📢 This month's Wikimedia Foundation Research Showcase is on January 17 at 17:30 UTC!  Watch the livestream here: youtube.com/watch?v=UUuC6Q…  w/ Monika Sengul-Jones, PhD, Lucie-Aimée Kaffee, Arnav Arora, and Amber Berson.

I would love to see more public humanities that brings the best and most careful modes of academic thought to the public sphere, and less of the kind that chases controversy for its own sake. Yes I know both exist. I want the proportion to change.

A big question looms over generative AI: what really is its impact on the environment? I spent months investigating a single campus of Microsoft data centers in the Arizona desert - designated in part for OpenAI - in an attempt to find out. Thread. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

So excited for this University of Washington event with EFF on security after AI eff.org/event/model-ha…

We had a wonderful time hosting François Delerue! Thank you for joining us for our Tech Policy Discussion & providing a great deal of insight on International Law & seeing it as a framework for the regulation of tech. We also enjoyed giving a tour of our beautiful University of Washington campus.

How do ethnic, racial, and colonial histories inform historical and contemporary practices of AI? Join us for an online talk and masterclass on "Ethnicity and AI" with Kalindi Vora @[email protected] @ejonesimhotep Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan on 30 April 2024: eventbrite.com/e/master-class…

Omg!! Thee Tarleton Gillespie using my quote?? For the opening of his canonical framing of generative a.i.????

Been asking for this! FTC warns about AI over-claims axios.com/pro/tech-polic…

The Media, Science, and Technology Special Interest Group (SCMS Media, Science, and Technology SIG) of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS) is seeking nominations for a new co-chair, grad rep, and member at large!

Postdoc (feminist intersectional STS) opportunity in one of following areas: critical data studies, artificial intelligence and/or automation technologies; or social science of medicine and medical technologies. Closes 7/10/24 postdocs.yale.edu/postdoctoral-f…

Just as a reminder, I'm offering 2 webinars in July for academic moms to learn to use AI for time saving, efficiencies, and offloading tedious tasks. It is $25 for a 1.5 hour webinar (to cover costs associated with running it). More details here! katypearce.net/ai-empowerment/

Kate Starbird and I have a new op-ed coming out soon in Science on the threat to academic freedom in online misinformation research. Meanwhile the Supreme Court rejects conservative claims of social media censorship 6-3. Watch this space. 🔥

New in Science Magazine. Kate Starbird and I warn about the threat to academic freedom in misinformation research. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

I’m testifying before the U.S. Senate Thursday on AI and the need for privacy laws. commerce.senate.gov/2024/7/the-nee… What’s your example of AI being misused in a way that violates privacy?

Here is my written Senate testimony on the need for privacy laws in an age of AI. I rely on the work of Ari Ezra Waldman Danielle Citron Woodrow Hartzog Neil Richards Julie Cohen Alicia Solow-Niederman @jevanhutson and others. commerce.senate.gov/services/files… (PDF)

Making sense of rumors about the Trump assassination attempt cip.uw.edu/2024/07/15/tru…

We just got one BIG step closer to protecting victims of nonconsensual deepfake pornography. The DEFIANCE Act just passed the Senate, 100-0. Thank you Senator Dick Durbin for your partnership and to my GOP colleagues for their good faith support of this bill. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

Perseverance has its limits. Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resign…