Wikidata is one of the most significant repositories of open knowledge on the planet. Read this Stephen Harrison interview that explores how this open, volunteer-driven database became the infrastructure for global knowledge ➡️ www.stephenharrison.com/p/how-wikida...

@elliot-creager.bsky.social @nickmvincent.bsky.social @willie-agnew.bsky.social Celestine Mendler-Dünner
and Ulrich Aïvodji.

Our topics of interest:
- Data strikes and data leverage
- Data protection poisoning
- Economic incentives in AI systems
- Mechanism design
- Participatory AI
- Community advocacy and governance
See our call for papers for more details:
acaworkshop.github.io/cfp.html
#ACAWorkshop

We are organizing a workshop on Algorithmic Collective Action at NeurIPS this year. As AI continues to concentrate power, we will meet in San Diego (Dec 6 or 7) for critical conversations on user coordination, labor, data protection, and community advocacy.
Submissions due August 22.
#NeurIPS2025

How can we better think and talk about human-like qualities attributed to language technologies like LLMs? In our #CHI2025 paper, we taxonomize how text outputs from cases of user interactions with language technologies can contribute to anthropomorphism. arxiv.org/abs/2502.09870 1/n