Just walked past elderly neighbor in Brooklyn sitting on out his stoop and asked if he plans to watch the eclipse. “I’ve seen them before. I’m over it,” he said. “I’m into birds now.”

Lmao

At today's conference: a great panel on 'Emerging Forms of Propaganda in Elections.' Thank you to Carlos Affonso Souza, Grant Fergusson, and Sinta Dewi Rosadi, and to Paolo Tamase for moderating!

Susan B Anthony we did it

We’re excited to announce that the first day of ISP’s “Propaganda and Emerging Technologies” conference begins today!

personal news!! endlessly thankful for the wonderful people and advocates EPIC & AI Now Institute
-- can't wait to continue to watch your incredible work!!

Grateful for this whole crew, and my steadfast partner in this journey Sarah Myers West❤️We're growing the team, so watch this space

EPIC's Calli Schroeder Crypti-Calli is participating in the 'Beyond the Hype: Policy for Keeping AI in Check' panel at SXSW this Thursday, March 14th.

Find more information about the session here: schedule.sxsw.com/2024/events/PP…

innnnnovationnnnnnn

great article in Jacobin from Schneier Blog and Nathan Sanders

jacobin.com/2024/02/artifi…

things we love to see:

The IRS is launching its first free tax online filing tool for this tax season!

It will be available in these 12 states in English and Spanish:

Arizona
California
Florida
Massachusetts
Nevada
New Hampshire
New York
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Washington
Wyoming

Yesterday, WIRED revealed the locations of 25k+ ShotSpotter sensors, which ShotSpotter has fought to keep secret. Per Dhruv Mehrotra & Joey Scott, nearly 75% of the neighborhoods with at least one ShotSpotter sensor are majority nonwhite (1/x):
wired.com/story/shotspot…

heck yea it does

lovely concise summary at the end of this piece on the AI performing badly from Matt Field telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/…

'I'm over coats and the drama of zipping them up.' - Joni, 11

Uplifting comments from moi ⬇️

NEW: Read EPIC and Accountable Tech's complaint to the FTC over Google's broken location data promises: epic.org/wp-content/upl…

Our statement: epic.org/press-release-…

Under the radar: A new bill in the House targets non-consensual AI-generated nudes and celebrity deepfake scams alike as lawmakers start to get a handle on this already-massive issue (via janus.bsky.social): vice.com/en/article/5d9…

the paper about algorithmic disgorgement Jevan Hutson and I have been working on for the last while was published in Georgetown tech law review today! georgetownlawtechreview.org/americas-next-…

all credit to Jevan for the excellent name of the paper :)

Woohoo! My paper with Jennifer Doleac is (finally) forthcoming at AEJ:Policy.

We look at what happens when human judges are given algorithmic risk assessments to help determine who to incarcerate. 1/

aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…