My department is hiring tenure-track in computer science! Deadline: Oct 1, 2026. We care about and support both research and teaching. We're located in the suburbs of Philadelphia. It's a great place to work and live! I'm happy to answer any questions. www.haverford.edu/provost/news...

The teachers' union at the New York high school set to have a humanoid robot this fall speaks out for the first time here I also talked to locals and @nysut.bsky.social president Melinda Pearson www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

‘Really inappropriate’: teachers decry plan for humanoid robot in New York high school

Robot from company that acquired sex doll maker to be introduced in school with large Native American population

theguardian.com

#FAccT and other CS folks who care how your work is used to train LLMs - please let ACM know what you think!

Association for Computing Machinery@acm.org · 3w ago

We are opening a consultation on the inclusion of ACM publications within AI licensing agreements for access and training purposes. We have published this piece as to why we believe it is the right time now to enter into these discussions. buff.ly/VTatuda

Seriously, this article contains such amazing ridiculousness. What fresh hell is this: "They'll be able to say, 'Hey, I'm student number 1234,' and then the robot will be like, 'Hey, we were talking about this yesterday, do you want to continue that conversation?" nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n...

Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher

Plans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role of technology in schools.

nysfocus.com

I can't believe this has to be said, but we should have real human teachers caring for our kids. www.brookings.edu/articles/a-p...

A people-first vision for the future of work in the age of AI | Brookings

Authors discuss how to reimagine work in the age of AI to reverse its degradation and protect the role of people in the workplace.

brookings.edu

Taylor Lorenz@taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 3w ago

A rural New York school district has teamed up with a crypto/sex doll company to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant in the classroom this fall.

My lab @ UPenn is hiring a postdoc to start in early 2027. I'm looking for someone with expertise in social identities, computational methods, and political communication: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

Call for applications: Postdoctoral researcher in social identity, politics, and computational methods

asc.upenn.edu

In computer science, conferences aren't a nice-to-have; they are the primary venue for peer-reviewed publication. OMB's proposal to require pre-approval for conference attendance at grant-submission time is impractical: researchers don't know which conferences they'll submit to a priori. #TechPolicy

Judge Boasberg really got it. (pgs. 39-39)

Andy Sellars@sellars.bsky.social · 3w ago

We have an opinion in @thecoalition.bsky.social v. Rubio! The State Department's policy of targeting misinfo, disinfo, and trust and safety researchers and advocates for visa denials and revocations is stayed pending resolution of the action. Opinion here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

PHASE ONE of our fight against the OMB rule is complete and YOU ALL SHOWED UP!!! HALF A MILLION COMMENTS is WILD. We absolutely exceeded our goal of 100,000! So, what happens next??? Welcome to PHASE TWO: Pressure and Preparation! 1/x

I just finished reading “Seeing Like a State.” It argues that “high modernism” (Brasilia, soviet collectivization, Tanzanian forced villagization) failed because it put complex humanity into overly-simple schema. I think it has interesting things to say about AI’s impact on the labor market. 🧵

Using an open-source pipeline to read every comment on OMB's proposed grants rule that could have significant impact on science and technology research funding, Christopher Steven Marcum and Abigail Haddad find the verdict "clear and lopsided": ~94% oppose it.

The Public Rejects OMB's Federal Financial Assistance Rule

Tens of thousands of scientists, clinicians, and ordinary citizens warned OMB about putting political appointees in charge of which research gets funded.

buff.ly

“Cornell researchers found that at the current rate of AI growth, the burgeoning industry could represent 24 to 44 million metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions by 2030, the equivalent of adding five to ten million cars to US roadways.”

The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible

The extent of the pollution being put out by thousands of data centers is shocking. Some developers are exploiting regulatory loopholes.

futurism.com

“As part of this update, public Instagram profiles are now automatically opted into being fodder for generative AI remixes. All someone has to do is tag your account’s profile in a prompt—if it’s public—and they can use Meta AI to generate an image using your likeness.”

Meta Now Lets Anyone Use Your Instagram Photos in AI Images—Unless You Opt Out

As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.

wired.com

Amid growing regulatory interest in digital well-being, our new #FAccT2026 paper analyzes how online platforms conceptualize the term and identifies gaps between their stated conceptualizations and the interventions they actually provide.

Defining the Problem, Setting the Standard? Platform Narratives and Interventions for Digital Well-Being | Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

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Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last mo.

