.bsky.social
Teacher, computing ethics monger, firstgens @Stanford
Global ethics, philosophizing with 🔨 coding with ✏ surfing with 🐕 http://ruth.substack.com
Global ethics, philosophizing with 🔨 coding with ✏ surfing with 🐕 http://ruth.substack.com
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3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
Paul Klee led an artistic life that spanned the 19th and 20th centuries, but he kept his aesthetic sensibility tuned to the future.
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November 8, 2025 at 5:51 PM
3,900 Pages of Paul Klee’s Personal Notebooks Are Now Online, Highlighting His Bauhaus Teachings (1921–1931)
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Referencing Tamar Mitts’ recently published Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism, Joseph Stabile considers the trajectory of online threat actors, voluntary platform commitments, and international regulatory regimes over the past decade.
Platform Convergence and the Limits of Technical Solutions to Counter Online Hate | TechPolicy.Press
Joseph Stabile considers the trajectory of online threat actors, voluntary platform commitments to counter terrorism, and international regulatory regimes.
www.techpolicy.press
April 14, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Referencing Tamar Mitts’ recently published Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism, Joseph Stabile considers the trajectory of online threat actors, voluntary platform commitments, and international regulatory regimes over the past decade.
Check out this great GRACE paper on Generative AI, Filmmaking, Creative labor, and Copyright ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.ph...
Who Holds the Camera? Filmmaking Justice in the Era of Generative AI
| GRACE: Global Review of AI Community Ethics
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April 12, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Check out this great GRACE paper on Generative AI, Filmmaking, Creative labor, and Copyright ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.ph...
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If we want lasting change, we need to take a step back and consider the downstream impacts of AI in government, writes Amanda Renteria, CEO of Code for America. A bad AI decision isn’t just a bug to fix in the next release. It’s a mom losing access to food assistance because of a faulty algorithm.
DOGE Should Look to States For How to Implement Effective AI | TechPolicy.Press
We’ve seen what happens when we move fast and break things, writes Amanda Renteria, CEO of Code for America.
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April 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
If we want lasting change, we need to take a step back and consider the downstream impacts of AI in government, writes Amanda Renteria, CEO of Code for America. A bad AI decision isn’t just a bug to fix in the next release. It’s a mom losing access to food assistance because of a faulty algorithm.
Check out this great article on de-identified medical data by Britney Bennett in @stanford's GRACE journal ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.ph...
De-Identified Medical Datasets and the 2025 Readiness Gap:: Toward Equity, Scale, and Trust in Foundation Model Training
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April 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Check out this great article on de-identified medical data by Britney Bennett in @stanford's GRACE journal ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.ph...
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If I had a dollar for each time someone asked me what AI agents mean for sustainability, I could have retired early.. instead, with my colleagues @brigittetousi.hf.co and @yjernite.bsky.social, we wrote a blog post about it! 🤗🌱
huggingface.co/blog/sasha/a...
huggingface.co/blog/sasha/a...
Are AI Agents Sustainable? It depends
A Blog post by Sasha Luccioni on Hugging Face
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April 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
If I had a dollar for each time someone asked me what AI agents mean for sustainability, I could have retired early.. instead, with my colleagues @brigittetousi.hf.co and @yjernite.bsky.social, we wrote a blog post about it! 🤗🌱
huggingface.co/blog/sasha/a...
huggingface.co/blog/sasha/a...
Check out this great book by Dr. Joy Buolamwini @jovialjoy _Unmasking AI_. Out soon in paperback! Reviewed in @stanford's GRACE journal by Angela Nguyen ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.ph...
Unmasking AI:: Why Ethical Tech Is Everyone’s Responsibility
| GRACE: Global Review of AI Community Ethics
ojs.stanford.edu
April 7, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Check out this great book by Dr. Joy Buolamwini @jovialjoy _Unmasking AI_. Out soon in paperback! Reviewed in @stanford's GRACE journal by Angela Nguyen ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.ph...
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The saga with the legal status of TikTok in the United States is taking longer than 40 years on internet history.
April 6, 2025 at 2:05 PM
The saga with the legal status of TikTok in the United States is taking longer than 40 years on internet history.
Check out this important book by @DrCABerry and @csdoctorsister reviewed in GRACE journal, every department needs to order one for students and faculty ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.ph...
Teaching Justice: Mitigating Bias in Machine Learning
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April 6, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Check out this important book by @DrCABerry and @csdoctorsister reviewed in GRACE journal, every department needs to order one for students and faculty ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.ph...
Check out this important book by
@MarietjeSchaake reviewed in GRACE, we're teaching a chapter in our Fall ESF course! journalhttps://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/grace/article/view/3807
@MarietjeSchaake reviewed in GRACE, we're teaching a chapter in our Fall ESF course! journalhttps://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/grace/article/view/3807
April 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Check out this important book by
@MarietjeSchaake reviewed in GRACE, we're teaching a chapter in our Fall ESF course! journalhttps://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/grace/article/view/3807
@MarietjeSchaake reviewed in GRACE, we're teaching a chapter in our Fall ESF course! journalhttps://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/grace/article/view/3807
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Also available as video on PeerTube:
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April 3, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Also available as video on PeerTube:
peertube.dair-institute.org/w/cbWGbfdJoW...
peertube.dair-institute.org/w/cbWGbfdJoW...
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What to do about a divergence between "public" and "expert" opinion about "AI"? Some might think that we need to educate the public so that they come to understand more how experts do. I disagree: expertise in building these systems is far from the only relevant expertise.
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April 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
What to do about a divergence between "public" and "expert" opinion about "AI"? Some might think that we need to educate the public so that they come to understand more how experts do. I disagree: expertise in building these systems is far from the only relevant expertise.
