Honoured to have received Gavin C Reid Prize for Best Paper by an ECR (shorturl.at/mHsyH). The paper was published by Cross-disciplinary Research in Computational Law & benefitted from Lyria Bennett Moses's editing & reviewers' comments. Big thanks to Simon Deakin & @jennifercobbe for supervising! Faculty of Law

NEW PAPER! 1. Small AI models often perform better than big in context. 2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to surveillance, to research capture. This & what to do c/o Gael Varoquaux 🦋, Sasha Luccioni, PhD 🦋🌎✨🤗 and me ♥️👇 arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160

New open access article on the labor behind AI systems! Drawing on a case study, I examine how technologists and data workers construct and morally justify stark inequalities, collaborating to "clean up" the morally questionable status of data work. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

Yet there’s far more to worry about with OpenAI. The New York Times reported last week that the company will bring in $3.7bn of revenue in 2024, yet lose $5bn. In short, OpenAI spends $2.35 to make $1 - and growth is already slowing down. wheresyoured.at/oai-business/

Andres Guadamuz you hit the nail on the head in your post technollama.co.uk/the-problem-wi…

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Meta was hit with a €798 million ($841 million) fine by European Union regulators by tying its Facebook Marketplace service to its sprawling social network, the US tech giant’s first ever penalty for EU antitrust violations: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Weekend read: new article by Hendrickx_Victoria on how the duty of judges to state reasons can be affected when relying on #AI⬇️

This fallacy explains so much AI hype. The barriers to doing real-world tasks efficiently are rarely computational — they are usually physical, economic, social and political. So you could make the computational part 10x faster yet make the overall system only 1% more efficient.

The network technology giant Cisco offers to turn Wi-Fi access points installed in offices and other buildings into a system that tracks the location of employees, customers, smartphones, laptops and other devices for a wide range of purposes. I took a deep dive ⬇️ [thread]

My new case study published today explores behavioral monitoring and profiling in the workplace, with a focus on indoor location and desk occupancy tracking. It's part of my larger project on employee surveillance. Read the full 25-page study here: crackedlabs.org/en/data-work/p…

Reminder: The #FAccT2025 submission deadlines are roughly one month away! Abstracts are due January 15th and full papers on January 22nd. See the full CfP here: facctconference.org/2025/cfp

This 👇 is how the AI miracle sausage is made. 90+% of all these amazing result is good old data leakage.

Facebook: "We expect these AIs to actually...exist on our platforms, kind of in the same way that accounts do... They’ll have bios and profile pictures and be able to generate and share content powered by AI on the platform" Social media: by bots for bots rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

Happy New Year and take this simple lesson to heart when considering predictive legal AI, the work of Masha Medvedeva is key here pure.rug.nl/ws/portalfiles…

Our call for #FAccT2025 tutorials is now live! Deadline March 11 ⏰ We welcome perspectives from a variety of disciplines and are looking for three kinds of tutorials: - dialogue/translation tutorials - implications tutorials - practice tutorials facctconference.org/2025/cft

‼️The Commission's guidelines on the #AIAct's prohibited practices are finally out. A whopping 140 pages long. A lot of information to digest. The guidelines on the AI system definition are not ready yet, but will be out 'soon'. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/com…