logan koepke
@jlkoepke.bsky.social
senior project director @upturn.org. research and advocacy on the material harms of AI systems, with a specific focus on civil rights. personal views. we have it in our power to begin the world over again. www.jlkoepke.com
if AI companies cannot even cooperate and coordinate over the publication of math problem research, it is unclear how some undefined international body is going to get them to work together to pace the frontier.
Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social · 4d agoThis is a VERY big one. (And yes, the fights over academic credit and what happened in the race for the proof needs to be resolved, but it is still appears that this is a big one, if true.) openai.com/index/navier...
surely someone here would be able to provide some answers. there is a DFS/DOH letter (www.dfs.ny.gov/reports_and_...). but just a letter.
DFS and DOH joint letter to United Health Group Incorporated
October 25, 2019Mr. David S. Wichmann Chief Executive OfficerUnitedHealth Group Incorporated9900 Bren Road EastMinnetonka, Minnesota 55305Dear Mr. Wichmann:
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logan koepke@jlkoepke.bsky.social · 4d agoOptum’s Impact Pro risk model — which used healthcare spending as a proxy for health need, steering thousands of black patients away from appropriate care — is a canonical example of AI unfairness. But what, if any, consequences did Optum / UnitedHealth actually face?
Optum’s Impact Pro risk model — which used healthcare spending as a proxy for health need, steering thousands of black patients away from appropriate care — is a canonical example of AI unfairness. But what, if any, consequences did Optum / UnitedHealth actually face?
A public housing authority in Concord, N.H. installed smart monitoring devices in residents’ homes that collected minute-by-minute data. They are suing saying it violates NH’s version of the Fourth Amendment. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/02/t...
Noise and Motion Monitors in Their Homes? These Tenants Say No. (Gift Article)
The public housing authority in Concord, N.H., installed monitoring devices in 300 homes. Tenants are now suing to remove the Minut sensors.
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TIL: in Florida, the Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology independently reviews and certifies catastrophe models before insurers can use them in setting residential property insurance rates. fchlpm.sbafla.com/about-the-fc...
Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology - About the FCHLPM
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one way you can tell that the current FTC has zero familiarity with the basics of disparate impact is that it has no understanding of how often corporations *are* able to defeat claims by simply offering a basic business rationale for a practice. www.ftc.gov/system/files...
![Compounding its perniciousness, the theory of disparate-impact liability is effectively unbounded because almost any conceivable policy or practice affects different groups differently. As one commentator succinctly put it, “[d]isparate impact is one of the most controversial concepts in civil rights law and policy partly because just about everything has a disparate impact.”25 And while some form of a business-necessity defense is generally available, in practice that defense often provides little protection."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:zhd3twq2r2tcbuys7dp55g3w/bafkreidvxmd2bsr74otebqeiob5h6i4edtzs6j7xnross3a6zx4hgoifbu)
imagine it's January 2026 and an independent verification organization is tasked with independently verifying whether a frontier AI lab met a cybersecurity standard. would it likely have certified that OpenAI or Anthropic met the standard? if yes, what does that suggest?
Today, CDT, EFF, EPIC, & Upturn submitted comments to the General Services Administration (GSA) in response to the request for comment regarding their updated draft AI Terms and Conditions for federal solicitations and contracts.
CDT, EFF, EPIC, and Upturn Submit Comments on GSA’s Updated Draft AI Terms and Conditions for Federal Contracts
Today, the Center for Democracy & Technology, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), and Upturn submitted comments to the General Services Administration (GSA) in response to the request for comment regarding their updated draft AI Terms and Conditions for federal solicitations and contracts. In March, GSA released an initial draft […]
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It is rare for the public to see such a large list of ICE’s technology capabilities in a single document. 404 Media has published the whole document, called “ICE Wide Analytical Tools," here: www.404media.co/leaked-docum... @josephcox.bsky.social reports:
Often in discussions of algorithmic discrimination and proposed new laws or regulations you'll hear some folks say "frankly, we have everything we need to combat discrimination." Oddly, you don't hear those same people say anything about this administration's revanchist moves to gut civil rights.
Millions of people are losing access to food benefits right now for literally no good reason and I wish more people were aware and talking about it. www.cbpp.org/research/foo... (As opposed to or at least in addition to the other stuff.)
SNAP Tracker: People Are Losing Food Assistance as the Republican Megabill Is Implemented
SNAP participation nationwide fell by more than 4 million people (nearly 10 percent) between the law’s July 2025 enactment and March 2026, based on the latest month of data.
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very strange to observe the policy debate about ai auditing basically cycle through the debate in FAccT papers about the ecosystem and institutional design of ai auditing from 2017-2022, but functionally give zero acknowledgment of this literature or work.
so the killer use-case pitch for a technology that is going to allegedly pull forward unbounded human flourishing is, of course, the very human flourishing-coded ***prior authorization for a healthcare procedure***
- third-party audits for unbounded risks that have no real concrete metrics to assess against: industry approved - third-party audits for specific risks that have longstanding metrics: destroyed by industry
personally, if you think ai systems will be important at the level of economy-defining scale, private governance will not be sufficient given the amount of risk *assumed by the public.* you need robust state capacity to manage public risk.
this FTC policy statement that seems to essentially suggest if your models don’t behave exactly how the FTC thinks they should, that’s deceptive under the FTC Act.
logan koepke@jlkoepke.bsky.social · 2mo ago“In light of the above, the Commission believes that AI companies that steer the outputs of their AI systems toward unexpected objectives, and away from the objectives set by or reasonably expected by users, are likely to deceive.” www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
this FTC policy statement that seems to essentially suggest if your models don’t behave exactly how the FTC thinks they should, that’s deceptive under the FTC Act.
logan koepke@jlkoepke.bsky.social · 2mo ago“In light of the above, the Commission believes that AI companies that steer the outputs of their AI systems toward unexpected objectives, and away from the objectives set by or reasonably expected by users, are likely to deceive.” www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
“In light of the above, the Commission believes that AI companies that steer the outputs of their AI systems toward unexpected objectives, and away from the objectives set by or reasonably expected by users, are likely to deceive.” www.ftc.gov/news-events/...
FTC Seeks Public Comment on Policy Statement Addressing AI Accuracy
The Federal Trade Commission is seeking public comment on a
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