2/2 And I am excited to announce that we are hiring a PostDoc and a PhD student to work with us on these topics. Group description: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/research/... PhD position: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/... PostDoc position: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

1/2 In December, I'll return to the Weizenbaum Institute to join the group “Digitalization and Opening up Science” as Research Group Lead. I will continue to research the scientific practices related to the development, evaluation, and use of AI, in particular wrt. epistemic and ethical aspects.

Ein Forschungsprojekt soll zeigen, wie sich Beziehungen durch KI-gestützte Videoüberwachung verändern. In einem Zwischenstand berichten die Wissenschaftler*innen über Diskriminierung, Verdrängung und wie KI-basierte Überwachung automatisch zu ihrer Ausweitung führt. netzpolitik.org/2025/ki-kame...

most people want a quick and simple answer to why AI systems encode/exacerbate societal and historical bias/injustice and due to the reductive but common thinking of "bias in, bias out," the obvious culprit often is training data but this is not entirely true 1/

New pre-print announcement: "Social Bias in Popular Question-Answering Benchmarks" co-authored by Judith Simon and Sonja Schimmler (arxiv.org/abs/2505.15553) Voilà, my first ever thread :)

👉 👈 Meta announced that they're changing their models to reduce "left-leaning [political] bias"--that means leaning them to the political "right". Lots to unpack about what that might mean. So I ran a quick "shot in the dark" study...and found a *political right* bias in Meta models. Some notes.🧵

Ich habe wieder die Ehre ein Weizenbaum Forum zu moderieren! Uns erwarten ein wunderbares Panel und spannende Fragen zu feministischen und dekolonialen Kritiken der KI und wie/ob sie dabei helfen können, KI-Systeme in der Praxis gerechter zu gestalten.

How can we better capture marginalised voices through computational text analysis? An inspiring roundtable at #COMPTEXT2025 sparked important reflections. Huge thanks to @ahrabhikat.bsky.social, @krangelie.bsky.social, @indiiigo.bsky.social for guiding this vital conversation!

I am looking forward to discussing and raising awareness of this topic with such brilliant colleagues - especially in current times! Thanks again to @fabiennelind.bsky.social and @ahrabhikat.bsky.social for kindly inviting me!

THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

Tech Won’t Save Us is turning 5 years old — and we need your support to make a new series digging into Silicon Valley’s growing alliance with the Pentagon! Help us out by becoming a paid supporter: patreon.com/techwontsaveus

Meta introduced Llama 4 models and added this section near the very bottom of the announcement 😬 “[LLMs] historically have leaned left when it comes to debated political and social topics.” ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4...

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

The EU's #AIAct red lines on certain AI applications are now in effect! Learn more: algorithmwatch.org/en/ai-act-pr... 📢 If you believe a prohibited AI system has been used against you, you can report it to your country’s market surveillance authority. In Germany, this is the @bnetza.bsky.social#AIAct

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Cyberlibertarianism has shaped how we see the internet. As tech aligns with the extreme right, it’s more important than ever to reassess it. This week @hypervisible.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss David Golumbia’s book on cyberlibertarianism. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/261_...

Der Sturm gegen Merz nimmt krass Fahrt auf! Von Hamburg über Leipzig, Würzburg, Halle, Aachen… - und morgen in Berlin auf der Reichstagswiese MIT Michel Friedmann!

Hamburg hält dagegen! In #Hamburg haben heute 80.000 Menschen gegen den Tabubruch von Union und FDP protestiert. Denn: Wer mit Faschisten paktiert, hat nichts kapiert! #Merz

openai can steal from anyone, but no one can steal from openai

Holy moly. I'm trying to write an academic paper, and nearly every application I'm using is not only offering Generative AI as an option for writing, but *pushing it* -- pervading the design to the point where a simple misclick would make my content AI-generated. Here's why that's a problem. 🧵

really good, in-depth piece by @molly.wiki about the war on Wikipedia www.citationneeded.news/elon-musk-an...

Despite media representations to the contrary, "women remain underrepresented among faculty in nearly all academic fields...A large-scale survey of the same faculty indicates that the reasons faculty leave are gendered, even for institutions, fields, and career ages in which retention rates are not"

Anwohner*innen St. Paulis befürchten, dass es dort bald Tote durch Polizeischüsse gibt. Wenn Polizist*innen auf schwarze Menschen in psych. Krisensituation treffen, endet es schnell tödlich (Dramé, Touray,…) Kürzlich kam es laut Anwohner*innen schon fast dazu: taz.de/Polizeigewal...

I wrote about Casey Newton's essay on AI skepticism, the uselessness of a "AI is real and dangerous" v. "AI is fake and sucks" dichotomy, and the limits of AI boosterism. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/the-phony-...

We're working hard behind the scenes to finalize the dates and venue for #FAccT2025! While final confirmation is still pending, our tentative conference dates are June 23-26. Expect more updates soon!

Cohere is quietly working with Palantir to deploy its AI models

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At #NeurIPS2024, the keynote speaker perpetuated explicit racist stereotypes against Chinese students. Generalizations against a community subject to discrimination, even as an “example”, further provokes discrimination. Below, video of an audience member’s perfect response.