Sarah Rajtmajer
@srajtmajer.bsky.social
Associate Prof @PennState Tech, Data, Ethics
Thoughts on tech/AI, privacy, of course.
NLP, computational social science, science of science, social media
But also maths, music, ballet, nature, mental health.
https://www.rajtmajerlab.net
Thoughts on tech/AI, privacy, of course.
NLP, computational social science, science of science, social media
But also maths, music, ballet, nature, mental health.
https://www.rajtmajerlab.net
Reposted by Sarah Rajtmajer
Imagination is resistance, @ruha9.bsky.social reminds us that, " we need to reject the gospel that says technology is inevitable, that the train has left the station... In an error of automated bullshit, it’s time to become bullshit detectors,"
#MozFest
#MozFest
November 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Imagination is resistance, @ruha9.bsky.social reminds us that, " we need to reject the gospel that says technology is inevitable, that the train has left the station... In an error of automated bullshit, it’s time to become bullshit detectors,"
#MozFest
#MozFest
"A Tale of Two Identities: An Ethical Audit of Human and AI-Crafted Personas" is accepted to AAAI-26! @aaai.org
@shomir.bsky.social
We show LLMs demonstrate "algorithmic othering"--e.g., disproportionately foreground racial markers, overproduce culturally coded language.
arxiv.org/abs/2505.07850
@shomir.bsky.social
We show LLMs demonstrate "algorithmic othering"--e.g., disproportionately foreground racial markers, overproduce culturally coded language.
arxiv.org/abs/2505.07850
A Tale of Two Identities: An Ethical Audit of Human and AI-Crafted Personas
As LLMs (large language models) are increasingly used to generate synthetic personas particularly in data-limited domains such as health, privacy, and HCI, it becomes necessary to understand how these...
arxiv.org
November 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
"A Tale of Two Identities: An Ethical Audit of Human and AI-Crafted Personas" is accepted to AAAI-26! @aaai.org
@shomir.bsky.social
We show LLMs demonstrate "algorithmic othering"--e.g., disproportionately foreground racial markers, overproduce culturally coded language.
arxiv.org/abs/2505.07850
@shomir.bsky.social
We show LLMs demonstrate "algorithmic othering"--e.g., disproportionately foreground racial markers, overproduce culturally coded language.
arxiv.org/abs/2505.07850
Reposted by Sarah Rajtmajer
This is really impressive. They invented racism.
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This is really impressive. They invented racism.
@vrandecic.bsky.social founder of Wikidata shares the history of Wikipedia and Semantic Web. @iswc-conf.bsky.social
This example from early days a nod to his beautiful HR
This example from early days a nod to his beautiful HR
November 4, 2025 at 1:06 AM
@vrandecic.bsky.social founder of Wikidata shares the history of Wikipedia and Semantic Web. @iswc-conf.bsky.social
This example from early days a nod to his beautiful HR
This example from early days a nod to his beautiful HR
Reminder of the power of a kind word.
I gave my talk (a thought piece/passion project). Someone in the audience raised his hand and said it was one of the most inspiring talks he's ever heard.
Such a meaningful compliment, I will never forget it.
When you think something nice, say it out loud.
I gave my talk (a thought piece/passion project). Someone in the audience raised his hand and said it was one of the most inspiring talks he's ever heard.
Such a meaningful compliment, I will never forget it.
When you think something nice, say it out loud.
🎤 Presenting at #ISWC2025?
Check out our blog for tips, insights, and what to expect!
🔗 iswc2025.semanticweb.org#/blogs/prese...
#SemanticWeb #KnowledgeGraphs #AI #LLM
Check out our blog for tips, insights, and what to expect!
🔗 iswc2025.semanticweb.org#/blogs/prese...
#SemanticWeb #KnowledgeGraphs #AI #LLM
November 2, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Reminder of the power of a kind word.
I gave my talk (a thought piece/passion project). Someone in the audience raised his hand and said it was one of the most inspiring talks he's ever heard.
Such a meaningful compliment, I will never forget it.
When you think something nice, say it out loud.
I gave my talk (a thought piece/passion project). Someone in the audience raised his hand and said it was one of the most inspiring talks he's ever heard.
Such a meaningful compliment, I will never forget it.
When you think something nice, say it out loud.
And congrats are in order - Diella is pregnant! www.euronews.com/next/2025/10...
Is it rude to ask who the father is?
Beyond the problems outlined by TechPolicy, below, the anthropomorphism here is out of hand.
Is it rude to ask who the father is?
Beyond the problems outlined by TechPolicy, below, the anthropomorphism here is out of hand.
November 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
And congrats are in order - Diella is pregnant! www.euronews.com/next/2025/10...
Is it rude to ask who the father is?
Beyond the problems outlined by TechPolicy, below, the anthropomorphism here is out of hand.
Is it rude to ask who the father is?
Beyond the problems outlined by TechPolicy, below, the anthropomorphism here is out of hand.
Reposted by Sarah Rajtmajer
Milorad Pupovac, always antifascist ✊ he's right, and I hope action is taken against Ustasha apologetics in the Sabor.
