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Woodrow Hartzog

@hartzog.bsky.social

Andrew R. Randall Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. Author of "Privacy's Blueprint" (2018) and co-author of "Breached!" (2022). Posting mainly about privacy, tech and the law. I write my own posts and periodically delete all of them.

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Matthew Guariglia@mguariglia.bsky.social · 2d ago

I’ve been seeing more police doing cutesy meet and greet events with their robots, I feel the need to remind people: many of these companies deliberately advertise the goodwill departments can get on social media via selfies, and that these are like putting a cute face on a rolling Flock cameras

Police Robots Are Not a Selfie Opportunity, They’re a Privacy Disaster Waiting to Happen

The arrival of government-operated autonomous police robots does not look like predictions in science fiction movies. An army of robots with gun arms is not kicking down your door to arrest you. Inste...

eff.org

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 2d ago

Anthropic is out with new nonsense about Claude (or the collection of models called Claude) deserving moral consideration and/or be able to feel distress, so my inbox is filling up with journos asking me to comment. I've also got a day job, so here is a brief set of public comments on this: >>

Woodrow Hartzog@hartzog.bsky.social · 3d ago

Folks, we’re awfully close to losing the plot entirely, and that’s being generous. The consciousness debate is a silly dead end distraction from the very real danger of AI’s destruction of institutions and degradation of our own humanity.

The Verge@theverge.com · 3d ago

Over the past year, Anthropic has repeatedly flirted with the idea that its AI models could be conscious in some way. In February, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said on a podcast, “We don’t know if the models are conscious.”

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 4d ago

She called it in 1983! > Bainbridge argues that new, severe problems are caused by automating most of the work, while the human operator is responsible for tasks that cannot be automated. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironies...

Butlerian Jihadist of House Dornick@shimminykricket.blacksky.app · 4d ago

Harvard just dropped a study AI productivity in software engineering and it found the average increase in productivity from using Claude code is.....zero and for exactly the reasons you'd think fion.ac/jellyfish.pdf

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 4d ago

NEW: TikTok creators seeking affiliate kickbacks are promoting cheap Meta AI Glasses dupes by claiming that the knockoffs don't feature "annoying" indicator lights that signal when wearers are filming. “I’m recording you right now and you probably can’t even tell..." futurism.com/artificial-i...

Influencers Are Promoting Cheap Dupes of Meta AI Glasses that Don't Have the "Annoying Blinking Light" When They Record

Creators are promoting cheaper dupes for Meta smart glasses. Often, the lack of any recording light is central to their pitch.

futurism.com

Blake E. Reid@chup.blakereid.org · 4d ago

While IMO the Meta settlement is weak (and probably harmful) soft law, Kingsbury Commitment-style tea, I at least directionally agree with @morganweiland.bsky.social that the reflexive 1A critiques, especially the jawboning worries, are doctrinally (and politically) exhausting and unhelpful.

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 5d ago

Boston University's Morgan Weiland on why reflexively invoking the First Amendment against the Meta settlement is the wrong critique.

Tim Newman@tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 6d ago

"IDme harvests personal data as a gatekeeper to public agencies—which have no business requiring citizens to use a for-profit intermediary. Providing access, with privacy & security safeguards, is a core part of agencies’ job." bsky.app/profile/pros...

The American Prospect@prospect.org · 6d ago

The campaign to privatize basic government functions is relentlessly moving in the wrong direction—and even more so under President Trump. prospect.org?p=145873

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d ago

“A proposed class action lawsuit alleges Boston-based sports gambling company DraftKings is using artificial intelligence to identify and target vulnerable gamblers with promotions, incentives, and advertisements.”

Class action lawsuit alleges Boston-based DraftKings used AI to target vulnerable gamblers

Plaintiff Daniel Vest has spent thousands of dollars with DraftKings, which allegedly led the company to inundate him with promotions.

boston.com

David S. Cohen@dsc250.bsky.social · 6d ago

So if I give Meta all my financial information, access to all my money, and the passwords to my work and personal email accounts, its agent can make reservations for me and order me food? That’s the bargain here?

Jane Rosenzweig@janerosenzweig.bsky.social · last wk.

Given the choice between taking a bus that goes as safely as possible to your destination and one that might go there/ might go somewhere else or nowhere at all, you should definitely be vigilant if you take the "might go there" bus but also if you need to get there why not just take the other one?

Charles Logan@charleswlogan.bsky.social · last wk.

Do you want to know what’s better than remaining “curious and vigilant” about using chatbots for researching election information? Not using them in the first place.