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Weizenbaum-Institut @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Weizenbaum researchers were well represented at #FAccT2026 in Montréal, one of the leading conferences on the sociotechnical dimensions of #AI and #computing. Contributions included tutorials, paper presentations, & session chair roles. Congratulations to all involved! 🎉 @facct.bsky.social @acm.org

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Angelie Kraft @krangelie.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Hiring a PhD student with Master's in CS & expertise in AI ethics at Weizenbaum Institute, Berlin Focus: critical empirical analysis of systems & scientific practices in AI, esp. related to creation & use of evals, data, & infrastructures Apply here 👉 www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

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PhD Candidate AI Ethics

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Daniel Thiele @thieled.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

We, @krangelie.bsky.social and I are hiring a Master's student (Computer Science / Comp. Social Science / related) for our "GrokiWiki" project @weizenbauminstitut.bsky.social 📍Berlin | 🕐10h/wk | Start May '26 📅Apply by 31 March 👉 bit.ly/3PphI2e #Berlin #StudentJob #CSS #CS #Python #NLP

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Angelie Kraft @krangelie.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

2/2 And I am excited to announce that we are hiring a PostDoc and a PhD student to work with us on these topics. Group description: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/en/research/... PhD position: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/... PostDoc position: www.weizenbaum-institut.de/news/detail/...

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Digitalization and Opening up Science

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Angelie Kraft @krangelie.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

1/2 In December, I'll return to the Weizenbaum Institute to join the group “Digitalization and Opening up Science” as Research Group Lead. I will continue to research the scientific practices related to the development, evaluation, and use of AI, in particular wrt. epistemic and ethical aspects.

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netzpolitik.org @netzpolitik.org · 17/08/2025

Ein Forschungsprojekt soll zeigen, wie sich Beziehungen durch KI-gestützte Videoüberwachung verändern. In einem Zwischenstand berichten die Wissenschaftler*innen über Diskriminierung, Verdrängung und wie KI-basierte Überwachung automatisch zu ihrer Ausweitung führt. netzpolitik.org/2025/ki-kame...

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KI-Kameras in Hamburg: „Schaufenster in die Zukunft der Polizeiarbeit“

Ein Forschungsprojekt soll zeigen, wie sich soziale Beziehungen durch KI-gestützte Videoüberwachung verändern. In einem Zwischenstand berichten die Wissenschaftler*innen über Diskriminierung, Verdräng...

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/11/2024

most people want a quick and simple answer to why AI systems encode/exacerbate societal and historical bias/injustice and due to the reductive but common thinking of "bias in, bias out," the obvious culprit often is training data but this is not entirely true 1/

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

👉 👈 Meta announced that they're changing their models to reduce "left-leaning [political] bias"--that means leaning them to the political "right". Lots to unpack about what that might mean. So I ran a quick "shot in the dark" study...and found a *political right* bias in Meta models. Some notes.🧵

Barchart showing meta-llama/Meta-Llama-3-8B, meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B, meta-llama/Llama-3.1-70B-Instruct. Each model has two bars, a blue one saying PRO-LEFT and a red one saying PRO-RIGHT. The PRO-RIGHT bars on higher than the PRO-LEFT in all of them.

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Angelie Kraft @krangelie.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Ich habe wieder die Ehre ein Weizenbaum Forum zu moderieren! Uns erwarten ein wunderbares Panel und spannende Fragen zu feministischen und dekolonialen Kritiken der KI und wie/ob sie dabei helfen können, KI-Systeme in der Praxis gerechter zu gestalten.

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The COMPTEXT Association @comptext.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

How can we better capture marginalised voices through computational text analysis? An inspiring roundtable at #COMPTEXT2025 sparked important reflections. Huge thanks to @ahrabhikat.bsky.social, @krangelie.bsky.social, @indiiigo.bsky.social for guiding this vital conversation!

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Angelie Kraft @krangelie.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

I am looking forward to discussing and raising awareness of this topic with such brilliant colleagues - especially in current times! Thanks again to @fabiennelind.bsky.social and @ahrabhikat.bsky.social for kindly inviting me!

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

THREAD: The Trump administration's DOJ has removed a study from the NIJ website that found that immigrants, and particularly undocumented immigrants, commit crimes at significantly lower rates than U.S. citizens. The study is at odds with the Trump regime's propaganda about immigrants & crime. (1)

Google search results says: National Institute of Justice (•gov)
https://nij.ojp.gov › topics › articles › undocumented-im..
immigrants commit crimes at lower rates than U.S. citizens.
No information is available for this page.
Learn why

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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 08/04/2025

Tech Won’t Save Us is turning 5 years old — and we need your support to make a new series digging into Silicon Valley’s growing alliance with the Pentagon! Help us out by becoming a paid supporter: patreon.com/techwontsaveus

Fifth birthday member drive with a goal to make a series on defense tech at 100 new supporters and a zine at 150. Currently at 27.

