Heteropessimism is having a pop culture moment. I wrote about it in my new paper out today in @culsoc.bsky.social ! Please give it a read: doi.org/10.1177/1749... Huge thanks to my advisor @ralmeling.bsky.social for reading dozens of drafts & supporting me in getting this from early stage to pub!

(1/n) AI companies often market their products as "helpful", "honest", and "harmless". But how do they support these claims? We found that technical reports from OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Anthropic almost entirely ignore real-world contexts for discriminatory harms. ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AA...

Super post from @evanshieh.bsky.social in the @civicsoftech.bsky.social newsletter this week! Stop calling it “AI literacy” if it doesn’t teach history www.civicsoftechnology.org/blog/stop-ca...