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Sarah Abel

@drsarahabel.bsky.social
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Philosopher and anthropologist of science, works on racism and sexism in genomics/visual culture/AI. She/her. www.filosoficas.unam.mx/sitio/sarah…

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Vivette García Deister @vivavivette.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
HOY hablará @drsarahabel.bsky.social en el Coloquio de Tutoras del Posgrado en Filosofía de la Ciencia sobre “Ideología objetivista e imaginarios raciales en las tecnologías visuales de inteligencia artificial”.📸 🕓No se lo pierdan a las 16 h. filosofiadelaciencia.posgrado.unam.mx/coloquio-de-...
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Revista Común @revistacomun.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Necesitamos imaginar que un futuro dominado por IA generativas no es inevitable. Imaginar futuros sin tecnofacismos, sin la amenaza inminente del colapso societal. @drsarahabel.bsky.social en la segunda entrega sobre #tecnopolítica e #InteligenciaArtificial. revistacomun.com/blog/tecnopo...
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Tecnopolítica de la IA: inteligencia, ignorancia e imaginación (II)
¿Cuál es el verdadero costo ambiental y humano de la IA generativa?
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Revista Común @revistacomun.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Hoy día no se puede hablar de la IA sin hablar de tecnopolítica. Digo “hoy día”, aunque en realidad el concepto de #inteligenciaartificial ha sido político desde sus inicios. En #Perspectivas, @drsarahabel.bsky.social en su primera entrega sobre #tecnopolítica. revistacomun.com/blog/tecnopo...
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Tecnopolítica de la IA: inteligencia, ignorancia e imaginación
Sobre cómo los imaginarios eugenésicos de los líderes tecnológicos impulsan una carrera de armas, cuyo fin es crear una “superinteligencia” artificial.
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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
This was really wild because writing this article (which explained how female lions are in charge of the pride) really revealed to me how common it is for men to make male lions their entire personality and definition of manhood. I was dogpiled, brigaded, and attacked for WEEKS.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 15/07/2025
🆕🚨 New statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance published today will: - Restrict schools from using materials that "encourage pupils to question their gender" - Teaches children the laws about "biological sex" - Removes all references to the word transgender What we know so far 🧵
Logo of the Department of Education. Title: Relationships Education, Relationships and Sex Education (RSE) and Health Education. Subtitle: Statutory guidance for governing bodies, proprietors, head teachers, principals, senior leadership teams, and teachers. Dated July 2025
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The Conversation ES @es.theconversation.com · 27/06/2025
🗣️ #Entrevista a la filósofa @carissaveliz.bsky.social‬: "No debemos caer en el error de poner toda la responsabilidad sobre los hombros de los individuos". 
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Carissa Véliz, filósofa: “Muchos adolescentes ni siquiera alcanzan a imaginar cómo es vivir con privacidad”
La profesora hispano-mexicana-británica de filosofía y ética, especialista en los dilemas éticos que plantea la economía de datos, confía en los más jóvenes para crear tecnologías más respetuosas y éticas que hagan del mundo un lugar mejor.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/06/2025
Again I stand by what I said. "I can't believe I even have to talk about these people. That's how ridiculous it s." www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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What You've Suspected Is True: Billionaires Are Not Like Us
Why Elon Musk and other tech billionaires have a different perspective
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Sarah Abel @drsarahabel.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
A great new series by @datasociety.bsky.social and @techpolicypress.bsky.social cutting through the bullshit of #AI hype and its implications for #democracy and #governance in the #US
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Peter Jukes @peterjukes.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
The awesome @carolecadwalla.bsky.social warning Americans of the techno authoritarian state being built by Trump and his tech broligarchs youtu.be/vG7CvbccdVM?...