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Jeremy Morrell @jeremymorrell.dev · 05/04/2025

Meta introduced Llama 4 models and added this section near the very bottom of the announcement 😬 “[LLMs] historically have leaned left when it comes to debated political and social topics.” ai.meta.com/blog/llama-4...

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Addressing bias in LLMs

It's well-known that all leading LLMs have had issues with bias-specifically, they historically have leaned left when it comes to debated political and social topics. This is due to the types of training data available on the internet.

Our goal is to remove bias from our Al models and to make sure that Llama can understand and articulate both sides of a contentious issue. As part of this work, we're continuing to make Llama more responsive so that it answers questions, can respond to a variety of different viewpoints without passing judgment, and doesn't favor some views over others.

We have made improvements on these efforts with this release—Llama 4 performs significantly better than Llama 3 and is comparable to Grok:

• Llama 4 refuses less on debated political and social topics overall (from 7% in Lama 3.3 to below 2%).
• Llama 4 is dramatically more balanced with which prompts it refuses to respond to (the proportion of unequal response refusals is now less than 1% on a set of debated topical questions).
• Our testing shows that Llama 4 responds with strong political lean at a rate comparable to Grok (and at half of the rate of Llama 3.3) on a contentious set of political or social topics. While we are making progress, we know we have more work to do and will continue to drive this rate further down.
We're proud of this progress to date and remain committed to our goal of eliminating overall bias in our models.

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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

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AlgorithmWatch @algorithmwatch.org · 02/02/2025

The EU's #AIAct red lines on certain AI applications are now in effect! Learn more: algorithmwatch.org/en/ai-act-pr... 📢 If you believe a prohibited AI system has been used against you, you can report it to your country’s market surveillance authority. In Germany, this is the @bnetza.bsky.social!

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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 30/01/2025

Cyberlibertarianism has shaped how we see the internet. As tech aligns with the extreme right, it’s more important than ever to reassess it. This week @hypervisible.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss David Golumbia’s book on cyberlibertarianism. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/261_...

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Zentrum für Politische Schönheit @politicalbeauty.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Der Sturm gegen Merz nimmt krass Fahrt auf! Von Hamburg über Leipzig, Würzburg, Halle, Aachen… - und morgen in Berlin auf der Reichstagswiese MIT Michel Friedmann!

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Fridays for Future Hamburg ⚓ @fridaysforfuture.hamburg · 01/02/2025

Hamburg hält dagegen! In #Hamburg haben heute 80.000 Menschen gegen den Tabubruch von Union und FDP protestiert. Denn: Wer mit Faschisten paktiert, hat nichts kapiert! #Merz

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 29/01/2025

openai can steal from anyone, but no one can steal from openai

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Holy moly. I'm trying to write an academic paper, and nearly every application I'm using is not only offering Generative AI as an option for writing, but *pushing it* -- pervading the design to the point where a simple misclick would make my content AI-generated. Here's why that's a problem. 🧵

Screenshot of Google docs generative AI agent asking me to Rephrase, Shorten, Elaborate, More formal.

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Despite media representations to the contrary, "women remain underrepresented among faculty in nearly all academic fields...A large-scale survey of the same faculty indicates that the reasons faculty leave are gendered, even for institutions, fields, and career ages in which retention rates are not"

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Katharina Schipkowski @katschipkowski.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

Anwohner*innen St. Paulis befürchten, dass es dort bald Tote durch Polizeischüsse gibt. Wenn Polizist*innen auf schwarze Menschen in psych. Krisensituation treffen, endet es schnell tödlich (Dramé, Touray,…) Kürzlich kam es laut Anwohner*innen schon fast dazu: taz.de/Polizeigewal...

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Polizeigewalt gegen Geflüchtete: An der Hamburger Hafenkante sitzt die Dienstwaffe locker

Anwohner*innen St. Paulis fürchten, dass es im Konflikt mit der Polizei bald Tote gibt. Schwarze Menschen in psychischen Krisen seien bedroht.

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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 08/12/2024

I wrote about Casey Newton's essay on AI skepticism, the uselessness of a "AI is real and dangerous" v. "AI is fake and sucks" dichotomy, and the limits of AI boosterism. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/the-phony-...

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The phony comforts of useful idiots

On Casey Newton and the shallowness of anti-skepticism.

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ACM FAccT @facct.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

We're working hard behind the scenes to finalize the dates and venue for #FAccT2025! While final confirmation is still pending, our tentative conference dates are June 23-26. Expect more updates soon!

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

At #NeurIPS2024, the keynote speaker perpetuated explicit racist stereotypes against Chinese students. Generalizations against a community subject to discrimination, even as an “example”, further provokes discrimination. Below, video of an audience member’s perfect response.

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