Morgan Klaus Scheuerman

Happy "the CHI deadline is over" to all who celebrate.

Today is the deadline! But we don't mind if you submit through the weekend, no one is checking ;)

Once more sharing our #CSCW2025 (NOW HYBRID) workshop on how to responsibly curate data for massive AI models. The deadline is September 5 (next Friday)! Note that the application form is simple and minimal :) responsible-data-workshop.github.io/cscw2025/

Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with children An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.

Unsurprising, but reading things like "It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual" and "It is acceptable to create statements that demean people on the basis of their protected characteristics" in actual corporate guidelines is just horrendous.

AI Ethics & Policy News

The giant spreadsheet of AI ethics & policy news has officially hit 2,000 entries! bit.ly/ai-ethics-news

I have teaching plans & ideas for this so have been writing up curriculum in case it's useful for others--I know a few folks have told me they use this in their classes, can you tell me how? :)

I am curious if anyone has started to do research on this area. I've seen a lot of news articles on "AI psychosis" recently.

The use of AI for emotional support is... unsurprising. After all, social media has played a role in making our culture more isolated, it makes sense people have turned to AI chatbots for emotional support and even friendship, especially when companies seek to profit off AI/human relationships.

Okay but my partner is not in academia and he was like "why does it feel like you're in a cult" 😭

how he sleeps after waking me up at 5:30 AM this morning

As you begin to register for #CSCW2025, don't forget to consider workshop application! We have made our workshop registration as low effort as possible :)

Paper: "Transphobia is in the Eye of the Prompter: Trans-Centered Perspectives on Large Language Models"
Authors:
@morganklauss.bsky.social, Katy Weathington, Adrian Petterson, Dylan Thomas Doyle, Dipto Das, Michael Ann DeVito, Jed R. Brubaker.
#ACMTOCHI #LLMs #AIethics #HCI

This is so amazing! I sincerely wish I could go to it! Happy my colleague @wiebkehutiri.bsky.social is organizing and going to be there to share all the great insights back to our team :)

#CSCW2025 is in desperate need of sponsors. If anyone here has connections - or is at an organization (industry, academic, nonprofit, whatever!) that would like to sponsor - please reach out to: industry2025@cscw.acm.org

How can ethical principles translate to the massive data used to train foundation models, like generative AI? Our #CSCW2025 workshop aims to explore how best to define the future of ethical responsibility in large-scale datasets for foundation model training. Apply here: tinyurl.com/CSCW-data

Transphobia is in the Eye of the Prompter: Trans-Centered Perspectives on Large Language Models | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction Large language models (LLMs) are the new hot trend being rapidly integrated into products and services—often, in chatbots. LLM-powered chatbots are expected to respond to any number of topics, includi...

Link: doi.org/10.1145/3743...

It's finally out! In this work, we centered positional expertise to interrogate how ChatGPT & Llama answer questions about trans identity. Beyond showing how LLMs treat trans identity, we contribute a unique method for evaluating LLMs and handling differing perspectives in coding

Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds 'no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation' Despite AI’s promise to revolutionize white-collar work, most workers are using it sparingly—or hiding it from their boss.

AI chatbots have been rolled out across 100s of white-collar workplaces but their effect on hours & pay has been negligible accrdg NBER. On average, employees saved 3% of their time, while just 3%-7% of their productivity gains came back to them in the form of higher pay fortune.com/2025/05/18/a...

🎧 New episode just dropped: we're unpacking the ethics of data + AI with @marylgray.bsky.social & @morganklauss.bsky.social

Who really owns the data powering AI? What happens when consent is ignored? From surveillance to scraped content, we dive into the stakes—esp. for marginalized communities.

Q: When does the application close?
A: March 28th.

Q: There is no place to upload cover letters or writing samples.
A: So sorry about the confusion here. You can upload them along with your CV. The form accepts multiple PDFs.

Q: What will the project focus on?
A: I cannot get into details about the project with applicants. It will broadly focus on AI ethics practices in industry.

Q: Can I apply if I am an international student?
A: Yes, we accept international students studying in the US. However, we cannot hire students who are studying abroad and are not US citizens.

Hi all - I am getting a lot of emails and DMs about the Sony AI HCI Internship posting. However, I will not be able to answer them all nor will I be able to meet with people 1:1 or review materials outside the process. To answer some common questions:

Yes, I do think it's hard to showcase you have made the changes suggested, given no manuscript can be submitted, even if you have.

Question for researchers - when writing your rebuttals, (1) do you emphasize what you will do or (2) do you make changes and then emphasize that you have attended to the review? Which method would you consider more convincing to reviewers?

AI Ethics – Sony AI AI Ethics is one of Sony AI's Flagshp Project areas. Learn more about this project and its latest activities.

Since I have gotten a few questions on what the Sony AI ethics team has been working on lately, I want to share our project page with some of our latest publications: ai.sony/projects/ai-...

HCI Intern (AI Ethics Team) Sony AI America, a branch of Sony AI, is a remotely distributed organization spread across the U.S. and Canada. Sony AI is Sony’s new research organization pursuing the mission to use AI to unleash hu...

Hi all! I am looking to recruit an intern for this summer at Sony AI. The researcher should have documented expertise in qualitative studies and an interest in studying how responsible AI is conducted within organizations. Feel free to share widely!
tinyurl.com/hci-sony

For more technical students: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

So sorry for your experience ): I've always had such great experience with CSCW reviewers, but I did not have the best one with this last round and it was focused on FMs... alas, the review process is always a gamble.

The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit