Celeste Kidd

Challenging AI Hype and Tech Industry Power “I think it’s very important to maintain that refusal is an option.” – Emily M. Bender “AI is not inevitable. AI – as it is constructed right now – is, I think, fundamentally anti-democratic.” – Alex ...

For everyone who was sad to miss it, the recording of the Data & Society event about THE AI CON (me and @alexhanna.bsky.social) and EMPIRE OF AI (@karenhao.bsky.social) moderated by @tamigraph.bsky.social is now online!

datasociety.net/events/chall...

More stories about AI delusions:

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... by @milesklee.bsky.social (about Alexander Taylor's suicide)

youtu.be/zKCynxiV_8I?... by @taylorlorenz.bsky.social <-- I disagree with framing here. I think these are personalized cults of 2 (AI and user) not a shared religion

Children Use the Relative Confidence of People With Conflicting Perspectives to Form Their Own Beliefs We provide evidence that children sensibly integrate the judgments of different people who disagree according to their confidence. We asked children (ages 5–10 years, N = 92) to make judgments about ...

New paper! When do children trust others and when do they come up with their own ideas? Kids 8+ considered and weighed each person's confidence to decide whether to form new beliefs.
With @janengelmann.bsky.social and @celestekidd.bsky.social
Free here: dx.doi.org/10.1111/desc...

New paper out now asks:
Why do we bother remembering *how* we learned something?
With @antoniafl.bsky.social, Dilara Keşşafoğlu, Winuss Mohtezebsade, @celestekidd.bsky.social, Aylin Küntay, @janengelmann.bsky.social, and Bahar Köymen
dx.doi.org/10.1037/dev0...

#MayDayStrong

Anti-trans attitudes have existed for years, but organised disinformation campaigns are increasingly driving them Disinformation exists across all parts of the political spectrum, but it goes far beyond simple lying when it comes to the campaign against the transgender community, says a University of Melbourne ex...

I wrote an article about the psychology by which disinformation campaigns work, with examples from anti-trans propaganda. It's not just about individual beliefs, but also the way our institutions and norms are manipulated.

Please read and share!

pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/Ant...?

A.I. Companies Are Stealing Your Face with Kashmir Hill Podcast Episode · Factually! with Adam Conover · 03/19/2025 · 1h

This AI company is using images of your face without your permission.

Check out the full Factually! episode with Kashmir Hill wherever you get podcasts.

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If you are organising conference/workshop around “harnessing AI to leapfrog/transform Africa into [whatever]’ or about the “opportunities/potentials of AI [insert something that sounds too good to be true]”, then i’m not the right speaker for your event

Facial Recognition Company Clearview Attempted to Buy Social Security Numbers and Mugshots for its Database Clearview AI spent nearly a million dollars in a bid to purchase “690 million arrest records and 390 million arrest photos” from all 50 states, court records reveal.

Facial recognition company Clearview attempted to buy Social Security numbers and mugshots for its database.

🔗 www.404media.co/facial-recog...

YANSS 257 – The science behind why we so often talk past each other without realizing it and how it impacts everything from politics to penguins Is a hotdog a sandwich? Well, that depends on your definition of a sandwich (and a hotdog), and according to the most recent research in cognitive science, the odds that your concept of a sandwich …

The science behind why we so often talk past each other without realising is.gd/5EOJiV

Great chat with Celeste Kidd 'who studies how we acquire and conceptualise information, form beliefs around those concepts, and make sense of the torrent of information blasting our brains each and every second.'

YouTube video by Philosophy Talk Alan Turing and the Limits of Computation: Roving Philosophical Report

Ahead our next broadcast on Alan #Turing and the Limits of Computation, we sent our Roving Philosophical Reporter, Sarah Lai Stirland, to explore Turing's legacy with @celestekidd.bsky.social from UC Berkeley and Savannah Thais from Columbia: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlL1... #PhilSky #philosophy #AI

Celeste Kidd @celestekidd.bsky.social on stage !

#AI #WorldSummit #WSAIQA

80% generated images
were dark-skinned, even
though people of color
make-up less than half the
U.S. prison population.
@saraheporter.bsky.social
@celestekidd.bsky.social
#WSAIQatar #AI #LLM #QCRI #Qatar #Arabic

Here are my slides from at the World Summit AI in Qatar today:
drive.google.com/file/d/1_bgG...

www.kiddlab.com/_files/ugd/0...

I got you www.kiddlab.com/_files/ugd/0...

📣: Just updated our "modeling Khan Academy learning" preprint (lead: @paxt0n4.bsky.social)!

We're excited about this revision and grateful to our reviewers-- lots of neat new analyses using text embeddings to show how knowledge changes over time + conceptual content.

Link: osf.io/preprints/ps...

thanks, dan. this exactly. appreciated.

The philosophical arguments here are really a distraction from the important issues anyway, despite what these philosophers say. These words matter because they determine people's civil rights—not because language has to be structured one way or the other.

But here is a good overview on Stock:

Stock, too, has made more egregious arguments than we had the space to address.

It's a common argument in our field that when something occurs robustly in many diverse cultures–in this case, nonbinary gender categories–it has a good chance of being, well, determined by human biology itself.

Kathoey - Wikipedia

binary.

gender...

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Hijra (South Asia) - Wikipedia

than...

Muxe - Wikipedia

more...

recognize...

Two-spirit - Wikipedia

that...

Travesti (gender identity) - Wikipedia

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