Aaron M McKain @AaronMcKain
Technology Ethicist. Professor. 1st Amendment Geek. Executive Director: Institute for Digital Humanity. Creative Director: Institute for Aesthetic Advocacy. theidh.org Minneapolis, MN Joined May 2015-
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We might as well cite her...
We might as well cite her... https://t.co/vcGMsQA4Ge
Having your students arrested is a weird degree completion strategy. I mean, I’m just spitballing here, but maybe the technocratic neoliberals are morally-bankrupt ghouls.
“Contemporary history teaches us that all you need is one mentally sick individual, two ideologues and three hundred murderous thugs in order to take power and gag millions of people.” —Kazimierz Brandys
AI regulation suddenly became generative AI regulation and the low-tech systems causing the majority of harms today are out of scope. I feel like big tech is pulling a fast one on us with his marketing term.
AI regulation suddenly became generative AI regulation and the low-tech systems causing the majority of harms today are out of scope. I feel like big tech is pulling a fast one on us with his marketing term.
@bcmerchant gotta share my AI story: I'm the editor who reads the joke submissions to Reader's Digest. Lately people ask chatbots to "tell me a joke," then cut/paste & send. Result: instead of "they make up everything," I get, "Why don't scientists trust atoms? They comprise everything."
A pilot study by academics at the University of Oxford found some care providers had been using generative AI chatbots such as ChatGPT and Bard to create care plans for people receiving care. That presents a potential risk to patient confidentiality theguardian.com/technology/202…
After cyberattack, Minnesota health care groups struggling with UnitedHealth financial aid startribune.com/minnesota-medi…
I have two young kids and I'm a former public school teacher, so I know better than most how impressionable kids are. And I know that as technology gets more advanced, teaching our kids media literacy will be key to building the next generation of critical thinkers. I introduced…
Love to see how people complain about "criticism lobbed at LLMs" &c. Folks: the criticism isn't of the models. It's of the people (often on behalf of corporations) making false claims abt the models for the purposes of profit, consolidating power, and feeding their AGI fantasies.
I see people asking: How else will we critically study GPT-4 etc then? Don't. Opt out. Study something else. GPT-4 should be assumed to be toxic trash until and unless #OpenAI is *open* about its training data, model architecture, etc.
I see people asking: How else will we critically study GPT-4 etc then? Don't. Opt out. Study something else. GPT-4 should be assumed to be toxic trash until and unless #OpenAI is *open* about its training data, model architecture, etc.
How to improve media reporting on #AI & rights: AI ethicists: if you are not an expert on rights theory, DO NOT AGREE TO MEDIA REQUESTS. Your perspective is facile and incomplete. Journos: DO NOT ask AI ethicists what they think about rights. Ask EXPERTS ON RIGHTS.
Are there any other fields that simultaneously conceive of themselves as 'solving the world's problems' and also see no need for any due diligence around mitigating potential harmful impacts of what they do/build, or is it just CS?
.@POTUS calls for Congress to "Unite Against Big Tech Abuses", listing "bipartisan proposals to protect our privacy and our children; to prevent discrimination, sexual exploitation, and cyberstalking; and to tackle anticompetitive conduct." wsj.com/articles/unite…
Do academics want to be subject to mandatory "coaching" if something they say or post online "may lack professionalism" in the subjective judgment of bodies like this one? If not this seems like an occasion to object.
Do academics want to be subject to mandatory "coaching" if something they say or post online "may lack professionalism" in the subjective judgment of bodies like this one? If not this seems like an occasion to object.
NEW: A proposed extension of a license plate surveillance contract was on the fast track.... until it wasn't. Watch Spike's testimony before the Lancaster County Board of Commissioners.
@DCorgard @robin4mpls @jeremiah4north Me too. One thing to note -- they can get that data without using any IMSI catchers or equipment at all... administrative subpoenas to cell carriers (not authorized nor seen by a judge) will result in the authorities getting the info, see my pinned tweet for heartbreaking example
Much gratitude to those who testified today about MPD’s drone program. It’s clear that residents wants Council to take action. CM @jeremiah4north and I will have a surveillance ordinance update at the next Policy and Government Oversight Committee, on 9/6 at 10am. Attend & boost.
