William H. Hsu

Check out this powerful report by brilliant colleagues Adrienne Williams, Alex Hanna, and Sandra Barcenas, revealing how Amazon weaponizes technology to exploit its own workers.

Worker Surveillance and Wage Theft How algorithmic management and workplace surveillance allows corporations to steal wages, intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.

Read more about the project at our website: www.dair-institute.org/projects/dri...

Dispatch: Partying at one of Africa’s largest AI gatherings Nyalleng Moorosi is part of a movement aimed at involving more African voices in AI policymaking.

Our very own "Nyalleng Moorosi is part of a movement aimed at involving more African voices in AI policymaking" writes Abdullahi Tsanni for MIT Tech Review.

www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/22/1...

Amazon is Building a Surveillance Empire on the Backs of Delivery Drivers. A new report from the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) exposes the dark underbelly of technology-driven workplace surveillance.” Above the text is an old school television with an antenna featuring a surveillance snapshot from a camera inside of an Amazon delivery van. The Amazon logo is upside down and is a frown. Around the television are disembodied eyes and ears.

🚨NEW🚨 from DAIR:

Today we are releasing "Driven Down", a new report on how workplace technology enables Amazon to steal wages, hide labor,
intensify poor working conditions, and evade responsibility.

Read the full report here: drive.google.com/file/d/1yBxy...

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🎉 Congratulations to our own @milamiceli.bsky.social for being on TIME's 100 list of "innovators, leaders, & thinkers reshaping our world through groundbreaking advances in" AI.

Mila is recognized for her innovative Data Workers' Inquiry, a worker led investigation of the impact of data work. 🧵

Bringing together our incredible current and admitted students—future leaders, innovators, and changemakers!

Considering a PhD in NLP/Speech? 🤔
Need guidance with your application materials?

@jhuclsp is offering a student-run application mentoring program for prospective applicants from underrepresented backgrounds.

📝 Learn more & apply: forms.gle/PMWByc6J3vD...
📅 Deadline: Nov 20

Followed! Thanks for doing this. I’m a JHU CS alum from back in the day, but two of my alumni from K-State (Svitlana Volkova and @carlosaguirre.bsky.social) graduated from there more recently.

-William Hsu (BS CS/AMS, MS Eng. CS 1993)

CLSP Join the conversation

Putting together a JHU Center for Language and Speech Processing starter pack!

Please reply or DM me if you're doing research at CLSP and would like to be added - I'm still trying to find out which of us are on here so far.

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YouTube video by Lurie Daniel Favors They're F**king with Us and They're F**king with the Midterms

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhz5...

@luriedanielfavors.bsky.social @angryblacklady.blacksky.app #Blacksky

WTH?! Immaturity is on brand for Kakistocracy 2.0, but this is still ridiculous. Doubling down on ad hominems (or ad feminams), throwing around random insults such as “hack” as if a journalist with integrity fears being called that… Karoline Leavitt makes even Spicer and Sanders look respectable.

'Reading Rainbow' Is Coming Back After Nearly 20 Years With Beloved Librarian As Host—And Fans Are Pumped

The best news! ❤️

When (not "if", but _when_) we finally get Trump and his weak sycophants out of office, it won't be enough to just undo all the damage the current regime has caused. We need to make large-scale, systemic reforms and pass them into law.

National health care should be _way_ up on that list.

We need a Blue Wave so big no amount of gerrymandering can stop it.

Photo: Cardboard free-standing sign next to the escalators in the lobby of the Palais des congrès (convention center), Montréal, Québec. Top banner reads “IJCAI 2025 / MONTREAL”. Rest of sign reads: Welcome to IJCAI 2025 the 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Taken on Sun 17 Aug 2025.

Photo: Escalators in the lobby of the Palais des congrès (convention center), Montréal, Québec. Taken on Sun 17 Aug 2025 at IJCAI 2025, the 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence.

Photo: Sign on the 5th floor of the Palais des congrès (convention center), Montréal, Québec. Sign reads: to IJCAI 2025 the 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Plenary/Panels Room 517CD Workshops, Tutorials, Technical Programs 512 to 516 (right arrow) Workshops, Tutorials, Technical Programs 518 to 525 (left arrow) Taken on Sun 17 Aug 2025.

Photo: Panelists and audience at the XAI workshop (https://sites.google.com/view/xai2025/home) of IJCAI 2025, the 34th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence Taken on Sun 17 Aug 2025 at the Palais des congrès (convention center), Montréal, Québec.

@diverseinai.bsky.social is now on Bluesky! We still post on Twitter/X & Facebook too. We chaired the Diversity and Inclusion program of AAAI 2025, where we held our 6th annual AIDBEI event, and were at IJCAI 2025.

See you on social platforms and at AI research conferences!
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Caught Stealing (2025) ⭐ 7.3 | Comedy, Crime, Thriller 1h 47m | R

25 years ago, I read this novel, fell in love with it, and hoped that it would be made into a movie one day.

Last night, I found out that it's in theaters now, is directed by Aronovsky, from a screenplay by the author, Charlie Huston.

I'm so excited to see this.

www.imdb.com/title/tt1493...

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Huge congratulations to Harry Chao and Bryan Carstens for being recognized as Distinguished Scholars at the Ohio State Faculty Awards Celebration! So well deserved! 🎉

YouTube video by TEDx Talks Making STEM Steamy: Innovative Strategies to Diversify STEM | Carlotta Berry | TEDxRHIT

#TechThursday #NoireSTEMinist #MySTEMIsForTheStreets #Speaking #PublicSpeaking #SpeakingEngagements #EngineeringEducator #PurposefulProfessor #Roboticist #BiasInAi #RoboticsEducation #BlackSky #BlackAdemic #WomenSTEM #BlackSTEM
Available for Speaking Engagements
youtu.be/nsC_FKPqW-I?...

None of these changes are super surprising to me, but I find it interesting to see how they are interpreted.

[1] www.nist.gov/document/eva...
but that doesn't exist, but thank you Internet Archive from Feb 02, 2025:
web.archive.org/web/20250202...

Added: secure, reducing ideological bias, human flourishing (likely not in the way I use the term), and economic competitiveness/national security are sprinkled everywhere.

Retained: metrology, governance, expl/intrp, workforce, trustworthy, cybersecurity, chem/bio, CSAM, NCII, red-teaming, etc.
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There is a new version of the Research Plan for NIST's AI Safety Consortium (AISIC) in response to EOs. I did a diff.

Out: safety, responsibility, sociotechnical, fairness, working w fed agencies, authenticating content, watermarking, RN of CBRN, autonomous replication, ctrl of physical systems
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Are you funded by #NIH, #NSF or #CDC? Please post any letters or communications you’ve received from these agencies or HHS about restrictions on grant funding, publications etc. I want to catalog all of them for the record. #medsky #episky

Two Black women and a Black man floating in space with planets and other circular objects. The background is purple and their clothing is in yellow and brown.

We're hoping to organize a hopeful virtual event to get us to think our possible technological futures, and have a creative workshop. Stay tuned. In the mean time, read our Possible Futures Series. If you have thoughts on what you'd like to see from the event, comment below.

Today, honor a King, not a Felon. #mlkday2025