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Joanna Bryson
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Professor of Ethics & Technology @ Hertie School, Berlin. Interests: Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Behavioural Ecology; Cooperation; Digital Governance. Social media policy: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html .. more

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Joanna Joy Bryson is professor at Hertie School in Berlin. She works on Artificial Intelligence, ethics and collaborative cognition. She has been a British citizen since 2007.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · Feb 19
thread. correct numbers and data backing them come later, but this is the thrust.
j2bryson.bsky.social Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · Feb 5
One thing I learned last week was that if you don’t count the BS market capitalisation bubble of 7 “AI” firms, the US economy as measured by the s&p 500 didn’t go up 13% last year; it went down 7%.

The EU may be a larger economy already. We need to get our own O2 mask on, then start helping others.
garymarcus.bsky.social Gary Marcus @garymarcus.bsky.social · Feb 5
Guess why there was no reporting of AI revenue?

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 50m
@chrisschmitz.ai

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@willgervais.com peace prize

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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 2h
"The policies being enacted poll badly, often catastrophically. This is not a popular revolution. It is a minoritarian project exploiting a counter-majoritarian system—and regimes built that way are inherently unstable."
The Wall Looks Permanent Until It Falls
On the optimism of preparation in a time of democratic decay.
data4democracy.substack.com

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 6h
Especially hard to dissect are the roles of inequality and polarisation (which correlate) & have been on one of their upswings for almost the entire ICT era, unless you track that back to the telegraph, which maybe we should cf graph 2/3 down joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2021/01/insu... 2/2
Insurrection in the digital age (on being made an instrument of the state II)
artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 6h
Yes exactly. It’s one of my biggest concerns — what is actually changed by digital technology, and what is scapegoating the newest and least experienced power brokers? 1/2

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 6h
Genau :-(

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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 8h
The Trump admin's sanctions on researchers and regulators who work on content-moderation, fact-checking, and disinfo are part of an effort to protect the tech ecosystem that has allowed the the far right to flourish. Good piece from @davidakaye.bsky.social. www.techpolicy.press/the-trump-li...
The Trump Lie About Europe and Why it Matters | TechPolicy.Press
The Trump administration is promoting disinformation about European law and policy for reasons that go well beyond social media regulation, writes David Kaye.
www.techpolicy.press

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 9h
Also interesting: apparently a key to getting this to work is to force gpt5.2 to work offline, meaning without access to the Internet. The reason is that, if it can search the web, it'll realize you've given it an open Erdos problem, and insist it's not capable of solving it.

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Rebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 10h
“Reclaiming academic publishing as a public good requires a return to not-for-profit models & sustainable open-access systems. Quality, accessibility & integrity need to be put ahead of profit. Change is needed to protect the purpose of academic research: to advance knowledge in the public interest”
The 5 stages of the ‘enshittification’ of academic publishing
Academic publishing now shows the same decline that has hit social media and online marketplaces.
theconversation.com

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 13h
Let's hope Trump also sees the memes with pictures of the actual island. But tbh he probably just looks at spreadsheets on the minerals, he is a real estate guy after all bsky.app/profile/just...
justzdena.bsky.social Zdena @justzdena.bsky.social · 1d
Greenland is protected by Lego.
Bravo, Denmark 👏👏👏

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 13h
Yeah I'd been wondering that about Trump and map projections too.
chrismurphyct.bsky.social Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 18h
I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.

Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 18h
I can't believe I'm posting this video - but we actually have to have a conversation about the real world implications of America going to war over Greenland.

Let me walk you through it. It doesn't turn out well for us.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 21h
I am literally curious whether grok defends men's privacy but not women's, but not curious enough to check. Men often take their own privileges for granted. But if we don't know, then I don't know if it's the app that's sexist or society that only uses it one way, though it's problematic regardless.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Rep. Angie Craig: "We were told because this facility is being funding by the 'Big Beautiful Bill,' not the congressional appropriations act, that we would not be allowed to enter the facility. That's complete nonsense ... I informed them they were violating the law. They said they didn't care."

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d
Does it work to disrobe males? Can you stipulate how excited they should appear?

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d
@chrisschmitz.ai

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Zdena @justzdena.bsky.social · 1d
Greenland is protected by Lego.
Bravo, Denmark 👏👏👏

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 1d
In other news, 1) the chat agent in Google Blogger Analytics will really tell you a surprising amount, b) some interesting people surfaced this brief 2008 comment by me about how we still don't have agents helping us with email 14 years after we expected joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2008/01/no-a...
No Agents
artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security
joanna-bryson.blogspot.com

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d
ICE has awarded a contract to Constellis Holdings, the successor to the notorious mercenary firm Blackwater.

The contract is for "skip tracing" to hunt down 1.5 million immigrants—and offering bounties for their locations.

Using whatever surveillance tools they want—no badges, no oversight.
Blackwater Successor Hunts Immigrants for ICE
Constellis Holdings, which traces its roots to Erik Prince’s mercenary firm Blackwater, landed an ICE contract as a bounty hunter.
theintercept.com

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 2d
Apparently false, just what grok presently outputs when prompted.

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 2d
Climate ready!

[except they forgot that this change generates wider fluctuations as well as an increasing average.]

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 2d
But anyway, my point is that we all need to follow VDL here. I think sometimes I'm like the only person who RTs something she says here. (I certainly don't follow her anymore on twitter. I only read a handful of people there I couldn't talk into coming here.)

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 2d
I agree, but I think it can be done by shifting. I spend most of my time and engagement here, but I cross post important things more places, and some things even on X. (I also still tend to RT things where I find them, as if I owe that to the platform that served it, unless it's too out of persona.)

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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 2d
Meta has maintained a years-long news blockade of Canada to bully Ottawa into dropping a meager attempt to make the company compensate the journalism organizations it systematically defunded.

It's time Canada stop being so chickenshit and do something about it. www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Justin Ling: Canadians won’t let the U.S. government boss them around. But U.S. mega-corporations? Sure, why not
For years, Meta has blocked Canadians from accessing news content on its platforms. And for years, Canada has done nothing about this.
www.thestar.com

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Andrea Sommese @asommese.bsky.social · 2d
New research on Gifted dogs is out, in @science.org!

Huge congrats to SHANY DROR for her effort and this incredible achievement.

📄 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Dogs with a large vocabulary of object labels learn new labels by overhearing like 1.5-year-old infants
Children as young as 18 months can acquire novel words by overhearing third-party interactions. Demonstrating similar learning processes in nonhuman species would indicate that the social-cognitive sk...
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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · 2d
I both know how it feels to have my field explained to me, AND very much appreciated you pointing that out Andy, since not everyone reading the post would know that.

IMO social media is like a conversation in a bar. Minor mistakes can be made and corrected and it's all good. Hope you both agree!