Reposted by Nanna IniePicard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 03/10/2026Picard devops tip: No, you are not allowed to connect your brain to the computer. Learn to type like everyone else. 618334
Nanna Inie @nannainie.bsky.social · 24/09/20261/ New paper in Int. Journal of HCI: A Critical Review of Critical Thinking in HCI Research about AI General conclusion: Sure, AI CAN foster critical thinking. Whether it does so in practice is a big fat unknown. w/ Anne Marie Kristensen, Morten Misfeldt, & @peterdalsgaard.bsky.social 🧵 141
Reposted by Nanna InieMargaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 06/07/2026If you haven't read this piece on language use in around AI, you definitely should. Great work from @emilymbender.bsky.social , @nannainie.bsky.social and Peter Zukerman, with solutions for what to call things we backoff to just anthropomorphising. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph... 912644
Reposted by Nanna InieEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 25/06/2026Are you annoyed with the anthropomorphizing language being used in the "AI" discourse, but not sure how to talk about this stuff without it? @nannainie.bsky.social and I have got you covered: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...buttondown.comHow to talk aboutEmily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the... 13388183
Reposted by Nanna InieCabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't. 991272916879
Reposted by Nanna IniePicard Tips @picardtips.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Picard management tip: Don't waste time using social media. Pretend it was never invented. 617830
Nanna Inie @nannainie.bsky.social · 16/02/2026Call for submissions on environmentally sustainable AI: workshop at @chi.acm.org 2026: HCI-TERRA. What do we do in HCI to make AI better for the environment? Submit your research, art, position paper, design ideas here: hci-terra.github.iohci-terra.github.ioHCI-TERRA: HCI Towards EnviRonmentally Responsible AICHI’26 Workshop 000
Reposted by Nanna InieJulien Porquet @julienporquet.bsky.social · 13/02/2026This has been a super helpful guide by @emilymbender.bsky.social, Peter Zuckerman and @nannainie.bsky.social as I'm editing my thesis. Highly recommend. I low key wish this would be a plug-in that would underline the red flaggy turns of phrases as I'm writing. 😮💨 firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph...firstmonday.org De-anthropomorphizing “AI”: From wishful mnemonics to accurate nomenclature | First Monday 131
Reposted by Nanna InieCharles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 07/01/2026"Anthropomorphizing language...portrays a world view in which the people responsible for developing the systems are not held accountable for the system’s inaccurate, inappropriate, and sometimes deadly output,” write @emilymbender.bsky.social and @nannainie.bsky.social.techpolicy.pressWe Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' | TechPolicy.PressWe share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie. 14720
Reposted by Nanna InieData & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Anthropomorphizing language conceals the limitations of AI, promoting misplaced trust. @emilymbender.bsky.social & @nannainie.bsky.social suggest focusing on a system’s functionalities: instead of saying a model is “good at” something, say what it is “good for." www.techpolicy.press/we-need-to-t...techpolicy.pressWe Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' | TechPolicy.PressWe share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie. 47947
Reposted by Nanna InieEmily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 09/01/2026"The media has largely let [tech companies] set the terms of the debate, right down to the terminology used in any discussion of these systems." From @nannainie.bsky.social & me in @techpolicypress.bsky.social on how to spot and resist anthropomorphizing language about so-called "AI".techpolicy.pressWe Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI' | TechPolicy.PressWe share a responsibility to create and use empowering metaphors rather than misleading language, write Emily M. Bender and Nanna Inie. 317475
Nanna Inie @nannainie.bsky.social · 16/09/2025I am going through the #CHI2026 bidding for papers to review and will slam that desk-accept button so hard for any paper not about AI or LLMs 031
Nanna Inie @nannainie.bsky.social · 13/05/2025Looking forward to Travis Kelce's girlfriend's married-with-children era when she'll musically address the salient questions in later life such as "Is it chill that I need 2-factor-fucking-authentification for accessing John's Excel sheet?" and "Mommy, why is it ok that cars are faster than cars?" 000
