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Researching the social implications of AI. Co-founder at NYU | Principal Researcher MSR-NYC | Distinguished Research Professor NYU |

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Sep 7

    Thrilled to launch a big project today: ANATOMY OF AN AI SYSTEM. It's a large map & long-form essay about Amazon's Echo, and the full stack of capital, labor, and natural resources used in AI. It's a collab with , who is a visual genius ✨

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  2. Nov 30

    Precisely: the people in the room shape the tools we use. We're looking forward to sharing our research on this issue shortly - we're going into depth on gender, race and power in AI, and there's a lot to share. Thanks for your support!

    We can't talk about how artificial intelligence is shaping our lives without talking about the people who are in the room, shaping the technology itself. This thought-provoking piece from asks all the right questions.
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  3. Nov 24

    US job applicants are getting a single number that determines if they get a job. That number comes from a bollocks AI system that claims to rate their social media activity. And people think 'social credit scores' are just in China 🤔

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  4. Nov 24

    Well yes, this AI sitter screening is error-prone, based on broken assumptions, and privacy invading. What’s worse - it’s a horrifying symptom of the growing power asymmetry between employers and job seekers. And low wage workers don’t get to opt out.

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  5. Nov 19

    Deadline alert! One week left to apply for the 2-year postdoctoral fellowships at at NYU. Come join this ace research community ✨

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  6. Retweeted
    Nov 16

    New at - "Facebook's Blueprint Needs a Blueprint" Facebook says it wants to hand away some of its power. Will it really? And how? Their plan for an independent oversight for content moderation leaves some (all?) the important questions unanswered.

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  7. Nov 15

    PSA: emotional tweet ahead. Today is the first birthday for ! ✨🎉🍰 I'm so in awe of this epic team, and for all we achieved in our first year. Big thanks to you for being part of it, and for supporting this work. Onward 🙏

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  8. Nov 15

    Zuckerberg said to Congress that they will rely heavily on AI tools for hate speech, fake news, bullying, etc. Will this board get input on how the AI systems are designed, trained & reviewed? Or are they just another human clean-up layer after the fact?

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  9. Nov 15

    So many questions here. Will Facebook's new Supreme Court just be in the US? Or one for every country where they operate? Which norms and laws rule? Do execs get to overrule the decisions? Finally, why stop at user content? Why not independent oversight of the whole system?

    Shorter version of this call: Facebook is starting a judicial branch to handle the overflow for its executive branch, which is also its legislative branch, also the whole thing is a monarchy.
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  10. Nov 15

    Fascinating to spend time in Argentina meeting with government, NGOs, students, academics, activists & journalists whose work connects to the social aspects of AI. Thanks to and the whole crew for inviting me. Last pic of the trip is this design gem 👌

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  11. Retweeted
    Nov 15

    Inequality and abuses of power in tech are longstanding problems. As a contribution to the movement working to change this, we're sharing some preliminary findings from our research on gender, race, and power in AI, here:

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  12. Nov 13

    In between meetings and giving talks in Buenos Aires, I’m seeing some extraordinary spaces. Here’s the Blue Whale, aka Sala Sinfónica

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  13. Nov 11

    This has to be the most stunning bookshop I’ve ever wandered into. Converted from an old theatre, the box seats become reading zones 😍

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  14. Retweeted
    Nov 8

    It's wonderful to be at . A laser sharp group of researchers taking on some of the most pressing problems before us.

    Great to have Wendy Chun as a visiting professor with us ✨
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  15. Nov 8

    Much of the work on deep fakes and manipulated media uses politicians as the likely victims. Maybe they'll be the perpetrators.

    The White House defends itself with doctored video from Infowars. A(nother) new low:
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  16. Nov 6

    Tired: ‘Hang in there’ kitten posters Wired: Heart-warming viral video of bears risking death while fleeing drones

    A viral video of a baby bear climbing up a snowy cliff is not a life-affirming tale of persistence. It's a video of a bear fleeing from the drone that was filming it, reports:
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  17. Nov 5

    "Unlocking AI’s barrier of meaning is likely to require a step backward for the field, away from ever bigger networks and data collections, and back to the field’s roots as an interdisciplinary science." Ayup.

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    Nov 1

    Why we organized , and what we want:

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    Oct 24

    I asked my students to manually comb through the Enron corpus of emails (a dataset that has machine learning, to train software) to find patterns that computers could miss but humans would notice. @turniplan found a web of racist/sexist jokes and began sketching the connections:

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  20. Oct 25

    The fight over the AI artwork recently auctioned at Christie's makes for some spicy threads. Come for the neural nets, stay for the legal discussion 🍿

    left: the "AI generated" portrait Christie's is auctioning off right now right: outputs from a neural network I trained and put online *over a year ago*. Does anyone else care about this? Am I crazy for thinking that they really just used my network and are selling the results?
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  21. Oct 24

    Here it is! Our Year In Review talk from the AI Now Symposium - features a massive visualization of news stories and the biggest themes from our work on AI and beyond... ✨📇📍

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