Megan McIntyre

The Democrats’ New AI Panel Is Led by Big Tech Allies Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a co-chair of the AI commission, owns up to tens of millions of dollars worth of stock in tech giants pushing to block states from regulating AI.

Rep. Josh Gottheimer, a co-chair of new House Democrats' AI commission announced by @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, owns up to tens of millions of dollars worth of stock in tech giants pushing to block states from regulating AI.

When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.

The sharp divide between what I hear from students about AI and what administrators say about AI makes it impossible to believe anyone in admin has ever spoken to one of our students

Artificial Intelligence and Academic Professions Educational technology, or ed-tech, including artificial intelligence (AI), continues to become more integrated into teaching and research in higher education, with minimal oversight. The AAUP’s ad ho...

"...the uncritical adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) poses a threat to academic professions through potential work intensification and job losses and through its implications for intellectual property, economic security, and... faculty working conditions..."
www.aaup.org/reports-publ...

Christine Choy, pioneering Asian American documentary filmmaker, dies at 73 Choy directed the seminal documentary, “Who Killed Vincent Chin?” and was an outspoken advocate for BIPOC storytellers.

Christine Choy, a pioneering Asian-American documentary filmmaker, died December 7 at age 73.

Choy was one of the first Asian-American women nominated for the Oscar for Best Documentary Feature.

Calling it now: by this time next year, we'll learn that GenAI.mil aggregated a bunch of unclassified data points on NIPR and output classified material, creating a security incident.

Separately, if I were a threat actor, I'd be all into the prompt histories for any compromised user.

"GenAI.mil appears to be a custom chatbot interface for Google Gemini that can handle some forms of sensitive—but not classified—data."

Just to note that NCTE also announced a new Google/Gemini partnership today -- GenAI training for K-12 teachers.

Watching people humanize ChatGPT while dehumanizing literal small human children is one of the most fucked things about this era.

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Please enjoy our inaugural issue! It's a joy to host a home to the work of these talented writers and translators. We are lucky to have their trust.

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I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress

Under Practical Help, here is a document I update periodically mean to help teachers (K-12 but works beyond) resist AI mania. It links to many of the pieces in your bibliography and others.

Pete Hegseth Says the Pentagon's New Chatbot Will Make America 'More Lethal' The Department of War aims to put Google Gemini 'directly into the hands of every American warrior.'

The press release says Google Cloud's Gemini for Government will be the first instance available on the internal platform.

As we’ve covered, because Google search results are also consuming AI content that contains errors, it’s become nearly unusable for regular consumers and researchers alike.

the reason to teach reading and writing in high school is not “college readiness”

"GenAI.mil appears to be a custom chatbot interface for Google Gemini that can handle some forms of sensitive—but not classified—data."

Just to note that NCTE also announced a new Google/Gemini partnership today -- GenAI training for K-12 teachers.

Pete Hegseth Says the Pentagon's New Chatbot Will Make America 'More Lethal' The Department of War aims to put Google Gemini 'directly into the hands of every American warrior.'

normal country in a normal timeline www.404media.co/pete-hegseth...

You used to have to do a layer or two of analysis to arrive at "Generative AI is fascist, don't use it."

Actors and artists pack Stanford hearing to demand new AI transparency law SAG-AFTRA and other groups say the measure offers basic transparency for performers whose work is being scraped without consent.

Still so excited for everyone who showed up to this yesterday! It was stunning to see a sea of creatives overwhelm that tiny hearing. We had an overflow room of artists and the line for 30 second public commentary literally had to be cut off!

You made a huge difference
yesterday.

Thank you!

🤢🤬

As I was just saying.

They will scale up random “schools” based on market speculation and then close them down when demand wanes. Thats the plan.

I can hold two truths in my soul at once: every man in her story is a creepy-ass predator who should be marooned at sea, and also she's an ethics black hole who may have brought upon a new age of victorian era infant mortality.

people who can't hate them all need more spite in their hearts, I guess

"We can't allow fact checkers into the country" is late-stage USSR shit, real end-of-empire stuff

being in any way impressed by hanania or seeing him as a voice worth hearing is definitive evidence that your brain is a perfect sphere

Children’s Health Defense on X posts: This is just common sense: "Do you give a vaccine to an infant, when you do not know for sure that the benefits will outweigh the harms? And of course, the answer is no." @tracybethhoeg

I want to stress here that Tracy Beth Høeg, new head of CDER—seen here being promoted by Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vax group Robert Kennedy Jr. founded—has zero expertise in vaccines.

She is a sports medicine doctor.

Disabling Intelligences This book discusses the influences of eugenics on the AI industry and the impacts of AI opportunism on disabled people.

Cannot wait to read @fractalecho.bsky.social's book!!! Drawing on both critical STS and disability studies, the book provides "a toolkit for evaluating and resisting metaeugenics in technology."

link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Good job, friend!!!!

Look, I'm just gonna tell cishet white people right now--Newsom ain't the one. You got Walz and Pritzker out here. You do not need a Bill Clinton clone wearing Mitt Romney's skin.

At home and at school, AI is transforming childhood It brings many benefits, but also hidden dangers

"Not everyone is keen on edu-bots. Only 22% of American school-district heads believe that AI harms students’ critical-thinking skills, but 61% of parents [and] 55% of high-school students believe so... the least happy with AI are those whose schools use it most" www.economist.com/briefing/202...

Home Office admits facial recognition tech issue with black and Asian subjects Calls for review after technology found to return more false positives for ‘some demographic groups’ on certain settings

Black women told you this in 2018.

Worth adding to conversation: already pre-Trump, a key instrument in the idea that of 'deporting criminals' was to use partnerships with JAILS to identify undocumented immigrants when first booked or arrested (over anything).

But that was mostly happening *pre-trial* — just on police suspicion.