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Meredith Broussard, PhD
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Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. Professor at NYU. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com

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Meredith Broussard is a data journalism professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. Her research focuses on the role of artificial intelligence in journalism. .. more

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 23h
Life comes at you fast.
Furious AI Users Say Their Prompts Are Being Plagiarized
A self-described AI ambassador is in shambles after she says other AI prompters have been plagiarizing her instructions.
futurism.com

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 2d
Congrats in advance!!!

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 5d
We present a typology of traps to avoid:

1. Believing that AI systems are minds

2. Believing that AI systems are theories

3. Believing that cognitive science can be automated.

Learn to recognise and avoid these traps. Failure to avoid leads to numerous problems.

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Table 1: Typology of traps, what goes wrong if not avoided, and how the traps can be avoided. Note that all traps in a sense constitute category errors (Ryle & Tanney, 2009) and the success-to-truth inference (Guest & Martin, 2023) is an important driver in most, if not all, of the traps.

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 5d
That definitely sounds like something I would say! 🤣

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19thnews.org
19thnews @19thnews.org · 6d
We're hiring two editors to join our newsroom! Responsibilities include:

🟣 Supporting a team of reporters to center our story standards and audience needs
🟣 Designing and implement short- and long-term coverage plans
🟣 Editing stories across types and formats

Apply here: https://bit.ly/48Xlw0U
A paper airplane flies over text that reads: "The 19th is hiring two editors" A white image with text that reads "scope of the work The 19th is hiring two editors to work closely with the editorial director to assign, shape, edit and publish stories to fulfill The 19th’s mission of serving women and LGBTQ+ people with timely, high-quality and distinctive journalism across formats and platforms. Remote u.s. Only $105-$140k full-time apply by january 19 @ 9 am CT" the logo of the 19th appears at the top right of the image and the bottom right is a purple button with text reading "19thnews.org/jobs"

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Susan Strasser

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 7d
Wegmans in New York City has begun collecting biometric data on shoppers' eyes, voices and faces from anyone who enters its supermarkets
NYC Wegmans is storing biometric data on shoppers' eyes, voices and faces
The supermarket chain says it’s a move to ensure shopper safety. Surveillance experts warn of privacy risks.
gothamist.com

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 11d
💯

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 11d
Uh oh
caitlingilbert.bsky.social Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 11d
EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected.

Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43
U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
wapo.st

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Caitlin Gilbert @caitlingilbert.bsky.social · 11d
EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected.

Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43
U.S. vaccination rates are plunging. Look up where your school stands.
Take a look to see what the kindergarten measles vaccination rates are in your area.
wapo.st

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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 11d
“Although the number of people afflicted with AI psychosis is unknown, it is believed to be in the tens of thousands.”
www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-b...
A Brief History of AI Psychosis - Boston Review
A short story.
www.bostonreview.net

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 12d
I often recommend the Op-Ed Project as a starting point

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 12d
"All the wrongful-death lawsuits against OpenAI quote disturbing responses from ChatGPT that appear to show it validating a person’s desire to self-harm... "
www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2... by @nitasha.bsky.social

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16d
“Other experts suggest that while chatbots may provide short-term comfort, sustained use can worsen isolation and foster unhealthy reliance on the technology.”
‘He satisfies a lot of my needs:’ Meet the women in love with ChatGPT | Fortune
AI chatbots are becoming partners and confidants for thousands of users, but the same design features that make them so appealing may also leave users vulnerable.
fortune.com

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404media.co
404 Media @404media.co · 20d
This is 404 Media's @jasonkoebler.bsky.social waving at himself through a Flock camera; one of 60 we learned was left exposed to the open internet. Not only could anyone with a link livestream it, but some admin portals were open with no login credentials required.

www.404media.co/flock-expose...

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Leonardo @leonardonclt.bsky.social · 20d
🚨NEW: AI Data Center Gold Rush Driven by Thousands of Newcomers🚨

We analyzed thousands of data center operators. We found that newcomers are driving the AI gold rush - and it could have global economic consequences.

🎁: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Data Center Gold Rush Driven by Thousands of Newcomers
The growing field of data center developers are catering to the tech industry’s ravenous demand for computing power to build better and more widely adopted AI systems. New faces are behind the mega-ca...
www.bloomberg.com

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 21d
Lights out for autonomous vehicles
missionlocal.org Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 21d
Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout.

With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.

missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Waymo stopped its service across San Francisco on Saturday after numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams in the city.
missionlocal.org

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Spencer Hayes @spnkr.bsky.social · 21d
Around half of San Francisco is without power right now and something like 1/3rd of intersections I drove through had waymos stopped in the middle of them making a dangerous situation even worse.

Do not let Waymo into your city.

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Naomi Klein, Greg Linden

missionlocal.org
Mission Local @missionlocal.org · 21d
Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout.

With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.

missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Waymo stopped its service across San Francisco on Saturday after numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams in the city.
missionlocal.org

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 21d
Was it time bandits?
w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 21d
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 21d
Somebody scraped & shared every song on Spotify, with metadata — a boon for research into music and algorithms, but also, inevitably, what the training data is going to be for every AI music company in 2026. annas-archive.li/blog/backing...
Backing up Spotify
We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirro...
annas-archive.li

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W @hopefullyeveraf.bsky.social · 21d
Met a 40yo gallery-ist at a party in SF. We spent most of the party talking abt the art world, but mostly what she talked abt was how most of her life now is telling AI “artists” that they are not artists, she won’t sell their “work” in her gallery, & that “prompt writer” isn’t an artistic medium.

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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 21d
"Having an AI do it and fail half the time isn't exactly a winning alternative."

www.extremetech.com/computing/mi...
Microsoft Scales Back AI Goals Because Almost Nobody Is Using Copilot
Google's Gemini is on pace to push Copilot into third place.
www.extremetech.com

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 21d
The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22d
Color me shocked.
Doctors Catch Cancer-Diagnosing AI Extracting Patients' Race Data and Being Racist With It
A new study reveals an alarming bias present in four leading AI cancer screening tools, related to race, gender, and age.
futurism.com

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Jon Keegan @jonkeegan.com · 22d
Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.
an image quilt of epstein documents

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 23d
We do not have to offer and I believe indeed should not offer any benefit of the doubt: Anything sold as "AI" should be presumed ineffective, exploitative, environmentally ruinous, bigotry-amplifying and otherwise until proven otherwise.

/fin

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 25d
I am tired of re-creating my same communities on each new platform

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 25d
"The gaffe occurred because an artificial-intelligence-powered surveillance system used by Lawton Chiles Middle School mistakenly flagged the clarinet as a weapon, according to ZeroEyes, the security company that runs the system and contracts with Lawton Chiles’s school district."
A school locked down after AI flagged a gun. It was a clarinet.
A growing number of schools across the country use AI-powered surveillance to detect guns and contraband, all in the name of making schools safer.
www.washingtonpost.com

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Marsh's Library @marshslibrary.bsky.social · 25d
A break from Christmas content to enjoy this capybara eating a banana. From François Froger's 'A relation of a voyage ...' (London, 1698).
17th century engraving of a capybara under a palm tree eating a banana

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 26d
According to a WaPo spokesperson, “This is how products get built and developed in the digital age: ideation, research, design and prototyping, development, and then Beta.”
Washington Post Says It Will Continue AI-Generating Error Filled Podcasts as Its Own Editors Groan in Embarrassment
The Washington Post said it will continue deploying its error riddled, AI-generated podcasts, because "this is how products get built."
futurism.com