Twitter's machine learning ethics & transparency (META) team led by our friend ruchowdh.bsky.social, has been laid off along with countless other workers. What's happening there should be a wakeup call on the consequences of leaving our technological future to the whims of billionaires.

Yesterday was my last day at Twitter: the entire Human Rights team has been cut from the company. I am enormously proud of the work we did to implement the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights, to protect those at-risk in global conflicts & crises including Ethiopia,

More stories of the impact of folks on the front line refusing to build unethical things? At Twitter or elsewhere?

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Join Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Lorena Jaume-Palasí, Alejandro Saucedo | KubeCon 2025 AI Day Keynote and me Dec 1 to dive into the new ACM statement on Principles for Responsible Algorithmic Systems moderated by Jim Hendler. ACM U.S. Technology Policy Committee EuropeTPC Association for Computing Machinery More information here: acm.org/public-policy/….

The case shows Meta is breaking the law by denying my objection request. We all have the right under GDPR to object to the use of our personal data for direct marketing but the company is straining to concoct legal arguments as to why this shouldn't apply to them.

Praise for our recently released statement. Join us this Friday at 3 pm Eastern for discussion with the authors. Association for Computing Machinery ACM U.S. Technology Policy Committee EuropeTPC Ricardo Baeza-Yates Alejandro Saucedo | KubeCon 2025 AI Day Keynote Lorena Jaume-Palasí Jim Hendler acm.org/public-policy/…

Feeling so grateful today as Data Driven enters the world! By far the best part has been hearing from so many friends 🧡 and so thankful for the extreme badasses at Princeton University Press! If I have not yet talked your ear off about trucker surveillance, you can read more here: 1/

It's all fun and games until it's not. It's already not. nytimes.com/2022/12/31/opi…

“Sitting here in the wake of data breach after data breach, terms of service change after terms of service change, I’m confident in saying that building systems that work to not collect data, like Signal, is the only meaningful way to protect privacy.”

Let’s talk about consent. Do you feel like you ever properly consented to being surveilled online constantly, having a profile built of your interests and having that profile made available to anyone who could pay for it? EU regulators don’t think so either. /1

Much better to get it right from the beginning, says ACM U.S. Technology Policy Committee’s #AI & #Algorithms Subcommittee Chair @Jeanna_Matthews in this new InformationWeek piece on emerging bit.ly/TekEthics, also with a great shout out to our Nov. '22 bit.ly/ACMAIPrinciples. #AIethics Pam Baker

The big advancement that language generating technology (like ChatGPT) needs to make: Citing its sources.

My op ed about the last days of Twitter is out. It was sad to reflect on all that could have been. I write this piece not just as a commemoration but as a warning - we need better systems of tech oversight theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

What if your government gave an algorithm the power to assign you a “risk score”? What if the risk score could determine the course of your life? What if that algorithm was full of flaws and biases? Welcome to the suspicion machine wired.trib.al/ubJbRnO 📷 Katherine Lam

Join us on March 17th for Stochastic Parrots Day marking the 2nd anniversary of the paper. The authors will be joined by scientists, teachers, artists, legal scholars & data workers to discuss the large language model landscape. Sign up here: eventbrite.com/e/stochastic-p…

"There is no AI exemption to the laws on the books". This is a strong statement from the chairs of federal enforcement agencies. Kudos to FTC, U.S. EEOC, @CFPB, and DOJ Civil Rights Division. ftc.gov/news-events/ne…

Thanks @emilymbender.bsky.social. Well said. medium.com/@emilymenonben…

📢Join this month's Wikimedia Foundation Research Showcase tomorrow Wednesday, July 24 at 16:30 UTC, on "Machine Translation on Wikipedia"! Watch the livestream here:  youtube.com/live/O7AqvHgqU….