Anna Neumann

Donald Trump and the 'Woke' System Prompt Police Why Trump's system prompt disclosure won't make AI 'unbiased', and might make it worse

Launched my Substack! ✨📌

First post is about Trump's AI executive order requiring system prompt disclosure to prove AI isn't 'woke.'

It's not making AI neutral, just embedding Trump's ideology while claiming objectivity.

Check it out: researchagainstthemachine.substack.com/p/donald-tru...

AI Could Never Be ‘Woke’ | TechPolicy.Press The Trump administration’s plan, in targeting “ideological bias” and “social engineering agendas” in AI, ultimately enforces them, writes Eryk Salvaggio.

There could never be a 'Woke AI.' On a technical level, these are machines trained to identify and reproduce statistical biases in uncurated datasets. They are constrained only by the instructions written by the companies building them. The order just demands AI companies do it in a specific way. ⬇️

Anthropic: "omg guys, our model can't even keep an in-house vending machine profitable, lol"

Also Anthropic: "oh but please use it for your high-stakes financial decisions 🥺"

Haha, we wondered the same! Truly a lesson in patience. And I think they will give us a bit more time for the rebuttals then, right?

At least we're in the same boat, was getting worried :D

Same problem. Still nothing? Getting a bit worried?

Trump 2.0 Runs on Tech Accelerationism | TechPolicy.Press Jacob Metcalf says the alliance between the American far right and the tech oligarchy is driven by a shared commitment to accelerationism.

Data & Society’s Jacob Metcalf writes that whenever you hear someone advocating for acceleration, you should ask: accelerating toward what? Today’s techno-accelerationists aim to undo generations of slow, arduous progress toward social, political, and economic equality, he says.

Ohhhh Molly Crockett‘s @mjcrockett.bsky.social keynote talk at #FAccT2025 was soo good 🔥🔥🔥

She talked about how techno-optimism is really human pessimism, how DEAD benchmarks don’t capture full human capacities and feed the hype cycle, how we need to avoid monoculture & imagine new worlds together

YouTube video by LastWeekTonight AI Slop: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

It's good that bigger mainstreamer people such as John Oliver are also talking about the "AI slop" era and phenomenon. I do think he was a bit too charitable though.

AI slop is not just bad visuals, it's the esthetic of modern fascism.

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Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible | Aeon Essays Our crisis of work and technology is one in which too many people feel that nobody sees them as a fellow human being

“One major culprit behind the wave of depersonalisation is the widespread reduction of individuals to data. Feeling invisible can stem from repeatedly experiencing standardised interactions”
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Our #FAccT2025 proceedings are out!! 🎉

Read all of the published papers here: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi...

@rctrust.bsky.social

"I do not need the one magic machine that claims to solve all my issues and then makes me jump through conversational hoops to get a mediocre result. That is actually the opposite of what I need."

On chatbots as a bad design paradigm

“ChatBot” is bad design

Loved it despite the technical challenges! Using AI as friction is such a nice metaphor, thanks so much for your insights 🙏

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#FAccT2025

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#ResponsibleAI #AIGovernance #PhDPosition #PostDocPosition @rctrust.bsky.social

🚀 We’re excited to host Anna Neumann, PhD researcher (@rctrust.bsky.social) for a #PubTalk ✨ on "Seeing What's Missing: Bringing #ResponsibleAI Research Gaps into Focus Through A Landscape Analysis"

⏰ 8 May | 3PM UTC

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#responsibleai #phdpositions #postdocjobs #aigovernance #research… | Anna Neumann ✨ we're hiring and excited about finding new teammates 🙌 📝 our group (Compliant & Accountable Systems Group at Research Center Trustworthy Data Science and Security) works on *responsible AI...

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looking for researchers who want to make AI accountable and trustworthy

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Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

"It’s not just that [AI slop's] aesthetics are useful for Trump, its entire mode of being is useful for how his administration has governed so far"

The AI Slop Presidency

AI models miss disease in Black and female patients Analysis of chest x-rays underscores need for monitoring artificial intelligence tools for bias, experts say

no shit

www.science.org/content/arti...

Human capital---encompassing cognitive skills and personality traits---is critical for labor market success, yet the personality component remains difficult to measure at scale. Leveraging advances in artificial intelligence and comprehensive LinkedIn microdata, we extract the Big 5 personality traits from facial images of 96,000 MBA graduates, and demonstrate that this novel ``Photo Big 5'' predicts school rank, compensation, job seniority, industry choice, job transitions, and career advancement. Using administrative records from top-tier MBA programs, we find that the Photo Big 5 exhibits only modest correlations with cognitive measures like GPA and standardized test scores, yet offers comparable incremental predictive power for labor outcomes. Unlike traditional survey-based personality measures, the Photo Big 5 is readily accessible and potentially less susceptible to manipulation, making it suitable for wide adoption in academic research and hiring processes. However, its use in labor market screening raises ethical concerns regarding statistical discrimination and individual autonomy.

they are openly advocating for the use of physiognomy in recruitment

make it stop

The rise of gen AI, backed at every level by the far-right, suggests the arrival of an _anti-information_ age. AI offers a self-reinforcing bullshit loop that, much like a Russian disinfo operation, serves to muddy the information space and create doubt about the very nature of reality.

Elon Musk’s DOGE is feeding sensitive federal data into AI to target cuts U.S. DOGE Service workers embedded in the Education Department have been processing sensitive agency data using artificial intelligence.

This is horrible on so many levels.

Most probably completely cemented and unaccountable by the time anyone can get Musk out of there...

www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

Funny (actually horrifying) considering Musk can't even automate cars

The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley

When I wrote my book The Tech Coup, quite a few people remarked that the word ‘coup’ might be an overstatement. Today it sadly seems like an understatement ↘️ bookshop.org/p/books/the-...