Kathy Baxter

OpenAI violated copyright law, German court rules A German court has ruled against OpenAI in a landmark copyright case.

A Munich court ruled that OpenAI violated German copyright law in a case brought by GEMA over training on protected song lyrics, ordering the company to pay damages. mashable.com/article/open... #AIPolicy

what really gets me every damn time is why "AI" products built with children in mind are rarely vetted or regulated. even simple household appliances go through so much testing, assurance, & regulatory process

and now the industry is lobbying so hard, we've regressed back to a decade

Montreal AI Ethics Institute | Democratizing AI ethics literacy

Proud to be a contributor to @mtlaiethics.bsky.social's State of #AI #Ethics Report Vol. 7! 58 global contributors, 17 topics, & 48 essays. It features grounded examples, community-driven solutions, & insights from across sectors. 🌍
#responsibleAI #AIgovernance #agenticAI
👉Read: montrealethics.ai

🎉Today, we released a series of five Responsible AI courses that you can take for free: alltechishuman.org/rai-courses

Principles of Responsible AI

The History of Responsible AI

Operationalizing AI Governance (2)

Governing Agentic AI Systems

Our latest Responsible Tech Guide is out! We cover the state of Responsible Tech, pathways and pipelines, and the intersections between Responsible AI, Trust & Safety, and Public Interest Technology.

DOWNLOAD: alltechishuman.org/responsible-...

I'm excited about #NVIDIA #GTC DC this week! Please join me, Elham Tabassi (@brookings.edu), Chris Meserole (Frontier Model Forum), and @roar817.bsky.social (NVIDIA) for our panel on "Foundational Concepts in #AISafety on Wed., Oct. 29th at 3p ET!
www.nvidia.com/gtc/dc/sessi...
#AI #ResponsibleAI

32 people standing and sitting in a ballroom in front of a screen with the World Economic Forum logo and the title "Faith in Action Convening: Embedding Dignity in the Intelligent Age."

At the @weforum.org Global Futures Council Summit last week, I was honored to speak at the "Faith in Action: Embedding Dignity in the Intelligent Age" dinner. The event convened global leaders working at the intersection of #AI & moral insight to explore ways to embed human dignity in AI development

Salesforce earns first ISO 42001 certification Salesforce earns ISO 42001 certification for Agentforce, Einstein, and Slack AI, proving its commitment to ethical, secure, and transparent AI.

I'm thrilled to announce that @salesforce.com has obtained the ISO/IEC 42001 certification for our #AI Management System (AIMS), the first internationally recognized standard for #ResponsibleAI governance! 🎉 www.salesforce.com/blog/salesfo...

Pivot is going on tour!

Catch us in: Toronto, Boston, NYC, DC, Chicago, San Francisco and LA.

Kara Swisher. Scott Galloway. 7 Cities. 7 Days. Endless jokes and bickering.

Go to PivotTour.com for tickets!

Big news! I've been working with @sladner.bsky.social on "Off the Path" -- a limited series podcast where we talk about user research careers, especially our own. Episodes come out October 10. In this hype video, I reflect on why I decided to take on this new project together.

Agents of Trust | Credo AI Trust Summit 2025 Credo AI Trust Summit 2025. Where intelligent systems and human leadership align to make trust the foundation of progress.

Excited to attend the Credo AI #AI #Trust Summit tomorrow (Tuesday)! Who else will be there?

www.credo.ai/apply-summit...

That was a fantastic event and kudos to the entire @axios.com reporting staff for asking the tough questions!

WATCH: The Axios AI+ DC Summit featuring Anthropic's co-founders, key senators and more Tune in to hear from top voices from government, tech and business exploring the urgent questions around AI regulation, geopolitics, misinformation and the real world impact of AI live from Axios' AI+...

I'm excited to dial into the live stream of the @axios.com #AI + DC Summit with @inafried.bsky.social at 11a PT / 2p ET!
www.axios.com/2025/09/10/w...

Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say The company’s lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress. Meta denies the allegations.

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform.

Meta deleted the evidence.

New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

@weforum.org GFC Report "Synthetic Data: The New Data Frontier." Bias, scarcity, & privacy constraints limit the potential of real-world data. Synthetic data offers a path forward. Learn more! @digitalarun.bsky.social @sarahooker.bsky.social @nighatdad.bsky.social
reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Syn...

AI companies should change the way their product works in a fundamental way. It should engage like a computer not a human, they don’t have minds, can’t think. They should work and sound like a computer. Prevent tragedy like this.

How to stop AI from seeming conscious | IBM What happens when people mistake an AI bot for a conscious being? Researchers say the consequences can be dangerous.

Personas & long-term memory increase the risk of people connecting emotionally with #AI & believing it is conscious. Those features may come with benefits but they also pose unintended risk to ppl's wellbeing. The "things" we risk breaking when we move fast, are PEOPLE.
www.ibm.com/think/news/h...

OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police OpenAI has authorized itself to call law enforcement if users say threatening enough things when talking to ChatGPT.

futurism.com/openai-scann...

I’m paying you a million dollars per year. Just solve ASI already. What’s the problem?

Amen to this. I wrote about this problem in "Artificial Unintelligence" in 2018; it's only gotten worse in the AI era.

Minnesota's oldest abortion clinic closed earlier this year, and is being replaced by a (relatively small) data center.

You can't make this kind of cyberpunk dystopia future up.

www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/minn...

h/t @kateross.bsky.social

Things I'm Hearing about UX Research In the past few months, I’ve had many conversations with senior folks across a variety of MAMANG and similar companies. These are all UXR managers or senior ICs (L5 and up, largely L6-L8 if you’re familiar with those levels). I expected to hear a var...

UX researchers are not ok, according to this post. They’re asked often to find some data that affirms users want more AI but when they don’t find that, they worry about losing their jobs quantuxblog.com/things-im-he...

📆Our Responsible Tech Summit is happening on October 27th in NYC!

👉Learn more here: alltechishuman.org/all-tech-is-...

Kathy and Ina in Ballhalla

My first @gsvalkyries.bsky.social game and I get to spend it with @inafried.bsky.social! 💜 Thank you Accenture for the fantastic seats and opportunity!!
#Valkyries #Ballhalla

To be a positive role model for a young man, you just need to be a good person.

What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door

This is completely on brand and as tone deaf as expected: What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...

TikTok to replace trust and safety team in Germany with AI and outsourced labor TikTok workers in Berlin are striking over mass layoffs amid company’s global push to replace moderators with AI

Predictable: TikTok to replace trust and safety team in Germany with AI and outsourced labor. TikTok workers in Berlin are striking over mass layoffs amid company’s global push to replace moderators with AI www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

I'm in Montréal to present new work on XAI for RL agents using World Models at the IJCAI Workshop on XAI, Aug 17

arxiv.org/abs/2505.08073

When an agent doesn't perform as expected, we run the world model backwards to generate counterfactual states from which the agent would have met expectations

If you're going to WITness Success next week in Louisville KY, come to my session 'Build for the Future: Create Flexible Flows for Any Use Case' on Wednesday, 8/20 at 9am and learn how to build modular flows for reuse and better maintainability.

Register now: witnesssuccess.com/register/