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Cornell University has temporary suspended me alongside 3 other students/grad workers. They have deliberately targeted students with precarious positions such as visa status. They have given me a grace period but I am no longer permitted on campus. I know they have done this as a…
i'm not prone to this type of analogy but what is a *better* description of classical abuse behavior than offering "wellness advice" to someone you just exposed to physical violence? administrative bloat is reactionary politics in vivo
My friend received this email from NYU after they called the police and arrested her lol. You rlly cannot make this up.
To my dying breath I will maintain that academics shooting for objective, abstracted, dispassionate, rational analysis say the stupidest shit. It’s a style that makes your biases far more transparent, and is much worse than incorporating emotion and context into your thinking.
Does anyone have a running list of universities where faculty have voted no confidence against their presidents/upper admin? I know IU + Cal Poly Humboldt have passed no confidence votes and that similar efforts are in the works at Emory and UT Austin. Am I missing others?
Ohio State had snipers trained on students.
According to information obtained Friday, university spokesperson Ben Johnson said once the troopers began using force on the students around 10 p.m., the state troopers on the roof switched to long-range firearms as part of their protocol. Read more: thelantern.com/2024/04/univer…
If you are an academic lambasting the “white privilege” of the economics professor who got violently arrested while trying to intervene on behalf of a student also getting violently arrested, I’d kindly invite you to stop being an embarrassment to our profession. Please. Thanks.
This post was probably too flippantly tossed off. I didn't mean to come across as disrespectful of @bmerchant or dismissive of concern about people giving up our thinking to AI. I share that concern. I don't think bouncing ideas off of AI is always a good idea. Still, it seems…
@NAChristakis Yes, but sometimes the students pull off some amazing shit that the adults can’t figure out. Like how to get conservatives, liberals, Christians, Muslims, and Jewish Americans to work together to fight for free speech (and against AI). youtu.be/I7lbBxtESxY?si…
Just thinking about all of the George Floyd statements the whites at these schools hastily threw together to cover their asses only to send in the national guard when they felt ethically uncomfortable for hot second.
So angry with my alma mater right now
I also cannot believe admin passed a policy YESTERDAY by an ad hoc committee under the provost to prohibit “temporary or permanent installations of structures…including tents…” although the univ’s policies otherwise recognized structures as “an effective form of expression”
We might as well cite her...
WATCH: Among those arrested today were Noelle McAfee, Chair of the Philosophy Department at Emory University. I’ve asked for a comment from Emory on this arrest, no word yet. This video provided to us by an #Emory PHD student. You can hear him in this video. @ATLNewsFirst
Excerpts from a very moving and inspiring interview with @DanDoctoroff. Dan is a beautiful man. That’s all you need to know. Worth a few minutes of your time. Great life advice.
Known for transforming New York City, former Deputy Mayor @DanDoctoroff joins @andrewrsorkin to discuss his time shaping the city, being a leader, and now battling ALS:
Are we safe yet? Is the safety going well? Y’all having a nice safe?
@MiddleEastEye Here’s @EmoryUniversity economics professor Caroline Fohlin knocked to the ground with her head on the concrete. Her glasses are thrown off. She shouts “I’m a professor” #Gaza #Protesters
Academics don't realize that the media is an actual industry and profession with complex dynamics and history. Whether it's Jon Haidt talking about TikTok or liberal elites blaming Fox News for social problems, almost no scholar who participates in these conversations bothers...
My resignation letter to NPR CEO @krmaher
AI is an existential threat to human survival. But AI is also an existential threat to truth, beauty, human dignity, & the aesthetic legacy of our ancestors. If you want a future of nihilistic kitsch, AI is the way to go
Microsoft just dropped VASA-1. This AI can make single image sing and talk from audio reference expressively. Similar to EMO from Alibaba 10 wild examples: 1. Mona Lisa rapping Paparazzi
Believing there can be no disagreement is totalitarian in spirit. Free societies depend on the right to disagree. WRITERS wanting to enforce one view on @PENamerica is shameful. I am conflicted on Israel/Gaza, but know understanding requires debate, not groupthink. 1/4
It’s just too on the nose that all the libs who have been screaming hysterically about incipient fascism for the past decade have cheered on the merging of corporations and the federal government for ideological and economic purposes in the name of ‘safety’ and ‘democracy.’
Having your students arrested is a weird degree completion strategy. I mean, I’m just spitballing here, but maybe the technocratic neoliberals are morally-bankrupt ghouls.
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