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Carole Cadwalladr - Broligarchs, AI, and a Techno-Authoritarian Surveillance State | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 31/01/2025
In light of this deeply illegal activity at NSF and the ongoing attack on American science, I'm posting the slides from my 2017 talk at the American Physical Society about the Nazi take over of German physics/why German is no longer science's lingua franca 🧪 🧵 1/26 drive.google.com/file/d/1_MCm...
nazi germany & physics
Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, PhD
Department of  Physics,University of Washington, Seattle
APS April Meeting, January 2017
Dismantling the (Nazi) German Nuclear Reactor (Pile) at Haigerloch, 50 km SW of Stuttgart, in April 1945
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 30/05/2025
"CBP swabbed the cheeks of between 829,000 and 2.8 million people...that number includes as many as 133,539 children and teenagers. These figures mark a sweeping expansion of biometric surveillance—one that explicitly targets migrant populations, including children." www.wired.com/story/cbp-dn...
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The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database
Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
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WIRED @wired.com · 29/05/2025
NEW: The US government has collected DNA samples from 133,000+ migrant children and teenagers and uploaded them into CODIS, a national criminal database originally built for convicted sex offenders and violent criminals, according to documents reviewed by WIRED.
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The US Is Storing Migrant Children’s DNA in a Criminal Database
Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.
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Sarah Abel @drsarahabel.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
🌟📖🧐 Last week @johnbenjamins.bsky.social published A Comparative Literary History of Modern #Slavery Vol. II: Slavery, #Memory, and Literature, inc. my chapter with Gísli Pálsson, "Bio-graphies in the Broad Sense: Narrating the Lives and #Genomes of the Enslaved" www.benjamins.com/catalog/chle...
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Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society @tapuya.org · 16/05/2025
🗞️ [NEWS] Meet Sarah Abel (IIFs, UNAM), author of “Permanent Markers”, and learn about her current research on digital sciences & generative AI from Latin American, racial and gender perspectives.🕵️‍♀️ More STS community information at tapuya.org/news/ 👈 @drsarahabel.bsky.social #STS
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Nature @nature.com · 24/04/2025
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics go.nature.com/4jGqiUc
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Eugenics is on the rise again: human geneticists must take a stand
Scientists must push back against the threat of rising white nationalism and the dangerous and pseudoscientific ideas of eugenics.
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Sarah Abel @drsarahabel.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
“It is as if suddenly no one were able to account for all the inhabitants of Arizona — only to learn they had been shipped off to #ElSalvador ’s Terrorism Confinement Center, or #CECOT in Spanish.” 😦 @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/04/22/t...
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The Long History of Lawlessness in U.S. Policy Toward Latin America
By shipping immigrants to Nayib Bukele’s megaprison in El Salvador, Trump is drawing on a deep history of U.S. involvement in Latin America.
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Flattering nod to “Because of You” here from @milenaivanova.bsky.social — may not sound like praise but definitely is, in context: “The value derived from BECAUSE OF YOU is possible because of the moral flaws of the ingredients it is constructed with.“ link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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AI, art and morality - AI and Ethics
After ‘Théâtre D’opéra Spatial’ won a prize in the Colorado State Fair’s annual art competition in 2022 there was a very strong outcry in the media that this signified the ‘end of art’. Allen himself ...
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Avijit Ghosh @evijit.io · 23/04/2025
It has been a year. And quite a year! The piece continues to be controversial, relevant and educational, and we’re looking for an in-person home for it! 👀
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Sarah Abel @drsarahabel.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
