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Platform Convergence and the Limits of Technical Solutions to Counter Online Hate | TechPolicy.Press Joseph Stabile considers the trajectory of online threat actors, voluntary platform commitments to counter terrorism, and international regulatory regimes.

Referencing Tamar Mitts’ recently published Safe Havens for Hate: The Challenge of Moderating Online Extremism, Joseph Stabile considers the trajectory of online threat actors, voluntary platform commitments, and international regulatory regimes over the past decade.

Check out this great GRACE paper on Generative AI, Filmmaking, Creative labor, and Copyright ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.ph...

DOGE Should Look to States For How to Implement Effective AI | TechPolicy.Press We’ve seen what happens when we move fast and break things, writes Amanda Renteria, CEO of Code for America.

If we want lasting change, we need to take a step back and consider the downstream impacts of AI in government, writes Amanda Renteria, CEO of Code for America. A bad AI decision isn’t just a bug to fix in the next release. It’s a mom losing access to food assistance because of a faulty algorithm.

Check out this great article on de-identified medical data by Britney Bennett in @stanford's GRACE journal ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.ph...

Are AI Agents Sustainable? It depends A Blog post by Sasha Luccioni on Hugging Face

If I had a dollar for each time someone asked me what AI agents mean for sustainability, I could have retired early.. instead, with my colleagues @brigittetousi.hf.co and @yjernite.bsky.social, we wrote a blog post about it! 🤗🌱
huggingface.co/blog/sasha/a...

Check out this great book by Dr. Joy Buolamwini @jovialjoy _Unmasking AI_. Out soon in paperback! Reviewed in @stanford's GRACE journal by Angela Nguyen ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.ph...

The saga with the legal status of TikTok in the United States is taking longer than 40 years on internet history.

:-(

Check out this important book by @DrCABerry and @csdoctorsister reviewed in GRACE journal, every department needs to order one for students and faculty ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.ph...

Check out this important book by
@MarietjeSchaake reviewed in GRACE, we're teaching a chapter in our Fall ESF course! journalhttps://ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.php/grace/article/view/3807

Also available as video on PeerTube:
peertube.dair-institute.org/w/cbWGbfdJoW...

What to do about a divergence between "public" and "expert" opinion about "AI"? Some might think that we need to educate the public so that they come to understand more how experts do. I disagree: expertise in building these systems is far from the only relevant expertise.

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Check out this new issue of Stanford GRACE journal on Generative AI and Global Futures GREAT student work! ⭐ ojs.stanford.edu/ojs/index.ph...

YouTube video by Casey Fiesler PhD Admissions Q&A (March 2025 Edition)

In an hour (12pm EST) I'm doing a YT livestream re: PhD admissions advice stuff. This is usually the time of year when it's questions from folks who (a) are making final decisions about where to accept offers; or (b) were unsuccessful in applications this year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZg4...

Opinion | The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes (Gift Article) A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.

This piece from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social starts with a bang and just gets better and better. Gift link.

The Best Photographer You’ve Never Heard Of: An Introduction to Tseng Kwong Chi Once, the United States was known for sending forth the world's most complained-about international tourists; today, that dubious distinction arguably belongs to China. But it wasn't so long ago that ...

The Best Photographer You’ve Never Heard Of: An Introduction to Tseng Kwong Chi

Interview with Dr. Cynthia Bailey on Her Writing in the Major Course for Computer Science Ruth Starkman

Check out this interview with about her brilliant new course! @cynthiablee.bsky.social teachingwriting.stanford.edu/news/intervi...

ROOST Reminds Us Why Open Source Tools Matter | TechPolicy.Press ROOST represents more than just a technical breakthrough; it embodies the promise of a new era in trust and safety, writes Fatima Faisal Khan.

The launch of ROOST (Robust Online Open Safety Tools) is an opportunity for the trust and safety field, writes the Institute for Security and Technology's Fatima Faisal Khan, but not one without potential challenges.

I wanted to respond that these scary bogus emotional and language readers for video conferencing became the PLAGUE during COVID just about every institution experimented with them-- what happened to all that data? Are institutions still using these? Unclear.

dair_institute - Twitch Welcome to our live show!

GREAT podcast today @alexhanna.bsky.social a & @emilymbender.bsky.social and with the amazing Dr. Nicole Holliday! Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000. www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

Shannon Vallor: The AI Illusion Podcast Episode · Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda · 11/03/2025 · 41m

My mother is finally proud of what I do

AI deployments in health are often understudied because they require time and careful analysis.⌛️🤔

We share thoughts in @ai.nejm.org about a recent AI tool for emergency dept triage that: 1) improves wait times and fairness (!), and 2) helps nurses unevenly based on triage ability

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From Ambiguity to Accountability: Analyzing Recommender System Audits under the DSA | TechPolicy.Press Peter Chapman examines auditing under the DSA regime.

By clarifying core definitions and identifying effective audit approaches now, the DSA audits can become a more effective accountability tool, writes Peter Chapman.

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In a plenary panel at #SIGCSE2025 on the future of CS education, @mapq.bsky.social suggested that maybe Operating Systems doesn’t need to be a core required CS course… but maybe Human-Computer Interaction should be. I agree, what do you all think?

The AI We Deserve? Reflections on a Boston Review Discussion at Stanford

Here's my review of yesterday's @StanfordEthics event The AI We Deserve ruth.substack.com/p/the-ai-we-...

Assuring Inclusive AI: Reviewing Evidence as a Call to Inclusive AI Action | TechPolicy.Press Being armed with impactful evidence of quality and inclusion assurance is our best route to ethical and inclusive AI, writes Susan Oman.

Being armed with impactful evidence of quality and inclusion assurance is our best route to ethical and inclusive AI, writes @suoman.bsky.social.

Can Bots Read Your Encrypted Messages? Encryption, Privacy, and the Emerging AI Dilemma | TechPolicy.Press Mallory Knodel and Andrés Fábrega say AI features raise significant security risks for users of encrypted messaging applications.

It may seem like AI chatbots are taking over every digital application, whether we like it or not. But Mallory Knodel and Andrés Fábrega say AI features raise significant security risks for users of encrypted messaging applications.

This Essential Element of the Power Grid Is in Critically Short Supply A transformer supply crisis bottlenecks energy projects

"[G]reater demand for #electricity is coming. The capacity of all the energy projects waiting to connect to the U.S. grid amounts to 2,600 GW—more than double the nation’s entire generation capacity currently" spectrum.ieee.org/transformer-... #ethics #AI #sustainability #environment #tech #business