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Annie Dorsen

@anniedorsen.bsky.social
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Director/writer. Maker of algorithmic theater. #MacFellow. And unexpectedly, a lawyer. anniedorsen.com

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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Music - dance - theater people in the US! There is one more day to share your experiences with AI in the "Impacts of AI in the Performing Arts" survey. 👇
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Gino experiencing the NYC nightlife
Nighttime shot of small orange terrier looking up at the camera, with some red light landing on his face, disco style.
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
YES! We are extremely very very interested in hearing from technicians, engineers, backstage crew, designers, and all!
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Music/dance/theater people: there is *one week* left to add your voice to the Impact of AI on the Performing Arts survey.
survey.alchemer.com
GenAI Usage in the Performing Arts
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onekade @onekade.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
What if I told you AI was being used to kill people right now? arstechnica.com/health/2023/...
arstechnica.com
UnitedHealth uses AI model with 90% error rate to deny care, lawsuit alleges
For the largest health insurer in the US, AI's error rate is like a feature, not a bug.
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
👁️ 👁️ Performers, choreographers, playwrights, musicians, designers, technicians! Lend me your eyeballs! 👁️ 👁️ There are only two weeks left to take the *Impacts of AI on the Performing Arts Survey*! Read all about it in the link below, take the survey, and please SHARE WIDELY with your colleagues.
survey.alchemer.com
GenAI Usage in the Performing Arts
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Why does this person look like a Disneyland animatronic?
photo of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent from today's NY Times. He is wearing so much contour makeup that he looks like he is made of styrofoam.
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
yes
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 10/09/2026
A new Medicare program uses AI to evaluate prior authorization requests. New records obtained by EFF show that this program has resulted in widespread delays and denials of care, operational chaos, and reports of patients waiting in pain. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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New Records Reveal Problems with Medicare’s AI Prior Authorization
EFF sued the government for information a new Medicare program that uses AI to evaluate prior authorization requests for certain medical services. Today, we’re releasing approximately 1,000 pages of
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Listen up, anti-AI artists 👇 - this is the truth.
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I would like to watch a Netflix-y drama series about pet lawyers. Or a reality show about pet lawyers. Get on it, someone. (Please and thank you.)
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 07/08/2026
Curators Anna Kornbluh and David Maruzzella are inviting Chicago-based artists to ask what political art can do now. Their Fall of Freedom exhibition will be held Oct. 2–4 at the In These Times offices in Chicago. Proposals due Aug. 10: interccect@gmail.com
allyoufascistsboundtolose.com
Art In These Times – Fall of Freedom — In These Times Events
Authoritarian assaults on free thinking, fellow feeling, and creative making call for artists to unite in defiance. The 2nd annual Fall of Freedom festival convokes us to assemble, to curate,…
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
cool goose on 9th st
A cool goose walking along on 9th st brooklyn. Behind them is a wall with striking blue graffiti on it.
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Finally started reading The Perfect Moment by @isaacbutler.bsky.social and the introduction is so good I had to stop to say so.
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Duchamp would not approve of this wannabe Surkov piece of shit
nytimes.com
The Artist Matthew Taylor Is Helping Trump Reshape Washington
Matthew Taylor, a conceptual artist and political strategist, made influential ads and documentaries produced by Steve Bannon. Now he’s assisting the White House.
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 20/07/2026
Hey, NYC! If you wanna keep "A.i." out of the public schools, please come to the @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social rally in Chelsea on 7/29! I'll see ya there! actionnetwork.org/events/ai-ou...
actionnetwork.org
AI Out of Schools PEP Rally
Join the AIM Coalition for a brief rally outside and testimony inside at the July PEP (Panel for Educational Policy) meeting to demand a FULL moratorium on AI in NYC Schools.
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Amazing @siffertforny.bsky.social !! this is the best news
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
this is so good
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ceej @ceej.online · 12/07/2026
No statement from Mitch McConnell on the sudden passing of his senate colleague? So much for decorum
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Monday at 7 we are screening the the excellent doc Ghost in the Machine by @valerieveatch.bsky.social at @bambrooklyn.bsky.social. Truly a not to be missed film.
bam.org
Ghost in the Machine
This visceral documentary unearths the buried history of artificial intelligence.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 06/07/2026
Deadline extended! Join EFF and the Queer Arts Collective in building a creative space at the intersection of digital justice and artistic expression. We're looking for works that convey the importance of digital liberation and ways of achieving it. Submit by July 10! www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Call for Submissions: Digital Pride
This Pride season, join EFF and the Queer Arts Collective in building a creative space at the intersection of digital justice and artistic expression. We’re looking for fresh, untold, historically
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Corey @coreysoper.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Trumpsky rejects the Stalinist paradigm of "socialism in one country"; embraces internationalist strategy of permanent revolution ✊️🚩
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Christ on a cracker. @isaacbutler.bsky.social have you seen this.
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I love our mayor
hyperallergic.com
NYC Mayor Mamdani Approves Record $323M Funding for Culture
The overall city budget also establishes a "Cultural Stability Fund" for struggling arts organizations.
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
For any Yalies who might see this, please join me in signing on to Stand Up for Yale's campaign. They're doing more than a petition but there's also a petition. Tell Yale: Don’t cave to Trump Administration demands.
actionnetwork.org
Tell Yale: Don’t cave to Trump Administration demands
On Friday, the New York Times broke the news that Yale is in the midst of settlement negotiations with the Trump administration over an investigation into its admissions policies at the college, law s...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 25/06/2026
John Roberts' Constitution forbids any attempt to proactively ameliorate racial discrimination and racial inequality, but permits open racial discrimination as long as there is a facially neutral explanation available, even if it isn't remotely plausible. This, my friends, is "Colorblindness."