“By rooting misogyny in women’s ‘shared biology’, rather than our shared oppression under #patriarchy, the #SupremeCourt relies on incredibly conservative ideas about gender as a naturalised phenomenon”
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Come from the important and damning reporting. Stay for the revelation that Palantir management refers to their workers as hobbits.
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Sarah Abel @drsarahabel.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
No se pierdan este conversatorio 👇 conversaciones en torno a la traducción de debates sobre "raza" y mestizaje entre México y EEUU, con una presentación del excelente libro Beyond Mestizaje. 21 de abril a las 11am CDMX ceiich.unam.mx/actividades/...
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Photini Vrikki @photini.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
We are currently recruiting for a Lecturer in Technologies in Digital Humanities to join the Department of Information Studies at UCL. Closing date 12th April: www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I told ChatGPT that I wanted to be a philosopher as a kid. And then it said that I was a DEI hire?!?!!?? God, we are fucked.
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Where we have lost hope in institutions, hype declares that AI can do the work of those institutions based on their data. But while AI tools can complete tasks and follow orders, they cannot replace collective decision-making — and must not be allowed to do so, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
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Future Fatigue: How Hype has Replaced Hope in the 21st Century | TechPolicy.Press
To resist AI hype, we must not reassert the fiction that we could “return” to a functional democracy, writes Eryk Salvaggio.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 18/03/2025
at this stage, there's a robust body of work exposing the unreliability and limitations of llms but what will it take for governments, businesses, and other large institutions to rid critical social infrastructure off llms
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Pierrette Squires ACR @museumpierrette.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
This must be someone’s dream job Curator of Living Cultures at Manchester Museum, www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Curator of Living Cultures:Manchester Museum
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Alberto Venegas @albertoxvenegas.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
¿Cómo transforma la IA nuestra cultura visual? 🧵👇
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Vivette García Deister @vivavivette.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Sandra Harding (1935–2025) questioned whose perspectives shape Western science & STS. She pushed for Global South voices, co-founding Tapuya in 2016. Her vision & tenacity live on—she will be deeply missed.
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ángeles @angeleserana.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Este año también habrá taller de filosofía para niñas y niños (además de café filosófico para mamás y papás) en el Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas UNAM 5 de abril La liga de inscripción es esta: forms.gle/TGe63FnJjwMS...
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
NEW: In November, I wrote a Guardian column headlined 'How to Survive the Broligarchy'. Pretty much everything predicted has now come true. What I'm launching today is part handbook, how to protect ourselves? And part manifesto, how to fight back? Please join me. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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How to Survive the Broligarchy
Three months ago, I warned we were entering the age of technoauthoritarianism. It's now here. We can and must fight back.
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Sarah Abel @drsarahabel.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
📣📢‼️ El Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas de la UNAM busca contratar a 3 *investigadoras* con especialidad en: Epistemología Filosofía del lenguaje Filosofía de la mente Lógica y filosofía de la lógica Metafísica Fecha límite: 28 de marzo ‼️📢📣
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 28/01/2025
years have passed and google hasn’t still corrected pronunciation of Māori place names on google maps but the corporation is managing to implement change the on gulf of mexico within days maps are political www.renews.co.nz/why-google-m...
Why can’t Google Maps pronounce Māori words?

