Around half of San Francisco is without power right now and something like 1/3rd of intersections I drove through had waymos stopped in the middle of them making a dangerous situation even worse. Do not let Waymo into your city.

Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout. With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections. missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...

"Having an AI do it and fail half the time isn't exactly a winning alternative." www.extremetech.com/computing/mi...

#Brazil 🇧🇷 @indexoncensorship.org covers how Meta removed multiple Brazilian left-wing influencers from Instagram, with politicians calling the bans a “direct attack on freedom of speech” and on voices denouncing corruption and police violence.

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

Seems pretty risky to "talk" to those things even if you start out with good mental health.

Spell check existed long before genAI and in its most basic function is not genAI. Spell check is code. It's a function. It checks against a database of available words. Spell check in certain programs, however, may have been made worse by running it through genAI.

anyone who believes and/or promotes the use of chatbots/ AI “companions” for therapy either chooses to ignore evidence that these bots can actually exacerbate mental health issues or is speaking from a place of ignorance dl.acm.org/doi/full/10....

"I joined Sama in Nairobi, labeling data for Meta, my entry into the global AI supply chain. From there, I stumbled into digital work, chat moderation, a job advertised as simple online messaging but which turned out to be something else entirely" data-workers.org/michael/ the AI industry is fraud

This is not the first time RFK Jr or his fellow anti-vax travelers conducted a study they knew would harm or kill children in low-income countries. It is a dehumanizing, colonialist model of manufacturing evidence: sacrificing foreign kids for political pseudoscience. www.notus.org/health-scien...

the slow death of legitimate, verifiable, reliable knowledge systems

I'm used to people spelling my name in all kinda ways but *ameba* is a first time

Hey, Ireland should try this with Google and Meta. Who need North Sea oil? We just nationalise foreign companies that get successful.

It's not *reflecting* a coarser era. The coarser era is being *created* as we speak, with lots of help from the NYT and others.

The absolute lowest death toll from the Gaza genocide is equivalent to 6 Bondi shootings *every single day for over 2 years.* That is 90 people per day. 70,000 at a bare minimum. It is more likely at least 3 or 4 times that and very possibly more.

For ten years, Tesla FSD has been the grift that keeps on grifting. I don't expect that to change in 2026.

The more we see of Chinese EV's the more we realise just how shit and out-of-date Tesla really is. "Ignore that! Look over there! Fake robots and a Mars mission which will never happen! Please believe me, don't tank my fraud!"

I love to be told that feminism has failed women by women whose careers and ability to flourish in public life, let alone have a credit card, only exist because of feminism

But let's turn that around: Anyone who wants to call what they are doing "AI" should be accountable for making clear why their product (or research) isn't in fact slop. That's on them. The rest of us do not need to hold space for that. >>

Oh my fucking god- I went to pull up another account by someone who had two posts and didn’t understand the platform AND IT WAS ALSO DELETED @safety.bsky.app- do you want to reinstate @ahlam79.bsky.social’s account too??

A broad interpretation of India's new data privacy regime reveals a troubling reality: it would dramatically enlarge the volume, granularity and sensitivity of retained metadata, heightening risks of pervasive monitoring, Rudraksh Lakra writes

'“This is yet more evidence that the public is footing the environmental bill for some of the richest companies on Earth,” said Donald Campbell, the director of advocacy at Foxglove, a UK non-profit that campaigns for fairness in tech.' www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Are you passionate about exploring what a conceptually cogent, methodologically sound, and well-founded AI evaluation and safety research might look like? Come do a PhD with us. Closing Date: 10 February 2026 Apply here aial.ie/hiring/phd-a...

We're hiring a postdoc to identify, map and evaluate commercially used age verification systems Closing Date: 16 January 2026 Apply here: aial.ie/hiring/postd...

