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Bailey 🕸️🕷️🦇

@bkacsmar.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta. Amii Fellow. Human-centered privacy enhanced data science e.g., ML, MPC, PSI, etc. My group is PUPS, Practical Usable Privacy and Security bkacsmar.github.io

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Complex software behaving in unexpected and sometimes harmful ways has been a persistent problem since software was invented. The phenomenon used to be called “bugs” or “defects”, but I guess “going rogue” sounds cooler. It also implicitly frames “rogue” behavior as some kind of inexplicable […]
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
If you aren’t swayed by the idea that an AI system can cause harm, just consider that *a human can ask it to do things*.
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Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning @satml.org · 21/08/2026
Reminder: #SaTML2027 has a Call for Competitions and Workshops! Both are due one week from today (August 28). Please submit your proposals and join us in beautiful Reykjavik! satml.org/call-for-com... satml.org/call-for-wor...
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Wentao Guo @wentaoguo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I'm recruiting grad students to start at the University of Georgia in Fall '27! Open to many research directions, primarily in human-centered security and privacy. For more: wentaoguo.com I'm at #PETS2026 through Thursday this week and would love to chat. Please reach out / share with your network!
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Wentao Guo
Wentao Guo is a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Maryland (UMD). He researches human-centered security and privacy and is interested unlocking the power of professionals to protect...
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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 23/07/2026
Cheers from Calgary, where I am for #PETS2026! The general chairs have done a phenomenal job, you can see here they have "pets" (weighted helium balloons) you can adopt and take for a walk.
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Conference on Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning @satml.org · 29/06/2026
We're pleased to announce that #SaTML2027 will be in Reykjavik, Iceland! Thanks to General Chair Giovanni Apruzzese for making the arrangements. The conference will be in early May 2027. Get your submissions ready: the deadline will be September 29, 2026. Details on the new website: satml.org
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Zeerak Talat زیرک طلعت (they/them) @zeerak.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Call for papers for special issue on Ethics in NLP in the journal Computational Linguistics. Discussions around ethics in #NLP and #ComputationalLinguistics is often limited by the expectations for what should be published in *CL conferences. Link to call: www.aclweb.org/portal/conte...
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Bailey 🕸️🕷️🦇 @bkacsmar.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
@pet-symposium.bsky.social
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Bailey 🕸️🕷️🦇 @bkacsmar.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Hi Folks!!! Excited to soon see so many of you in Calgary for PETS 2026!! For those still looking to take advantage of the early registration rate, do so by July 19th! But don't worry you can still register later for a great week of research, mountains, and more!! petsymposium.org/2026/registr...
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blair @blairaf.com · 25/05/2026
I was recently appointed as a Canada CIFAR AI Chair which is kinda the biggest award for AI researchers in Canada so that's exciting! cifar.ca/bios/blair-a...
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Blair Attard-Frost - CIFAR
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
I've been annoyed by this for many years now, and even inquired about it when I was chairing an ACM conference and putting together the registration site and was told it can't be changed. WHY DOES THIS SAY OPT IN AND NOT OPT OUT
Postal Mail Opt-In: ACM occasionally makes its conference attendee lists available to companies and other societies for IT related mailings. Please check the box below if you do not wish to share your mailing information. 