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Check out this new issue of Stanford GRACE journal on Generative AI and Global Futures GREAT student work! ⭐ ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.ph...
Vol. 3 No. 1 (2025): Generative AI and Global Futures
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April 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Check out this new issue of Stanford GRACE journal on Generative AI and Global Futures GREAT student work! ⭐ ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.ph...
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In an hour (12pm EST) I'm doing a YT livestream re: PhD admissions advice stuff. This is usually the time of year when it's questions from folks who (a) are making final decisions about where to accept offers; or (b) were unsuccessful in applications this year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZg4...
PhD Admissions Q&A (March 2025 Edition)
YouTube video by Casey Fiesler
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March 30, 2025 at 3:00 PM
In an hour (12pm EST) I'm doing a YT livestream re: PhD admissions advice stuff. This is usually the time of year when it's questions from folks who (a) are making final decisions about where to accept offers; or (b) were unsuccessful in applications this year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZg4...
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This piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social starts with a bang and just gets better and better. Gift link.
Opinion | The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes (Gift Article)
A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.
www.nytimes.com
March 29, 2025 at 6:48 PM
This piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social starts with a bang and just gets better and better. Gift link.
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The Best Photographer You’ve Never Heard Of: An Introduction to Tseng Kwong Chi
The Best Photographer You’ve Never Heard Of: An Introduction to Tseng Kwong Chi
Once, the United States was known for sending forth the world's most complained-about international tourists; today, that dubious distinction arguably belongs to China. But it wasn't so long ago that ...
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March 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
The Best Photographer You’ve Never Heard Of: An Introduction to Tseng Kwong Chi
Check out this interview with about her brilliant new course! @cynthiablee.bsky.social teachingwriting.stanford.edu/news/intervi...
Interview with Dr. Cynthia Bailey on Her Writing in the Major Course for Computer Science
Ruth Starkman
teachingwriting.stanford.edu
March 28, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Check out this interview with about her brilliant new course! @cynthiablee.bsky.social teachingwriting.stanford.edu/news/intervi...
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The launch of ROOST (Robust Online Open Safety Tools) is an opportunity for the trust and safety field, writes the Institute for Security and Technology's Fatima Faisal Khan, but not one without potential challenges.
ROOST Reminds Us Why Open Source Tools Matter | TechPolicy.Press
ROOST represents more than just a technical breakthrough; it embodies the promise of a new era in trust and safety, writes Fatima Faisal Khan.
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March 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
The launch of ROOST (Robust Online Open Safety Tools) is an opportunity for the trust and safety field, writes the Institute for Security and Technology's Fatima Faisal Khan, but not one without potential challenges.
GREAT podcast today @alexhanna.bsky.social a & @emilymbender.bsky.social and with the amazing Dr. Nicole Holliday! Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000. www.twitch.tv/dair_institute
dair_institute - Twitch
Welcome to our live show!
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March 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
GREAT podcast today @alexhanna.bsky.social a & @emilymbender.bsky.social and with the amazing Dr. Nicole Holliday! Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000. www.twitch.tv/dair_institute
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My mother is finally proud of what I do
Shannon Vallor: The AI Illusion
Podcast Episode · Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda · 11/03/2025 · 41m
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March 12, 2025 at 1:58 PM
My mother is finally proud of what I do
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AI deployments in health are often understudied because they require time and careful analysis.⌛️🤔
We share thoughts in @ai.nejm.org about a recent AI tool for emergency dept triage that: 1) improves wait times and fairness (!), and 2) helps nurses unevenly based on triage ability
We share thoughts in @ai.nejm.org about a recent AI tool for emergency dept triage that: 1) improves wait times and fairness (!), and 2) helps nurses unevenly based on triage ability
February 27, 2025 at 9:06 PM
AI deployments in health are often understudied because they require time and careful analysis.⌛️🤔
We share thoughts in @ai.nejm.org about a recent AI tool for emergency dept triage that: 1) improves wait times and fairness (!), and 2) helps nurses unevenly based on triage ability
We share thoughts in @ai.nejm.org about a recent AI tool for emergency dept triage that: 1) improves wait times and fairness (!), and 2) helps nurses unevenly based on triage ability
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President Bob Groves' letter to the Georgetown community Who We Are & What We Stand For: freedom of thought & inquiry, valuing difference, public service, & respect for the dignity & welfare of all. "We do not conduct these activities alongside our mission; they are the essence of our mission."
February 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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By clarifying core definitions and identifying effective audit approaches now, the DSA audits can become a more effective accountability tool, writes Peter Chapman.
From Ambiguity to Accountability: Analyzing Recommender System Audits under the DSA | TechPolicy.Press
Peter Chapman examines auditing under the DSA regime.
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February 28, 2025 at 4:48 PM
By clarifying core definitions and identifying effective audit approaches now, the DSA audits can become a more effective accountability tool, writes Peter Chapman.
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In a plenary panel at #SIGCSE2025 on the future of CS education, @mapq.bsky.social suggested that maybe Operating Systems doesn’t need to be a core required CS course… but maybe Human-Computer Interaction should be. I agree, what do you all think?
February 28, 2025 at 2:36 PM
In a plenary panel at #SIGCSE2025 on the future of CS education, @mapq.bsky.social suggested that maybe Operating Systems doesn’t need to be a core required CS course… but maybe Human-Computer Interaction should be. I agree, what do you all think?
Here's my review of yesterday's @StanfordEthics event The AI We Deserve ruth.substack.com/p/the-ai-we-...
The AI We Deserve?
Reflections on a Boston Review Discussion at Stanford
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February 28, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Here's my review of yesterday's @StanfordEthics event The AI We Deserve ruth.substack.com/p/the-ai-we-...