Yuan Y. Stevens
@yuanomie.bsky.social
AI Governance Researcher, Policy Advisor, and Advocate 🌟
Learn more about my work: linktr.ee/yuanomie
Learn more about my work: linktr.ee/yuanomie
Just published an op-ed with CIGI: 🇨🇦 must do more to protect women/girls from harmful deepfakes.
Deepfake abuse is a major form of digital violence — one our laws barely recognize. We need real protections for likeness, voice, consent, and dignity.
➡️ Read here: www.cigionline.org/articles/can...
Deepfake abuse is a major form of digital violence — one our laws barely recognize. We need real protections for likeness, voice, consent, and dignity.
➡️ Read here: www.cigionline.org/articles/can...
Canada Must Do More to Protect Women and Girls from Harmful Deepfakes
Modernizing image and likeness rights is the only way to safeguard dignity from digital violence and AI impersonation.
www.cigionline.org
December 2, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Just published an op-ed with CIGI: 🇨🇦 must do more to protect women/girls from harmful deepfakes.
Deepfake abuse is a major form of digital violence — one our laws barely recognize. We need real protections for likeness, voice, consent, and dignity.
➡️ Read here: www.cigionline.org/articles/can...
Deepfake abuse is a major form of digital violence — one our laws barely recognize. We need real protections for likeness, voice, consent, and dignity.
➡️ Read here: www.cigionline.org/articles/can...
Back in 2019, I wrote about deepfakes and the dangers of synthetic media — how it could distort reality, fuel misinformation, and make violence feel “real.”
Fast-forward to today: OpenAI’s Sora is generating violent and racist scenes that blur fiction and reality.
What was foresight is now fact.
Fast-forward to today: OpenAI’s Sora is generating violent and racist scenes that blur fiction and reality.
What was foresight is now fact.
Three Reasons Why Canadians Should Know About Deepfakes Now | Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice
deepfakes, AI, law, legal training
ciaj-icaj.ca
October 4, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Back in 2019, I wrote about deepfakes and the dangers of synthetic media — how it could distort reality, fuel misinformation, and make violence feel “real.”
Fast-forward to today: OpenAI’s Sora is generating violent and racist scenes that blur fiction and reality.
What was foresight is now fact.
Fast-forward to today: OpenAI’s Sora is generating violent and racist scenes that blur fiction and reality.
What was foresight is now fact.
Humanoid robots are here, folks.
Do you think they’ll need rights and responsibilities like humans — or perhaps like animals do, which are seen as quasi-humans in some jurisdictions?
youtube.com/shorts/8onDa...
Do you think they’ll need rights and responsibilities like humans — or perhaps like animals do, which are seen as quasi-humans in some jurisdictions?
youtube.com/shorts/8onDa...
Human + Robot = ❤️? 机器人也会爱人吗？#china #robot #中国 #livinginchina
YouTube video by slavinchina 塞铁在中国
youtube.com
August 22, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Humanoid robots are here, folks.
Do you think they’ll need rights and responsibilities like humans — or perhaps like animals do, which are seen as quasi-humans in some jurisdictions?
youtube.com/shorts/8onDa...
Do you think they’ll need rights and responsibilities like humans — or perhaps like animals do, which are seen as quasi-humans in some jurisdictions?
youtube.com/shorts/8onDa...
Found a hidden gem in Montréal today — Café Tranquille 😍
Nestled in the heart of Places-des-Arts, this café is airy, spacious, bright. It’s gorgeous.
You can borrow a book from the library or borrow a game to play with pals.
Will definitely be coming back here with friends! 🌿🥰☺️
Nestled in the heart of Places-des-Arts, this café is airy, spacious, bright. It’s gorgeous.
You can borrow a book from the library or borrow a game to play with pals.
Will definitely be coming back here with friends! 🌿🥰☺️
August 18, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Found a hidden gem in Montréal today — Café Tranquille 😍
Nestled in the heart of Places-des-Arts, this café is airy, spacious, bright. It’s gorgeous.
You can borrow a book from the library or borrow a game to play with pals.
Will definitely be coming back here with friends! 🌿🥰☺️
Nestled in the heart of Places-des-Arts, this café is airy, spacious, bright. It’s gorgeous.
You can borrow a book from the library or borrow a game to play with pals.
Will definitely be coming back here with friends! 🌿🥰☺️
Folks, we’ve now got AI-generated humans.
