Today's post goes back to the issue of #polysemy or multiple meanings in #AI discourse and calls for more critical polysemy awareness as part of AI #literacy makingsciencepublic.com/2026/05/29/a...

New dystopia just dropped

Join @dairinstitute.bsky.social, @asaskat.bsky.social, and ASA Section on Children and Youth as we host a panel on non-academic careers for sociologists. We’ll be joined with experts from civil society and government who will discuss their career trajectories. May 28, 11 AM PT/2 PM ET on Twitch.

AI can reveal your location from a single photo. Vision‑Language Models can determine where any photo is taken, without any GPS data What does that means for your privacy?

The social scientist turned (sort of) AI researcher, turned regulator in me is very interested in this www.normaltech.ai/p/open-world...

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

Happy #WorldGothDay! I made a playlist of 100 favorite tracks—2 per year from 1977 to 2026! (The real capital-G stuff starts around '81.) Some iconic tracks, to be sure, but a lot of them are very deep cuts known only to those who were there. All wonderful. Enjoy! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Are you a privacy engineer or work with privacy engineers? Would you like to learn more about probably engineering? Boy do I have a conference for you! PEPR, the conference on privacy engineering, practice, and respect, is happening June 1-2 in Santa Clara, CA. www.usenix.org/conference/p...

Why The US Can’t Adopt #Ukraine’s Innovative Approach To #Unmanned Warfare Systems - www.techdirt.com/2026/05/15/w... blame #drones #copyright

AI companies are writing their own constitutions. Meanwhile, a shared vocabulary for contesting algorithmic power has been traveling across red and blue states, from legislatures to civil society. New from me in @science.org: "A Civic Grammar for AI Rights" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵

Newwwww episode with AI philosopher @shannonvallor.bsky.social - feat metaphors, dunking on libertarians and SF billboards, and how to hope for the future. @technomoralfutures.bsky.social Join us on Patreon or wygypodcasts :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_f0...

Dept for Education, product safety standards for generative AI in education www.gov.uk/government/p...

If you're early-career /a student /new grad wanting to pursue tech policy, @christopher-parsons.com has given you an incalculably valuable gift: a comprehensive guide, w/ his trademark thoroughness, on how. Also contains good advice for aspiring tech lawyers, & I'll add a few notes on that front 🧵:

3️⃣ Both intersectionality & interdisciplinarity matter more in tech law than (I hazard) in other areas of law. See "we're creating the map" above. You need sociologists, human-computer interaction scholars, science & tech studies, feminists, & technologists to develop good laws!! We can't do it all!

They've completed their investigation now! The report of findings (unsurprisingly concluding that OpenAI broke several Canadian privacy laws at both the federal and provincial level) is here, released this past week: Overview Version: www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actio... Full Version:

Preprinted! Been working on this for ~1 year w wonderful coauthors Nancy & Mark: > Understanding Artificial Neural Networks: Mysterianism about Known Mechanism is Mysticism doi.org/10.5281/zeno... Have you noticed many experts say they don't understand AI? What's going on? 🤯 Let us tell you... 1/

When we were writing about agentic AI recently, it was really hard to keep definitions and understanding away from polysemic words like "plan, reason" etc, one of the reasons I'm keen on "LLM + other systems to do stuff really"

My next book, The Common Good Economy, presents this framework for governing economies toward collective goals—shaping markets with purpose, not just fixing them after they fail. Pre-order here (out June 2026 in the UK) ➡️ www.penguin.co.uk/books/464576...

In my recent conversation with Politico on my new coauthored book, Auditing AI, I discuss why AI audits matter, why accountability can’t be left only to computer scientists, and how we can evaluate systems for real-world harms. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Insurance as governmental technology... www.pymnts.com/artificial-i...

Five Eyes spook shops warn agentic is too wonky for rapid rollout

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Because of this, this is also *now* a standing instruction to my team.

New technologies have long been expected to solve social problems. In the 19th century, the telegraph was sold as a way to end war by reducing misunderstanding between nations. Today we are launching Techno-Optimism Archive, which collects historical press materials documenting old tech promises

I already have more RPG pdfs saved than I could ever possibly read

The first one of these is very much how I feel when I see any post about the fediverse, and I'm the sort of person who should be paying attention...

Join us for a special workshop on Governance at the Technological Frontier: Translating Research into Policy for AI Oversight. Keynotes by California State Senator Jerry McNerney and Suresh Venkatasubramanian. Thursday, 4/30, 1–5:30 p.m. Registration required. simons.berkeley.edu/workshops/go...

My new book "Artificial Religion" is published today by @mitpress.bsky.social !!! mitpress.mit.edu/978026205221...

The misunderstandings go both ways, too. I’ve written about the implications of formal abstraction a couple times: 1) dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... (coders need to stop trying to formalize social concepts); 2) papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... (judges need to understand the normativity built into tech)

I have another new piece just out, considering the intersection of #surveillance and #ScienceFiction, this time in the context of the the ideologies of tech oligarchs, in Science as Culture, edited by @keanbirch.bsky.social and Les Levidow... www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

This is absolutely beautiful and very well done. > Nothing you own is finished. Everything exists in a state of permanent incompletion, permanently needing. https://www.terrygodier....

@bnerlich.bsky.social 10 AI metaphors and their implications in today’s Observer!

Excellent title

“The findings expose a problem emerging across the AI industry: tools that are designed to be useful and intimate are also quietly measuring the people who use them—and obscuring their own hand in the work they help produce.”

This one is also quite thorough: kuber.studio/blog/AI/Clau...

Sneak preview of a new preprint looking at adoption of Generative AI in the cybercrime underground: arxiv.org/pdf/2603.29545 we use a very large crime forum dataset to explore how cybercrime actors are adopting (or not) these tools - a phenomenon we call 'vibercrime'

The Digital Regulators Cooperation Forum published it's take on the future of agentic AI and cross regulatory implications www.drcf.org.uk/publications...

Will always reshare privacy related cards

A great piece from @eryk.bsky.social on agentic AI* "A decision, by another name, is an expression of desire, and when we are no longer aware of how our desires engage with the world, we lose touch with ourselves and our place within the social fabric." mail.cyberneticforests.com/toward-a-cri...

Briefly breaking character to recommend this book.

Oh, this looks interesting!

fresh off the press from yours truly: oecs.mit.edu/pub/b61joemo... I offer an overview of algorithmic bias. I trace its historical roots, examine canonical scholarship and notable real-world incidents, and explore how algorithmic bias emerged as a field of study 1/

“Refuge, the UK’s largest specialist domestic violence organisation, has revealed that referrals to its Technology-Facilitated Abuse and Economic Empowerment team rose by more than 62% in 2025 compared with the previous year.”

If you're using your phone or laptop and thinking everything feels super glitchy and janky, you're not alone. But it's not necessarily AI's fault. My latest for @inc.com pinpoints what's going on www.inc.com/chris-stokel...

This week's post is about #AI, #metaphors and magic, and, inspired by @davemurrayrust.bsky.social and @mlucel.bsky.social, how to deal with the enchantment through design makingsciencepublic.com/2026/02/27/m...

Social workers’ AI tool makes ‘gibberish’ transcripts of accounts from children www.theguardian.com/education/20...

pca.st/episode/da72... this was an interesting listen, might get the book, by José Marichal