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Pivot Podcast @pivotpod.bsky.social · 8d

Pivot is going on tour!

Catch us in: Toronto, Boston, NYC, DC, Chicago, San Francisco and LA.

Kara Swisher. Scott Galloway. 7 Cities. 7 Days. Endless jokes and bickering.

Go to PivotTour.com for tickets!

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Steve Portigal @steveportigal.bsky.social · 9d

Big news! I've been working with @sladner.bsky.social on "Off the Path" -- a limited series podcast where we talk about user research careers, especially our own. Episodes come out October 10. In this hype video, I reflect on why I decided to take on this new project together.

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Kathy Baxter @baxterkb.bsky.social · 9d

Excited to attend the Credo AI #AI #Trust Summit tomorrow (Tuesday)! Who else will be there?

www.credo.ai/apply-summit...

Agents of Trust | Credo AI Trust Summit 2025

Credo AI Trust Summit 2025. Where intelligent systems and human leadership align to make trust the foundation of progress.

www.credo.ai

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Nathan Kalmoe (he/him) @nathankalmoe.bsky.social · 12d

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12d

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Cracker Barrel Outrage Was Almost Certainly Driven by Bots, Researchers Say

Doesn't that make more sense than lots of people caring about Cracker Barrel?

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Kathy Baxter @baxterkb.bsky.social · 21d

That was a fantastic event and kudos to the entire @axios.com reporting staff for asking the tough questions!

Kathy Baxter @baxterkb.bsky.social · 21d

I'm excited to dial into the live stream of the @axios.com #AI + DC Summit with @inafried.bsky.social at 11a PT / 2p ET!
www.axios.com/2025/09/10/w...

WATCH: The Axios AI+ DC Summit featuring Anthropic's co-founders, key senators and more

Tune in to hear from top voices from government, tech and business exploring the urgent questions around AI regulation, geopolitics, misinformation and the real world impact of AI live from Axios' AI+...

www.axios.com

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · Sep 8

A German teen told Meta's child safety researchers his under-10 little brother had been sexually propositioned multiple times on its VR platform.

Meta deleted the evidence.

New internal whistleblower docs indicate that was part of a broader cover-up: www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Meta suppressed research on child safety, employees say

The company’s lawyers intervened to shape research that might have shed light on risks in virtual reality, four current and former staffers have told Congress. Meta denies the allegations.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Kathy Baxter @baxterkb.bsky.social · 23d

@weforum.org GFC Report "Synthetic Data: The New Data Frontier." Bias, scarcity, & privacy constraints limit the potential of real-world data. Synthetic data offers a path forward. Learn more! @digitalarun.bsky.social @sarahooker.bsky.social @nighatdad.bsky.social
reports.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Syn...

reports.weforum.org

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Dave Winer @scripting.com · Aug 26

AI companies should change the way their product works in a fundamental way. It should engage like a computer not a human, they don’t have minds, can’t think. They should work and sound like a computer. Prevent tragedy like this.

Joseph Rezek @rezekjoe.bsky.social · Aug 26

The evil robot killed a teenager. Burn all the robots.

Screenshot of a tweet with screenshots of the ChatGPT texts summarizes in the tweet, which reads “When a teenage boy told ChatGPT about his suicide plans, it said: "I won't try to talk you out of your feelings." His family is suing after ChatGPT actively discouraged him from seeking help, offered to help him write a suicide note and even advised him on his noose setup.” Tweet from an account Angela Yang

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Kathy Baxter @baxterkb.bsky.social · Aug 31

Personas & long-term memory increase the risk of people connecting emotionally with #AI & believing it is conscious. Those features may come with benefits but they also pose unintended risk to ppl's wellbeing. The "things" we risk breaking when we move fast, are PEOPLE.
www.ibm.com/think/news/h...

How to stop AI from seeming conscious | IBM

What happens when people mistake an AI bot for a conscious being? Researchers say the consequences can be dangerous.

www.ibm.com

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · Aug 29

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OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police

OpenAI has authorized itself to call law enforcement if users say threatening enough things when talking to ChatGPT.

futurism.com

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · Aug 29

I’m paying you a million dollars per year. Just solve ASI already. What’s the problem?

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · Aug 29

"Wang and Zuckerberg have struggled to align on a timeline to achieve the chief executive’s goal of reaching superintelligence, or AI that surpasses human capabilities, according to another person familiar with the matter. The person said Zuckerberg has urged the team to move faster."

LOL.

Zuckerberg’s AI hires disrupt Meta with swift exits and threats to leave

Longtime acolytes are sidelined as Big Tech chief directs biggest leadership reorganisation in two decades

www.ft.com

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · Aug 29

Amen to this. I wrote about this problem in "Artificial Unintelligence" in 2018; it's only gotten worse in the AI era.

