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Joanna Bryson

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Professor of Ethics & Technology @ Hertie School, Berlin. Interests: Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Behavioural Ecology; Cooperation; Digital Governance. Social media policy: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html .. more

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Joanna Joy Bryson is professor at Hertie School in Berlin. She works on Artificial Intelligence, ethics and collaborative cognition. She has been a British citizen since 2007.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · Feb 19

thread. correct numbers and data backing them come later, but this is the thrust.

Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · Feb 5

One thing I learned last week was that if you don’t count the BS market capitalisation bubble of 7 “AI” firms, the US economy as measured by the s&p 500 didn’t go up 13% last year; it went down 7%.

The EU may be a larger economy already. We need to get our own O2 mask on, then start helping others.

Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · Feb 5

Guess why there was no reporting of AI revenue?

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 11h

Diversity breeds innovation.

Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 11h

I way too self-censored here joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2022/11/is-m...

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Georg Weizsäcker @georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 11h

Come to Berlin

ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin @rfberlin.bsky.social · 14h

🚨 We are hiring!
📂 RFBerlin invites applications for Postdoctoral Fellow positions in Economics.
⏰ Application deadline: November 15.
More info: www.rfberlin.com/job/postdoct...
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Economics

The ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin) invites applications for postdoctoral fellow positions in economics. The initial contract is for two years, with the possibility of renewal for up to six year...

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Jenna McLaughlin @jennamclaughlin.bsky.social · 12h

Anecdotally have been hearing for months that law enforcement officers and investigators of all stripes, from FBI cyber to CISA folk, have been shunted into immigration work/raids.

Would love to hear more on this trend.

Will keep you anonymous/protect your identity.

Signal: JennaMcLaughlin.54

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 13h

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
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The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

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Matt Houlbrook @tricksterprince.bsky.social · 15h

This really is interesting. We talk a bit about the close relationship between Men's Liberation and feminism in 1980s Britain - and how that progressive impulse dissipated - in Men and Masculinities in Modern Britain.

See (open access) www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 20h

Twitter is just one of many powerful companies involved here, tho IMO still an underestimated one. It was & is a powerful transnational utility of political communication. Dorsey says blogs that he sold it because he'd made the mistake of building power he wasn't resourced to maintain control over.

Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 20h

“Since late 2017 or January of 2018, Prince Mohammed has exercised control over more Twitter stock than is owned by Twitter’s founder,” I guess that may explain this Dorsey blogpost Musk suppressed (thanks @archive.org) web.archive.org/web/20230104... (Musk bought the blogsite & took it down).

a native internet protocol for social media

There’s a lot of conversation around the #TwitterFiles. Here’s my take, and thoughts on how to fix the issues identified. I’ll start with the principles I’ve come to believe…based on everything I’ve l...

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 20h

“Because of the tremendous wealth of key figures…major corporations have enabled, collaborated with, and turned a blind eye to efforts to suppress, torture, falsely imprison, terrorise and murder dissenters … around the world.” Twitter [gave] the Saudi government a reach well beyond its borders.

Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22h

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/09/twitter-saudi-arabia-deep-ties-elon-musk-prince-mohammed?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia

The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 21h

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#agi #aievaluation #systemsai | Joanna Bryson

AGI is an oxymoron. Intelligence is always specific. It abstracts and generalises over contexts, and all abstractions are necessarily biased towards the aims and goals of that particular agency. Intel...

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22h

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/oct/09/twitter-saudi-arabia-deep-ties-elon-musk-prince-mohammed?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia

The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime

www.theguardian.com

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d

yeah I thought he was trying to model a good collective that takes care of its people, which is the point of contention between the queens, incidentally.

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 1d

thankful to find that the office is still standing, here in war-ravaged DC

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d

Re-upping this 4-part thread for the US. There is an excellent link hidden in the fold of the thread; the first 3 links are all very worth reading if you want to know what is happening in the USA.

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JM Rieger @riegerreport.bsky.social · 1d

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday called for jailing Chicago's mayor and the governor of Illinois, both Democrats, as his administration prepared to deploy military troops to the streets of the third-largest U.S. city. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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michael veale @michae.lv · 1d

OpenAI’s Sora opt-out for IP is clearly OpenAI trying to do a Google ContentID pivot to turn rightsholders of key trademarked characters into price-takers not price-setters.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d

Barbara Walter, UCSD, "Once citizens begin to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army, violence becomes inevitable. Trump’s team knows this. In fact, that’s the point. They are not trying to restore order… trying to trigger the unrest that would justify further crackdowns."

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d

Ryan Enos, Harvard "The reason that the Reichstag fire is such a poignant example of a pretext for an authoritarian power grab is not because it is unique, but rather because the consequences are now seen as so severe."

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jekolski.bsky.social @jekolski.bsky.social · 2d

Try this gift article

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Opinion | Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.

www.nytimes.com

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d

The journalists are some of the heroes. Thank you for not only writing your articles, but getting them where people see them. bsky.app/profile/dlkn...

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 2d

My own story on the raid is here:

What a Chicago immigration raid says about Trumpism
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From The Economist

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d

Trump's warriors chose a building in serious disrepair. No one looks excellent in this, not Chicago, not America. But there are some real heroes described: Watson working to document, entire NGOs working to recover the lost. And at the heart, families trying to stay alive and love their children.

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 2d

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here.

Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race

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Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

I helped too. I posted in German on LinkedIn, everyone must have known THAT was serious!! https://mastodon.social/@mfeilner/115335365263865209

Markus Feilner (@[email protected])

#chatcontrol is fallen and I helped. "Facing a wave of calls and emails from the public, the Social Democrats held their ground, and for the first time, even the conservative opposition leadership is voicing criticism." https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/citizen-protest-halts-chat-control-breyer-celebrates-major-victory-for-digital-privacy/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRVPLPFoJL0

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d

This is an important thread, but I feel obliged to focus on entire tenements in Chicago being evacuated and sorted by race, which would mean breaking up families except they were already stripping children from parents as well.

However I don't know how to focus on that, what to do.

Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 2d

Like other sectors, spirituality embraced AI chat bots to meditate interactions w followers. The leaders are of two camps: people who are hustling new profits and true believers trying to help more people. Both camps lack AI education and are inadvertently harming their communities & the planet.

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Good morning. Is Germany a tech dystopia or a champion of #privacy?

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Jakob @jdw.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Can we do the thing we did about #chatcontrol about #wealthtax next?

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jekolski.bsky.social @jekolski.bsky.social · 2d

Try this gift article

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Opinion | Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.

www.nytimes.com

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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 2d

This database documents individuals in internment camps in Xinxiang, & they are running low on funds. They need $3000. I vouch for their work and they need very little. Please help! The records of over 90,000 victims must be maintained, it is evidence and hope. www.gofundme.com/f/xinjiang-v...

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 2d

Monstrous.

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Daniel Knowles @dlknowles.bsky.social · 2d

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children

Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

southsideweekly.com

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I'm Margaret! I'm the best! Blah Blah Blah! @vt-vagabond.bsky.social · 2d

There’s a lot in here that deserves a pull quote, but this is the most egregious. I need people to recognize the gravity of the situation here in Chicago;

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"The ones that are getting out are coming home to no home," Watson said.
According to her, after the raid occurred, building management stole or threw out residents belongings, including visas and important documents.

ICIRR is still trying to determine the identities of all the people detained in the raid. Castro said that the organization usually can do that by following up with family members or loved ones. "In this instance, there was nobody left to work with," she said. The only detainee name they're sure of is that of a person who passed their Venezuelan passport to a neighbor as they were being taken away.

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