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abeba.bsky.social
Founder & PI @aial.ie, @tcddublin.bsky.social AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
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This little boy the Zionists just killed is still holding on to his Eid candy

Pretty sure this should tell you all you need to know about the veracity of the DOJ's charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

this is so fucked up peak misplaced accountability

We were spared the embarrassment.

Jesus fucking Christ a bunch of *children* committed an acid attack against a trans woman in Philly. this is what this fucking ever-escalating rhetoric gets us; children are radicalized before they can even conceptualize of the weight of their actions www.inquirer.com/crime/acid-a...

Out now: a new issue of Surveillance & Society! Featuring pieces on #surveillance and Lacanian psychoanalysis, critical surveillance art, data walks, student tracking, workplace surveillance, and surveillance by Tesla. ojs.library.queensu.ca/index.php/su... As always, totally #openaccess.

what i hate most is the culture of distrust genAI is normalising

I'm here for the comments lol looks like @smartdublin.bsky.social isn't reading the room

This minority group must accept a reduction in their rights, says the Equality and Human Rights commissioner, who then blames the whole situation on "activists" from the minority group. You'd never make this stuff up for your novel, it's too on the nose

it's big tech and AI companies (not regular ppl) stealing it but yeah, this

One striking thing from this (excellent) report on a DOGE employee's use of AI is that everything about it is antithetical to sound software engineering practices—an engineer hurriedly deploying an unfamiliar tool to meet an impossible deadline for a problem domain in which he has no expertise.

more of this please

Tfw a university can't afford to pay its faculty but they can afford to spy on students exercising their 1A rights

This has to be one of the most obliviously disastrous policy proposals since the Iraq War. It’s almost guaranteeing that crypto causes a financial crisis and then taxpayers bail out crypto companies. Crypto is just an elaborate scam—and this is its ultimate heist.

I'd like to see the ceo and other leadership of builder .ai prosecuted for this but I know that ain't gonna happen

What I find amazing is not a scam based on AI hype, or gullible corporate investment ... but that it lasted 8 years (!) Motivated belief is very powerful 🤦

Builder.ai promised to revolutionize software development with AI, backed by Microsoft and valued at $1.5 billion masked manual labor as machine learning until the facade crumbled, leaving behind lawsuits, layoffs, & one of the industry's most embarrassing collapses www.techspot.com/news/108173-...

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

If I created an investment fund and promised 300% returns but instead spent your money buying yachts, I'd go to jail. Yet there are so many dudebros telling me that when ChatGPT spouts total bullshit the problem isn't OpenAI marketing it as a knowledge engine, it's the users who believe it.

I don't know what world hassabis is living in but the reality is the reverse. AI is creating a world whereby there's less trust (by making it difficult to differentiate real from ai generated), ever wider inequity gap, and ever more intrusive surveillance

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so someone sent me their paper, apparently inspired by my work, seeking my feedback. but i don’t have a paper with such title & never i have collaborated with a 'Singh'

Dyson, Nivea, Tiffany & Co., Capital One, UPS, Disney, DoorDash, Live Nation, Anheuser-Busch, Diageo, PepsiCo, Nissan, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Citi, Mastercard, Booz Allen Hamilton, & Deloitte popular.info/p/pride-and-...

Law enforcement officers should never cover their faces when making arrests or conceal their identities (unless they are working undercover). They work for us. We have a right to know who they are. These face coverings are frightening & unAmerican, as though they're ashamed of what they're doing.

After 15 years of waiting… Mohammad lies beneath the rubble Born through IVF, he was his parents’ only child. His father ran through the streets of Jabalia al-Balad in northern Gaza, desperately searching for an ambulance to save his son after pulling him from under the rubble.

give it a read. it's refreshing

As usual, #Apple is flat-out lying, in the desperate hope of dragging out #DMA enforcement as long as possible… before it destroys their current business model 😂

The modern condition of waking up to horrible news from all over the world and just having to shove that all back down and get on with your silly little job 😞

"Could I be a single-issue ideologue with no medical expertise? No, it is the doctors who are wrong"

free luigi and give him a nobel peace prize

Israeli forces continue to pound Gaza as outrage grows over the killings of starving Palestinians seeking food aid.

Israeli tanks opened fire on thousands of civilians gathered at a distribution site in southern Gaza’s Rafah on Sunday morning, killing at least 31 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office aje.io/xx7980

The 12-person crew, which includes climate activist Greta Thunberg, expects to take seven days to reach Gaza.

🎓Higher Education🎓 Trump’s current assault on American universities is “McCarthyism on steroids,” says Dr. Daniel Geary, Professor at Trinity College Dublin.

"we need to be prepared for a world where it is impossible to tell real from AI-generated images and video, with implications for a wide swath of society, from the entertainment we enjoy to our trust for online content."

By the time #TeslaTakedown is finished, this image will live in infamy; cited as a cautionary tale by every history textbook, political science course, and business school curriculum in the world. #MuskMustFall

The Anthropic CEO’s position is quite cheeky. It’s basically “My company is working hard to replace humans with AI and someone should do something about all of these lost jobs”. Talk about starting a fire then yelling “Fire!” in a crowded theater.

New Guest Gist: Empires of Certainty "The implication is that people can’t be trusted to narrate their own experience. In doing so, she revives a medical paternalism reminiscent of the Victorian physician prescribing fresh air and cold baths for hysteria. " www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-e...

I'd much rather be scammed by some poor mom trying to feed her kids than the richest man in the world trying to add to his own wealth, but maybe I'm a sap.

O porque de mera regulação ou a educação midiática passiva serem insuficientes para conter a weaponização fascista da web e da IA. Precisamos de políticas de plataformas espelho públicas nacionais e de educação midiática ATIVA!