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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

“A computer will do what you tell it to, but that may be much different to what you had in mind.” - Joseph Weizenbaum Allowing AI tools to conduct operations without oversight is corporate recklessness. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

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OpenAI agent hacked Medicare portal, PM says

Anthony Albanese says he has spoken to the Open AI chief executive to express his concern about the incident and the length of time it took the tech company to inform the government of the breach.

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“For some older intelligence officials — even those who broadly support the use of AI inside the military — AI has put pressure on analysts to produce and disseminate intelligence faster, opening the door for mistakes.” This is called Jevon’s paradox. And we can’t afford to ignore it any longer.

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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

People read the "AI WILL KILL US" narrative as involving a brave whistleblower revealing that AI researchers believe AI will kill us all — suggesting that they know something we don't, having worked on the technology. AI CEOs had to respond. As did politicians from Trump to Sanders. That's false.

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This seems like a really weird way of protecting Australian content… like a robber walks into your house and you’re like “You can’t steal from me, I will load my stuff into your unmarked van while you sit on my couch! Here, I’ll make you a coffee, because you’re not stealing my coffee!”

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Good heavens this is too accurate 😂😂😂

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Is anybody else noticing how all these academics who insisted on explainability for “ethical AI” have just quietly jumped right into LLMs and AI Agents, seemingly with total amnesia to their whole “AI must be explainable!” thing?

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

@aunz.theconversation.com is doing a piece on data centres Have your voice heard!

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Haven’t used Google search in about 5 years and definitely not going back 😂

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

Telling article on #AIEthics (yep, that’s irony 😆) which among its many contributions explains why people (eg comp sci but also physicians!) can brand themselves as “AI ethics experts”, going so far as to give talks, provide “advice,” even run academic courses! theintercept.com/2019/12/20/m...

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How Big Tech Manipulates Academia to Avoid Regulation

“AI ethics” is a field that barely existed before 2017. It’s become a Silicon Valley-led lobby to avoid legal restrictions of controversial technologies.

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Cool cool. This forced social experiment is certain to end well. Anybody know the DSMB we can talk to? 😩

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I slept in my rage against the machine T-shirt and woke up down on the street

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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

No, the verdict in the ‘social media addiction’ lawsuit was not a win against big tech, it creates a legal precedent for mass surveillance, censorship, the total destruction of the open web. Go to badinternetbills.com and fight these laws!! 👈👈👈

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Check it out, ethics folks! Post-doc roles in public health ethics with @maxwellsmith.bsky.social

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

I’ve been saying this was going to happen for years now. An industry that is running amok with zero accountability while hiding behind “responsible AI” and “ethics principles” will not go unnoticed indefinitely.

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

What is a silent evaluation in #HealthAI ? And how do you do one? 👀 check out our new paper! We performed a scoping study re published practices in silent evals for AI/ML tools - everything from hospital-based prediction algos to regulatory-approved medical devices www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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A scoping review of silent trials for medical artificial intelligence - Nature Health

This scoping review examines previous experience in performing silent evaluations of clinical AI applications, collecting evidence from 75 studies on implementation features and the sociotechnical con...

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Jon Phillips @jowiph.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Fortunately the handy image provided illustrates a healthy, moderate pour for your reference

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

I wonder if folks will start caring when they realise their h indexes will take a hit from failing to cite their real papers? #VibeCiting #AIEthics www.theregister.com/2026/01/22/n...

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AI conference's papers contaminated by AI hallucinations

: 100 vibe citations spotted in 51 NeurIPS papers show vetting efforts have room for improvement

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Heading into December with energy matched by this koala…

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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Drumrolls, please! I’m thrilled to share the cover for my forthcoming #book from @doubledaybooks.bsky.social (Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Unpopular opinion: claiming that“human-in-the-loop” is your governance of AI is the equivalent of claiming drinking orange juice is your governance of not getting a cold

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Genevieve Renard Painter @genevievepaintr.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

it is worth remembering that cigarette companies also spent decades selling products they knew would harm and kill people and marketed them specifically to young people to create dependence. let's stop this without having to go through a generation of death and several class actions.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 02/11/2025

Another casualty of the LLM revolution. In "arXiv’s CS category, review articles and position papers must now be accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review."

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Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Today, in “Bad things that were 100% completely and totally foreseeable and they just let er rip” news www.msn.com/en-gb/public...

