‼️ Center for Democracy & Technology is recruiting interns for next summer ‼️ I had an amazing experience as an intern of the AI Governance Lab. Highly recommend the program and happy to chat about my experience (specifically as a PhD student that worked in tech policy for the first time)

Book announcement: In/Convenience: Inhabiting the Logistical Surround is now out!!! 4 years in the making, co-edited by Joshua Neves and me, this OA volume is full of chapters that will make you rethink the meaning of convenience. Please read & circulate! networkcultures.org/blog/publicati…

TikTok Files Emergency Motion for Injunction Today, we filed an emergency motion for an injunction to stop the TikTok Ban from taking effect on January 19, 2025 until our appeal of the decision by the Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit is heard by the US Supreme Court. TikTok

In case you missed it, I am at the conference all week and on the job market, so happy to chat all things research (e.g. RAI, ethics, user agency, content moderation, human-centered AI) #NeurIPS2024 NeurIPS Conference

Check out our paper, “Fundamental Limits in the Search for Less Discriminatory Algorithms —and How to Avoid Them” and come to our spotlight talk, this Saturday at 5:50pm. Paper preprint (WIP): mraghavan.github.io/files/LDA_work…

for the perfectionists / procrastinators / overthinkers / self-doubters

📢📢Introducing the 1st workshop on Sociotechnical AI Governance at CHI’25 (STAIG@CHI'25)! Join us to build a community to tackle AI governance through a sociotechnical lens and drive actionable strategies. 🌐Website: chi-staig.github.io 🗓️Submit your work by: Feb 17, 2025

I agree & will add this: something increasingly alarming to me about the "AI safety" communities (and I say this w/ a *lot* of empathy) is that they're not particularly well read. As in, if you look at any "curriculum" or paper, esp re: policy, the oldest cite is from like 2020

BBC News (World) If anyone ever needs an exemplar of the media using the passive voice to obscure the reality of a situation, this is it.

just revealed to some friends that i write my dissertation chapters in gmail as email drafts and people were Very Upset

I'm looking for PhD students with interests at the intersection of HCI and AI to join Renee Shelby and me as a part-time Student Researcher at Google AI this Winter/Spring! Experience with prompt tuning and model evaluation is a plus!

publicera.kb.se/jdsr/article/v… New piece in a very cool JDSR special issue '(Un)stable diffusions', *open access* - also ft. [email protected] McKelvey Thao Phan Luke Stark (lukestark.bsky.social) Alison Powell @[email protected] & more - where I talk about how genAI is being legitimised through dramas and rituals of 'realness'. Thread:

An insightful piece by Evani Radiya-Dixit that grounds pragmatic recommendations for AI assessment in recent exemplars and the longer history of responsible technology design

Happy to announce our paper “Media Bias Detector: Designing and Implementing a Tool for Real-Time Selection and Framing Bias Analysis in News Coverage” was accepted at #CHI2025! (My first publication!)

🗣️ New Communication Theory article! With Carolyn Schmitt and Shannon McGregor, PhD Communication can benefit from clarity, but what about a tactical lack of clarity? Here, e explicate "strategic ambiguity" and argue for its importance in political communication. bit.ly/StratAm 1/🧵

saying ‘no’ as praxis

DHS agents detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian activist & Columbia University student last night, declaring his visa had been revoked. Khalil has a green card - not a visa - & is a lawful permanent resident. DHS appeared confused by this news & detained him anyway.

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done. My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it. I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

We're doing a follow-up workshop @ CSCW! Positech 2: Design for Hope will explore how design methodologies can help us envision and achieve positive social futures AND how these processes cultivate hope in the face of otherwise overwhelming challenges. Hope to see you there!