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Anita Chan @anitachan.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Thx @briahnajoygray.bsky.social & #BadFaith for letting me break down Palintir's CEO Alex Karp's #TechnoFascist ambitions. Aside from running the largest #SurveillanceTech machine behind ICE deportations, Karp is clearly trying to outcompete Elon and Sam A for Trump's most-favored/fascist Techbro.

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AI Overlords Are RUNNING The US War Machine (w/ Anita Say Chan)

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Anita Chan @anitachan.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

For all grad/undergrad students + early career scholars: UCLA Center for Resilience & Digital Justice has a new survey on awareness of public-interest technology jobs. It's illuminating to even read thru; participants get $20 Digital Gift Card for completing by Jan 31 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Attitudes to Careers in Public Interest Technology

The UCLA Center for Resilience and Digital Justice and the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) are conducting this survey to understand how current students and early career profess...

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Anita Chan @anitachan.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

For ALL parents/caregivers and educators alike: @brookings.edu new study on AI and learning I asserts an unequivocal NO: "At this point in its trajectory, the risks of utilizing generative AI in children’s education overshadow its benefits." www.brookings.edu/articles/a-n...

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A new direction for students in an AI world: Prosper, prepare, protect | Brookings

This report explores the potential risks generative AI poses to students and outlines what we can do now to minimize them.

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“Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone,” said @mit.edu's Pres. The other 8 campuses have yet to respond: U of AZ, Brown, Dartmouth, UPenn, USC, UT, Vanderbilt, + UVA. Faculty, Alum, speak out!

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

So proud to be an alum of @mit.edu today. MIT is the 1st of 9 universities Trump tried and FAILED to pressure into a contract. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

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DHS’s Immigrant Tracking Tech Lays the Ground for Authoritarian Surveillance

#EugenicFantasies of a racially cleansed US are driving DHS's + Trump's campaign to illegally deport law-abiding residents. Chinese S/E European Jewish immigrants + dissidents were 1st targeted by eugenic surveillance tech 100 yrs ago, see my piece in #PubicEye politicalresearch.org/2025/10/10/d...

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Anita Say Chan reveals how new surveillance technologies employed by DHS and ICE to monitor, arrest, and deport immigrants have a long history rooted in eugenics profiling from the 19th and 20th centu...

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Am excited to join @CHARLES BABBAGE Institute w/ @rachelplotnick.bsky.social for the new CBI Research Fellows cohort! It'll be a privilege to work w/ @justcode.bsky.social & CBI's amazing researchers. Keep your eyes peeled this Spring 2026 for #AICriticalGeographies programming we're planning!

Anita Chan @anitachan.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

What a pleasure to speak to the hosts of @disruptedscience.bsky.social podcast - their questions on AI's on academic publishing and research, and why our institutions can and SHOULD reframe the core issue to 1 about #publicsafety and service (rather than productivity/efficiency) are beyond timely!

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Anita Chan @anitachan.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Am excited to keynote #Bsides Bloomington's Cybersecurity Conference this weekend! I'm curious to hear what this community has to share after a talk on #Eugenics in Big Tech. Indy friends, if you are around, come join!

Anita Chan @anitachan.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

I was the guest on #TheInternetIsCrack latest episode, with hosts @Caroline Risberg and @Seth Camillo. It was a fast conversation, w/ discussion on Francis Galton's 19th C design of a creepy hand-held "beauty" tracker, to OpenAI's aim to monetize child attention.: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQXY...

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#47 The Whole Story: A Discussion with Anita Say Chan

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Anita Chan @anitachan.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

What an honor to have #PredatoryData included @nature.com's recommended Summer reading list. I'm already of fan of other authors in the list - @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social 's the AI Con, @Grace Howard's The Pregnancy Police - that are great reading in the Fall & Winter too!

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Gen Wojcik @genandgenes.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

We never left. I wrote about “Predatory Data” by @anitachan.bsky.social in Nature’s summer reading list. Such a great work demonstrating the persistence of eugenics in all its many forms while offering a better way forwards. Maybe not a fun beach read, but absolutely essential for these times.

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AI hype, crackling northern lights and more: take it all in with these holiday reads

Ten of Nature’s recent contributors share their current book obsessions.

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Anita Chan @anitachan.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

So excited to see #JUSTCODE's out, just in time for a new semester of teaching! Three cheers to its authors + editors @justcode.bsky.social & Gerardo Con Diaz for a volume that unpacks how the invisible work of code in algorithmic bias, AI in labor practices and more perpetuate global inequality.

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Anita Chan @anitachan.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I don't usually get to talk to broadcast news personalities about eugenics in big tech, but I was so glad for this interview w/ @The Mark Thompson Show. Thanks @Mark Thompson, @Kim McCallister, and producer @John Daly for the welcome conversation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_Pv...

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Eugenics, It’s Thriving in Silicon Valley With Elon & The Tech Bros, Professor Anita Say Chan

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Anita Chan @anitachan.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

@aft.org #OpenAI plan will ram AI into public schools w/o ANY real consent fr parents + teachers. OpenAI's real goal is to DATAFY KIDS, who currently are poorly modeled in the data AI co's scrape. Get ready for a future where our kids get sex ed from AI. No one wants this @rweingarten.bsky.social.