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

And the fact that they even think this is possible shows they have absolutely zero understanding of any concepts and principles related to “bias” 🤨 If they cannot understand the very concepts they invoke, then they have zero credibility to address the problem and should sit this one out.

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Jeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 11/10/2025

I've yet to see a single discussion of "Canadian digital sovereignty" include any Indigenous experts, at best we're given a token mention that at some point they'll "consult with Indigenous Peoples" like we're some sort of monolith. Umm, y'all need to consider all our lands, and our distinctiveness.

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Sharing our pre-print for a comprehensive silent evaluation of a commercial AI Scribe tool at Women’s and Children’s Health Network in Adelaide! Co-developed by our multi-d team of physicians, Aboriginal Health colleagues and consumers ❤️ url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/X_F4C81VLx...

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A medical algorithmic audit framework for evaluating the safety, equity, and quality of an AI Scribe tool in a paediatric developmental assessment clinic

Background Any tool that can reduce the administrative burden on healthcare providers while preserving safe, accountable and high-quality medical documentation is of immense value both to healthcare i...

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Hey #AIEthics people (and all people as well!), got a question for you… Is anyone else 100% completely and totally fed up with AI ethics?

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

I will believe AI has PhD-level knowledge when every response is concluded with a suggestion of a local seminar or talk that has free food 🍕☕️

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Lana Tikhomirov @lanatikhomirov.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

Our preprint is up! Ever heard of the silent phase of AI evaluation for medical AI? Well, now we’ve summarised the current state of research!

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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Turns out that #Google was publicly logging ChatGPT conversations that people had shared (privately, or so they thought) with friends. There are conversations about mental health, sex, etc. Do you still think #OpenAI take #privacy seriously? By @stokel.bsky.social fastcompanyme.com/technology/g...

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Google could be reading your ChatGPT conversations. Concerned? You should be

Thousands of shared ChatGPT chats are now appearing in Google search results.

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I have seen this!! We tested some models with dummy data and found that someone calling someone or something “deadly” was ALWAYS coded as negative sentiment (it’s the opposite!) We ended up deciding the sentiment function will be useless and scrapped it.

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

It was so much fun chatting to @dsilvaphd.bsky.social on SHE Pod about all things #AIEthics! We chatted about a recent paper I wrote with Mjaye Mazwi and Lauren Oakden-Rayner where we asked, when is an accurate model a bad thing? And why? www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

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Can an accurate model be bad?

Outcome-prediction models can harm patients even when they have good accuracy, as shown in a recent Patterns paper by Van Amsterdam et al. In this preview, we consider the ethical and empirical implic...

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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · 10/10/2024

'Taking the time to do things right isn’t anti-innovation – it is what is required to get deep-rooted change in social systems.' My piece on AI and public services in this week's @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...

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Tony Blair is wrong – AI will not magically solve our public services

Too many people might be left out of its revolution.

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Happy Canada Day from the land down under!! 🍁🇨🇦🫎

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

I think the reality is that, rather than a serious reflection by a qualified scholar, so many people will simply spit out any “edgy” faux-philosophical analysis because publishing literally any bollocks on AI is trendy these days 🤷🏼‍♀️ Bye, Felicia

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Now I have a paper to refer to when someone asks me why I don’t use Uber!

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Keisha Ray @drkeisharay.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

At AJOB: Bioethicists Must Push Back Against Assaults on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Nancy S. Jecker, Arthur Caplan, Vardit Ravitsky, Patrick Smith, Kayhan Parsi, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Faith Fletcher, Mildred Cho, Keisha Ray lnkd.in/g7saphzR

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This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Good opportunity to remind everyone about DuckDuckGo 😉 I haven’t used Google Search in about 4 years now!

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Today, in entirely predictable news… Deeply, deeply disturbing article on several fronts. But first: IT’S NOT JUST TEENS. Several intelligent adults have told me ChatGPT has become like their “best friend” and the main market for these things is “virtual girlfriend” so…

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Literally my relationship with technology in a nutshell 😂

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Melissa McCradden @mdmccradden.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Couple things important to point out. 1) AI is not ‘doing’ anything. We are. We are doing the bad things. 2) We are delegating thinking to AI. I watched ppl in a workshop recently ask ChatGPT instead of think about the question themselves. That’s a choice.

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