I’m especially curious to see how the porn industry — a fore runner in all things digital — will transform as we beam in AI-generated people.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
I’m especially curious to see how the porn industry — a fore runner in all things digital — will transform as we beam in AI-generated people.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Digital resurrection: fascination and fear over the rise of the deathbot
Ozzy Osbourne appeared as an AI-generated image at a recent Rod Stewart concert, prompting questions about how the ghoulish phenomenon will affect grieving
www.theguardian.com
August 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Folks, we’ve now got AI-generated humans.
I’m especially curious to see how the porn industry — a fore runner in all things digital — will transform as we beam in AI-generated people.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
I’m especially curious to see how the porn industry — a fore runner in all things digital — will transform as we beam in AI-generated people.
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
I know she’s been moderately cancelled but Paper Planes by MIA og poppin off was truly a time to be alive
Plus some shots of a dope experimental furniture and sculpture show in Montreal🐗🐗
Plus some shots of a dope experimental furniture and sculpture show in Montreal🐗🐗
August 5, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I know she’s been moderately cancelled but Paper Planes by MIA og poppin off was truly a time to be alive
Plus some shots of a dope experimental furniture and sculpture show in Montreal🐗🐗
Plus some shots of a dope experimental furniture and sculpture show in Montreal🐗🐗
This is not obviously related to to AI, but I *really* want to read a Jia Tolentino piece on the fact that:
Sydney Sweeney has a men’s bubble bath product that contains some of the water she herself has bathed in😂
Sydney Sweeney has a men’s bubble bath product that contains some of the water she herself has bathed in😂
August 4, 2025 at 6:16 PM
This is not obviously related to to AI, but I *really* want to read a Jia Tolentino piece on the fact that:
Sydney Sweeney has a men’s bubble bath product that contains some of the water she herself has bathed in😂
Sydney Sweeney has a men’s bubble bath product that contains some of the water she herself has bathed in😂
I am lowkey excited for the era of content completely by AI on apps like TikTok;;
I suspect it’ll be cringey at first and then the funniest ones will push the envelope of humour even further
I suspect it’ll be cringey at first and then the funniest ones will push the envelope of humour even further
August 1, 2025 at 8:05 PM
I am lowkey excited for the era of content completely by AI on apps like TikTok;;
I suspect it’ll be cringey at first and then the funniest ones will push the envelope of humour even further
I suspect it’ll be cringey at first and then the funniest ones will push the envelope of humour even further
We are becoming one with machines, and nowhere is this more evident than in writing and in creative practice.
As we rely more and more on AI to write, then our writing and outputs will become more streamlined over time.
Like factories—but for our minds.
Photo unrelated
As we rely more and more on AI to write, then our writing and outputs will become more streamlined over time.
Like factories—but for our minds.
Photo unrelated
July 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
We are becoming one with machines, and nowhere is this more evident than in writing and in creative practice.
As we rely more and more on AI to write, then our writing and outputs will become more streamlined over time.
Like factories—but for our minds.
Photo unrelated
As we rely more and more on AI to write, then our writing and outputs will become more streamlined over time.
Like factories—but for our minds.
Photo unrelated
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Come work at OneProject.org! We've got multiple open positions:
* Full Stack product engineer
* Operations Associate
* Product Engineer (front-end, mid-level)
oneproject.org/work-with-us
* Full Stack product engineer
* Operations Associate
* Product Engineer (front-end, mid-level)
oneproject.org/work-with-us
Work With Us - One Project
oneproject.org
July 24, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Come work at OneProject.org! We've got multiple open positions:
* Full Stack product engineer
* Operations Associate
* Product Engineer (front-end, mid-level)
oneproject.org/work-with-us
* Full Stack product engineer
* Operations Associate
* Product Engineer (front-end, mid-level)
oneproject.org/work-with-us
BRICS countries may come together and combine efforts to manufacture semi conductors used to train AI super computers.
And they may come together to build a super computer, or a few.
Their use of AI in military (eg drones, brain data) may pave the way for others.
Photos unrelated
And they may come together to build a super computer, or a few.
Their use of AI in military (eg drones, brain data) may pave the way for others.
Photos unrelated
July 23, 2025 at 3:25 PM
BRICS countries may come together and combine efforts to manufacture semi conductors used to train AI super computers.
And they may come together to build a super computer, or a few.
Their use of AI in military (eg drones, brain data) may pave the way for others.
Photos unrelated
And they may come together to build a super computer, or a few.
