Happy "the CHI deadline is over" to all who celebrate.

Today is the deadline! But we don't mind if you submit through the weekend, no one is checking ;)

Once more sharing our #CSCW2025 (NOW HYBRID) workshop on how to responsibly curate data for massive AI models. The deadline is September 5 (next Friday)! Note that the application form is simple and minimal :) responsible-data-workshop.github.io/cscw2025/

Unsurprising, but reading things like "It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual" and "It is acceptable to create statements that demean people on the basis of their protected characteristics" in actual corporate guidelines is just horrendous.

The giant spreadsheet of AI ethics & policy news has officially hit 2,000 entries! bit.ly/ai-ethics-news I have teaching plans & ideas for this so have been writing up curriculum in case it's useful for others--I know a few folks have told me they use this in their classes, can you tell me how? :)

The use of AI for emotional support is... unsurprising. After all, social media has played a role in making our culture more isolated, it makes sense people have turned to AI chatbots for emotional support and even friendship, especially when companies seek to profit off AI/human relationships.

how he sleeps after waking me up at 5:30 AM this morning

As you begin to register for #CSCW2025, don't forget to consider workshop application! We have made our workshop registration as low effort as possible :)

Paper: "Transphobia is in the Eye of the Prompter: Trans-Centered Perspectives on Large Language Models" Authors: @morganklauss.bsky.social, Katy Weathington, Adrian Petterson, Dylan Thomas Doyle, Dipto Das, Michael Ann DeVito, Jed R. Brubaker. #ACMTOCHI #LLMs #AIethics #HCI

#CSCW2025 is in desperate need of sponsors. If anyone here has connections - or is at an organization (industry, academic, nonprofit, whatever!) that would like to sponsor - please reach out to: [email protected]

How can ethical principles translate to the massive data used to train foundation models, like generative AI? Our #CSCW2025 workshop aims to explore how best to define the future of ethical responsibility in large-scale datasets for foundation model training. Apply here: tinyurl.com/CSCW-data

It's finally out! In this work, we centered positional expertise to interrogate how ChatGPT & Llama answer questions about trans identity. Beyond showing how LLMs treat trans identity, we contribute a unique method for evaluating LLMs and handling differing perspectives in coding

AI chatbots have been rolled out across 100s of white-collar workplaces but their effect on hours & pay has been negligible accrdg NBER. On average, employees saved 3% of their time, while just 3%-7% of their productivity gains came back to them in the form of higher pay fortune.com/2025/05/18/a...

🎧 New episode just dropped: we're unpacking the ethics of data + AI with @marylgray.bsky.social & @morganklauss.bsky.social Who really owns the data powering AI? What happens when consent is ignored? From surveillance to scraped content, we dive into the stakes—esp. for marginalized communities.

Hi all - I am getting a lot of emails and DMs about the Sony AI HCI Internship posting. However, I will not be able to answer them all nor will I be able to meet with people 1:1 or review materials outside the process. To answer some common questions:

Question for researchers - when writing your rebuttals, (1) do you emphasize what you will do or (2) do you make changes and then emphasize that you have attended to the review? Which method would you consider more convincing to reviewers?

Since I have gotten a few questions on what the Sony AI ethics team has been working on lately, I want to share our project page with some of our latest publications: ai.sony/projects/ai-...

Hi all! I am looking to recruit an intern for this summer at Sony AI. The researcher should have documented expertise in qualitative studies and an interest in studying how responsible AI is conducted within organizations. Feel free to share widely! tinyurl.com/hci-sony

For more technical students: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

"AI technology appears to outperform humans. But a closer look reveals that these games are rigged. The competitions do not actually ask machines to perform human tasks; it’s more accurate to say that they ask humans to behave in machine-like ways as they perform lifeless simulacra of human tasks."

It's super interesting to me how little work on foundation models has been done in @acm-cscw.bsky.social at this point... (esp compared to CHI) I think there's a lot of important socio-technical work to be done in this space, and yet it is currently sparse in the social computing community.

👋🏽 We're excited to announce the 💻Call for Workshops🛠️ for #CSCW2025! 📆 Deadline: March 27th, AOE. Workshops will be held on October 18-19th in Bergen, Norway. In-person workshops are strongly encouraged but hybrid is also possible. More details below ⤵️ cscw.acm.org/2025/index.p...

1. EXCLUSIVE Today, the NSA is planning a "Big Delete" of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including "privilege," "bias," and "inclusion," a NSA source tells Popular Information. The massive purge is creating chaos, taking down "mission-related" work

As I predicted, this is far worse than the last term... affecting existing funding for academics focused on marginalized communities. new.nsf.gov/executive-or...

I cannot imagine how difficult it will be for academics to get federal funding for any marginalized community research under this administration... I really hope you all find strategic workarounds for that important work 💔

Academic friends, I know a number of queer students on the market who are looking for postdocs in Europe. If you know of any, please post them here or link me and I will repost them!

1/7 🌈 BIG NEWS ALERT! The hottest Queer in AI workshop is back - and this time we're official! We're thrilled to announce we'll be at #NAACL2025 as an official workshop, meaning your work can now be published in the ACL anthology! 🎉

I can't wait to read this upcoming book by @haimson.bsky.social! mitpress.mit.edu/978026255186... I expect it will be a fascinating look into the ways that technology design often overlooks the margins, but also how attending to the margins opens up new possibilities that benefit everyone.

The gift I want most from you all this year is to accept your CSCW reviews <3

Writing is thinking. It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.

A write-up on our #NeurIPS2024 work on the challenges curators face trying to curate fair ML datasets. For those attending NeurIPS, @dorazhao.bsky.social will be presenting this work as an oral on December 13 :) ai.sony/blog/Explori...

Also you probably don't know once you're in a dataset in order to request removal from it even if you wanted to. @morganklauss.bsky.social led this paper a few years ago about this traceability problem (and what we might do about it). medium.com/acm-cscw/fro...

When I will respond to your email

Shifting platforms is so hard... like, do I migrate my old posts or wait til I have something new to say? :P