NEW BLOG FOR YOU Google's energy consumption numbers in their new climate report are mind-blowing. 2 years ago they flipped from linear to exponential growth, and their climate impact is blowing out, too. A WILD testament to the obscene bloat and waste of GenAI: ketanjoshi.co/2026/07/01/g...

I cannot fucking believe that birthright was 5-4! On whether the Constitution guarantees birthright citizenship!

Are you curious about the environmental impact of AI? Install the AI Impact Tracker to estimate the environmental footprint of your ChatGPT usage, including energy, water, and CO2. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-im... #FAccT2026

Are you curious about the environmental impact of AI? Install the AI Impact Tracker to estimate the environmental footprint of your ChatGPT usage, including energy, water, and CO2. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ai-im... #FAccT2026

This feed built with love by your local #FAccT2026 publicity chair and #1 fan of @graze.social. If you're interested in fairness and ethics of tech, then like, subscribe, and enjoy all the paper threads and discussion!

ACM FAccT@facct.bsky.social · last mo.

It's almost time for this year's conference! 🎉 To follow along with all things #FAccT2026, you can "pin" this feed to your homepage. It matches all uses of the hashtag, tags of @facct.bsky.social, and use of the text string "FAccT" (not case sensitive). Enjoy! bsky.app/profile/did:...

7\ In the computer science coauthorship network, we observe disparities in coauthorship centrality by gender, race, academic parent status, and most prominantly by institutional prestige 📈

Now that AI is writing our movies, will it let women talk? In our paper, we leverage the #BechdelTest and other social network-based measures to evaluate LLM-generated movie scripts for gender bias. Join us today at ACM #FAccT2026: Thursday, June 25th at 10:45 am in Joyce to hear more!

Hollywood writers went on strike to protect their livelihoods from generative AI. Their remarkable victory matters for all workers. | Brookings

brookings.edu

Very important updates from our #FAccT2027 Program Chairs. Our next reviewing cycle will run on a different schedule from previous years. ⚠️ Abstract Deadline: Oct 27, 2026 ⚠️ Paper Deadline: Nov 3, 2026 Please read this blog post from the PCs for more info: facct-blog.github.io/2026-06-24/s...

1\ New paper out in FAccT 2026 @facct.bsky.social #FAccT2026 ! 🥳 Grateful to have worked with this team, and had the opportunity to combine my interests in fairness and the science of science. Link: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/....

1/7 🧵 NEW from @ACMPolicy: USTPC calls for an immediate halt to mass federal data consolidation efforts — merging income, health, benefits & immigration data across dozens of agencies into unified personal profiles. Here's why this matters. ⬇️

Celebrating 30 Years of the Internet Archive with the ‘Class of 1996’ 🎓 Class President: Center for Democracy and Technology @cdt.org helped write the rules of the internet. And 30 years later, they’re still fighting to keep it open. See more of the #Classof96 ➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/05/07/c...

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

taken.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

sinceyouarrived.world

One of the arguments against AI is that the people & institutions trying to sell it to us have done so much harm in so many ways with so little conscience on so many other fronts. This AP piece is among the group netting the team including @garanceburke.bsky.social the Pulitzer.

US tech enabled China’s surveillance empire. Now Tibetan refugees in Nepal are paying the price

Nepal is just one of at least 150 countries to which Chinese companies are supplying surveillance technology, from cameras in Vietnam to censorship firewalls in Pakistan to citywide monitoring systems...

apnews.com

"Workers developing Google’s artificial intelligence products in the UK have voted to unionize, in part out of concerns about a deal between the company and the US military that was announced last week."

Google DeepMind workers in UK vote to unionize amid deal with US military

Exclusive: Worker pointed to Iran war and Pentagon’s Anthropic feud as indications the department is ‘not a responsible partner’

theguardian.com

For my generation, the 1965 Voting Rights Act wasn't just a law but a statement that we were never again going backwards on race. I saw Black political power thrive in the '80s, and never thought I'd live to see the VRA get crushed What do we do now? My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/supr...

SCOTUS gutting 1965 Voting Rights Act is a wakeup call from a dream | Will Bunch

Boomers growing up in am era of rising Black political power thought America had changed for good. What went wrong?

inquirer.com

I am unspeakably angry about this turnout gap figure, and it gives insight into the whole ballgame for gutting the VRA. Alito points out that Black turnout exceeded White turnout twice in 5 elections. The argument is garbage 1/x