Alexa Hagerty @alexahagerty.bsky.social · 04/09/2025Really proud of this report. Our focus is Sign Language AI, but the core message applies everywhere: communities affected by AI should lead its procurement. When we get this right, we build better services for everyone. Full report available now. 054
Alexa Hagerty @alexahagerty.bsky.social · 12/01/2024Still Life with Bones has won the 2024 Méndez Book Award. I share this incredible honor with the families and forensic teams whose stories are told in the book #FAFG, #EAAF, #CAMIT, @dhrc-fhi.bsky.social humanrights.fhi.duke.edu/story/still-...humanrights.fhi.duke.eduStill Life with Bones wins 2024 Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America | Duke ...Still Life with Bones wins 2024 Juan E. Méndez Book Award for Human Rights in Latin America - Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute 1111
Alexa Hagerty @alexahagerty.bsky.social · 10/01/2024“Feminism in Argentina has been a driving force in the struggle for women’s rights...which is why it is so important for the global libertarian ultra-right to try to discipline Argentinian women." If you care about reproductive justice, keep your eye on Argentina www.theguardian.com/global-devel...theguardian.com‘All feminists are under attack’: ultra-right threat in Milei’s Argentina forces writer into e...The new president’s rightwing supporters are targeting journalists and women’s rights activists – but the fight goes on 060
Alexa Hagerty @alexahagerty.bsky.social · 08/01/2024Thrilled to share work on AI + reproductive rights in Argentina with my 💛 collaborators #DiegoJemio & #FlorenciaAranda. 🔥 Intro Syed Mustafa Ali, @mysdick.bsky.social, Sarah Dillon, Matthew L. Jones, Jonnie Penn, Richard Staley + more 🔥 @lukestark.bsky.social, @aaronmendonplasek.bsky.social & more! 073
Alexa Hagerty @alexahagerty.bsky.social · 19/12/2023I'm thrilled that the legendary #KramerBooks picked Still Life with Bones for the Kramers Choice Award 2023! How wonderful to have the staff of one of my favorite bookshops choose my book as one of their favorites! Support independent bookstores! bookshop.org/lists/2023-k...? 030
Reposted by Alexa HagertyDavid Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 15/12/2023EXCLUSIVE: With less than a year to go to the US elections, Microsoft's Copilot chatbot is not only getting basic facts wrong, but it's making up scandals about candidates and recommending far-right Telegram channels filled with election conspiracies www.wired.com/story/micros...wired.comMicrosoft’s AI Chatbot Replies to Election Questions With Conspiracies, Fake Scandals, and LiesResearch shared exclusively with WIRED shows that Copilot, Microsoft’s AI chatbot, often responds to questions about elections with lies and conspiracy theories. 23329247
Reposted by Alexa HagertyHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15/12/2023They are really just looking at every business and asking “how can we make it more racist and discriminatory and hide it behind ‘AI’?” www.fastcompany.com/90998949/deb... 48831
Alexa Hagerty @alexahagerty.bsky.social · 15/12/2023This sensitive piece captures so much of the book, the stories of families of the missing, the profound work of the forensic teams, and how it all informs my research on AI www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/b...nytimes.comNew York Times 040
Alexa Hagerty @alexahagerty.bsky.social · 15/12/2023Please share! My TEDx talk is live! Years of research packed into minutes. I coin the term "Princes of AI," I quote @hypervisible.bsky.social, I talk dangerous data and the surprising link between your phone and genocidal violence. I talk softly but I'm angry as hell. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya7h...youtube.comDangerous Data: How your phone threatens your human rights | Alexa Hagerty, PhD | TEDxJacksonvilleAre unchecked advances in Artificial Intelligence creating a human rights crisis? In this eye-opening and urgent talk, Dr. Alexa Hagerty details the dangers ... 21910
Reposted by Alexa HagertyShannon K. Supple @mazarine.bsky.social · 15/12/2023One lesson about the disabling systems attack on the British Library that I hope more people take away: Library & archives systems infrastructure is generally invisible and incredibly important. We need resources & people to manage it all. Help us to advocate for funding. 322983
Reposted by Alexa HagertyAnnalee Newitz @annaleen.bsky.social · 15/12/2023Hell yeah! Stories Are Weapons is on Publishers Weekly's most anticipated list for spring 2024! 6485