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Teanna Barrett @bound4nostar.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

FAccT Day 2 and the phrase of the day is "government tech". Sessions like the Greek morning panel, keynote on the rule of law for AI, LatAm worker co-ops, and the CRAFT session on the current US AI military complex discussed a broad range of local government enabled approaches to tech.

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Teanna Barrett @bound4nostar.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Some filled me with hope like the LatAm co-op (s/o Codigo Libre + MariaLab), left me with deep dread (OpenAI is working with AFRICOM sites), and some a pragmatic middle (Nathalie Smuha's critique of the EU AI Act). But all of these examples highlighted the need for localized sociopolitical analysis.

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Teanna Barrett @bound4nostar.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

And a particular shout out to my first year mentor Kentrell for his talk about the BI Smartlink app. The suffering of countless of migrants this ICE app enables shook the room to its core but it's necessary for technologists to see how our work can have dire consequences. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

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Understanding experiences with compulsory immigration surveillance in the U.S. | Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency

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