No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

ICE at the polls! Bannon is basically yelling “fire” in a crowded theater here. His objective is to cause chaos (and suppress votes on the left). And it’s already working. This threat works on multiple levels and doesn’t have to be “real” to serve its purpose. Let me explain & offer some advice.

The Philadelphia Inquirer is an excellent newspaper that continues to publish and employ real journalists. If you're looking to support independent journalism today: www.inquirer.com

We're hiring! Applications DUE this Friday, Feb 6th. If you're seeing this after Friday, please do still submit - we'll keep reviewing applications until the positions are filled.

“‘Unfortunately, DOJ, for a second year in a row, seems to have repeated many of the shortcomings we saw last year — primarily that’s their complete lack of any reporting about their implementation of risk management practices,’ said [CDT’s] Quinn Anex-Ries.”

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Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

We're hiring multiple faculty positions! Full time positions in CS for 1 or maybe 2 years. We care about and support both teaching and research, and past visiting faculty have gone on to TT R1 and SLAC jobs. We're located near Philadelphia. Happy to answer Qs! www.haverford.edu/provost-comp...

Ghost in the Machine @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social premiered at Sundance this week. It's an excellent and needed narrative shift telling the story of AI through a lens of history and power. I saw it pre release - I'm in it for only like 10 secs but still really excited! www.thewrap.com/creative-con...

Good afternoon from downtown Chicago, where despite heavy snowfall, thousands have gathered for an anti-ICE/CBP demonstration in solidarity with the Twin Cities. More are still streaming in. Lt. Illinois Gov. Juliana Stratton just addressed the crowd, and called for ICE to be abolished.

DHS wants to learn from the best on how to use large datasets to target people. (The best is Ad Tech). sam.gov/workspace/co...

I would like to gently request that AI pharmacy bots stop trying to kill my mother

"The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality." -James Baldwin, from Notes on the House of Bondage (The Nation, 1980) #everynightapoem #ofsorts

TODAY: Minnesota activists are joining together for a historic day of action with no work, no school, and no shopping. They’re also asking allies across the nation to hold solidarity actions to keep the focus on ICE’s ongoing brutality and the urgency to get ICE Out For Good.

New @acm.org U.S. Tech Policy Committee response to DHS proposed visa rule collecting social media data identifies serious risks to U.S. competitiveness in computer science research: www.acm.org/binaries/con... #TechPolicy

This Thursday 1/22 at 3pm ET, join us as @alondra.bsky.social, @edwardongwesojr.com, @telliotter.bsky.social, & D&S Policy Director Brian J. Chen discuss the reality of the administration’s AI agenda. datasociety.net/events/one-y...

New from 404 Media: ICE's facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice. ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

Things we hoped for when we wrote the A.I. Bill of Rights under @alondra.bsky.social at the White House in 2022: new legislation, executive action, holding tech companies accountable Things that we *literally* would not have believed: a Jeopardy! clue in 2026 @friedler.net @geomblog.bsky.social

Thank you for all your #FAccT2026 submissions! We’re so excited to read your papers. Preliminary reviews will be available February 20.

We have an important #FAccT2026 update! Our new dates are June 25-June 28 and our new location is Le Centre Sheraton Montréal. We’re so sorry for any inconvenience caused by this change! Why the change? Thread --> 1/n

I talked with @wuwmradio.bsky.social about data centers and how they affect the environment: www.wuwm.com/what-are-dat...

EPIC recently submitted comments to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services pushing back on a proposed rule that would dangerously expand the government’s collection and use of biometric data. EPIC has long highlighted concerns over increasing use of biometric data. epic.org/epic-opposes...

WIRED interviewed me extensively for this piece and the recommendations still stand. Please share with anyone who might benefit

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

Reminder! We have an extensive author guide to help you prepare your paper submissions! It includes important info about: - the reviewing process - formatting instructions - our preprint, AI, and other policies facctconference.org/2026/authorg...

Preparing your #FAccT2026 abstract for our January 8 deadline? Make sure your author list is ready to go! It’s NOT possible to change the author list after the abstract deadline, so make sure you confirm contributions and have permission from all authors. Read more in our author guide:

This morning, we @consumerfed.bsky.social renewed and expanded our urgent call to all US AG offices and the FTC, FCC, and DOJ for rapid investigation and enforcement against X's disgusting and purposeful behavior xAI must be held accountable consumerfed.org/testimonial/...

Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.

Tech Policy Press fellow Anika Collier Navaroli and I just wrapped her special podcast series, Through to Thriving, with insights from Ellen Pao, Jerrel Peterson, Alice Hunsberger, Vaishnavi J, Desmond Patton, Nora Benavidez, Mimi Ọnụọha, Timnit Gebru, Jasmine McNealy, Naomi Nix, and Chris Gilliard:

This is a thoroughly enjoyable read.

Brown’s student newspaper is posting updates about the shooting at its campus. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

The horrific tragedy at Brown University is the 389th mass shooting this year and the 230th gun incident on school grounds so far this year. This is not normal and we don't have to live this way. bradyunited.org @bradyunited.org

Another handbag for justice. Another purse against fascism. The famous clobber-a-Nazi image from Sweden 40 years ago.

"Want to come the World Cup? We're going to need you to tell us every one of your social media accounts, every family member's names, addresses, and phone number, and every email address you've used in the last decade. Welcome to the land of the free!"

One way to think of the Trump Admin is as having SHIFTED the $$ we used to spend on curing cancer (and providing care to Veterans and protecting nature and etc) to snatching brown people off the streets.

"A coalition of more than 230 environmental groups has demanded a national moratorium on new datacenters in the US, the latest salvo in a growing backlash to a booming artificial intelligence industry that has been blamed for escalating electricity bills and worsening the climate crisis."

"Starting Jan. 1, in six states selected to take part in a federal pilot program, traditional Medicare recipients will face a new hurdle to get certain procedures covered -- private AI companies that get paid based on how many claims they deny..." www.kuow.org/stories/thou...

📣 It's again that time of the year 🤩 - our internship call for the FATE team @ MSR Montreal and our collaborators is now up! 🎉🎉 We are broadly looking for candidates interested in perceptions, evaluation, uses, and impacts of AI! #FAccT #FAccT2025 #CHI2025 #NeurIPS2025 #ACL2025

Let me tell you a story. Perhaps you can guess where this is going... though it does have a bit of a twist. I was poking around Google Scholar for publications about the relationship between chatbots and wellness. Oh how useful: a systematic literature review! Let's dig into the findings. 🧵

Pleased to endorse the AI Civil Rights Act, comprehensive legislation to prevent companies from using AI for biased and discriminatory life outcomes, ensure algos are tested before and after deployment and increase transparency of algorithms used for critical decisions. #AIBillofRights

On January 1, Illinois begins to regulate employer use of AI, making it a civil rights violation to use AI tools that result in discrimination based on protected characteristics in hiring, promotion, discipline, termination, or other employment terms and requiring notice of AI use. #AIBillofRights

And, if you are a non-US citizen who did this work, you and your entire family will be banned from the United States. (I know this is incredible, but read the order—that’s what it says!)

For the second time this year, border agents set a record for warrantless device searches — over 16,000 phones, laptops, & tablets examined without judicial oversight. In the final blog in a 3-part series, CDT's @jakelaperruque.bsky.social warns how AI could supercharge this. cdt.org/insights/the...

Y'all, tmrw is a BIG DAY for civil rights and tech. @markey.senate.gov, @repyvetteclarke.bsky.social, @jayapal.house.gov, @pressley.house.gov, & @repsummerlee.bsky.social are introducing the AI Civil Rights Act: the new gold standard AI bill endorsed by 85+ civil society orgs. Pull up a chair. 1/n

Queer in AI is hosting a workshop at neurips tomorrow! I'm really excited for this program, covering a dazzling array of positive uses of tech/AI for queer people (including some we're making at Queer in AI), AI policy, and critiques of AI and tech. www.queerinai.com/neurips-2025

ACM members/computing researchers who should be members interested in contributing should join the subcommittee's mailing list! One of our goals here is to build policy coalitions across institutions so we can do more as a collective 💪 and balance special interest groups.

We're adding some incredible folks to @acm.org's US tech policy team! Looking forward to the work we can do together.

Christmas is coming, and the Black Friday sales signal we’re in peak gift-buying season. When you’re picking out gifts for friends and family this year, there’s a whole slew of tech products that are better to avoid. I put together a guide to help you through it.

NEW: US President Donald Trump is considering signing an executive order that would seek to challenge state efforts to regulate artificial intelligence through lawsuits and the withholding of federal funding, WIRED has learned.