📰 Digital Minister of Taiwan ⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳's discussion with The Burnes Center For Social Change Director Beth Simone Noveck is a focus point in a recent TIME article. Read the full article: time.com/6979012/audrey…

Op-Ed: AI can’t anthropomorphize its way to empathy cjr.org/tow_center/op-… via @cjr

"Any attempt to regulate and create standards across AI governance efforts must treat bias and discrimination as a cross-cutting central issue and address them as such," D&S Senior Policy Analyst Serena Dokuaa Oduro writes for Tech Policy Press. techpolicy.press/without-accoun…

"Tech companies are building the cart without knowing whether the horse exists, which may account for some users having feelings of paranoia," Kyle Chayka writes. "Who asked for this, and to what end?" newyorker.com/culture/infini…

With technological change feeling relentless, D&S advisor Ethan Zuckerman suggests we learn from the Amish, who have “a thoughtful & careful evaluative process for how they adopt technologies” — asking what they want tech to do & whether the impacts are worth it. prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/technolo…

'Curious Conversations' podcast: Shalini Misra talks about AI and emergency management news.vt.edu/content/news_v…

This is my 15th year at Univ. of Maryland and I've never seen anything like this: The Artificial Intelligence Interdisciplinary Institute has openings for *30* (!) tenured and/or tenure-track faculty positions in Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined. ejobs.umd.edu/postings/124144

Research Explores Uses of AI in Elections macfound.org/press/grantee-…

AI models are producing a stream of election-related falsehoods in Spanish more frequently than in English, potentially deepening information disparities for Spanish-speaking voters. apnews.com/article/ai-cha…

💡 Data sharing is necessary for the public good and so is privacy. Open Tech Institute's latest brief introduces a framework that can help create a standardized approach to valuing privacy, one that reflects the potential costs and benefits of sharing data. 🔐 go.newamerica.org/whats-the-valu…

Trump's potential impact on emerging and disruptive technologies - goo.gl/alerts/WyqxPf #GoogleAlerts

The Three Levels of Public Interest AI via Tech Policy Press techpolicy.press/the-three-leve…

If you're on the move over to BlueSky, join us there! We'll still be posting and interacting here for now but the new place is conducive to more discussions on public interest tech. bsky.app/profile/nyupit…

Trump Picks Brendan Carr to Lead F.C.C. Mr. Carr, who currently sits on the commission and is a vocal critic of Big Tech, has said the agency should regulate the tech industry. nytimes.com/2024/11/17/tec…

Cable companies and Trump’s FCC chair agree: Data caps are good for you via Ars Technica arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

From @newamerica: A Digital Equity Agenda for Democracy: 5 Tech Policy Recommendations for the New Trump Administration newamerica.org/new-america/bl…

📣 Calling all experienced public interest technologists! Gift your time in 2025 by mentoring someone new to the field through the Technologists for the Public Good Public Interest Tech Mentorship Program. Learn more and apply: bit.ly/TPGmentorship25 #Mentorship #PublicInterestTech

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Data journalist and professor Meredith Broussard shared her insights on the intersection of big tech and politics on an episode of NPR Connecticut's The Wheelhouse. Listen below! #NYUJournalism #BigTech buff.ly/4hstr9m