Please do not release my postal address to third parties
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"Are you AI literate?" If you understand how AI works on a technical level: Do you understand the consequences behind those choices and limitations? If you recognize the consequences: Do you understand WHY those things happen based on how the technology works?
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Oliver Haimson @haimson.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
This morning at #CHI2026, @hibbythach.com will be presenting our paper "The Burden of Bearing Witness: Digital Practices of Marginalized Social Media Users in High-Stakes Contexts," led by Senami Kojah and co-authored with @michaelannephd.bsky.social. paper link: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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The Burden of Bearing Witness: Digital Practices of Marginalized Social Media Users in High-Stakes Contexts | Proceedings of the 2026 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
When people ask me about "AI" policy, I like to point out that there is policy being made at many different levels and even if our national government is currently a shitshow, local action really matters, like zoning against data centers and "AI" policy in schools.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
"The term “AI” resists definition because it is continually reappropriated by people to mean different things. This, in turn, means that discussions of AI that do not provide working definitions for the purposes at hand risk incoherence. [...]" >>
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The rehabilitation of the luddites is a beautiful thing
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PET Symposium @pet-symposium.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
🚨 Registration is now open for PETS 2026 in Calgary! The 26th Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium (PETS 2026) will take place in Calgary, Canada, from July 20–25, 2026. Join the community and be part of the conversation about PETS. 🔗 Get your spot: petsymposium.org/2026/registr...
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Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium 2026
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Alexandra Olteanu @aolteanu.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The deadline for the 2026 FAccT DC is next Tuesday, February 24! If you are a student working on topics relevant to the FAccT's scope, this is an opportunity to interact with a diverse set of peers and mentors! #facct2026 #facct26 #facct Details here: facctconference.org/2026/callfor...
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ACM FAccT 2026 Doctoral Colloquium Call for Applications
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blair @blairaf.com · 07/01/2026
Canada's federal gov has a new program to bring researchers to Canada & my uni is starting an internal nomination process for chairs. If you are a full or associate prof working on AI/democracy/community engagement/environmental justice and you may be interested in moving to Canada, dm me
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
As a person who does believe capable AI risks are real, it’s frustrating to see the community not exactly behaving responsibly. If you can’t find it in yourself to say or do something about a literal, present, AI harm (Grok being used for abuse) what is the point of you
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blair @blairaf.com · 29/12/2025
Didn't share this short essay on genAI & the erosion of reality when it was published earlier this year, but it introduces some concepts like intangible/ontological harm that I want to revisit in 2026 Full article here as part of a fantastic collection: libraopen.lib.virginia.edu/downloads/cc...
Excerpt from an article entitled AI Regulation in a Post-Reality World
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Bailey 🕸️🕷️🦇 @bkacsmar.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Networking & Cyber Security position: iaejup.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Theory position: iaejup.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Robotics, Computer Vision and Graphics position: iaejup.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Tenure-Track Position in Networking & Cyber Security
This position is part of the Association of the Academic Staff of the University of Alberta (AASUA). The successful candidate will be offered a tenured or tenure-track appointment with the rank of Ass...
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Bailey 🕸️🕷️🦇 @bkacsmar.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
We are hiring!! University of Alberta in Canada has three faculty positions open this cycle: one in network security, one in theory, and one in robotics/computer vision/graphics. Deadline: January 12, 2026 Happy to answer any questions about UofA or Canada academia!! Please share!! 😁
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Neil Stenhouse @nstenhouse.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people," Westwood said in a press release. "With survey data tainted by bots, AI can poison the entire knowledge ecosystem.” www.404media.co/a-researcher...
According to the paper, the AI agent evaded detection 99.8 percent of the time.

"We can no longer trust that survey responses are coming from real people," Westwood said in a press release. "With survey data tainted by bots, AI can poison the entire knowledge ecosystem.”

