"Governments don’t need more data. Data has been more abundant than ever. Yet, there is still a crucial gap in synthesis, whereby governments are not set up in ways that allow the creation and sharing of knowledge" demoshelsinki.fi/julkaisut/gene…

"myGov: The Beginning of the End of Whole-of-Government" My commentary on the Commonwealth Ombudsman Report on Services Australia Response to #myGov fraud. 👇👇👇 linkedin.com/pulse/mygov-be…

David J. Gunkel Not an uncommon POV in the LLM space. But again begs the question: should we be designing AI to generate information or to communicate? The digital domain is built on information. But much of it originated as communication. LLMs are on the slippery slope to a new interaction

Sharing a draft of my syllabus statement on generative AI. It's grounded in the fact that detection is largely impossible and that the material realities endemic to AI are troubling to say the least.

I think it’s about time we reprise Julia Gillard #misogyny speech but revise it to “I will not be lectured to by those racists”. Who on the Government or cross bench should give it?

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LEAKED from USyd HR briefing for managers on "Overcoming" Closing Loopholes. TLDR: Casual academics must no longer be "engaged for a fixed term" (i.e. a semester) because we "could ask to convert to continuing employment if current practices continue".

So true

"France is to trial a ban on mobile phones at school for pupils up to the age of 15, seeking to give children a 'digital pause' that, if judged successful, could be rolled out nationwide from January": theguardian.com/world/article/…

Beyond excited to share that this is now out in nature! We show that despite efforts to remove overt racial bias, LLMs generate covertly racist decisions about people based on their dialect. Joint work with amazing co-authors ria / pratyusha ria kalluri, Dan Jurafsky, and Sharese King.

🎉 My commentary on the political economy of platforms is out in the newly minted Platforms & Society (Platforms & Society)! doi.org/10.1177/297686… The upshot:

Briefly coming out of my annual leave digital detox to share my new paper evaluating perceptions of justice in appeals for de-platformed #Instagram and #TikTok accounts now out OA in icsjournal: tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Wonderful lessons for all teaching academics. Too often the first rule is bypassed

📢📢#CriticalAI DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES FOR TEACHING CRITICAL AI LITERACIES DESIGN JUSTICE LABS is an NEH and RU-sponsored set of resources for teaching about "generative AI" from design justice and critical AI perspectives. rutgers.box.com/s/v1ywq3701cb6…

🇧🇷 My great QUT Digital Media Research Centre colleague Tariq Choucair has worked overtime to produce this timely analysis of Brazil’s battle with Xitter for The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand. theconversation.com/brazil-just-ba…

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"The reviewers’ overall feedback was that they felt AI summaries may be counterproductive and create further work because of the need to fact-check and refer to original submissions which communicated the message better and more concisely." crikey.com.au/2024/09/03/ai-…

(📣) The President of Brazil has issued a statement about Twitter: “The world isn’t obliged to put up with Elon Musk’s far-right free-for-all just because he is rich.” RETWEET if you agree. theguardian.com/world/article/…

My article "What Is This Thing Called the Ethics of AI and What Calls for It?", from David J. Gunkel's (ed.) Handbook on the Ethics of AI Elgar Publishing, is available in open access here: elgaronline.com/edcollchap/boo… #aiethics

Editorial: Shorten's key miscalculation was that he believed that if something was true it would also be popular. His tax reforms were so obviously fair he couldn’t understand why people didn’t want them. Shorten was the country’s last reforming leader. satpa.pe/Vpd5GIg