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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.
j2bryson.bsky.social 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.
garymarcus.bsky.social Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · Feb 5
Guess why there was no reporting of AI revenue?

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Joanna Bryson, blathering @j2bryson.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h
#GiftArticle. I’m sure there are people this endangers (I never localise my posts or photos) but I also strongly agree we need focus on our neighbourhoods. #aiethics #techethics #digitalgovernance
https://wapo.st/4p6KTUQ

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 11h
Where did you live?? Berlin avacados are better than Edinburgh bath Princeton Chicago boston = anywhere I’ve lived before.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 11h
Speaking of the OBR , slide from last night

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 11h
I admit I have 2x that space, but less than half what I had in New Jersey, but I feel richer for having a big city outside, quality of life. Obviously it was a choice to move here. Arguably the musician has to live in a capital (if she “has” to be a musician) but she too willingly left the US.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 11h
These aren’t rat holes and both the women I know raising kids in that space are well known professionals. One a musician, one an academic.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 12h
I know the recommendations, and also I know my friends. But maybe you are surprised about ordinary home sizes in Germany? Obviously Berlin and Vienna are a bit tighter than the rest of their respective countries.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 19h
I usually just go to the link, I don't do podcasts that often, I thought if it was available on an app there'd be links (I did look for those.)

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 19h
Also, if you read the entire thread, I link to the guys who make basecamp as one example of a firm offering SF salaries to remote workers. Those guys were originally Chicago. Another entirely virtual AI govtech company I know (saidot.ai) used to be located in Helsinki.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 19h
I have met people in start up scenes all over the world. Chicago, Berlin, Charlotte, Cluj (Romania, but I met New Yorkers there networking and saving money), Hong Kong… almost anywhere is cheaper than SF, and quite a lot of places have plenty of potential brilliant employees. 1/2

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 19h
My own precise path of being a professor of ethics and technology at hertie school is unique, but my strategy of accepting massive reductions in salary and living space in order to do more impactful work is indeed open to all.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 22h
If you are interested in the methodology behind the Data Workers' Inquiry Project (@dataworkersinquiry.bsky.social), this is the paper for you.

Research doesn't have to be exploitative.👇🏽
milamiceli.bsky.social Milagros Miceli @milamiceli.bsky.social · 1d
📣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

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 1d
If you’re wondering who’s guiding our transition, it’s the best New Yorkers that money can’t buy.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d
This is a very weird space. I have substantive conversations on linkedin and mastodon, but I read most actual content here. My best experience of twitter was 140 characters though. The more work we did compressing our ideas, the higher the payoff of reading.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d
Maybe I still don't understand economics. If AI is a bubble, then wouldn't that just mean half the postulated GDP is a lie? How could you bail that out? You can pay for more electricity and data, but you can't produce value that's not there?
attackerman.bsky.social Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 1d
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
cwarzel.bsky.social Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 1d
when its definitely not a hostage situation

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d
@chrisschmitz.ai

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 1d
No bailouts. The US should extort these companies when the crash happens so they get minimal compensation in return for nationalizing the entire panopticon industry and then destroying it once harvested for socially useful parts. It won’t happen but it should
cwarzel.bsky.social Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 1d
when its definitely not a hostage situation

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Nature Ecology & Evolution @natecoevo.nature.com · 1d
This Perspective discusses how the field of behavioural ecology has contributed to fundamental science and global challenges, ranging from understanding how natural selection leads to adaptation to optimizing biocontrol of pest species www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Free to read: rdcu.be/eRKbv
Behavioural ecology in the twenty-first century - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This Perspective discusses how the field of behavioural ecology has contributed to fundamental science and tackling global challenges, ranging from understanding how natural selection leads to adaptat...
www.nature.com

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Christian Traxler @chtraxler.bsky.social · 1d
Hertie offers 2 PhD stipends in Media & Behavioral Economics, to work w/ my wonderful colleagues @ariannaornaghi.bsky.social & Egon Tripodi. #EconSky

Details: www.hertie-school.org/en/phd/apply...

Apply by Jan 15 via @bsoeberlin.bsky.social ▶️ berlinschoolofeconomics.de/phd-program/...
PhD at the Hertie School | Hertie School
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d
Hasn't the USG been a) deleting some of those data sets and b) shrinking others by deleting anti-protected characteristics like gender from consideration?

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d
I was told academics were being advised not to go to airports even for domestic flights some months ago. Even if you don't cross a border, US airports have become dangerous places.
clancyny.bsky.social Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 2d
On Nov. 22, Vahid Abedini, an Iranian Studies professor at University of Oklahoma, was boarding a flight to attend the Middle East Studies Assn mtg in Washington, D.C. when he was detained by ICE.

OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d
How had I not heard that China has also had problems with returning people from space stations? The present crew has no return vehicle because the previous crew's broke so they took the present crew's. There's another just launched and hopefully EVERYONE will be able to get back after this mission.

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Grady Booch @booch.com · 1d
Wishing does not make it so.

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Launching the Genesis Mission
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.
www.whitehouse.gov

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d
Battle of the Planets?

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d
We heard a talk @hertieschool.bsky.social a couple months ago about how NYC payphones had been converted into alleged internet hubs but were covered with cameras and who knows what other surveillance and of course they were mostly in the economically disadvantaged areas that still had payphones.

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Axios @axios.com · 1d
James Comey slammed President Trump's attempts to prosecute him as "fundamentally un-American," but the former FBI director said he expects the president to try again in his first statement after a judge dismissed the case today.
"Malevolence": James Comey warns Trump's revenge push isn't over
Comey said his case was dismissed because of "incompetence," a reflection of the DOJ under Trump.
www.axios.com

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 2d
On Nov. 22, Vahid Abedini, an Iranian Studies professor at University of Oklahoma, was boarding a flight to attend the Middle East Studies Assn mtg in Washington, D.C. when he was detained by ICE.

OU Prof Joshua Landis says "he has been wrongfully detained because he has a valid H-1B visa."

Reposted by Joanna Bryson

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Institute for Strategic Dialogue @isdglobal.org · 2d
ISD is looking for a Hungarian-speaking research consultant to support a new project focused on the April 2026 Hungarian parliamentary elections.

Think you'd be a good fit? More details below!

Deadline: 4 Dec 2025

https://isdglobal.recruitee.com/o/consultant-research-analyst-hungarian
Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) - Consultant Research Analyst (Hungarian)
ISD is a think and do tank that works globally to safeguard public safety, national security, human rights and democracy in the digital age. Combining research and analysis with government advisory wo
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