Reposted by Eve Fleisig @ FAccT 2026Alison Gopnik @alisongopnik.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Thanks, but actually my favorite line didn't make it to the piece. Does Odysseus feel guilty about the Trojan war? Lots of discourse on this question even though he doesn't exist! Is he conscious? AI agents are fictive characters abstracted from text - like Odysseus. 28918
Reposted by Eve Fleisig @ FAccT 2026Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 19/08/2026In a keynote at Sociolinguistics and AI Conference, Prof. Rodney Jones analyzes discourses about “consciousness” and the “great awakening of AI” and explains ideologies of prompts as incantations. This is technoanimism, and it’s more evidence that people are orienting towards “AI” as religion. 25314
Eve Fleisig @ FAccT 2026 @efleisig.bsky.social · 11/07/2026Congrats, a great paper and so well deserved!! 030
Reposted by Eve Fleisig @ FAccT 2026M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Joseph Weizenbaum's 1976 book, Computer Power and Human Reason, has long been out of print - used copies sell for hundreds of dollars. It's wild that this is not more widely available given how much his ideas still apply to the world we're in now. 🧵/ 15349123
Reposted by Eve Fleisig @ FAccT 2026Lauren Chambers @laurenmarietta.bsky.social · 26/06/2026“This is the ghost at the center of our field: we keep being right, but wrong keeps winning. Being right is not the same as being enough.” #FAccT2026 0114
Eve Fleisig @ FAccT 2026 @efleisig.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Genevieve Smith and I are presenting on “Standard Language Ideology in AI-Generated Language” today at 10:45 in Ballroom East! 000
Eve Fleisig @ FAccT 2026 @efleisig.bsky.social · 25/06/2026🇨🇦I’ll be at #FAccT2026! If you're interested in... - Societal impacts of LLMs - Improving validity of NLP evaluations - Preference learning when users disagree - Effects of personalized models - Preserving users' agency + skills in human-AI interaction ...let's chat, DMs open! 010
Reposted by Eve Fleisig @ FAccT 2026Prof. Nicole Holliday @mixedlinguist.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Check out this thread about some recent research by brilliant Berkeley students on how listeners attribute social identities to synthesized voices! Full paper: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...degruyterbrill.com 1228
Eve Fleisig @ FAccT 2026 @efleisig.bsky.social · 17/06/2026Remember the backlash against all AI voices being feminine—Siri, Alexa, etc.? Now, companies use a wider range of AI voices with ambiguous names like “alloy” and “shimmer.” Bias solved forever—ha, no. What happens when people hear these supposedly neutral voices?👇 1105
Reposted by Eve Fleisig @ FAccT 2026Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social · 17/06/2026@author-calnewport.bsky.social does a fantastic job writing about AI, and this one is his best yet. Gift link in quoted post. 0217