Angela Davis speaking the truth against violent settler-colonialism.

The F4P UofT chapter has just released a University of Toronto Faculty Pledge for the Academic Boycott of Israel.

100+ faculty have pledged to uphold PACBI - BDS movement’s call for academic boycott. UofT faculty are urged to sign the pledge as students demand BDS.
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It's been six years since I graduated from Cornell. I was so fortunate to get some of the brightest and brave thinkers of our field as my mentors.

Also, I will forever miss reading books with Steve. That alone changed my thinking profoundly. #grateful

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Those of you who are attending ACM FAccT in Brazil, please say hi to Rashidujjaman Rifat (on the job market). He has been doing really cool work bridging AI and HCI.

Proud to stand with 100+ of my inspiring colleagues/alumni at uoftdivest.ca.

University of Toronto admin : Listen to our students UofT Occupy for Palestine.

Disclose. Divest. Cut Ties.

#WeAreUofT

'Research has shown that climate change will make severe turbulence more likely in the future.'

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When you leave OpenAI, you get an unpleasant surprise: a departure deal where if you don't sign a lifelong nondisparagement commitment, you lose all of your vested equity: vox.com/future-perfect…

Amazing article by 𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚡 𝚌𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣: ' I don’t come to computers for the inaccurate magic of human consciousness. I come to them because they are very accurate when humans are not.' 💀 theverge.com/2024/5/15/2415… via @Verge

'The software is so problematic that, come June, it will already be on its seventh iteration, Verster said.'

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The ACM #CHI2024 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is underway in Honolulu! Lots of SRI researchers presenting work, incl. Ishtiaque Ahmed, Reem Ayad | ريم عياد, Taneea S Agrawaal, Sharon Ferguson, Michael Inzlicht, & more. Check out a paper by SRI's Kelly McConvey & Shion Guha below.⬇️

“Jewish safety cannot—and will not—come at the expense of Palestinian freedom… I reject the premise that one people’s salvation must come at another’s destruction.”

If you are at #CHI2024 and interested in themes like group conflicts and coexistence, interfaith learning, VR, ethics in group connections, empathy, and faith, join us tomorrow (Thursday, May 15) at 9:15 AM in Room 319.

Paper and Demo: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/36…

The replies & QT to this tweet shows the unwillingness of imperialist Westerners to see connections between genocide & ecocide or read/seek knowledge on military-fossil-industrial complex, but spew imperialist, racist, warmongering comments to those who demonstrate connections.

Missing #CHI2024 to be with my little baby, but this picture of our Best Paper Award made my day! Incredible work by Pratyasha Saha, Nusrat Jahan Mim , Taiabul Haque , and the team.

We hope this work begins a movement to empower the stigmatized sex workers in Bangladesh.

Our #CHI2024 paper on how academic computer science research practices shape the societal impact of digital agriculture is out! doi.org/10.1145/361390… This paper combines social science with hands-on systems-building to analyze how computing's societal impacts are shaped.

So looking forward to it.

Happy Mother's Day to my mom and a shout-out to all 'undocumented immigrant' mothers out there who raised their children to speak for peace and humanity.

New.

The harsh crackdown on campus protest is predictably ineffective, blatantly hypocritical and extremely dangerous for the future.

It won’t work, it will backfire, and it will endanger more than rights on campuses.

And there were sane ways to deal with their challenges.

🚨Excited to announce the first Toronto Ethics in AI Symposium Toronto Ethics in AI Symposium! Co-organized with Yoyo Liu

🗺️ June 17th, 2024, Bahen 1160, University of Toronto 9am-5pm

Will cover philosophy, fairness, policy and governance of AI! 1/2🧵