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Asst. Prof, Amii Fellow, sci-fi creator @ UAlberta

Transfeminist AI ethics, policy, governance: blairaf.com

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blair @blairaf.com · Apr 10
Why is AI governance so often ineffective at preventing AI from harming people and the planet? My new paper Transfeminist AI Governance addresses this question, now out in this month's issue of First Monday: firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
Abstract for a paper entitled "Transfeminist AI Governance". The abstract reads: "This paper re-imagines the governance of artificial intelligence (AI) through a transfeminist lens, focusing on challenges of power, participation, and injustice, and on opportunities for advancing equity, community-based resistance, and transformative change. AI governance is a field of research and practice seeking to maximize benefits and minimize harms caused by AI systems. Unfortunately, AI governance practices are frequently ineffective at preventing AI systems from harming people and the environment, with historically marginalized groups such as trans people being particularly vulnerable to harm. Building upon trans and feminist theories of ethics, I introduce an approach to transfeminist AI governance. Applying a transfeminist lens in combination with a critical self-reflexivity methodology, I retroactively reinterpret findings from three empirical studies of AI governance practices in Canada and globally. In three reflections on my findings, I show that large-scale AI governance systems structurally prioritize the needs of industry over marginalized communities. As a result, AI governance is limited by power imbalances and exclusionary norms. My reflections reveal that re-grounding AI governance in transfeminist ethical principles can support AI governance researchers, practitioners, and organizers in addressing those limitations."
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Meme of children swimming with Mom, mom is labelled AI governance and is holding up a child named consumer safety. Child named AI ethics is struggling to swim and a skeleton named political economy of AI sits deep under the water
November 25, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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i think tech and ai positive people are going to be in for a big shock when anti tech and anti ai sentiment becomes a major part of leftwing politics going forward especially as datacenters continue to destroy communities and raise electricity bills
mitsuhiko.at Armin Ronacher @mitsuhiko.at · 2d
Is this platform still massively against AI or has it moved more towards acceptance?
November 26, 2025 at 5:34 AM
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cwarzel.bsky.social
when its definitely not a hostage situation
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Meme of children swimming with Mom, mom is labelled AI governance and is holding up a child named consumer safety. Child named AI ethics is struggling to swim and a skeleton named political economy of AI sits deep under the water
November 25, 2025 at 11:38 PM
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abeba.bsky.social
we've written about this in the past

firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...
November 25, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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If trans people start wearing robot costumes they will finally say we deserve human rights
abeba.bsky.social Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 23h
can’t fucking catch a breath

make it stop
Is ChatGPT Conscious? Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something. By Jeff Wise, a science journalist and private pilot.
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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milamiceli.bsky.social
📣New paper!
Thrilled to share the methodological recipe for @dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social in this article co-authored with @adiod.bsky.social @krystalkauffman.bsky.social Camilla Salim Wagner, Laurenz Sachenbacher @alexhanna.bsky.social & @timnitgebru.bsky.social

👉 ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
Proceedings of the Eighth AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES2025) Methodological Considerations for Centering Workers’ Epistemic Authority in AIResearchMilagros Miceli1, 2, 3, Adio-Adet Dinika1, Krystal Kauffman1, Camilla Salim Wagner2, 3,Laurenz Sachenbacher2, 3, Alex Hanna1, Timnit Gebru11The Distributed AI Research Institute2Weizenbaum-Institute3Technische Universit ̈at Berlinmila@dair-institute.org, adio@dair-institute.org, krystal@dair-institute.org, camilla.salim.wagner@tu-berlin.de,l.sachenbacher@tu-berlin.de, alex@dair-institute.org, timnit@dair-institute.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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hermeneuticist.bsky.social
This werk’s Brief includes comments on work from @heyitsseher.bsky.social @blairaf.com @jhereia.bsky.social and others who contributed to Part II of the State of AI Ethics Report, Volume 7.
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
“The decision to block teens follows the deaths of at least three who killed themselves after using Character.AI’s chatbots.”
Teens Are Saying Tearful Goodbyes to Their AI Companions
Chatbot maker Character.AI is cutting off access, citing mental-health concerns.
www.wsj.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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"what is your knowledge mobilization plan for this project?" I will apply findings from this research to write stern letters to the government and make silly jokes on the internet please give me funding
November 24, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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carlquintanilla.bsky.social
In the memo, “Nvidia also responds to claims that the ‘current situation is analogous to historical accounting frauds (Enron, WorldCom, Lucent) that featured vendor financing and SPVs [special purpose vehicles.)’”

