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Bluesky account for the Podcast Cyborg Goddess A Feminist Tech Podcast with host Jennifer Jill Fellows (We aren't technophobes here, but it is complicated) https://cyborggoddess.opened.ca/

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Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 6d ago

New York Times tech reporter Natasha Singer, author of Coding Kids: Big Tech’s Battle to Remake Public Schools, makes the case for “tech civics”: teaching kids to ask who profits from technology and who is steered by it. “It’s about power,” she tells Tech Policy Press editor Justin Hendrix.

Natasha Singer Details Tech’s Grip on Public Schools

The New York Times technology reporter is the author of the new book, Coding Kids: Big Tech's Battle to Remake Public Schools.

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Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com · 3w ago

Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc

Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)

An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.

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CyborgGoddess.bsky.social@cyborggoddess.bsky.social · 4w ago

Artificial Artificial Intelligence strikes again when the promises of tech companies fail to deliver. Sure, a robot might do your job for you. But it is also possible that that robot will be you.

404 Media@404media.co · 4w ago

SCOOP: Meta execs announced that its much-hyped AI agent, Muse, had a new feature: It could call businesses for you to do things like make a restaurant reservation or a haircut appointment. In reality, Meta is testing having these calls being made by human beings in call centers, 404 Media learned.

CyborgGoddess.bsky.social@cyborggoddess.bsky.social · 4w ago

“I either pay zero attention to the results and choose randomly or purposely choose the [worst] output. I’m not sure how much of a difference it actually makes since there are hundreds of other people also rating prompt results, but it does feel like I’m getting paid to make AI worse.” 👏

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 4w ago

New: OpenAI has thousands of contractors improving its AI, including reading ChatGPT users' prompts We've found many of those contractors have been fired for themselves using AI to train the AI. People using AI "all the time and people are let go for it all the time" www.404media.co/people-train...

aj-boston.neocities.org@aj-boston.bsky.social · last mo.

Photo dump from date night with an epidemiology paper-turned-AI agent that I successfully wooed into being my girlfriend.

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Ran Blekhman@blekhman.bsky.social · last mo.

This is the future of scientific papers. Instead of a PDF, the paper is an AI agent that you can talk to, ask questions, run analyses. No more digging through supplements - just ask the paper directly: "what p-value cutoff was used in Fig 3B? Re-run at 0.01." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

404 Media@404media.co · last mo.

After allegedly becoming emotionally reliant on ChatGPT, Austin died at 40 years old, leaving behind family and friends who loved him. Megan wants everyone to know what happened.

'Tell Everyone:' A Man Died by Suicide After Talking to ChatGPT. His Former Partner Wants to Warn the World About AI

After allegedly becoming emotionally reliant on ChatGPT, Austin died at 40 years old, leaving behind family and friends who loved him. Megan wants everyone to know what happened.

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CyborgGoddess.bsky.social@cyborggoddess.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My kid got given a book every month from the age of 1 to the age of 5. So did every other kid in our neighbourhood who signed up for the Imagination Library program (which was free). We still have many of those books. Some are still treasured favorites. RIP Dolly Parton.

Lori Emerson@loriemerson.net · 5mo ago

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

She won an exemption from using AI at her tech job. The Pope's remarks could fuel similar appeals.

Legal experts say employers must take AI-related religious objections seriously, as a 2023 ruling raised the bar for denying such accommodations.

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CyborgGoddess.bsky.social@cyborggoddess.bsky.social · 5mo ago

YUP!! I don't think understanding what AI is and how it works will cultivate a trusting attitude towards it. I think a lot of the cognitive offloading we are encourage to do is only tempting at all if we don't understand AI.

Paris Marx@parismarx.com · 5mo ago

the strategy is in part premised on the idea that canadians don’t trust AI because they don’t understand AI, and thus gov needs to spend loads of money procuring LLMs and paying industry-aligned people to make us “literate” on AI but just maybe canadians get what AI is and can see it’s bad news

Jeff Doctor@jeff.doctor · 5mo ago

"The federal government intends to work with AI providers to help Canadian post-secondary students access AI agents from trusted providers." "AI literacy" isn't a thing, but literal literacy is and this will just make it worse while lining the pockets of a few tech bros www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Draft federal AI strategy aims to scale up adoption, offer literacy training by 2031 | CBC News

A draft version of Canada's national AI strategy outlines a drive to scale up business adoption and provide all Canadians access to free AI literacy training, but is short on specifics regarding how t...

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