Abigail Jacobs
@azjacobs.bsky.social
Asst Prof of Information @ UMich thinking about assumptions built into AI
(modesty also requires I acknowledge this idiosyncratic phrasing from my one of my earliest mentors and coauthors!)
October 28, 2025 at 11:53 PM
(modesty also requires I acknowledge this idiosyncratic phrasing from my one of my earliest mentors and coauthors!)
and anyways, modesty forbids me to recommend some ill-formed thoughts: arxiv.org/abs/2109.05658
Measurement as governance in and for responsible AI
Measurement of social phenomena is everywhere, unavoidably, in sociotechnical systems. This is not (only) an academic point: Fairness-related harms emerge when there is a mismatch in the measurement p...
arxiv.org
October 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
and anyways, modesty forbids me to recommend some ill-formed thoughts: arxiv.org/abs/2109.05658
and @morganklauss.bsky.social Madeleine Pape @alexhanna.bsky.social's important work on auto-essentialization, putting AI as governance in historical context
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Auto-essentialization: Gender in automated facial analysis as extended colonial project - Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, Madeleine Pape, Alex Hanna, 2021
Scholars are increasingly concerned about social biases in facial analysis systems, particularly with regard to the tangible consequences of misidentification o...
journals.sagepub.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
and @morganklauss.bsky.social Madeleine Pape @alexhanna.bsky.social's important work on auto-essentialization, putting AI as governance in historical context
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
to forthcoming work from Fanna Gamal in Calif Law Review (2026) studyofhate.ucla.edu/the-legal-re...
The Legal Regulation of A.I. Hate
studyofhate.ucla.edu
October 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
to forthcoming work from Fanna Gamal in Calif Law Review (2026) studyofhate.ucla.edu/the-legal-re...
But the stakes! are! high!
From Julie E. Cohen, theorizing on the actors behind the scenes and their political and economic relations papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
From Julie E. Cohen, theorizing on the actors behind the scenes and their political and economic relations papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Oligarchy, State, and Cryptopia
Theoretical accounts of power in networked digital environments typically do not give systematic attention to the phenomenon of oligarchy—to extreme concentrati
papers.ssrn.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
But the stakes! are! high!
From Julie E. Cohen, theorizing on the actors behind the scenes and their political and economic relations papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
From Julie E. Cohen, theorizing on the actors behind the scenes and their political and economic relations papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
This picks up an earlier thread from @alisongopnik.bsky.social @himself.bsky.social Cosma Shalizi & James Evans -- AI as cultural technology. www.science.org/doi/full/10....
www.science.org
October 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
This picks up an earlier thread from @alisongopnik.bsky.social @himself.bsky.social Cosma Shalizi & James Evans -- AI as cultural technology. www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Wow! Sounds like a huge decision and a wonderful outcome. Good luck with the move!
August 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Wow! Sounds like a huge decision and a wonderful outcome. Good luck with the move!
"The bureaucracy is an “unelected, fourth, unconstitutional branch of government, which has, in a lot of ways, currently, more power than any elected representative,” insisted Mr. Musk, who serves as an unelected appointee with vast reach across the government."
cool
cool
February 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
"The bureaucracy is an “unelected, fourth, unconstitutional branch of government, which has, in a lot of ways, currently, more power than any elected representative,” insisted Mr. Musk, who serves as an unelected appointee with vast reach across the government."
cool
cool
Oh of course good people know each other
January 13, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Oh of course good people know each other
Thrilled to have you here regardless !
January 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Thrilled to have you here regardless !
(Bonus rant for the enshittification of search. Me trying to fix my house, sample AI suggestions from recent tasks: “use vinegar.” “Not flammable since the 80s!”
…more clicks to experts: “OMFG do not fucking use vinegar.” “Yes still flammable so many people died that way”)
…more clicks to experts: “OMFG do not fucking use vinegar.” “Yes still flammable so many people died that way”)
December 23, 2024 at 3:59 PM
(Bonus rant for the enshittification of search. Me trying to fix my house, sample AI suggestions from recent tasks: “use vinegar.” “Not flammable since the 80s!”
…more clicks to experts: “OMFG do not fucking use vinegar.” “Yes still flammable so many people died that way”)
…more clicks to experts: “OMFG do not fucking use vinegar.” “Yes still flammable so many people died that way”)
This! Not that individualizing the problem is the solution, but so many don’t know how big of a jump it is. Also: bring back lmgtfy (let me google that for you) as a design intervention
December 23, 2024 at 3:49 PM
This! Not that individualizing the problem is the solution, but so many don’t know how big of a jump it is. Also: bring back lmgtfy (let me google that for you) as a design intervention
Reposted by Abigail Jacobs
Evaluating Generative AI Systems is a Social Science Measurement Challenge: arxiv.org/abs/2411.10939
TL;DR: The ML community would benefit from learning from and drawing on the social sciences when evaluating GenAI systems.
TL;DR: The ML community would benefit from learning from and drawing on the social sciences when evaluating GenAI systems.
Evaluating Generative AI Systems is a Social Science Measurement Challenge
Across academia, industry, and government, there is an increasing awareness that the measurement tasks involved in evaluating generative AI (GenAI) systems are especially difficult. We argue that thes...
arxiv.org
December 14, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Evaluating Generative AI Systems is a Social Science Measurement Challenge: arxiv.org/abs/2411.10939
TL;DR: The ML community would benefit from learning from and drawing on the social sciences when evaluating GenAI systems.
TL;DR: The ML community would benefit from learning from and drawing on the social sciences when evaluating GenAI systems.
👋🏻 (and see you in Vancouver this weekend?)
December 12, 2024 at 11:50 PM
👋🏻 (and see you in Vancouver this weekend?)
Today via listening to HeidiWorld and this : bsky.app/profile/azul...
It's not uncommon to find bookmarks in returned books but today's find was just the absolute best. So, if you returned Practical Astronomy and are now missing your favorite bookmark, let me know
#skybrarians #libraries 💙📚
#skybrarians #libraries 💙📚
December 3, 2024 at 11:58 PM
Today via listening to HeidiWorld and this : bsky.app/profile/azul...