The long and the short of it is Google hasn’t built a voice platform to support te reo Māori or Māori pronunciation. And the people in Aotearoa who have started to build this technology haven’t heard from Google. 

The rise and fall of ‘Say It Tika’

In 2017 the ‘Say It Tika’ (Say It Right) campaign by Vodafone and Google was launched. 

It asked New Zealanders to correct Google Maps’ pronunciation of Māori place names across the motu. 

In just two weeks, more than 67,000 corrections were pinned across a digital map of New Zealand. 

The plan was for Google Maps and Vodafone to work with linguists and use this data to correct Google Maps’ pronunciation once and for all. 

The problem? Google never actually had the technology to do this.

Google apologised for dropping their end of the deal, but Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori (Māori Language Commission) chief executive Ngahiwi Apanui says he hasn’t heard from the organisation since.
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
⚫⚪ It's coming...SHADES. ⚪⚫ The first ever resource of multilingual, multicultural, and multigeographical stereotypes, built to support nuanced LLM evaluation and bias mitigation. We have been working on this around the world for almost **4 years** and I am thrilled to share it with you all soon.
Screenshot of 'SHADES: Towards a Multilingual Assessment of Stereotypes in Large Language Models.'
SHADES is in multiple grey colors (shades).
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Google has removed its Responsible AI Principles. This is actually a pretty big deal.
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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
With Google removing their Responsible AI Principles, they no longer state that they will *not* engage in "Technologies whose purpose contravenes widely accepted principles of international law and human rights". Concerns about surveillance and injury are also erased. ai.google/responsibili...
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AI Principles – Google AI - Google AI
A guiding framework for our responsible development and use of AI, alongside transparency and accountability in our AI development process.
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Colleen Morgan @clmorgan.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
I wrote a brief article on the challenge that AI presents to archaeological visualisation. Check it out here: theconversation.com/how-ai-image... Though I have done a lot of scicomm, it was the first time I'd written for The Conversation. 🏺 +
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How AI imagery could be used to develop fake archaeology
Even before the use of AI, it was widely accepted within archaeology that visualisations of the past are highly fraught and should be treated with caution.
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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 02/02/2025
Weekend #longreads: The global struggle over how to regulate AI restofworld.org/2025/global-...
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Vivette García Deister @vivavivette.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
The authors explore how algorithms shape experiences of truth in Costa Rica, analyzing "factishes"—data, affect, and mysticism—through ethnographic stories and a novel "ventriloquist" approach.🤖 Read now at 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/2572... #Algorithms #facts @tapuya.org #OpenAccess
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
AIxDesign is hosting a “Slow AI” festival in Amsterdam and May and they’re kickstarting the funds to live stream it! If you can spare some Euros you can get in on the livestream! www.kickstarter.com/projects/aix...
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LIVESTREAMing the AIxDESIGN Festival
Help us livestream the AIxDESIGN Festival: On Slow AI around the world 🌍 🌏 🌎
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Walter Lippold @lippold.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Saiu nosso Dossiê Colonialismo Digital, na Revista Convergência Crítica. Peço ampla divulgação. periodicos.uff.br/convergencia...
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
So it doesn’t matter if you're a company in the US, China, or elsewhere. DeepSeek should be a cue to pivot HARD toward investing in far more efficient methods of AI development. Even if you care nothing about community & climate impacts, it’s just better business. 19/
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Sarah Abel @drsarahabel.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
The “Gulf of America” gambit sounds petty. But since a lot of Mexico’s oil reserves are there this could be a bid to expropriate a neighbouring country’s natural resources. In which case, things are likely to get ugly…
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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
🧪 Yet another awful AI image in science reporting, used presumably because it's free. @phys.org.web.brid.gy & @sciencex.bsky.social editorial standards focus on factual, credible, reputable sources & checking. That MUST extend to images, or risk misleading their readers. sciencex.com/help/editori...
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Science X Network :: Phys.org, Medical Xpress, Tech Xplore
Science X network: Science X is a network of high quality websites with most complete and comprehensive daily coverage of the full sweep of science, technology, and medicine news
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Em @dioxazinepurple.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
There is so much to unravel. @carolecadwalla.bsky.social knows her stuff. If you want to learn more about who’s involved in the broligarchy, this is a good primer. And don’t miss the part about Peter Thiel. “Sieg heil Tesla” open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
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Sieg heil Tesla
Yes, you did see what you think you saw. Here's an idea, let's call a Nazi salute a Nazi salute.
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 23/01/2025
🏳️‍⚧️ Paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives! Writer? Illustrator? Audio producer? Trans+!? This is for you. With @transhistoryweek.bsky.social we're investing in 20 Trans+ creatives to create official content for Trans+ History Week Deadline 16th Feb 2025, 11:59PM GMT 🧵 The details 👇
Trans+ History Week
05-11 May 2025

Paid opportunities for Trans+ creatives
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Sarah Abel @drsarahabel.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Fantastic paper on political critique of/through AI generated art!
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Tarcizio Silva @tarciziosilva.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Lançamos hoje o livro Inteligência Artificial Generativa: discriminação e impactos sociais, um trabalho coletivo com o objetivo de apresentar ideias, reflexões, dados e evidências sobre o tema. Disponível em acesso aberto desvelar.org/inteligencia...
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Ruha Benjamin @ruha9.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
My latest on “The New Artificial Intelligentsia,” part of the Legacies of Eugenics series in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Thanks to all who read + share! lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-...
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The New Artificial Intelligentsia | Los Angeles Review of Books
In the fifth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Ruha Benjamin explores how AI evangelists wrap their self-interest in a cloak of humanistic concern.
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💉Josh Rubin, MD @drsandman11.medsky.social · 21/01/2025
So now we are all legally female
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