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I wrote a short essay about refusing to participate in Canada's public consultation on AI.
Ana Brandusescu
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Ana Brandusescu
@anabrandusescu
Researcher, policy analyst, social scientist. PhD-ing on political power and privatization in the scale of AI governance. She/her
- Silicon Valley Imperialism: Techno Fantasies and Frictions in Postsocialist Times I have been thinking about the contents of this book for over a decade and cannot wait to read it. Thank you for writing it, @erin_mc_elroy! dukeupress.edu/silicon-valley…
- "In the US, Big Tech and the Military are increasingly fused, brought together by finance, joint projects, research and infrastructure. Untying the knot will be key to prevent endless wars abroad and militarised policing at home."
- “People have to file freedom of information requests just to learn an algorithm set the length of their prison sentence. The more public institutions rely on tech companies, the more we are losing democratic control over their processes and decisions.”
- Artificial Genocidal Intelligence, the AGI we should be talking about.
- Who Are the Publics Engaging in AI? A long time in the making, thrilled to share our new research article for Public Understanding of Science by @re_sieber, myself, Abigail Adu-Daako, and Suthee Sangiambut. And it's open access 🧵 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…
- Leave AI out of mental health care, full stop.
- "Companies cite user privacy concerns, trade secrets, the complexity of the system, and various other reasons for limiting disclosures. Instead, they provide only general assurances about their commitment to safe and responsible AI. This is unacceptable." oreilly.com/content/you-ca…
- "I've long been frustrated at the way tech bros claim to be "democratizing" things like "access to AI" or "access to information". It always seems to be deployed as an excuse for hoarding data and compute in enormous, toxic piles" Couldn't agree more.
- “Regulation stifles innovation” 🚩🚩🚩
- "Existential risk is like catnip to a lot of powerful men." @mer__edith !!! I will be using this quote often from now on.
- So some news: I passed my comprehensive exams and successfully defended my PhD proposal!!
- "We also must resist the replacement of democratic institutions by technological processes that remove and reduce the input and engagement of counterpublics." datasociety.net/wp-content/upl…