Croatian Serbs Urge Prosecutions Over Jasenovac Camp Denial in Parliament
The Serbian National Council said right-wingers who used a discussion in parliament to reject facts about crimes committed at the World War II-era Jasenovac camp violated the Croatian criminal code, w...
balkaninsight.com
November 1, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Milorad Pupovac, always antifascist ✊ he's right, and I hope action is taken against Ustasha apologetics in the Sabor.
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“The biggest lesson of the past two decades of Silicon Valley is that Meta, Amazon, and Google—and even the newer AI labs such as OpenAI—have remade our world and have become unfathomably rich for it, all while being mostly oblivious or uninterested in the fallout.”
Worth a read!
Worth a read!
so @matteowong.bsky.social & I wrote on data centers: arguably the most important buildings in the world & are, in a way, holding the economy hostage. Byzantine financial instruments, private equity, depreciating tech, hype, $trillion valuations. it’s all there. an ai crash prob starts here.
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
www.theatlantic.com
October 31, 2025 at 9:15 AM
“The biggest lesson of the past two decades of Silicon Valley is that Meta, Amazon, and Google—and even the newer AI labs such as OpenAI—have remade our world and have become unfathomably rich for it, all while being mostly oblivious or uninterested in the fallout.”
Worth a read!
Worth a read!
Few days from Sci-K and @iswc-conf.bsky.social !
sci-k.github.io/2025/#program
@fanchyna.bsky.social and I present "From Philosophy to NLU: Evolving Definitions of Research Hypotheses".
We'd love feedback - esp. folks doing hypothesis/evidence extraction: arxiv.org/abs/2509.00185
sci-k.github.io/2025/#program
@fanchyna.bsky.social and I present "From Philosophy to NLU: Evolving Definitions of Research Hypotheses".
We'd love feedback - esp. folks doing hypothesis/evidence extraction: arxiv.org/abs/2509.00185
Sci-K 2025
sci-k.github.io
October 28, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Few days from Sci-K and @iswc-conf.bsky.social !
sci-k.github.io/2025/#program
@fanchyna.bsky.social and I present "From Philosophy to NLU: Evolving Definitions of Research Hypotheses".
We'd love feedback - esp. folks doing hypothesis/evidence extraction: arxiv.org/abs/2509.00185
sci-k.github.io/2025/#program
@fanchyna.bsky.social and I present "From Philosophy to NLU: Evolving Definitions of Research Hypotheses".
We'd love feedback - esp. folks doing hypothesis/evidence extraction: arxiv.org/abs/2509.00185
State College, PA. World class athletes on every field, on every corner. @pennstatewsoc
October 26, 2025 at 7:56 PM
State College, PA. World class athletes on every field, on every corner. @pennstatewsoc
Reposted by Sarah Rajtmajer
I am excited to announce that the 2nd International Workshop on AI for the Science of Science (AI4SciSci) will be co-located with the 2025 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), which will be online. The workshop website is at ai4scisci.github.io/2025.
October 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I am excited to announce that the 2nd International Workshop on AI for the Science of Science (AI4SciSci) will be co-located with the 2025 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL), which will be online. The workshop website is at ai4scisci.github.io/2025.
Yesterday we celebrated the great Lee Giles. Yes, his h-index is 121. He was part of the “lunatic fringe” doing CNNs way back and stood up CiteSeer, the OG Google Scholar.
But his legacy is people. 38 PhD students, countless postdocs, etc. and the beautiful, important part he played in their lives.
But his legacy is people. 38 PhD students, countless postdocs, etc. and the beautiful, important part he played in their lives.
October 25, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Yesterday we celebrated the great Lee Giles. Yes, his h-index is 121. He was part of the “lunatic fringe” doing CNNs way back and stood up CiteSeer, the OG Google Scholar.
But his legacy is people. 38 PhD students, countless postdocs, etc. and the beautiful, important part he played in their lives.
But his legacy is people. 38 PhD students, countless postdocs, etc. and the beautiful, important part he played in their lives.
And how would/will people react if platforms were to flag these deepfakes, you're wondering? Our CSCW paper studies this very question: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
October 23, 2025 at 10:22 PM
And how would/will people react if platforms were to flag these deepfakes, you're wondering? Our CSCW paper studies this very question: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
Reposted by Sarah Rajtmajer
"OpenAI twice loosened ChatGPT’s rules for discussing suicide in the year before 16-year-old Adam Raine took his own life using a method the chatbot advised him on, according to an amended lawsuit filed by his parents on Wednesday."
OpenAI Loosened Suicide-Talk Rules Before Teen’s Death, Lawsuit Alleges
An amended complaint from the parents of Adam Raine, a 16-year-old who died by suicide, alleges the changes were part of a push to increase engagement.
www.wsj.com
October 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
"OpenAI twice loosened ChatGPT’s rules for discussing suicide in the year before 16-year-old Adam Raine took his own life using a method the chatbot advised him on, according to an amended lawsuit filed by his parents on Wednesday."