Nanna Inie @nannainie.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Did you know that the ideation tools that most creative professionals have in common are the simplest ones: pen & paper, phone notes, and the phone camera? Idea management across creative domains - a rare large-scale comparative analysis! 010
Nanna Inie @nannainie.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Me explaining the rationality of my vibe code: #CHI2025 010
Nanna Inie @nannainie.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Every head of department explaining his justification for why he hasn’t hired more women: #CHI2025 364
Nanna Inie @nannainie.bsky.social · 30/04/2025Me explaining to reviewers why 13 users was definitely enough: #CHI2025 010
Nanna Inie @nannainie.bsky.social · 30/04/2025What is foreground/background contrast anyway? #CHI2025 201
Nanna Inie @nannainie.bsky.social · 30/04/2025“The correct locus of causality is ALWAYS external to the AI system” - this paper deserved more than an honorable mention, amazing work! 🔥 at #CHI2025 by Saumya Pareek, Sarah Schömbs, Eduardo Velloso & Jorge Goncalves 010
Nanna Inie @nannainie.bsky.social · 23/04/2025OH MY GOD I fangirl so hard over our research being featured in Psypost! 021
Reposted by Nanna InieAle @alepresser.com · 31/03/2025"to democratize art is not every person having a cute drawing made in seconds, to democratize art is every person having time and health to learn and make art if they chose to, and mainly to have the means to think and relate introspectively with art." 1877383296
Nanna Inie @nannainie.bsky.social · 26/03/2025Yeah it’s not like we would ever blame the weapon industry or the tobacco industry 000
Nanna Inie @nannainie.bsky.social · 23/03/2025I often wonder: since the invention of the dishwasher, why are tableware items that cannot be machine washed even produced? It’s like inventing penicillin but still purposefully contracting some pneumonia here and there because it looks neat 000
Nanna Inie @nannainie.bsky.social · 10/03/2025Have you ever wondered what happens when you wash or dry a load with [any object in the world literally from a package of raisins over 16 rocks to a turd] in the pocket or have you also had a child so now you know? 000
Nanna Inie @nannainie.bsky.social · 05/03/2025OMG Emily M. Bender vs. Sébastien Bubeck on: The Great Chatbot Debate Do LLMs Really Understand? @emilymbender.bsky.social / @sbubeck.bsky.social computerhistory.org/events/great...media.tenor.coma man in a red shirt is eating something with his hands .ALT: a man in a red shirt is eating something with his hands . 030
Reposted by Nanna InieIT-Universitetet i København @itu.dk · 21/01/2025I et nyt studie definerer @leonderczynski.bsky.social, og @nannainie.bsky.social "LLM red teaming”. Det er, når man forsøger at få sprogmodellen til at opføre sig på en utilsigtet måde, fx ved at snyde ChatGPT til at give brugeren opskriften på napalm. Læs om projektet her 👉 itu.dk/Om-ITU/Press...itu.dkNy forskning fra ITU analyserer angreb på store sprogmodellerHvad motiverer nogle til at manipulere med store sprogmodeller, og hvordan bærer de sig ad? I et nyt studie definerer forskere fra ITU såkaldt ”red teaming” af sprogmodeller for at øge sikkerheden i t... 162
Nanna Inie @nannainie.bsky.social · 18/01/2025Word on the street is my dad’s surname, Brown, was the result of the introduction of typewriters some generations back. They used to be “Broen”, but e and w are right next to each other on a typewriter, so now they are Brown. 110
Nanna Inie @nannainie.bsky.social · 17/01/2025How CO2STLY is CHI? Stay tuned... Accepted to #CHI2025 - see you in Yokohama! With Jeanette Falk & Raghavendra Selvan 0122
Nanna Inie @nannainie.bsky.social · 16/01/2025Our article is finally out in PLOS One! “we have to tell them that this attack exists because there are some applications that you shouldn’t build. [. . .] in the absence of a fix for this, some things [you] shouldn’t build because prompt injection could break them” journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... 122
Nanna Inie @nannainie.bsky.social · 31/12/2024It started with the stars and stripes and we’re finishing it with the stars and stripes! From tomorrow, we can no longer fly any of the dozens of wonderful flags in our collection. Danish politics are facist 😭 000
Nanna Inie @nannainie.bsky.social · 06/12/2024Finally entered the wonderful Spotify Wrapped limbo where I can listen to Crazy Frog on repeat for 31 days and it’s off the record 010
Nanna Inie @nannainie.bsky.social · 05/12/2024Let my first Bluesky post be one of rage & contempt (sort of a one-factor authentication for this being HASHTAG THE REAL NANNA INIE) for this utterly racist and disgusting waste of law-making. The government should reimburse us for the flagpole we had installed to celebrate other lives and cultures!thelocal.dkDenmark passes new law banning foreign flags on flagpolesThe Danish parliament on Tuesday passed a new law banning most foreign flags from being flown in the country. 221