Survey research relies on attention check questions (ACQs), behavioral flags, and response pattern analysis to detect inattentive humans or automated bots. Westwood said these methods are now obsolete after his AI agent bypassed the full range of standard ACQs and other detection methods outlined in prominent papers, including one paper designed to detect AI responses. The AI agent also successfully avoided “reverse shibboleth” questions designed to detect nonhuman actors by presenting tasks that an LLM could complete easily, but are nearly impossible for a human.
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Miti Mazmudar @dettanym.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
As I settle in to Calgary, I am looking to hire one MSc and one PhD student to start in Fall 2026. These positions are fully-funded. My research is at the intersection of privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) and software engineering, with an emphasis on human-centered approaches. [1/6]
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 29/10/2025
Hell yeah
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
If anyone at CSCW is doing or knows about work studying how athletes are dealing with online security/harassment issues or how sports (like the WNBA) become focal points for clickbait, AI slop, or political propaganda… come find me, I want to chat!
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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 20/10/2025
Loving this approach to AI safety youtu.be/c4aEj41Q7Q0 You, too, can beg for a place in the bunker! replacement.ai/safety/
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Don’t do anything silly with our AIs
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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 20/10/2025
Announcing (w @adamsmith.xyz @thejonullman.bsky.social) the 2025 edition of the Foundations of Responsible Computing Job Market Profiles! Check out 40 job market candidates in mathematical research in computation and society writ large! Link: drive.google.com/file/d/1zvsr...
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Gautam Kamath @gautamkamath.com · 14/10/2025
TMLR is looking for additional reviewers and action editors! Please sign up to keep the initiative strong and vibrant.
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Gabriela Femenia @gfemenia.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
This is the advice I consistently give people about trying AI: use something you know very well already, so you can actually determine the quality of the output for yourself, and get some idea of how the sausage is being made
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 29/09/2025
this is not gonna go down well www.reuters.com/technology/o...
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OpenAI's new Sora video generator to require copyright holders to opt out, WSJ reports
OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora generator that creates videos featuring copyrighted material, unless right holders opt out of having their work appear, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.
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May Likes Toronto @maylikestoronto.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Yeah. They found much higher rates of diabetes in the descendants of residential school survivors in Canada. CW: very dark history & systemic starving of Indigenous children. www.cbc.ca/radio/unrese...
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The dark history of Canada's Food Guide: How experiments on Indigenous children shaped nutrition policy | CBC Radio
Nutritional experiments were performed on intentionally malnourished Indigenous children in residential schools in the 1940s and ’50s. These experiments are directly connected to Canada’s Food Guide, ...
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Armine Yalnizyan @armineyalnizyan.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
2. Dr. @danyaalraza.com recently warned that the growth in private for-profit primary care clinics is a slippery slope that includes the potential to monetize your health and Rx data with big pharmaceutical companies. www.pressreader.com/canada/toron...
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
floating a thought for feedback: if the liar's dividend is the benefit bad actors can receive from a world in which there is so much doubt about what is real and what isn't, I was thinking about "the librarian's dividend" re: the value of the people and institutions who help us evaluate information
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I think I am wonderful person, who is never inherently malicious , and should always be thought of wonderfully AND If you designed a system around that being true I would cuss you out because if I am those things ? I want you to be protected if I’m NOT
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Bailey 🕸️🕷️🦇 @bkacsmar.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
This is too real right now
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Evan Peck @peck.phd · 18/09/2025
Given funding uncertainty, we wrote about why depts & faculty should try to communicate openly with PhD applicants about any changes to their admissions processes, including if it's "nothing has changed". Let's do what we can (when we can) to prevent cascading anxiety. cra.org/crn/2025/09/...
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Guiding PhD Applicants with Clear Communication: CRA-E Calls for Openness in Computing Admissions
By Evan Peck, Associate Professor, University of Colorado, Boulder, CRA-E Board Member; Michael Hilton, Teaching Professor, Institute for Software Research, Carnegie Mellon University, CRA-E Co-Cha…
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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Why do you constantly act like the only danger is them willingly turning it over ? Oh right because you need the straw man argument to be condescending And live the idea of avoiding - social engineering - malicious hacking - long term observation - general human error
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Jon Ullman @thejonullman.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
📢Adam Smith, @gautamkamath.com, and I are putting together a list of job market candidates in Foundations of Responsible Computing! Last year's list was a great success so we're keeping it going! If you want to be included, or nominate someone, see link in the replies!
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Melanie Walsh @mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Job alert! 🌸🏔️ The UW iSchool is hiring for *two* TT faculty positions, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence, broadly defined. It's pretty here! Applications due November 15th 2025 (priority deadline). Link: apply.interfolio.com/171020
Aerial photo of UW campus with Mt. Rainier in the background
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Oh and coincidentally, huge all-purpose models also have more environmental impact than smaller models. (Was thinking of @sashamtl.bsky.social's work but here's a recent overview of this topic: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/c...)
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Can You Choose an A.I. Model That Harms the Planet Less?
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Dr. Casey Fiesler @cfiesler.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
Having seen much of the discourse around the new ChatGPT release, I think that a huge part of the problem is the idea that big commercial LLMs should be all-purpose. It is absolutely absurd that the exact same technology would be used as a companion chatbot AND as an enterprise productivity tool.
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blair @blairaf.com · 05/08/2025
My dissertation is now available online! The diss applies trans and feminist theory to analyze structural injustices in 3 of my empirical studies of AI governance & policymaking. Give it a look if you're concerned about power dynamics in AI policy www.proquest.com/docview/3234...
Abstract page from a dissertation by me entitled "The Impacts and Governance of Artificial Intelligence: A Transfeminist Perspective." The excerpted abstract reads: "This thesis investigates the impacts and governance of artificial intelligence (AI) systems
through a transfeminist lens, focusing analysis upon challenges of power, exclusion, and
injustice alongside opportunities for advancing equity, community-based resistance, and
transformative change. AI governance is a field of research and practice seeking to maximize
benefits and minimize harms caused by AI systems. However, AI governance is frequently
ineffective at preventing AI systems from causing harm to society and the environment, with
historically marginalized groups being particularly vulnerable to harm. Applying a framework of
theories drawn from service science, feminist studies, and trans studies, I analyze relationships
between AI governance and harm prevention in three separate co-authored, peer-reviewed
articles. The first article develops a theory linking beneficial and harmful impacts caused by AI
systems to the value chains through which various actors integrate resources and co-create value
throughout the AI system lifecycle. This theory is applied to an integrative review of ethical
concerns implicated in AI systems and to discuss future directions for intervening in the impacts
caused by AI systems. The second article presents a semi-systematic review and content analysis
of 84 AI governance initiatives launched by federal and provincial governments in Canada from
2017 to 2022. AI governance initiatives are used to organize many types of interventions, and
Canada’s initiatives favor intervention in the impacts of AI on Canadian industry, innovation,"
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Miranda Wei @mirandawei.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Gender, Online Safety, and Sexuality (GOSS) Workshop is back at SOUPS 2025! Research on GOSS-related topics is more important than ever.
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Eugene Vinitsky 🍒 @eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Was talking to a student who wasn't sure about why one would get a PhD. So I wrote up a list of reasons! www.eugenevinitsky.com/posts/reason...
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Eugene Vinitsky
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Upol Ehsan | hiring PhDs for Fall'27 @upolehsan.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Backstory: “AI in Bangladesh is a side quest,” they dismissed. I disagreed. 170 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗾𝘂𝗲𝘀𝘁. Glad to see Northeastern University spotlighting our work on Majority-World #AI governance and why we must act now" #academicsky #RAI www.khoury.northeastern.edu/the-fight-to...
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The fight to get AI right in Bangladesh, the world’s eighth-most populous country  - Khoury College of Computer Sciences
When Khoury College Assistant Professor Upol Ehsan sat for an AI-focused interview with Channel24, one of the largest TV channels in his native Bangladesh, he did not anticipate what would […]
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