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Meredith Broussard, PhD
@merbroussard.bsky.social
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Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. Professor at NYU. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com

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Meredith Broussard is a data journalism professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. Her research focuses on the role of artificial intelligence in journalism. .. more

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Sarah Fackrell @design-law.bsky.social · 1d
If a bunch of smart, financially-disinterested experts take a look at something and they all come away with concerns, that's not "bias." It's data.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 1d
🚨Less Than a Week Left to Apply!🚨

If you are someone looking to inform technology policy through rigorous original reporting or policy analyses, we want to hear from you! Click the link below and apply to be part of our 2026 Fellowship cohort!

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 2d
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d
“One of the negative consequences AI is having on students is that it is hurting their ability to develop meaningful relationships with teachers, the report finds. Half of the students agree that using AI in class makes them feel less connected to their teachers.”
Rising Use of AI in Schools Comes With Big Downsides for Students
A report by the Center for Democracy and Technology looks at teachers' and students' experiences with the technology.
www.edweek.org
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Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Martin Paul Eve

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Lauren Klein @laurenfklein.bsky.social · 2d
The syllabus and schedule for my fall semester quantitative literary analysis course is now online, better late than never! github.com/laurenfklein...
GitHub - laurenfklein/2025-quant-lit: Class labs for Fall 2025 ENG 385 on quantitative literary analysis
Class labs for Fall 2025 ENG 385 on quantitative literary analysis - GitHub - laurenfklein/2025-quant-lit: Class labs for Fall 2025 ENG 385 on quantitative literary analysis
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Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Suresh Venkatasubramanian

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 2d
“Privacy-preserving” isn’t as private as you might think. Our new brief, published in collab w @powerswitchaction.org & Coworker, exposes how so-called “privacy-preserving” technologies can actually enable *more* worker surveillance — and what we can do about it. datasociety.net/library/the-...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d
Altman claims the company didn’t anticipate people not wanting their deepfakes to say “offensive things or things that they find deeply problematic,” which sounds like a lie but is also indicative of how they recklessly release tech into the world.
OpenAI wasn’t expecting Sora’s copyright drama
It felt “more different to images than people expected.”
www.theverge.com
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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 2d
Genius.
The Oatmeal: “Consuming AI art is like eating styrofoam.” The Oatmeal:”AI art is an interesting technology because despite its growing popularity, nobody seems to want it.”
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Richard Fletcher @richardfletcher.bsky.social · 2d
A thread on how people's use of generative AI has changed in the last year - based on survey data from 6 countries (🇬🇧🇺🇸🇫🇷🇩🇰🇯🇵🇦🇷 ).

First, gen AI use has grown rapidly.

Most people have tried out gen AI at least once (61%), and 34% now use it on a weekly basis - roughly doubling from 18% a year ago.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4d
“…that Sora is being used for stalking and harassment will likely not be an edge case, because deepfaking yourself and others into videos is one of its core selling points.”

Far from an edge case, it’s the primary use case.
Stalker Already Using OpenAI's Sora 2 to Harass Victim
A journalist claims that her stalker used Sora 2, the latest video app from OpenAI, to churn out videos of her.
futurism.com
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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 6d
This is the first year I have seen multiple students taking notes by hand because they have a deeper understanding of how information is most effectively encoded in their brains. It’s exciting to see!
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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 6d
Ty!
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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 6d
I definitely thought about getting printed coursepacks for this semester, but I don’t know where to order them!
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6d
I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?
Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels
Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive
www.thetimes.com
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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 8d
Shoutout to all the first-year students who left home, grew tiny mustaches, and are debuting them in-person at parents' weekend.
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Library Futures @libraryfutures.bsky.social · 8d
And don't forget to register for the next webinar in our AI series! We'll be talking legal and ethical issues in AI with @merbroussard.bsky.social and @nickgarcia.bsky.social!

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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Legal and Ethical Issues in AI. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
Join Meredith Broussard and Nick Garcia to learn about the legal and ethical implications of AI in libraries. Data journalist Meredith Broussard is an associate professor at the Arthur L. Carter Jour...
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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 9d
King Chunk
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explore.org @explore.org · 10d
Meet your FAT BEAR WEEK 2025 champion.

Chunk the Hunk. The Chunkster. 32 Chunk.

All hail the new king of Brooks River 👑
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 10d
A lot of psych is already conducted with online convenience samples & ppl are probably excited about silicon samples bc it would allow them to crank out more studies for even less 💸

How about we reconsider the idea that sciencey science involves collecting own data.
www.science.org/content/arti...
AI-generated ‘participants’ can lead social science experiments astray, study finds
Data produced by “silicon samples” depends on researchers’ exact choice of models, prompts, and settings
www.science.org
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explore.org @explore.org · 10d
Meet your FAT BEAR WEEK 2025 champion.

Chunk the Hunk. The Chunkster. 32 Chunk.

All hail the new king of Brooks River 👑
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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 10d
It is... 3d now? Why?

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 10d
AI: even more energy-hungry than you imagined. futurism.com/future-socie...
Researchers Just Found Something Extremely Alarming About AI's Power Usage
The carbon footprint of generative AI-based tools that can turn text prompts into videos is far worse than we thought.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 10d
"Data centers are proliferating in VA and a blind man in [MD] is suddenly contending with sharply higher power bills...It’s an increasingly dramatic ripple effect of the AI boom as energy-hungry data centers...[pull]...households into paying for the digital economy" www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring
Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.
www.bloomberg.com
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 10d
New: ICE has bought a tool that tracks the locations of hundreds of millions of phones globally, updates every single day. Usually harvested from apps and advertising

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ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day
Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.
www.404media.co
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10d
“.. OpenAI spent more on marketing and equity options for its employees than it made in revenue in the first half of 2025. That single fact sums up where we are in the AI cycle more neatly than anything we could ever write, so we’ll just end there.”

@financialtimes.com
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 11d
this is not gonna go down well

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OpenAI's new Sora video generator to require copyright holders to opt out, WSJ reports
OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora generator that creates videos featuring copyrighted material, unless right holders opt out of having their work appear, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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404 Media @404media.co · 11d
New: landlords are demanding potential tenants hand over employer login credentials so a tool can verify their income. We were sent screenshot of the tool, Argyle, downloading much more data than necessary to approve the renter. "Opt-out means no housing" www.404media.co/landlords-de...
Landlords Demand Tenants’ Workplace Logins to Scrape Their Paystubs
Screenshots shared with 404 Media show tenant screening services ApproveShield and Argyle taking much more data than they need. “Opt-out means no housing.”
www.404media.co
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11d
“This worldwide update includes the ability for parents, as well as law enforcement, to receive notifications if a child—in this case, users between the ages of 13 and 18—engages in chatbot conversations about self harm or suicide.”
OpenAI Adds Parental Safety Controls for Teen ChatGPT Users. Here’s What to Expect
OpenAI’s review process for teenage ChatGPT users who are flagged for suicidal ideation includes human moderators. Parents can expect an alert about alarming prompts within hours.
www.wired.com
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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 12d
I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry.
Or sociology.
It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.
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matt94250.bsky.social @matt94250.bsky.social · 12d
If you don’t teach your students how to use AI, you’re doing them a huge disservice because they won’t have jobs in the future.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13d
The guide lists 7 risks “that come from AI governance: discriminatory work assignments, fluctuating wages, loss of worker control, constant surveillance, unreasonable performance evaluations, automated punishment, and non-payment.”
Report Warns That AI Is About to Make Your Boss a Panopticon Overlord
Far from a dystopian fantasy, algorithmic management tech is rapidly expanding across the US and European Union.
futurism.com
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