October roses, emblems of climate change 🌹

A new type of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) leaks to worry about: DNA sequences 🫠
Cc MMitchell

It's October in Canada and our roses are blooming but my heart is breaking 💔

Someone pinch me, TED Talks is in a week and I'm speaking alongside Ruha Benjamin 🥹
I simultaneously can't wait and am terrified!
Send us good vibes ❤️🦋❤️🦋❤️

I wish Taylor Swift was in love with a climate scientist

Have you found your green today? 💚

Manifesting an invitation to give a talk in Mexico this winter so I can go see the hibernating monarch butterflies 🦋🦋🦋
If anyone has connections in Mexico city, please casually namedrop me in conversations 💖

Me, every damn time autumn comes along:

Sur les ondes de Moteur de recherche ce soir pour parler de mes deux amours, IA et climat! Merci Matthieu Dugal pour l'opportunité 💚

Finally, some truly useful generative AI! 😆

Very concerning that most public conversations today in AI are happening with non-scientific terms with lose definitions like 'frontier AI', 'AGI', 'AI safety', 'proliferation',... that are biasing the whole debate with very little to no science associated to them.

These are…

This investigation is wild - in the one city they could get the data for, it turns out PredPol was correct only ~1% (!!) of the time.

It literally enrages me how rampant this kind of dysfunctional 'AI' technology is. What a dangerous waste of money.

wired.com/story/plainfie…

There is no such thing as 'AI for all'.

Me: I'm not going to take on any new projects until I finish my current ones.
Also me:

Ye ol' Hugginglandia 🤗

When people talk about future existential risks of AI, my mind instantly goes to this interview with Porcha Woodruff, who was arrested for carjacking *while 8 months pregnant* because of AI-based facial recognition gone wrong. democracynow.org/2023/8/9/porch…

Sasha Luccioni, PhD 💻🌎🦋✨🤗 just waiting for someone to release a new ML metric called Variable Intuition-Based Evaluation System (VIBES)

ML model evaluation is so broken, y'all.
Literally nothing we do makes sense unless you squint your eyes and unplug your brain 🫠