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Nicolas Suzor

@nicsuzor.bsky.social

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Law prof, working to make tech more fair. Future Fellow @ QUT Digital Media Research Centre; Chief Investigator @admscentre.org.au; Member @ Oversight Board. He/him. All views are my own. https://nic.suzor.net

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 10d

OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · 10d

BREAKING
@knightcolumbia.org just won their case against Trump admin’s policy arresting/deporting noncitizen stud. & fac. participating in pro-Palestinian activism

This is a threat mailed to chambers of the 84yo Reagan appointed judge. He started the opinion with it and this is how he ended.

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Alan Rozenshtein @alanrozenshtein.com · Aug 7

A little late, but my thoughts on the "Woke AI" Executive Order, in @lawfaremedia.org. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/eval...

The short answer is that the order is likely constitutional, its principles are normatively reasonable (if imperfectly articulated), and its structure shows the compromises necessary when trying to make rational policy under an irrational regime.

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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · Jul 18

A year ago at #TrustCon, I ran around like a maniac showing people something on my laptop. We'd just gotten CoPE - our policy interpretation model - working. It felt like a huge achievement, validating our ideas about LLM-powered labeling. 🧵 1/7

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Henry Fraser @henrylfraser.bsky.social · Jul 3

Great panel yesterday on 'Governing automated decision-making for positive social services' with @kimweatherall.bsky.social , Samantha Floreani, Jake Goldenfein, and Kath Albury, organised and chaired by Christine Parker at @admscentre.org.au . The highlights of the conversation (in thread):

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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · Jun 24

Working on platform governance?

Join for PlatGovNet 2025
Free online conference Dec 1-2
Extended abstracts (800-1000 words) due Sep 2

Amazing community, opportunity to share work, get feedback, meet others working in this area.

Glad to be part of organizing it
Details: platgov.net/conferences/...

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Christian Katzenbach @ckatzenbach.bsky.social · May 14

I am getting excited! 3 weeks to go until our AoIR Symposium 2025 in Bremen will kick-off! The line-up of plenary speakers is wonderful, and the program so promising. If you are able to join in early June, don't miss to register for the few remaining seats. platform-governance.org/aoir-flashpo...

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Nicolas Suzor @nicsuzor.bsky.social · Feb 22

why did nobody tell me python 3.10 introduced a match/case syntax? WHAT ELSE HAVE I BEEN MISSING?

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Nicolas Suzor @nicsuzor.bsky.social · Nov 29

Very happy to see this work come out from the amazing @klonick.bsky.social and team — measuring relationship between outrage and the spread of false information

Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · Nov 29

I’m super excited to announce I'm part of an amazing team (<3 @williambrady.bsky.social @killianmcloughlin.bsky.social @mjcrockett.bsky.social) that just published a paper in @science.org on the role of outrage in spread of misinformation

Link here:
science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Summary in🧵🔽
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Kate Klonick @klonick.bsky.social · Nov 29

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Nicolas Suzor @nicsuzor.bsky.social · Nov 26

From the most excellent Tegan Cohen: www.uottawa.ca/en/news-all/...

Automating housing (in)justice: The promise and limits of ‘fair’ rent tech | University of Ottawa

The AI + Society Initiative is excited to continue amplifying the voices of emerging scholars from around the world through our bilingual blog series Global Emerging Voices in AI and Society, stemming...

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Nicolas Suzor @nicsuzor.bsky.social · Nov 26

omg i did this last week and woke up at 1pm, i kid you not.

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Nicolas Suzor @nicsuzor.bsky.social · Nov 26

Ok, I'm here, hello world!

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ARC Tracker @arc-tracker.bsky.social · Nov 26

🚨 #DiscoveryProjects #DP25 announcement:

❗️Outcomes announced publicly for Discovery Projects 2025❗️

See ARC's RMS for list ➡️ rms.arc.gov.au/RMS/Report/D...

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Research Management System - Scheme Round Statistics for Approved Applications - Discovery Projects 2025 round 1

RMS is the ARC's Research Management System, a web-based system used by eligible researchers to prepare and submit research proposals and assessments under the ARC National Competitive Grants Program ...

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ysabel @ysabel.bsky.social · Oct 21

I feel so proud to announce that my first book - The Kids Are Online: Confronting the Myths and Realities of Young Digital Life - will be published in March 2025, by @ucpress.bsky.social 🫶🏼

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