@annaneumann.bsky.social just gave a fantastic presentation of our #FAccT2026 paper, "Prompt Governance? On Governing Technologies Governed by Natural Language." Read it here: doi.org/10.1145/3805...
Anna Neumann
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PhD Candidate in Responsible AI @ RC Trust ai ethics, accountability, fairness and policy feminist cs
Reading AI slop about your work is one thing Reading viral and *wrong* AI slop that totally misrepresents your paper is another thing that is a shockingly jarring experience
Bumping our paper as we get closer to #FAccT2026! After a 41-day wait, our paper finally made it through the arXiv machinery! If you're interested in whether system prompts serve as robust governance, have a read and come say hi in Montréal. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2606.075... @annaneumann.bsky.social
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Holli Sargeant@hollisargeant.bsky.social · 3mo agoCan you regulate AI with its instructions? Our #FAccT2026 paper (w/ @annaneumann.bsky.social & Jat Singh) tests that assumption against research literature, EO 14319 & EU GPAI Code.
New from me: See the hidden rules behind AI. Then use them to rewrite this article. I hooked this article up to an LLM to help explain system prompts. Give it a try -> www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...
I'm gonna repeat my comment. Talking about nonexistent "super intelligent" machines is like talking about the Cookie Monster rather than corporations creating real things causing harm. A non existent machine god bringing apocalypse or utopia is a framing that is harmful. Period.
"Hating technology" in their reading means "not just embracing its inevitability". Maybe that's the reason: Leftist thought is based on the understanding that politics is a common project that allows us to make decisions about the world. The idea of "inevitable technology" is the antithesis to that
tante@tante.cc · 6mo agoI really It's kinda weird how the "The left hates technology (because AI)" mostly come from people whose experience with tech is on the level of vibecoding and the "left" they criticize consists to a significant part of people who've been actually building and maintaining systems for decades.
When someone builds a cheap and ubiquitous slop firehose, we're all forced to close our windows and lock our doors Still waiting for someone to explain how this has been a net benefit for human society www.404media.co/arxiv-change...
arXiv Changes Rules After Getting Spammed With AI-Generated 'Research' Papers
Cornell University’s arXiv will no longer accept Computer Science reviews and position papers.
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There's a lot of confusion about saying all LLM behavior is "learned." Plenty is externally designed, albeit in different ways than we would design any other product. Developers can steer models through data curation, fine tuning, system prompts, RLHF and other directed RL techniques, and so on...
Launched my Substack! ✨📌 First post is about Trump's AI executive order requiring system prompt disclosure to prove AI isn't 'woke.' It's not making AI neutral, just embedding Trump's ideology while claiming objectivity. Check it out: researchagainstthemachine.substack.com/p/donald-tru...
Donald Trump and the 'Woke' System Prompt Police
Why Trump's system prompt disclosure won't make AI 'unbiased', and might make it worse
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There could never be a 'Woke AI.' On a technical level, these are machines trained to identify and reproduce statistical biases in uncurated datasets. They are constrained only by the instructions written by the companies building them. The order just demands AI companies do it in a specific way. ⬇️
AI Could Never Be ‘Woke’ | TechPolicy.Press
The Trump administration’s plan, in targeting “ideological bias” and “social engineering agendas” in AI, ultimately enforces them, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
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Anthropic: "omg guys, our model can't even keep an in-house vending machine profitable, lol" Also Anthropic: "oh but please use it for your high-stakes financial decisions 🥺"
Data & Society’s Jacob Metcalf writes that whenever you hear someone advocating for acceleration, you should ask: accelerating toward what? Today’s techno-accelerationists aim to undo generations of slow, arduous progress toward social, political, and economic equality, he says.
Trump 2.0 Runs on Tech Accelerationism | TechPolicy.Press
Jacob Metcalf says the alliance between the American far right and the tech oligarchy is driven by a shared commitment to accelerationism.
