Krishika K.

OpenAI retired its most seductive chatbot – leaving users angry and grieving: ‘I can’t live like this’ Its human partners said the flirty, quirky GPT-4o was the perfect companion – on the eve of Valentine’s Day, it’s being turned off for good. How will users cope?

People grieving AI companions are not confused about reality. Attachment forms through interaction, memory, and emotional rhythm. When companies design for intimacy but control continuity, shutdown becomes relational harm, not just product change. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

My research on human AI and human robot attachment shows bonds emerge through interactions over time that reduce uncanniness socially. jgcarpenter.com 2/2

GenAI is extremely prone to hallucinate. If people use LLMs to ask questions they don’t know the answer to, how would they be able to spot a mistake? And now think what can happen if we implement these systems in areas where truth and detail matter e.g. investment decisions, stock market or medicine

Spread the word! 📢 The FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics) group at @msftresearch.bsky.social in NYC is hiring interns and postdocs to start in summer 2026! 🎉

Apply by *December 15* for full consideration.

A staircase in the new School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences building at Wisconsin Madison. Tan wood structures surround tapestry art and a small indoor garden.

A view from above of the staircases in the Wisconsin CDIS building

An shot from below of winding wooden staircases and a glass atrium rooftop. The new School of Computer, Data & Information Sciences building at Wisconsin Madison.

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It's the season for PhD apps!! 🥧 🦃 ☃️ ❄️

Apply to Wisconsin CS to research
- Societal impact of AI
- NLP ←→ CSS and cultural analytics
- Computational sociolinguistics
- Human-AI interaction
- Culturally competent and inclusive NLP
with me!

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Mac users targeted by large-scale attacks delivering infostealer malware Mac users are being targeted by unknown threat actors offering malicious versions of well-known software, including LastPass, 1Password, and Thunderbird, via the developer platform GitHub.

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Hi all. Some good news:

1. The 2025 Summit on Responsible Computing, AI, and Society is receiving funding from the NSF to support the Doctoral Consortium.

2. The deadline for 1-page contributions has been extended to August 31st.

rcais.github.io

OII | Teaching Assistants

Last call: Are u excited about emergent tech? I am hiring 2 TAs for my course Internet Technologies and Regulation @oii.ox.ac.uk . Apply now! Deadline 4 August tinyurl.com/4abdfdm4 @socsci.ox.ac.uk @oxfordlawfac.bsky.social @blavatnikschool.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @cambridgelaw.bsky.social

Last call: Do you care about the societal impacts of AI? I am hiring 6 TAs for my EU Tech Law course at Hasso Plattner Institute (near Berlin)Deadline: 10.08 tinyurl.com/b7cwx7e9 @hiigberlin.bsky.social @unipotsdam.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social

Come and work with brilliant @lselibrary.bsky.social colleagues @rosiehigman.bsky.social @helskrw.bsky.social @niamhtumelty.bsky.social and me (in my #impact role) as our Wikimedian in Residence and Research Visibility Champion!

Closing 17th Aug 2025

#OpenResearch

jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...

The early bird deadline has been extended to June 30.

More details about DESS can be found here - tinyurl.com/DESS-Agenda

@uniofnottingham.bsky.social @agiselarc.bsky.social @juan-avila.bsky.social

Design Ethnography Summer School at University of Nottingham, July 22 and 23, 2025.

We are hosting the Design Ethnography Summer School (DESS) at the University of Nottingham on July 22nd and 23rd.

PhD students and ECRs attending DESS will gain insights from renowned ethnographers and sharpen their skills through expert-led tutorials.

More details: tinyurl.com/DESS-Agenda

ICYMI – still a few days left to apply! ⤵️

🎉 Registration for #CUI2025 is now OPEN! 🎉
Find everything you need—registration, travel, venue, accommodation, visa & financial support—on our site.

Start planning your trip to Waterloo 👇

🔗 cui.acm.org/2025/attend/

Thank you for the update!

Was wondering if applicants have been notified already. Also, do we get notified via email?

Each time, I arrive to the same conclusion: I love being a researcher.

The best thing about attending conferences is that it helps with reconnecting, revising, and/or reprioritising career goals. You get to listen to what others have to say and feel inspired.

I have been re-evaluating mine and updating them after attending the EU Chatbot Summit in Edinburgh.

SIGCHI Best Practice Video Series 2024 - YouTube SIGCHI Executive Committee is producing a series of best practice videos to support the curation and transfer of best know-whats and know-hows for community ...

If you weren’t selected as part of our first cohort for the IwC Reviewing Academy, we highly recommend these videos about #peer-reviewing in #HCI by @drmaxlwilson.bsky.social !

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States are turning their public benefits systems over to AI. The results have often led to ‘immense suffering’ A recent report released by TechTonic Justice found that most public benefits systems are riddled with AI.

States are using AI to determine whether someone should get public benefits, how much they should get, whether they should stay on, and if they committed fraud. What could go wrong. www.fastcompany.com/91265363/sta...

Returning to England before January was a mistake. No matter how long I live in this country, I still find it difficult to cope with how gloomy it becomes.

Brief update on our ongoing efforts to allow users to specify consent (or not) for AI training: 🧵

some little bluesky tips 🦋

your blocks, likes, lists, and just about everything except chats are PUBLIC

you can pin custom feeds; i like quiet posters, best of follows, mutuals, mentions

if your chronological feed is overwhelming, you can make and pin make a personal list of "unmissable" people