I am shocked and flattered that this paper won the Best Paper Award (Honourable Mention) at #FAccT2026!

Pranav A@pranav-nlp.bsky.social · last mo.

I will be presenting our work titled "Making a Name for Myself: On Academic Naming Policies and their Impact" this week at #FAccT2026. This paper talks about why names matter, why name change policies are important, how people benefit from it and what's still left to do.

Hey folks - what do you all do when a journal is extremely behind on reviewing your manuscript? Do you continue to wait, do you email an editor, something else?

Really looking forward to seeing folks at CHI next week in Barcelona, where I'll be presenting two works and the amazing Shivani Kapania will be presenting a third (all of which are already available for free on my website):

I am in the process of revitalizing the existing queer special interest Slack space (Queer in HCI). Given that the space had previously existed but has died off, I want this space to be useful for our community. What would make a Slack space for queer HCI community members useful, in your opinion?

Heading to Edinburgh next week for this exciting event on 🤖🏳️‍⚧️Gender and the Machine🧟‍♀️🧑‍💻, where @naz-andalibi.bsky.social and I will be talking about our research! Thanks to @sj-bennett.bsky.social and @kevinguyan.bsky.social for organizing! Register here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and...

Gender and the Machine: Trans Tech, Emotion and AI

Join us for this afternoon of events discussing gender, marginalisation and emotion in AI and digital technologies

eventbrite.co.uk

CSCW remains the most invigorating and exciting conference for me. It was so wonderful to see old friends, meet new colleagues, and have intellectually stimulating conversations with the coolest people in HCI 🥰

Come see me present this paper next week at #CSCW2025 in The Gig Economy session on Monday :)

ACM CSCW@acm-cscw.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Identity is subjective. So how do data workers make decisions when collecting and labeling human data for computer vision? @morganklauss.bsky.social explores the role of positionality in data work a new #CSCW2025 paper:

Happy "the CHI deadline is over" to all who celebrate.

Today is the deadline! But we don't mind if you submit through the weekend, no one is checking ;)

Morgan Klaus Scheuerman@morganklauss.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Once more sharing our #CSCW2025 (NOW HYBRID) workshop on how to responsibly curate data for massive AI models. The deadline is September 5 (next Friday)! Note that the application form is simple and minimal :) responsible-data-workshop.github.io/cscw2025/

Once more sharing our #CSCW2025 (NOW HYBRID) workshop on how to responsibly curate data for massive AI models. The deadline is September 5 (next Friday)! Note that the application form is simple and minimal :) responsible-data-workshop.github.io/cscw2025/

Unsurprising, but reading things like "It is acceptable to engage a child in conversations that are romantic or sensual" and "It is acceptable to create statements that demean people on the basis of their protected characteristics" in actual corporate guidelines is just horrendous.

Meta’s AI rules have let bots hold ‘sensual’ chats with children

An internal Meta policy document reveals the social-media giant’s rules for chatbots, which have permitted provocative behavior on topics including sex and race.

reuters.com

The giant spreadsheet of AI ethics & policy news has officially hit 2,000 entries! bit.ly/ai-ethics-news I have teaching plans & ideas for this so have been writing up curriculum in case it's useful for others--I know a few folks have told me they use this in their classes, can you tell me how? :)

AI Ethics & Policy News

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The use of AI for emotional support is... unsurprising. After all, social media has played a role in making our culture more isolated, it makes sense people have turned to AI chatbots for emotional support and even friendship, especially when companies seek to profit off AI/human relationships.

how he sleeps after waking me up at 5:30 AM this morning

As you begin to register for #CSCW2025, don't forget to consider workshop application! We have made our workshop registration as low effort as possible :)

Morgan Klaus Scheuerman@morganklauss.bsky.social · last yr.

How can ethical principles translate to the massive data used to train foundation models, like generative AI? Our #CSCW2025 workshop aims to explore how best to define the future of ethical responsibility in large-scale datasets for foundation model training. Apply here: tinyurl.com/CSCW-data

Paper: "Transphobia is in the Eye of the Prompter: Trans-Centered Perspectives on Large Language Models" Authors: @morganklauss.bsky.social, Katy Weathington, Adrian Petterson, Dylan Thomas Doyle, Dipto Das, Michael Ann DeVito, Jed R. Brubaker. #ACMTOCHI #LLMs #AIethics #HCI

#CSCW2025 is in desperate need of sponsors. If anyone here has connections - or is at an organization (industry, academic, nonprofit, whatever!) that would like to sponsor - please reach out to: industry2025@cscw.acm.org

How can ethical principles translate to the massive data used to train foundation models, like generative AI? Our #CSCW2025 workshop aims to explore how best to define the future of ethical responsibility in large-scale datasets for foundation model training. Apply here: tinyurl.com/CSCW-data

It's finally out! In this work, we centered positional expertise to interrogate how ChatGPT & Llama answer questions about trans identity. Beyond showing how LLMs treat trans identity, we contribute a unique method for evaluating LLMs and handling differing perspectives in coding

AI chatbots have been rolled out across 100s of white-collar workplaces but their effect on hours & pay has been negligible accrdg NBER. On average, employees saved 3% of their time, while just 3%-7% of their productivity gains came back to them in the form of higher pay fortune.com/2025/05/18/a...

Study looking at AI chatbots in 7,000 workplaces finds 'no significant impact on earnings or recorded hours in any occupation'

Despite AI’s promise to revolutionize white-collar work, most workers are using it sparingly—or hiding it from their boss.

fortune.com

🎧 New episode just dropped: we're unpacking the ethics of data + AI with @marylgray.bsky.social & @morganklauss.bsky.social Who really owns the data powering AI? What happens when consent is ignored? From surveillance to scraped content, we dive into the stakes—esp. for marginalized communities.

Hi all - I am getting a lot of emails and DMs about the Sony AI HCI Internship posting. However, I will not be able to answer them all nor will I be able to meet with people 1:1 or review materials outside the process. To answer some common questions:

Question for researchers - when writing your rebuttals, (1) do you emphasize what you will do or (2) do you make changes and then emphasize that you have attended to the review? Which method would you consider more convincing to reviewers?

Since I have gotten a few questions on what the Sony AI ethics team has been working on lately, I want to share our project page with some of our latest publications: ai.sony/projects/ai-...

AI Ethics – Sony AI

AI Ethics is one of Sony AI's Flagshp Project areas. Learn more about this project and its latest activities.

ai.sony

Hi all! I am looking to recruit an intern for this summer at Sony AI. The researcher should have documented expertise in qualitative studies and an interest in studying how responsible AI is conducted within organizations. Feel free to share widely! tinyurl.com/hci-sony

HCI Intern (AI Ethics Team)

Sony AI America, a branch of Sony AI, is a remotely distributed organization spread across the U.S. and Canada. Sony AI is Sony’s new research organization pursuing the mission to use AI to unleash hu...

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For more technical students: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/41...

The fact that the USA has banned visas for trans people but welcomed rapist Andrew Tate shows how all this "defending women" stuff is total bullshit

"AI technology appears to outperform humans. But a closer look reveals that these games are rigged. The competitions do not actually ask machines to perform human tasks; it’s more accurate to say that they ask humans to behave in machine-like ways as they perform lifeless simulacra of human tasks."

M.J. Crockett@mjcrockett.bsky.social · last yr.

My new piece in @theguardian.com Techno-optimism is human pessimism. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It's super interesting to me how little work on foundation models has been done in @acm-cscw.bsky.social at this point... (esp compared to CHI) I think there's a lot of important socio-technical work to be done in this space, and yet it is currently sparse in the social computing community.

👋🏽 We're excited to announce the 💻Call for Workshops🛠️ for #CSCW2025! 📆 Deadline: March 27th, AOE. Workshops will be held on October 18-19th in Bergen, Norway. In-person workshops are strongly encouraged but hybrid is also possible. More details below ⤵️ cscw.acm.org/2025/index.p...