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Ohhhh Molly Crockett‘s @mjcrockett.bsky.social keynote talk at #FAccT2025 was soo good 🔥🔥🔥 She talked about how techno-optimism is really human pessimism, how DEAD benchmarks don’t capture full human capacities and feed the hype cycle, how we need to avoid monoculture & imagine new worlds together
It's good that bigger mainstreamer people such as John Oliver are also talking about the "AI slop" era and phenomenon. I do think he was a bit too charitable though. AI slop is not just bad visuals, it's the esthetic of modern fascism. youtu.be/TWpg1RmzAbc?...
AI Slop: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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“One major culprit behind the wave of depersonalisation is the widespread reduction of individuals to data. Feeling invisible can stem from repeatedly experiencing standardised interactions” aeon.co/essays/our-c...
Our crisis is not loneliness but human beings becoming invisible | Aeon Essays
Our crisis of work and technology is one in which too many people feel that nobody sees them as a fellow human being
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Our #FAccT2025 proceedings are out!! 🎉 Read all of the published papers here: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi...
"I do not need the one magic machine that claims to solve all my issues and then makes me jump through conversational hoops to get a mediocre result. That is actually the opposite of what I need." On chatbots as a bad design paradigm “ChatBot” is bad design
Looking for posts about #FAccT2025? Check out our 🦋 custom feed 🦋 which is already lively and full of papers, events, and attendees for this year's conference in Athens! Click the pin 📌 in the upper right hand corner to keep this feed quickly accessible. bsky.app/profile/mari...
Please come see us at the RC Trust Networking Event! You can sign up with the QR Codes around the venues and get some free drinks! 🙂↕️ #FAccT2025
ACM FAccT@facct.bsky.social · last yr.Reminder that we have multiple social events happening this evening, all happening *outside* the conference venue! Social: RC-Trust Networking Reception for the FAccT Community Social: Generative AI Risks + Red-Teaming Social: AI Workers' Inquiry facctconference.org/2025/sociale...
🚀 We’re excited to host Anna Neumann, PhD researcher (@rctrust.bsky.social) for a #PubTalk ✨ on "Seeing What's Missing: Bringing #ResponsibleAI Research Gaps into Focus Through A Landscape Analysis" ⏰ 8 May | 3PM UTC Read more and register: community.aiequalitytoolbox.com/c/march-fed1...
we're hiring! ✨ looking for researchers who want to make AI accountable and trustworthy 📚 PhD position (3 years, fully funded) 🔬 Postdoc position (3 years, fully funded) high independence, interdisciplinary team, real-world impact diverse backgrounds welcome: CS, law, HCI, & more interested? 👇
“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”
Everyone Is Cheating Their Way Through College
ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.
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"It’s not just that [AI slop's] aesthetics are useful for Trump, its entire mode of being is useful for how his administration has governed so far" The AI Slop Presidency
they are openly advocating for the use of physiognomy in recruitment make it stop
The rise of gen AI, backed at every level by the far-right, suggests the arrival of an _anti-information_ age. AI offers a self-reinforcing bullshit loop that, much like a Russian disinfo operation, serves to muddy the information space and create doubt about the very nature of reality.
Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · last yr.Elon Musk's AI platform has been retrained to generate a "both sides" response to whether climate change is a threat. One is the view of science, while the other is fossil fuel industry waffle.
This is horrible on so many levels. Most probably completely cemented and unaccountable by the time anyone can get Musk out of there... www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
Elon Musk’s DOGE is feeding sensitive federal data into AI to target cuts
U.S. DOGE Service workers embedded in the Education Department have been processing sensitive agency data using artificial intelligence.
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Funny (actually horrifying) considering Musk can't even automate cars
Ana Brandusescu@anabrandusescu.bsky.social · last yr."This does raise red flags,” a cybersecurity expert who was granted anonymity due to concerns of retaliation told WIRED on Monday, who noted that automating the government isn’t the same as automating other things, like self-driving cars."
When I wrote my book The Tech Coup, quite a few people remarked that the word ‘coup’ might be an overstatement. Today it sadly seems like an understatement ↘️ bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley
How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley
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