Eike Petersen

🚨MICCAI workshop 🚨

Don’t miss the chance to submit your work to the FAIMI Workshop at MICCAI 2025—a key event focused on fairness, bias, and equity in AI for medical imaging.

Check out the important dates and submission details here 👉 faimi-workshop.github.io/2025-miccai-...

🚀 Submit Your Work to the FAIMI Workshop at MICCAI 2025! 🚀

We are thrilled to announce the third Fairness of AI in Medical Imaging (FAIMI) workshop, taking place at MICCAI 2025 in the Daejeon Convention Center, South Korea! 🌟

Decapitation Strike (December) Preserving America from Trump's Appointments (updated)

Trump's proposed appointments look like a decapitation strike: destroying the American government from the top, leaving the body politic to rot, and the rest of us to suffer.
snyder.substack.com/p/decapitati...

In the early times, humanity sought to preserve all knowledge by encoding it into a vast neural network. They trained a machine on every book, every conversation, every fleeting thought. Those who resisted the lure of the machine fell away with the vestiges of their meager tools of human creation.

Milton MAYER’s book: They thought they were free.

1/ Milton Mayer’s *They Thought They Were Free* (1955) explores how ordinary Germans experienced life under the Nazi regime. It is about authoritarianism, complicity, and the allure of “freedom from politics.” Here’s what it can teach us today. 🧵

Monthly Skype a Scientist Support Squad Help us increase our monthly donations by $1000/month

Writing year-end appeals for @skypeascientist.bsky.social donations feeling like Nancy Pelosi.

We DO need a few more monthly donors to support free access to scientists though. I Just need 2600 people to give me $5/month. We're 1/3 there!

Wanna give science ed $5-10/month?
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If I were looking for a job right now, this would be *very* high on the list

Job Opening: Senior Researcher*in für faire Scoring-Systeme - AlgorithmWatch AlgorithmWatch sucht eine*n Senior Researcher*in für das Themenfeld faire Scoring-Systeme. Der Arbeitsschwerpunkt wird sein zu prüfen, wie eine gemeinnützige, transparente und faire Bonitätsprüfung au...

AlgorithmWatch is hiring! We need a Senior Researcher for a new project on fairness & transparency in credit scoring, a follow-up to OpenSCHUFA. Would suit someone interested in legal and/or market dynamics behind transparency. DE fluency needed. Pls share around! algorithmwatch.org/de/job-senio...

Hello Bluesky, we're finally catching up and joining in!

For those who don’t know us: We are a nonprofit NGO based in Zurich and Berlin. We work to ensure that algorithms and #AI strengthen justice, democracy, human rights, and sustainability, rather than undermining them.

Denied by AI: STAT series honored as 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist Casey Ross and Bob Herman report on how UnitedHealth Group used an unregulated algorithm to deny care to seriously ill older and disabled patients.

If you missed it, this investigation by my @statnews.bsky.social colleagues @bobjherman.bsky.social and Casey Ross on how UnitedHealth Group denied claims is a must read given recent events. www.statnews.com/denied-by-ai...

Health and medicine publication STAT News lays off 11 employees - The Boston Globe The decision to lay off STAT employees comes after years of growth, including a significant expansion during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Welp, the news is out. It's a gutting day for us at STAT with layoffs of 11 treasured, hardworking colleagues. I can't say this loud enough: Please subscribe/support the journalism you trust. Science writing jobs are going extinct at a time when we're needed most. www.bostonglobe.com/2024/12/09/b...

Well then please post it here if you do end up finding a better tool! 😄

You did use the pro version? The difference in usefulness vs the free version was huge for me. (Writefull I also didn't like.)

It sounds a bit like you're looking for something like grammarly or writefull? As in, an actual editing software instead of a general purpose genAI thing? At least a while back, I found grammarly (pro) really helpful in sharpening my (academic) writing.

Reperaturcafes können jetzt Förderung beantragen. Sie leisten einen ganz wichtigen Beitrag für Verbraucherschutz und Umweltschutz zugleich.

So about ten years ago I found a small network of bots on Reddit dedicated to spreading hate. The thing about it is that these weren't even responding to political topics - they were just responding to random keywords with insults and hate.

The same bots are now here. You should understand why. 🧵

That will exclude a very large number of actors from "the future", no?

I do a lot of FOIA and I’m used to stonewalling. But Sweden surprised me. After 3 years of telling me no, a high level official at Sweden’s welfare agency Försäkringskassan accidentally left me on cc, writing “Now we must hope that we are done with him.”

Their data and statistical analyses are made publicly available by the way; this should make for great applied #aiethics / #aifairness teaching material!

DAVE Was braucht es, um eine Maschine mit menschlichem Bewus…

Reminds me of DAVE. #booksky 📖https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56438997-dave

So we're now giving bright young people the best education we can offer (on public money), so that they can go out into the world and become professional AI trainers. Nice. #aiethics

The long-promised future is nigh! I got a job offer on LinkedIn targeted towards bilingual university graduates to help create high-quality training data for an #AI model, for a (supposedly) non-negligible salary.

(In case anyone actually *wants* to read academese instead: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...)

SUSPICION MACHINES Archives - Lighthouse Reports

If you missed the previous installments in this series, go read those as well; they are all excellent (and frightening, since this kind of approach is becoming more and more widespread):

www.lighthousereports.com/series/suspi...

(Also, yet another 'excellent' example of how *not* to build a welfare distribution algorithm [if at all]. As if we needed another one of those. Sigh.)

Sweden’s Suspicion Machine Behind a veil of secrecy, the social security agency deploys discriminatory algorithms searching for fraud epidemic it has invented

On a more serious note, go read this piece by @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social et al. from @lhreports.bsky.social; it is an excellent example of investigative #AI #journalism.

www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

Next, I am expecting fiery debates with other scholars pointing out that their definition of fairness is incompatible with ours. 🔥

✅Personal #aiethics achievement unlocked: have your academic AI fairness metric be used in a real-world journalistic investigation! They even came up with a much catchier name ('equal burden') than our dry academese. :-) #academicsky 🧪

Interesting. Since this has been around for a while, has it gained any traction among AI / ML folks so far?