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Matt @differentmatt.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
I mean, look, in fairness to the AI industry, if you set aside the part where they eventually start charging for this stuff, and the disruption to the internal staffing of companies that use it that happens in the meantime, and the environmental consequences of needing massive new electricity /1
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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 23/06/2026
Holy mackerel this is insane. LLMs have a strong bias toward *their own* 'writing' to real writing in sorting tasks. iow human submissions automatically drop to the bottom in LLM sorting tasks. Resumes examined here with jaw-dropping results arxiv.org/pdf/2509.00462
Methodology/results: We examine this question in the context of algorithmic hiring, a high-volume screening process central to workplace operations. In this setting, job applicants increasingly rely on LLMs to refine resumes, while employers deploy similar tools to screen those same materials. Using a large-scale controlled resume correspondence experiment, we find that LLMs consistently prefer resumes generated by themselves over those written by humans or produced by alternative models, even when content quality is controlled. The bias against human-written resumes is particularly substantial, with self-preference bias ranging from 67% to 82% across major commercial and open-source models. Managerial implications: To quantify the operational impact of self-preference bias, we simulate realistic hiring pipelines across 24 occupations. These simulations show that candidates using the same LLM as the evaluator are 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted than equally qualified applicants submitting human-written resumes, with the largest disadvantages observed in business-related fields such as sales and accounting. We further demonstrate that, in many cases, this bias can be reduced by more than 50% through simple interventions that target LLMs’ self-recognition capabilities. These findings highlight an emerging but previously overlooked risk in AI-assisted decision making and call for expanded frameworks of AI fairness in business operations that address biases from AI-AI interactions.
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Maladroithe @maladroithe.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Behold, the future
reuters.com
Judge rules both sides in lawsuit misused AI, disqualifies lawyers
A federal judge in Mississippi has disqualified the attorneys on both sides of a contract dispute after finding that their failure to verify AI-generated research led to fabricated ​legal citations in...
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Andy Sellars @sellars.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
It was a pleasure to work with fellow amici @pw.org, @electricliterature.com, @anniedorsen.bsky.social, @authorsguild.org, and @dramatistsguild.bsky.social to share how artists and organizations who were harmed by the NEA's viewpoint discrimination. You can read the brief at the link above.
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Another super important thread for arts and culture workers
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
This thread
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Here is a truly helpful piece of writing from @genevievelakier.bsky.social.
knightcolumbia.org
Realigning Incentives in the Democratic Public Sphere
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
It is completely insane to me that people use these things.
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Is there anyone over at openAI even considering that they might be the bad guys?
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
AI companies are writing their own constitutions. Meanwhile, a shared vocabulary for contesting algorithmic power has been traveling across red and blue states, from legislatures to civil society. New from me in @science.org: "A Civic Grammar for AI Rights" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵
science.org
A civic grammar for AI rights
Earlier this year, the artificial intelligence (AI) company Anthropic, developer of the large language model Claude, published a document it calls “Claude’s Constitution,” described by the company as ...
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unforth | Claire Houck | Duck Prints Press @duckprintspress.com · 13/05/2026
HEY! FELLOW NEW YORKERS! You an author? Your book been banned? Has it been banned somewhere in New York State? Please do this survey to help Authors Against Book Bans et al gather data on the extent of book ban issues in our state: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... everyone else: please boost
docs.google.com
Survey of New York Author experiences with censorship and book bans
This survey is being conducted by NY Authors Against Book Bans in conjunction with the New York Right to Read Coalition, including the New York Civil Liberties Union, Penguin Random House, PEN America...
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Tom Usher @tomusher.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Wish there was a mode of politics in this country that wasn’t “slow and easily preventable car crash you can see is going to happen from miles away but can do nothing to stop”
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
really good piece
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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 15/04/2026
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
At the AI For the Public Good conference at UNC. Currently speaking: Chief Economist for OpenAI and Head of Geopolitics for Anthropic. The mere existence of these positions feels like a pretty good argument for nationalization. (AGI mention count: 2 so far.)
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
"The first audience for your art is becoming a machine." I suspect this phenomenon is way under the radar for most artists/institutions I know...from Douglas McLennan today. (Don't think I see the great opportunities here that he does. But I always support looking for them.)
artsjournal.com
From Messages to Conversations: AI Agents are Changing how we Find Culture
The first audience for your art is becoming a machine. The question isn’t just how to optimize for that machine, it’s what you give it to say, and whether what it says is worth a conver…
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
The corruption here is staggering. Stunning to read it all in one place.
nytimes.com
‘It’s a Culture Now of Fear’: A Year of Chaos Inside the Justice Department
Sixty former staffers describe an environment of suspicion and intimidation within the nation’s most powerful law enforcement agency.
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 22/03/2026
This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 17/03/2026
AI systems are now making decisions about you — who gets hired, whose content gets removed, whose voice gets heard. My new paper finds something concerning: LLMs infer your ethnic identity from subtle textual cues… … and use it to discriminate against you. 🧵 1/
arxiv.org
Large Language Models Reproduce Racial Stereotypes When Used for Text Annotation
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for automated text annotation in tasks ranging from academic research to content moderation and hiring. Across 19 LLMs and two experiments totaling m...
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Annie Dorsen @anniedorsen.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
perfection
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