It was fun as heck to think with pegah moradi پگاه مرادی about weird celebrity controversies and robotic replication — come for the JFK robot, stay for Bob Dylan’s fake (?) autographs! 🖋️🤖

Sooooo many people have been asking this. So, through 3 controversies surrounding the use of the autopen, we show how robotic replication can shake up our assumptions about what values are embedded in everyday artifacts -- like autographs, letters, and contracts

Ever wondered what Donald Rumsfeld, Gordon Ramsay, and Bob Dylan have to do with generative AI? Great news: My essay with Karen Levy on what a quirky old machine can tell us about how automation reconfigures social relationships is out in International Journal of Communication! ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc…

So happy to have this article out in the world! It was a dream to collaborate on this with Sarah Brayne and Sarah Esther Lageson, and grateful to Dr. Ashley T. Rubin and the rest of the LSR team for helping us refine it ✨

So proud of this project with my dream team coauthors Sarah Brayne and Karen Levy

My research deals with hallucinations, so I was excited to try this out - unfortunately it immediately fell for a classic gender stereotype (CC Cade Metz)

A fantastic example from my student Emma Harvey of how hallucination-checking software can fall prey to the same biases as LLMs hallucinating in the first place. A service highlighted by the The New York Times (@vectara) assumes a sentence with female doc & male nurse is likely hallucinated.

Faculty searches at Cornell Information Science!
1. Human-AI interaction, esp. builders/designers (Ithaca): academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25656
2. Ethics/law/policy, incl. technical approaches (NYC): academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25657
3. Lecturers in any area (Ithaca): academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25658

📣📢 new paper 📣📢

“Strategic Evaluation: Subjects, Evaluators, and Society”
by me, Jon Kleinberg, Karen Levy (Karen Levy), and Helen Nissenbaum (@HNissenbaum).

Available & soon to be published at #EAAMO2023 (@ACMEAAMO)!

*Three* faculty searches here Cornell Information Science!

In Ithaca, in human-AI interaction, esp. builders/designers: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25656

In NYC, in ethics/law/policy, incl. technical approaches: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25657

In Ithaca, lecturers in any area: academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/25658

Some news! I'll be joining Brown CS as an assistant professor in fall 2024 :) I'm excited to continue work on participatory, equitable & accountable ML✨

Wow! The folks at Overdrive have put together an incredible *seven-part series* on the state of surveillance in trucking, following on Data Driven. Especially honored to get to talk with my longtime hero Long Haul Paul for the accompanying podcast!

overdriveonline.com/business/artic…

Breaking a long Twitter absence to congratulate **Doctor** Sarah Riley on a truly incredible dissertation and defense!!! I can't wait to see what's coming next ✨

This is a great interview w/ Karen Levy about her awesome new book #DataDriven . I really appreciate the organic flow of the conversation b/t her & Matt Finch. Nicely done.
mechanicaldolphin.com/2023/02/20/scr…

Critically important research led by A. Feder Cooper, who’s doing some of the best stuff in the biz ✨

Here it is y'all: THE APPLE II AGE: HOW THE COMPUTER BECAME PERSONAL--now with a cover!Make sure it's in your hands in May with this 30% off code from UChicagoPress: UCPNEW

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

Everyone should be so lucky as to have a colleague like Ari Ezra Waldman, whose intellectual generosity shapes the field of technology law.

*and* I'm such a fan of Jotwell -- thanks Michael Froomkin for creating such a positive and generative space for legal research!

I wrote about TEETH
defector.com/now-thats-what…

On the latest Radio Hour–Professor Karen Levy on her book “Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance.” And teenager Logan Lane on how she and her friends cut out iPhones and social media by forming “The Luddite Club”. ralphnaderradiohour.com/p/workplace-su…