Their use of AI in military (eg drones, brain data) may pave the way for others.
Photos unrelated
Reposted by Yuan Y. Stevens
Life is great but have you ever bicycled to Toxic by Britney Spears
July 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Life is great but have you ever bicycled to Toxic by Britney Spears
Today in doggie angels
July 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Today in doggie angels
Some AI policy forecasting.
Robots will need legal protections. Humans will mistreat robots.
Governments will protect our brain data, which can be used to train robots to become more human-like. There’ll be pushback from tech companies.
Generally best to be proactive for things like this 🤝
Robots will need legal protections. Humans will mistreat robots.
Governments will protect our brain data, which can be used to train robots to become more human-like. There’ll be pushback from tech companies.
Generally best to be proactive for things like this 🤝
July 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Some AI policy forecasting.
Robots will need legal protections. Humans will mistreat robots.
Governments will protect our brain data, which can be used to train robots to become more human-like. There’ll be pushback from tech companies.
Generally best to be proactive for things like this 🤝
Robots will need legal protections. Humans will mistreat robots.
Governments will protect our brain data, which can be used to train robots to become more human-like. There’ll be pushback from tech companies.
Generally best to be proactive for things like this 🤝
Stay with the trouble. This is how we end apartheids.
July 13, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Stay with the trouble. This is how we end apartheids.
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Someone of repute told me that the genocide of Gaza is the Petri dish for new surveillance technology. Then I thought of Pegasus
July 9, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Someone of repute told me that the genocide of Gaza is the Petri dish for new surveillance technology. Then I thought of Pegasus
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This is why data privacy is a civil rights issue
I'm sorry, I thought there were "tens of millions" (or whatever they claimed) violent criminals all over. But ICE needs medical bills to find them? It's almost like they were lying. Something isn't adding up...
www.404media.co/ice-is-searc...
www.404media.co/ice-is-searc...
ICE Is Searching a Massive Insurance and Medical Bill Database to Find Deportation Targets
The database, called ISO ClaimSearch, is nearly all encompassing and contains details on more than 1.8 billion insurance claims and 58 million medical bills.
www.404media.co
July 10, 2025 at 1:52 AM
This is why data privacy is a civil rights issue
The price of banh mi is a recession indicator - this is bananas
July 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The price of banh mi is a recession indicator - this is bananas
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Litigators & legal scholars routinely expect to lose important religious & civil liberties lawsuits due to uncertainty about causal links between technology-enabled intimidation & its effect on people’s behavior.
New post: Scientists have a chance to change that
citizensandtech.org/2025/07/civi...
New post: Scientists have a chance to change that
citizensandtech.org/2025/07/civi...
Protecting Fundamental Rights with the Science of Civil Liberties
We have an extraordinary opportunity for science to transforms how courts think about the impacts and shock waves of threats to fundamental rights.
citizensandtech.org
July 9, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Litigators & legal scholars routinely expect to lose important religious & civil liberties lawsuits due to uncertainty about causal links between technology-enabled intimidation & its effect on people’s behavior.
New post: Scientists have a chance to change that
citizensandtech.org/2025/07/civi...
New post: Scientists have a chance to change that
citizensandtech.org/2025/07/civi...
Fabulous essay series on AI — and how it serves as a prism for understanding the democracies we need to rebuild
Would highly rec —
by @datasociety.bsky.social & @techpolicypress.bsky.social
www.techpolicy.press/tech-power-a...
Would highly rec —
by @datasociety.bsky.social & @techpolicypress.bsky.social
www.techpolicy.press/tech-power-a...
Tech Power and the Crisis of Democracy | TechPolicy.Press
Announcing a new series, Jacob Metcalf and Meg Young examine how a small group of tech billionaires is pushing an anti-democratic agenda.
www.techpolicy.press
June 4, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Fabulous essay series on AI — and how it serves as a prism for understanding the democracies we need to rebuild
Would highly rec —
by @datasociety.bsky.social & @techpolicypress.bsky.social
www.techpolicy.press/tech-power-a...
Would highly rec —
by @datasociety.bsky.social & @techpolicypress.bsky.social
www.techpolicy.press/tech-power-a...
Accidentally said the word “manologuing” to a friend today
June 4, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Accidentally said the word “manologuing” to a friend today
Adidas crocs are a thing
May 31, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Adidas crocs are a thing
Nothing beats a freshly heated blanket
May 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Nothing beats a freshly heated blanket