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If you want to encourage AI innovation, let our democratic system work as intended, with participation from the general public & at the state/local levels. A ban here is short-sighted and won't make us more competitive. Write to your senator via this link now: actionnetwork.org/letters/remo...
June 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM
If you want to encourage AI innovation, let our democratic system work as intended, with participation from the general public & at the state/local levels. A ban here is short-sighted and won't make us more competitive. Write to your senator via this link now: actionnetwork.org/letters/remo...
This Week: Archdiocese of New York's AI Warning Butts up Against School Social Media Content 🤔
This Week: Archdiocese of New York's AI Warning Butts up Against School Social Media Content 🤔
Even well-intended, on-the-right-track concerns about *AI* these days often seem out of step with what it really means to protect ourselves and our kids. Let's start with those social media posts...
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May 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
This Week: Archdiocese of New York's AI Warning Butts up Against School Social Media Content 🤔
In the newsletter this week: what AI tools are in classrooms right now, do teachers and families realize these are *AI* and what should we look for in determining if these tools are a win or loss for kids and schools...
The AI Tools Used in Schools Today
AI innovation is increasingly present in K-12 education, and parents/educators need to understand the benefits & limitations to advocate effectively for AI use. What to know now...
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May 20, 2025 at 4:07 PM
In the newsletter this week: what AI tools are in classrooms right now, do teachers and families realize these are *AI* and what should we look for in determining if these tools are a win or loss for kids and schools...
If you are GenX & worked in tech around the dotcom boom (and/or ever since) you might, like me, be looking for some context and analogy in how we talked about AI today. Well, for you I post this genius exchange b/w David Bowie & Jeremy Paxman... youtu.be/FiK7s_0tGsg?...
David Bowie speaks to Jeremy Paxman on BBC Newsnight (1999)
YouTube video by BBC Newsnight
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May 12, 2025 at 12:22 PM
If you are GenX & worked in tech around the dotcom boom (and/or ever since) you might, like me, be looking for some context and analogy in how we talked about AI today. Well, for you I post this genius exchange b/w David Bowie & Jeremy Paxman... youtu.be/FiK7s_0tGsg?...
In the newsletter this week: working with kids, not against them when it comes to privacy and safety settings on devices — and the benefits of a family tech contract.
Digital Parenting Strategies for Healthy Tech Habits (and Fewer Battles!)
This week, strategies that help establish healthy technology habits without a constant tug-of-war with kids. Boundaries don't just restrict, they teach future good habits that we can ALL benefit from....
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May 10, 2025 at 1:22 AM
In the newsletter this week: working with kids, not against them when it comes to privacy and safety settings on devices — and the benefits of a family tech contract.
We need to make talking about AI as easy as talking about food..in the newsletter this week...The Potato Chip Test
The AI Potato Chip Test & Why Dead Internet Theory is Trending
#NEWSLETTER | As AI news flows fast, taking us on an emotional roller coaster ride, we need a reminder about the agency we have, and why talking about AI should be as easy as talking about food...
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May 2, 2025 at 3:37 AM
We need to make talking about AI as easy as talking about food..in the newsletter this week...The Potato Chip Test
What happens when AI treats "outliers" like data anomalies instead of the beautiful edges of humanity that we celebrate … will that spirit be extinguished by conditioning? aiforfamilies.com
Val Kilmer, White Lotus Star Aimee Lou Wood & Risk AI Poses to the Outlier
#HAPPENINGNOW | A less talked about shortcoming of AI is its natural mathematical rejection of "outliers," or in non-tech terms, our "one-of-a-kind" talents, unique beauties or singular visionaries...
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April 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
What happens when AI treats "outliers" like data anomalies instead of the beautiful edges of humanity that we celebrate … will that spirit be extinguished by conditioning? aiforfamilies.com
Check out @karensmiley.substack.com and her badass response to addressing the lack of roundups about women writing about AI on Substack. Thanks for including me 💪
Where are the Women in AI and Data on Substack? Look here (280+, 40+ countries)!
A living list of women & non-binary people who write on Substack about artificial intelligence, machine learning, & data on ethics, privacy, governance, applications, & business. Suggestions welcome!
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March 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Check out @karensmiley.substack.com and her badass response to addressing the lack of roundups about women writing about AI on Substack. Thanks for including me 💪
The tech story at the Oscars you might have missed...