Now, we tackle in turn the issues we outlined in the abstract: First, the displacement of human participants, tracing the history of technologies to recruit real people, we end up forgetting the whole point: gathering — not fabricating! — human data. More at section 3: doi.org/10.31234/osf... 5/

Without Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) in psychology (doi.org/10.31234/osf...) we risk the following: 1️⃣ misunderstanding statistical models, thinking correlation is causation; 2️⃣ confusing statistical models and cognitive models, undermining theory; 3️⃣ going against stated open science norms. 4/

New preprint 🌟 Psychology is core to cognitive science, and so it is vital we preserve it from harmful frames. @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I use our psych and computer science expertise to analyse and craft: Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Psychologists. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 🧵 1/

Hace años a esto lo llamábamos "inventarnos los datos" y estaba mal visto.

Minor theory: they're vaguely aware that the physical sciences have a use for simulations of atoms, materials, fluids etc. so they think obviously there must be just as much use for simulations of people in social science.

are you disgruntled by the current safety evaluation landscape? curious about what conceptual clarity, methodological soundness and rigour in AI evaluation might look like? if so, consider coming to dublin and doing a phd with me apply here: aial.ie/hiring/phd-a...

i'm hiring a postdoc to map the age-verification space and do some audits if you’ve worked in this area, pls apply: aial.ie/hiring/postd... pls share widely

As someone who has ::checks notes:: 117 publications in the ACM Digital Library, can confirm I was not asked nor told about this. It doesn't appear on ALL papers, and I can't intuit a rhyme or reason to which ones. Maybe I shouldn't be, but I'm legitimately surprised there's not an opt out option.

The AI summary appears where the abstract should be and you actually have to notice it and click a different tab to read the author-written abstract. It says "This content is AI-generated" at the bottom, but just "✨Summary" before you read. I guess ✨ has become the official emoji of AI but still.

simply unacceptable

Ireland's Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence published its interim report yesterday. The Committee makes a number of recommendations, which include: 1. "Ireland must not shy away from the EU #AI Act or try to dilute it... www.oireachtas.ie/en/press-cen...

good morning from Dublin

Excited to read this. I would like to say before reading that I cannot possibly imagine that "synthetic data" would be able to contribute anything to science. The whole point of looking into stuff no one has looked into before is... the answer to the question is unknown????

100% agree! You might also find this paper with @lmesseri.bsky.social helpful: bsky.app/profile/lmes...

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This was the only topic I couldn't get students to reconsider about AI this fall. I think there are whole fields/departments of social science and data science that should be fully ignored going forward. Because it won't be real.

Feminist scholarship has been working furiously on theorizing "reality" and how to study it with a political commitment to diversity for at least forty years and *we* have been the "unscientific" ones. So the rise of synthetic data, esp in social research, looks particularly bizarre from here.

I wrote this brief talk on why “augmenting diversity” with LLMs is empirically unsubstantiable, conceptually flawed, and epistemically harmful and a nice surprise to see the organisers have made it public synthetic-data-workshop.github.io/papers/13.pdf

Hear @abeba.bsky.social's full conversation with @alixdunn.com in our second installment of Computer Says Mozfest here: www.themaybe.org/podcast/abeb...

@alixdunn.com sat down with @abeba.bsky.social at Mozfest to hear how this all went down—and some of what Abeba wanted people at the UN to understand about how AI encodes and exacerbates existing societal injustices.

In @abeba.bsky.social's words: “Trying to convert these systems into AI for social good is like building with rotting wood and attempting to build a palace.”

@abeba.bsky.social gave what remained of her talk, but it was a shadow of what she wanted to say. Afterwards, @nabiha.bsky.social reached out and asked her to give the same speech at Mozilla Festival — this time, uncensored.

Just a few hours before @abeba.bsky.social was supposed to give the keynote speech at the UN’s AI for Good Summit, three large men in black suits flipped through her slide deck, cutting out any mention of Palestine, Israel, or even the word genocide.

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

The European Commission is set to water down the EU's 2035 de facto combustion engine ban by requiring automakers to lower their emissions by 90 percent instead of the original 100 percent.

the activist in me agrees with this but the academic in me see it as a massive undertaking difficult to put in my priorities list at moment