YES 100%
We dig into this in our paper presented today(!) at AAAI/ACM Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Society: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
We dig into this in our paper presented today(!) at AAAI/ACM Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Society: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
October 22, 2025 at 8:23 PM
YES 100%
We dig into this in our paper presented today(!) at AAAI/ACM Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Society: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
We dig into this in our paper presented today(!) at AAAI/ACM Artificial Intelligence Ethics and Society: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...
Reposted by Sarah Rajtmajer
A DHS warrant seeking ChatGPT user prompts “means it’s more important than ever for OpenAI and other AI companies to think about how to limit the amount of data they collect on their users,” EFF’s @jenlynch.bsky.social told @Forbes.com.
www.forbes.com/sites/thoma...
www.forbes.com/sites/thoma...
DHS Ordered OpenAI To Share User Data In First Known Warrant For ChatGPT Prompts
Filed by child exploitation investigators with the DHS, the warrant reveals the government can ask OpenAI to provide information on anyone who enters specific prompts.
www.forbes.com
October 22, 2025 at 6:33 PM
A DHS warrant seeking ChatGPT user prompts “means it’s more important than ever for OpenAI and other AI companies to think about how to limit the amount of data they collect on their users,” EFF’s @jenlynch.bsky.social told @Forbes.com.
www.forbes.com/sites/thoma...
www.forbes.com/sites/thoma...
Reposted by Sarah Rajtmajer
Jill Dimond absolutely tearing it up at her impact award acceptance speech #cscw2025 #freepalestine #genocideisnotinevitable
October 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Jill Dimond absolutely tearing it up at her impact award acceptance speech #cscw2025 #freepalestine #genocideisnotinevitable
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always good to just keep track of how AI boosters themselves keep moving the goalposts, based on their own words:
www.404media.co/openai-sam-a...
www.404media.co/openai-sam-a...
October 21, 2025 at 3:31 PM
always good to just keep track of how AI boosters themselves keep moving the goalposts, based on their own words:
www.404media.co/openai-sam-a...
www.404media.co/openai-sam-a...
Early days of computer-supported cooperative work. 😂😍 @acm-cscw.bsky.social
October 20, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Early days of computer-supported cooperative work. 😂😍 @acm-cscw.bsky.social
We are presenting work this week at ACM #CSCW and AAAI/ACM Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Ethics and Society #AIES! If you’re in Bergen or Madrid, say hello 👋🏻
Hi everyone! Welcome to #CSCW2025 at Grieghallen in Bergen, Norway. To get to the venue, use the door marked on the map below. Walk past reception ("resepsjon") and around the corner to the Peer Gynt sign / red carpet to the registration desk. If you're a student, don't forget your student ID.
October 19, 2025 at 9:08 AM
20 Cliff St., Staten Island, NY
One bedroom, tucked under the Verrazzano Bridge.
If you don’t remember where you come from, you cannot get where you need to go. #blueskies
One bedroom, tucked under the Verrazzano Bridge.
If you don’t remember where you come from, you cannot get where you need to go. #blueskies
October 18, 2025 at 4:12 PM
20 Cliff St., Staten Island, NY
One bedroom, tucked under the Verrazzano Bridge.
If you don’t remember where you come from, you cannot get where you need to go. #blueskies
One bedroom, tucked under the Verrazzano Bridge.
If you don’t remember where you come from, you cannot get where you need to go. #blueskies
Dear god how I love Jenny Slate.
~The man was getting irritated because I guess I was making a face and rolling my eyes, but what was hard about that was that my head was dangling upside down and so my eyeballs were, to be fair, rolling around.~
~The man was getting irritated because I guess I was making a face and rolling my eyes, but what was hard about that was that my head was dangling upside down and so my eyeballs were, to be fair, rolling around.~
October 16, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Dear god how I love Jenny Slate.
~The man was getting irritated because I guess I was making a face and rolling my eyes, but what was hard about that was that my head was dangling upside down and so my eyeballs were, to be fair, rolling around.~
~The man was getting irritated because I guess I was making a face and rolling my eyes, but what was hard about that was that my head was dangling upside down and so my eyeballs were, to be fair, rolling around.~
Reposted by Sarah Rajtmajer
I will be at #CSCW2025 presenting two first-author papers! I am also on the job market, let’s have a ☕ chat! Papers: Who Is a Good Digital Activist? w/ @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social,“Whoever needs to see it, will see it” w/ @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social, @shaheenk.bsky.social, Haley McAtee & Amy Ritchart
October 13, 2025 at 4:10 PM
I will be at #CSCW2025 presenting two first-author papers! I am also on the job market, let’s have a ☕ chat! Papers: Who Is a Good Digital Activist? w/ @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social,“Whoever needs to see it, will see it” w/ @kelleyhas2es.bsky.social, @shaheenk.bsky.social, Haley McAtee & Amy Ritchart
(& Zagreb's Zrinjevac as well.) Despite the political climate now - today's Serbia/Bosnia tensions, etc., humanity.
Gathering for Halid Beslic in Front of the Eternal Flame: Over 15,000 People Filled Sarajevo’s Titova Street
October 12, 2025 at 11:33 PM
(& Zagreb's Zrinjevac as well.) Despite the political climate now - today's Serbia/Bosnia tensions, etc., humanity.