Will Fleisher
@willfleisher.bsky.social
Philosopher working on AI ethics and epistemology. Also a socialist and a metalhead, but sadly much more boring than that might suggest. https://www.willfleisher.net
Thanks for placing that bar right on the ground, toxic masculinity.
@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 3w agoOne thing that's a really obvious way that The Patriarchy Benefits Woke Men is that we all kinda know that just applying some basic hygiene, having a job and hobbies besides gaming all day, and just not hating women with a burning passion - makes you upper echelon dating material.
shoutout the chucklefuck pundit who insisted once that “environmental racism” was a nonsense term
Reuters@reuters.com · 3w agoElon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm
I have a new paper that just came out in the Proceedings of ACM FACCT. I argue that researchers should be careful to think about how they contribute to AI hype in their own work, in light of the heightened interest in AI research.
Inductive Risk of AI Hype | Proceedings of the 2026 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency
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As a philosopher of AI, my Reasonable Take™️ on that NYT article is: lol. lmao even
On a related note, I have a new paper that just came out in the FACCT proceedings about the danger of contributing to AI Hype as a researcher. philpapers.org/rec/FLEIRO
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noam@noamchompers.bsky.social · last mo.
Q: Are there any downsides to this new technology? A: Let’s recall that the printing press had its naysayers, and yet global history since 1500 has been characterized by uninterrupted progress and universal human betterment.
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My paper about algorithmic fairness is officially out today in Ergo. I argue that statistical fairness criteria might not give us all the things we hoped they would, but they can still be useful as evidence regarding whether and algorithmic system is fair or biased.
Making sure you're not a bot!
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Perfect theonion.com/guy-who-suck...
Guy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AI
SAN MATEO, CA—After spending the past three decades of his life being totally unable and unwilling to engage in any meaningful way with the world around him, James Parker, a local guy who sucks at bei...
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Great article by my colleague Cal Newport in the Times today. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/o...
Opinion | Dear A.I. Companies: The Doom Trolling Needs to Stop
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Well, this is a very trustworthy take. It’s not like they have any big financial incentives to talk about how cool and sci fi their technology is. Or a big IPO coming up. Besides, look at their data transparency here: their own internal institute says “trust us bro”. What more could you want?
Nick Diakopoulos@ndiakopoulos.bsky.social · 2mo agoThis from Anthropic is a real piece of work: www.anthropic.com/institute/re...
NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.
Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones
Code reviewed by WIRED uncovered an unreleased face-recognition system embedded in Meta’s smart glasses platform. It’s designed to identify people via biometric data stored on users’ phones.
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"yeah our platforms destroyed journalism and give teen girls body dysmorphia at an industrial scale. no we're not going to do anything about that. instead we're going to spend trillions on AI stuff that, according to us, will take your job and double your power bill"
I know we've all seen it, but this is still the most important analysis of capitalism. www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995
This is a great piece. One of the best things on the topic. That’s both a testament to Chiang and the result of how bad work on the topic of LLM consciousness and welfare has been recently.
Jaime Green@jaimealyse.bsky.social · 2mo ago🚨🚨🚨 new Ted Chiang on AI just dropped 🚨🚨🚨https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/?gift=1ga2TvL-DbuHDQIcYF7oR7CsNA92bD_yo6VqlH7-uco&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
“The hiring frenzy shows how A.I. can also help create some jobs, even amid dire warnings that the technology could replace vast parts of the work force.” The hiring frenzy for firefighters shows that my new Arsonbot can also help create jobs for firefighters.
One Job That Is Growing in the A.I. Era? Cybersecurity Experts.
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What I wish for everybody to remember when Canvas comes back online: The reason OUR data can be held for ransom is because Instructure, their owners (KKR private equity & Dragoneer venture capital), & our own employers (see ASU Atomic) monetize it. It's Canvas that hacked education & stole our IP.
Tita Chico@titachico.bsky.social · 3mo agowho could have imagined that it wasn't a good idea to have a nearly ubiquitous educational platform run by for-profit tech? @mattseybold.bsky.social is who! (yep, Canvas is down, hacked, stick a fork in it)
I really miss Sakai right now. Open source, decentralized, not owned by private equity, free. Not a target for worldwide shutdown as a ransomware attack.
Low key the best take on chatbots so far (particularly if you take the last line unironically).
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