@barrons.com $NVDA
@firstadopter.bsky.social
www.barrons.com/articles/nvi...
November 24, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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objecttype3.app is an experimental web game I made in which you have to escape from a technocratic world government that is on the brink of collapse because it has fully automated all aspects of regulatory design and enforcement. Anyways here's a news story

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Alberta government eyes AI to write legislation for 1st time | CBC News
The Alberta government is considering using AI technology to write a law for the first time, eyeing a forthcoming piece of whisky legislation as its test case.
www.cbc.ca
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Let's not overregulate the doomsday machine we wouldn't want to stifle innovation
November 12, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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eryk.bsky.social
What was ChatGPT? Now nearly three years old, we can look at OpenAI's LLM as a product of its time, optimized ever since to its earliest uses. While this period of deep disorientation and social isolation has been obscured from public memory, it remains embedded within the interface.
What Was ChatGPT?
A Chatbot Optimized for Social Distance Three years after the launch of ChatGPT, we can finally speak in hindsight about what it was and how it came to be. Its meteoric rise shocked the world, gather...
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November 23, 2025 at 12:37 PM
blairaf.com
this is the premise of the matrix they are doing the matrix
politico.com Politico @politico.com · 4d
A 25-person startup is developing technology to block the sun and turn down the planet’s thermostat.

The stakes are huge — and the company and its critics say regulations need to catch up.

Read more: politi.co/4iaojIc
November 23, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
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In a text message in 2021, Mark Zuckerberg said that he wouldn’t say that child safety was his top concern “when I have a number of other areas I’m more focused on like building the metaverse.” Zuckerberg also shot down or ignored requests by Nick Clegg, Meta's then-head of global public policy, to better fund child safety work.
November 23, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Condemned to a hell where I have to hear about "weighing the benefits and risks" whenever a new type of dystopian tech drops
November 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Saturday mood
Huxley the dog has white black and brown fur and big ears and is cozy laying down on a sofa chair on her side with he legs spread out
November 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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hypervisible.blacksky.app
“AI workers said they distrust the models they work on because of a consistent emphasis on rapid turnaround time at the expense of quality.”
Meet the AI workers who tell their friends and family to stay away from AI
When the people making AI seem trustworthy are the ones who trust it the least, it shows that incentives for speed are overtaking safety, experts say
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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Re: using poems to sabotage LLMs, I wrote a short story around this premise last year - it's called Manifesto and it's a chatlog from a world where political violence has been automated.

Read here: blairaf.com/library/crea...
Excerpt from the short story "Manifesto"
November 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
blairaf.com
Re: using poems to sabotage LLMs, I wrote a short story around this premise last year - it's called Manifesto and it's a chatlog from a world where political violence has been automated.

Read here: blairaf.com/library/crea...
Excerpt from the short story "Manifesto"
November 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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razorfemme.bsky.social
I wrote about the exhaustion and dissonance of writing about TDOR for the past 15 years
I’m sick of writing about dead trans people | Xtra Magazine
For 15 years, I hoped my words would change something. Now I’m grieving the world that could’ve been
xtramagazine.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
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cait.bsky.social
happy trans day of remembrance. you are beautifully and wonderfully made and I will never stop fighting for you. the world is better because you are in it
November 20, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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blairaf.com
AI-driven casino economy

www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Just 2% of Canadian businesses got return on generative AI investments, survey shows
KPMG poll finds only a handful of businesses seeing benefits from technology despite widespread adoption
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM