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Great news today from @CFPB requiring companies to give workers rights to see and dispute the assessments by surveillance and scoring systems. consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsr… I first called for algorithmic due process in 2016! nytimes.com/2016/08/01/opi…

We've lost control of our social media feeds. As our legal system takes notice, Julia Angwin sees a silver lining: the potential to "finally force social media platforms to be answerable for the societal consequences of their choices." nytimes.com/2024/10/21/opi…

AI large language models are already showing great promise for translation. However, a new AI Democracy Projects report shows that caution is warranted in critical domains, such as critical information about elections and voting.

Thank you Garance Burke for highlighting the findings of our Proof News Factchequeado Alondra Nelson investigation of the poor performance of AI models in answering voter queries in Spanish. apnews.com/article/ai-cha…

New video: Computation + Journalism Symposium Keynote: Julia Angwin - Journalism in the Age of AI youtu.be/wS1V-wYDkX0?si… cc Julia Angwin Nicholas Diakopoulos Rahul B (@[email protected]) 🇺🇦 [email protected] Bahareh Heravi Northeastern U. Storybench

In our latest testing, the AI chatbots were pretty decent at detecting and debunking known vote count misinformation. With one notable – and surprising – exception: ChatGPT. proofnews.org/whats-up-with-…

This event is back on! We had to reschedule last month. My list of questions is going to be different now!!

How the right bullied social media companies into opening the floodgates for lies during this election — my latest for New York Times Opinion (gift link). nytimes.com/2024/11/20/opi…

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First installment of our 3-part series on the climate impacts of AI just dropped on YouTube. 👇🏻

Second part of our three-part series on the climate impacts of AI just dropped! 👇🏻

You may have heard that having a conversation with ChatGPT is the climate equivalent of pouring out a bottle of water. In fact, that is likely an underestimate. In the 3rd installment in our series on the climate costs of AI, we tackle thirsty AI. youtube.com/watch?v=s67L2o…

Final installment in our three-part series on the climate costs of AI. Come to watch Aaron W. Gordon ham it up pouring out water bottles, but stay to grapple with the brutal realities of climate mitigations where you can maybe save water or carbon, but it's really hard to save both.

The key finding of my comparison of how journalists & creators build trust with audiences: Journalism has placed many markers of trust in institutional processes that are opaque to audiences, while creators embed the markers of trust directly in interactions with audiences.

Journalists place “many markers of trust in institutional processes that are opaque to audiences, while creators try to embed the markers of trust directly in their interactions with audiences.”- Julia Angwin “journalists assume their audiences trust them, and creators do not.”

This is a very smart paper; I cringe when journalists refer to audience engagement as *promotion*!as I see it as trust-building and public service.

Courage is contagious. But how do we catch it? For months, Ami Fields-Meyer and I have been asking dissidents and activists from around the world how we can topple authoritarianism. We assembled their lessons into a field guide to courage. newyorker.com/news/the-weeke…