Americans
have hit a point at which we are so enthusiastic about using technology
for everything—hiring, driving, paying bills, choosing dates—that we have
stopped demanding that our new technology is good.
Our collective enthusiasm for applying computer technology to every
aspect of life has resulted in a tremendous amount of poorly designed technology.
That badly designed technology is getting in the way of everyday
life rather than making life easier. Simple things like finding a new friend’s
phone number or up-to-date email address have become time-consuming.
The problem here, as in so many cases, is too much technology but not
enough people. We turned over record-keeping to computational systems
but fired all the humans who kept the information up-to-date. Now, since
nobody goes through and makes sure all the contact information is accurate
in every institutional directory, it is more difficult than ever to get in
touch with people.

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · Aug 22

Minnesota's oldest abortion clinic closed earlier this year, and is being replaced by a (relatively small) data center.

You can't make this kind of cyberpunk dystopia future up.

www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/minn...

h/t @kateross.bsky.social

www.datacenterdynamics.com

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Sam Ladner @sladner.bsky.social · Aug 22

UX researchers are not ok, according to this post. They’re asked often to find some data that affirms users want more AI but when they don’t find that, they worry about losing their jobs quantuxblog.com/things-im-he...

Things I'm Hearing about UX Research

In the past few months, I’ve had many conversations with senior folks across a variety of MAMANG and similar companies. These are all UXR managers or senior ICs (L5 and up, largely L6-L8 if you’re familiar with those levels). I expected to hear a var...

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All Tech Is Human @alltechishuman.bsky.social · Aug 21

📆Our Responsible Tech Summit is happening on October 27th in NYC!

👉Learn more here: alltechishuman.org/all-tech-is-...

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Kathy Baxter @baxterkb.bsky.social · Aug 20

My first @gsvalkyries.bsky.social game and I get to spend it with @inafried.bsky.social! 💜 Thank you Accenture for the fantastic seats and opportunity!!
#Valkyries #Ballhalla

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Scott Galloway @profgalloway.com · Aug 19

To be a positive role model for a young man, you just need to be a good person.

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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · Aug 18

This is completely on brand and as tone deaf as expected: What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...

What Happened When Mark Zuckerberg Moved In Next Door

www.nytimes.com

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Miren Gutiérrez @mirengutierrez.bsky.social · Aug 11

Predictable: TikTok to replace trust and safety team in Germany with AI and outsourced labor. TikTok workers in Berlin are striking over mass layoffs amid company’s global push to replace moderators with AI www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

TikTok to replace trust and safety team in Germany with AI and outsourced labor

TikTok workers in Berlin are striking over mass layoffs amid company’s global push to replace moderators with AI

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · Aug 16

I'm in Montréal to present new work on XAI for RL agents using World Models at the IJCAI Workshop on XAI, Aug 17

arxiv.org/abs/2505.08073

When an agent doesn't perform as expected, we run the world model backwards to generate counterfactual states from which the agent would have met expectations

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Jennifer (Jen) Lee @jenwlee.bsky.social · Aug 14

If you're going to WITness Success next week in Louisville KY, come to my session 'Build for the Future: Create Flexible Flows for Any Use Case' on Wednesday, 8/20 at 9am and learn how to build modular flows for reuse and better maintainability.

Register now: witnesssuccess.com/register/

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nitasha tiku @nitasha.bsky.social · Jun 5

A lot of people say generative AI shouldn't infringe on copyright. These researchers actually tried to do it. The result: an 8 terabyte dataset of text that's openly licensed or in the public domain & 7 B parameter model that performs as well as Meta's Llama 7B www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Analysis | AI firms say they can’t respect copyright. These researchers tried.

A new effort using only openly licensed data may have implications on thorny policy disputes around copyright and AI

www.washingtonpost.com

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Morgan Klaus Scheuerman @morganklauss.bsky.social · Jun 18

How can ethical principles translate to the massive data used to train foundation models, like generative AI? Our #CSCW2025 workshop aims to explore how best to define the future of ethical responsibility in large-scale datasets for foundation model training. Apply here: tinyurl.com/CSCW-data

Workshop on Responsibly Training Foundation Models @ CSCW2025

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ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social · Jun 20

🏆 Announcing the #FAccT2025 best paper awards! 🏆

Congratulations to all the authors of the three best papers and three honorable mention papers.

Be sure to check out their presentations at the conference next week!

facct-blog.github.io/2025-06-20/b...

Announcing Best Paper Awards

The Best Paper Award Committee was chaired this year by Alex Chouldechova and included six Area Chairs. The committee selected three papers for the Best Paper Award and recognized three additional pap...

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