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Anita Chan @anitachan.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

OpenAI claims that LLMs will "discover new science" are RIDICULOUS. It also distracts us fr what AI heads KNOW is their ACTUAL concern: ie monetize systems for MUCH more boring queries. & we'll burn up the planet for exchanges on celebrities & sports. Stop #AIHype www.the-geyser.com/altman-makes...

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Altman Makes Science Claims

OpenAI's CEO says science is up next. Not so fast . . .

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Anita Chan @anitachan.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

University heads in the US can take a lesson fr the Pope in being so clear in the commitment to human dignity and protecting future generations, rather than profit as progress, in addressing AI in higher ed: techcrunch.com/2025/06/18/p... #CatholicWorkersMovement #LiberationTheology

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Pope Leo makes AI’s threat to humanity a signature issue | TechCrunch

Pope Leo XIV, the new American pope, is making the threat of AI to humanity a key issue of his legacy.

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Anita Chan @anitachan.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

The recording of my event w/ @timnitgebru.bsky.social & @xriskology.bsky.social w/ @datasociety.bsky.social is now posted. Emile & I are planning a Fall event on how the conversation on AI, Big Tech, Eugenics & TESCREALism needs to include others beyond tech researchers. Stay tuned! lnkd.in/g9Q_gffq

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Anita Chan @anitachan.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Thanks @Kent Anderson for the interview in The Geyser. Among the topics we discussed, how surveillance capitalism started with eugenics, how history shows us predatory data is NOT inevitable, & why DOGE's dysfunction sadly doesn't mean the end to techno-eugenics. www.the-geyser.com/interview-an...

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Interview: Anita Chan, Author of “Predatory Data”

Why eugenics is the most important concept on the table today — from Silicon Valley to RFK

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Anita Chan @anitachan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Join us momentarily online and in person for a book talk on #eugenicsInBigTech at @ucsandiego.bsky.social's Design Center! If you are looking for ways to resist #PredatoryData, and reimagine solidarity around tech, Zoom in at the link below! calendar.ucsd.edu/event/predat...

Anita Chan @anitachan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

This #MayDay in honor of #workersAgainstAI, I'm traveling to @UTEP to talk on #PredatoryData and #eugenics in #BigTech. Later this May, I’ll be traveling to another pt of the US West - to UCSD’s Design Lab & UCSC. Thx @Elise Takehana @Nik Usher @gleemie.bsky.social @Zac Zimmer for the invitations!

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Anita Chan @anitachan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

It was such an honor to get to speak with Bill Ayers on for the @underthetreepod.bsky.social podcast! The episode was just posted and aside from the amazing @Lisa Yun Lee, who introduced us, there are few others I wanted to get to talk #HullHouse data history & #solidaritystrategies with.

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Under the Tree w/Bill Ayers - A Seminar on Freedom @underthetreepod.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

NEW EPISODE! We’re joined by @anitachan.bsky.social, author of Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech We talk surveillance, algorithmic discrimination, echoes of anti-immigration movements of the 19th century, and alternative data practices of minority actors in pursuit of justice. bit.ly/42zfRuE

Anita Say Chan wears a navy coat and blue and white ikat scarf. She has tortoise-shell glasses and her hair is blowing gently back as she looks directly at the viewer.

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Join us tomorrow! bsky.app/profile/data...

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Anita Chan @anitachan.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I'm thrilled to be speaking on #EugenicsinBigTech this Thursday 4/3 at 12P at the Nat'l Center for Supercomputing Applications - @ncsaatillinois.bsky.social for its Colloquium series! Join us in person (w/pizza) or or online - more details are here: calendars.illinois.edu/detail/7097?...

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 31/03/2025

“AI may be a mid technology with limited use cases to justify its financial and environmental costs,” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social writes. “But it is a stellar tool for demoralizing workers who can, in the blink of a digital eye, be categorized as waste.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/o...

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Opinion | The Tech Fantasy That Powers A.I. Is Running on Fumes

A.I. is just what we need in the post-fact era: less research and more predicting what we want to hear.

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Anonymous @youranonjd.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Rumeysa Ozturk a Tufts PhD student, was disappeared by plainclothes ICE terrorists outside her home - no charges, no warning, no accountability. Her only offense was supporting Palestine via Op-Ed. This is political erasure through state violence. USians, you are living under authoritarian rule! #3E

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Anita Chan @anitachan.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Three cheers to @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social for reporting the Signal War Plan leak. Today of all days is 1 to SUPPORT #responsibleJournalism, as NPR & PBS are being accused of a “communist agenda” and as the integrity of Goldberg and The Atlantic are under attack. www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...

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WATCH LIVE: NPR, PBS heads answer lawmakers' allegations of bias

The CEOs of the largest U.S. public broadcasting networks are appearing before a House subcommittee chaired by Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene.