If you haven't read this piece on language use in around AI, you definitely should. Great work from @emilymbender.bsky.social , @nannainie.bsky.social and Peter Zukerman, with solutions for what to call things we backoff to just anthropomorphising. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

Are you annoyed with the anthropomorphizing language being used in the "AI" discourse, but not sure how to talk about this stuff without it? @nannainie.bsky.social and I have got you covered: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Picard management tip: Don't waste time using social media. Pretend it was never invented.

Call for submissions on environmentally sustainable AI: workshop at @chi.acm.org 2026: HCI-TERRA. What do we do in HCI to make AI better for the environment? Submit your research, art, position paper, design ideas here: hci-terra.github.io

This has been a super helpful guide by @emilymbender.bsky.social, Peter Zuckerman and @nannainie.bsky.social as I'm editing my thesis. Highly recommend. I low key wish this would be a plug-in that would underline the red flaggy turns of phrases as I'm writing. 😮‍💨 firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...

"Anthropomorphizing language...portrays a world view in which the people responsible for developing the systems are not held accountable for the system’s inaccurate, inappropriate, and sometimes deadly output,” write @emilymbender.bsky.social and @nannainie.bsky.social.

Anthropomorphizing language conceals the limitations of AI, promoting misplaced trust. @emilymbender.bsky.social & @nannainie.bsky.social suggest focusing on a system’s functionalities: instead of saying a model is “good at” something, say what it is “good for." www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-t...

"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems." From @nannainie.bsky.social & me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language about so-called "AI".

I am going through the #CHI2026 bidding for papers to review and will slam that desk-accept button so hard for any paper not about AI or LLMs

Looking forward to Travis Kelce's girlfriend's married-with-children era when she'll musically address the salient questions in later life such as "Is it chill that I need 2-factor-fucking-authentification for accessing John's Excel sheet?" and "Mommy, why is it ok that cars are faster than cars?"

Did you know that the ideation tools that most creative professionals have in common are the simplest ones: pen & paper, phone notes, and the phone camera? Idea management across creative domains - a rare large-scale comparative analysis!

Me explaining the rationality of my vibe code: #CHI2025

Every head of department explaining his justification for why he hasn’t hired more women: #CHI2025

Me explaining to reviewers why 13 users was definitely enough: #CHI2025

What is foreground/background contrast anyway? #CHI2025

“The correct locus of causality is ALWAYS external to the AI system” - this paper deserved more than an honorable mention, amazing work! 🔥 at #CHI2025 by Saumya Pareek, Sarah Schömbs, Eduardo Velloso & Jorge Goncalves

“yes” #chi2025

yo #chi2025 where u @ #YOKOHAMABRO #HaccMan

OH MY GOD I fangirl so hard over our research being featured in Psypost!

"to democratize art is not every person having a cute drawing made in seconds, to democratize art is every person having time and health to learn and make art if they chose to, and mainly to have the means to think and relate introspectively with art."

Yeah it’s not like we would ever blame the weapon industry or the tobacco industry

I often wonder: since the invention of the dishwasher, why are tableware items that cannot be machine washed even produced? It’s like inventing penicillin but still purposefully contracting some pneumonia here and there because it looks neat

Have you ever wondered what happens when you wash or dry a load with [any object in the world literally from a package of raisins over 16 rocks to a turd] in the pocket or have you also had a child so now you know?

OMG Emily M. Bender vs. Sébastien Bubeck on: The Great Chatbot Debate Do LLMs Really Understand? @emilymbender.bsky.social / @sbubeck.bsky.social computerhistory.org/events/great...

damn being a teenager sucked

"Happy" Bramble Cay Melomys remembrance day 💔

Lol I just made $1000 buying Nvidia yesterday

I et nyt studie definerer @leonderczynski.bsky.social, og @nannainie.bsky.social "LLM red teaming”. Det er, når man forsøger at få sprogmodellen til at opføre sig på en utilsigtet måde, fx ved at snyde ChatGPT til at give brugeren opskriften på napalm. Læs om projektet her 👉 itu.dk/Om-ITU/Press...

Word on the street is my dad’s surname, Brown, was the result of the introduction of typewriters some generations back. They used to be “Broen”, but e and w are right next to each other on a typewriter, so now they are Brown.

How CO2STLY is CHI? Stay tuned... Accepted to #CHI2025 - see you in Yokohama! With Jeanette Falk & Raghavendra Selvan

Our article is finally out in PLOS One! “we have to tell them that this attack exists because there are some applications that you shouldn’t build. [. . .] in the absence of a fix for this, some things [you] shouldn’t build because prompt injection could break them” journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

ahh back at the desk hello darkness my old friend

It started with the stars and stripes and we’re finishing it with the stars and stripes! From tomorrow, we can no longer fly any of the dozens of wonderful flags in our collection. Danish politics are facist 😭

Finally entered the wonderful Spotify Wrapped limbo where I can listen to Crazy Frog on repeat for 31 days and it’s off the record

Ah cool it’s that time again

Let my first Bluesky post be one of rage & contempt (sort of a one-factor authentication for this being HASHTAG THE REAL NANNA INIE) for this utterly racist and disgusting waste of law-making. The government should reimburse us for the flagpole we had installed to celebrate other lives and cultures!