What I Learned at Netflix, and Felt About Anora: An Oscars AI Parable
#HAPPENINGNOW | There was a technology story that was a bit more under-the-radar at the 2025 Oscars, but it's a lesson worth digging into…
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March 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
The tech story at the Oscars you might have missed...
How to prepare kids for the future? Well, perhaps start this summer by looking at how we spent those months in the past...
Summertime Activities That Prepare Kids for an AI-Driven Future
#TIPS4FAMILIES | How to break the Groundhog Day cycle of summertime planning and embrace the traditional experiences that may ultimately build the most future-proof skills in an AI-driven world.
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February 28, 2025 at 3:53 PM
How to prepare kids for the future? Well, perhaps start this summer by looking at how we spent those months in the past...
"Do Unto Bots as You Would Humans" new from aiforfamilies.com this week...
Do Unto Bots as You Would Humans
#TIPS4FAMILIES | A movie about humanoid abuse this week gave me pause to consider the lessons we need to start teaching our kids about morality, empathy, and bots.
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February 23, 2025 at 8:50 PM
"Do Unto Bots as You Would Humans" new from aiforfamilies.com this week...
Reposted by AI for Families
Three fallacies of AI:
1. “That the purpose of AI is efficiency and scale”
2. “That AI requires a tradeoff – between safety and progress, between competition and collaboration, and between rights and innovation”
3. “It is not inevitable that AI will lead to great public benefits”
1. “That the purpose of AI is efficiency and scale”
2. “That AI requires a tradeoff – between safety and progress, between competition and collaboration, and between rights and innovation”
3. “It is not inevitable that AI will lead to great public benefits”
I was pleased to attend a State Dinner, hosted by Pres. Macron, for participants of the AI Action Summit. It was an honor to be invited to deliver remarks at Elysee Palace on Three Fallacies in how we think about AI, now published @techpolicypress.bsky.social www.techpolicy.press/three-fallac...
Three Fallacies: Alondra Nelson's Remarks at the Elysée Palace on the Occasion of the AI Action Summit | TechPolicy.Press
Dr. Nelson was an invited speaker at a dinner hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron at the Palais de l'Élysée on February 10, 2025.
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February 15, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Three fallacies of AI:
1. “That the purpose of AI is efficiency and scale”
2. “That AI requires a tradeoff – between safety and progress, between competition and collaboration, and between rights and innovation”
3. “It is not inevitable that AI will lead to great public benefits”
1. “That the purpose of AI is efficiency and scale”
2. “That AI requires a tradeoff – between safety and progress, between competition and collaboration, and between rights and innovation”
3. “It is not inevitable that AI will lead to great public benefits”
It's fine to restrict time of use, number of swipes, etc., but the idea that any city agency is surveilling our kids is next level Orwellian, and we need to collectively snap out of our data privacy stupor and call for an end to this casual dystopian behavior stat.
“It was really shocking to learn from a parent that the city had deployed this capacity to track seemingly every student using the OMNY system, done this on a massive scale and never really told anyone.” - @foxcahn.bsky.social #Geolocation
Read the full article:
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Read the full article:
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NYC schools crack down on student OMNY card abuse, but privacy advocates raise concerns
The education department is taking aggressive steps to crack down on fraudsters abusing OMNY cards that give free rides to students.
gothamist.com
February 18, 2025 at 5:40 AM
It's fine to restrict time of use, number of swipes, etc., but the idea that any city agency is surveilling our kids is next level Orwellian, and we need to collectively snap out of our data privacy stupor and call for an end to this casual dystopian behavior stat.
After six months of asking @nychealthy.bsky.social to reconsider its partnership with @talkspace.bsky.social — we thought sharing a recap of the teen data privacy implications might help remind everyone of the stakes. #Parents4Privacy #leoniehaimson @nyclu.bsky.social
Why Privacy Advocates Want NYC to Reconsider Teenspace
YouTube video by AI for Families
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February 12, 2025 at 1:54 AM
After six months of asking @nychealthy.bsky.social to reconsider its partnership with @talkspace.bsky.social — we thought sharing a recap of the teen data privacy implications might help remind everyone of the stakes. #Parents4Privacy #leoniehaimson @nyclu.bsky.social