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Meredith Broussard, PhD
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Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. Professor at NYU. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com

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Meredith Broussard is a data journalism professor at the Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University. Her research focuses on the role of artificial intelligence in journalism. .. more

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 1d
On a sideways note: I feel like CC numbers are part of a long list of things I should have memorized, but don’t. My kid’s phone number, my license plate… 🤣

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 2d
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a man in a yellow shirt stands in front of a screen that says science
ALT: a man in a yellow shirt stands in front of a screen that says science
media.tenor.com

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 2d
Dunno if that is true or if that strain of inquiry ever went anywhere.

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 2d
I remember a brief moment in the 90s when AI theorists wondered if emotions (like anxiety) could be operationalized to help computers prioritize tasks. I was told that human anxiety can be adaptive, that it helps problem solve b/c it runs as a background process in the brain.

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 2d
This is very cool and makes a lot of sense to me as a prof!

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Paul Nightingale

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 2d
Incredible book, if you haven’t seen it. I think about the “technologically precocious boy” all the time.

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 2d
Isn’t there something about 7 digits is the max that most people can memorize, and that is why phone numbers were originally 7 digits? I rage at this every time I have to put in an unreasonably long memorized password.

Reposted by Meredith Broussard

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Nature @nature.com · 4d
Artificial-intelligence chatbots can influence voters in major elections — and have a bigger effect on people’s political views than conventional campaigning and advertising

go.nature.com/3XCIsgD
AI chatbots can sway voters with remarkable ease — is it time to worry?
Experiments involving real-world voters show how talking to a chatbot can shape people’s political opinions.
go.nature.com

Reposted by Meredith Broussard

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Colleen Kennedy-Karpat @cbkenkar.bsky.social · 5d
I know a twentysomething whose listening age was 82.

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 5d
What if the Spotify Wrapped listening age is just a random number between 16 and 80?

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Andreas Reckwitz, Rebecca Tushnet , and 4 more

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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 5d
“we estimate employment-weighted share of Americans using AI at work has fallen by a percentage point & now sits at 11%. Adoption has fallen sharply at the largest businesses, those employing +250 people. 3 yrs into the genAI wave, demand looks surprisingly flimsy” www.economist.com/finance-and-...
Investors expect AI use to soar. That’s not happening
Recent surveys point to flatlining business adoption
www.economist.com

Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Meredith Broussard, Robert W. Wallace , and 4 more

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 6d
New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work

www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says
A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work a...
www.404media.co

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Meredith Broussard

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 7d
NEW: A newly enacted NY state law requires retailers to reveal whether it used "surveillance pricing" to decide how much you pay for goods. Target, for example, shows the alert on a pop-up when you try to buy eggs online. @regret.bsky.social—@wired.com's new investigative data reporter!—reports:
Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs
A newly enacted New York law requires retailers to say whether your data influences the price of basic goods like a dozen eggs or toilet paper, but not how.
www.wired.com

Reposted by Meredith Broussard

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kay slater @kslater.bsky.social · 7d
woohoo! thank you sm to Litwin Books/Library Juice Press & the jury!

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Kailyn Slater wins the 2025 Annual Library Juice Paper Contest - Litwin Books & Library Juice Press
Library Juice Press is excited to announce the winner of the 2025 Annual Library Juice Paper Contest. Kailyn Slater’s paper, titled, “Against AI: Critical Refusal in the Library,” published in … Read ...
litwinbooks.com

Reposted by Meredith Broussard

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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 7d
NEW TWIST: data centers in farm country may accelerate nitrate contamination from agricultural sources with big implications for public health.

Studies are needed to confirm or refute this finding. Lack of transparency, monitoring, regulations makes it tough.

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
www.rollingstone.com

Reposted by Meredith Broussard

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 7d
There is a movement to "prove that the datacenter water issues is fake". If you venture into Muskrat's hell site, you can see the community note these people put on this great piece of investigative journalism, accusing them of unfairly implicating datacenters.

www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
'The Precedent Is Flint': How Oregon's Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon data centers constructed in eastern Oregon's farmland have worsened a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
www.rollingstone.com

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Brian Keegan

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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 9d
The enshitification of scientific publishing marches on. First arXiv had to clamp down on submissions thanks to a flood of AI-written papers.

Now ICLR authors say their peer reviews were churned out by AI. Reviews full of hallucinated content that didn’t exist and offering useless, vague feedback.
Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI
Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.
www.nature.com

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 9d
I’m curious what the new weather models will be adapted inappropriately for too.
andrewdessler.com Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 9d
This is a legitimate scientific revolution in meteorology.

Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 9d
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting. n.pr/49MFa1M

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 9d
Enshittification
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9d
it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, David G. Rand, Justin H. Kirkland , and 1 more

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jenna newman phd @jennanewman.bsky.social · 9d
“When researchers randomly displayed these flood risk estimates to 18M people browsing Redfin, those who saw the feature were more likely to search for homes w/ low flood risk, according to a working paper published in the Nat’l Bureau of Economic Research last Nov*.”🧪

* www.nber.org/papers/w33119

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Gavin A. Schmidt, Robert Wolfe , and 1 more

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Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · 9d
This is a legitimate scientific revolution in meteorology.

Also, to be clear, these models are not the AI LLMs that most people are familiar with. They are machine learning algorithms trained on observations (actually reanalysis).
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 9d
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting. n.pr/49MFa1M
As the 2025 Atlantic hurricane season ends, the future of forecasting is AI
Meteorologists are surprised that the weather model that did the best job forecasting hurricanes this year was a new one, introduced by Google. AI may be the beginning of a new era of forecasting.
n.pr

Reposted by Meredith Broussard

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 9d
it’s so weird to look around and realize like, tech and media are materially worse than a decade ago

Reposted by Meredith Broussard

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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 12d
NY’s new law requires companies to disclose when algorithms set prices. Though it doesn’t stop surveillance pricing, its real power may be giving researchers and watchdogs new ways to investigate algorithmic harms, argues Stephanie T. Nguyen, Fmr. Chief Technologist at the Federal Trade Commission.
How to Test New York’s Algorithmic Pricing Law | TechPolicy.Press
New York’s ADPA exposes algorithmic pricing. Stephanie T. Nguyen discusses how these disclosures could reveal fairness issues and potential consumer impacts.
buff.ly

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 13d
I’ll schedule it after the holiday!

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Michael Larkin

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404 Media @404media.co · 13d
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 13d
Randos insurance session?

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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 13d
BRB inviting all my friends over for drinks and insurance forms.
Ain't No Party Like an Administrative Burden Party
You are cordially invited to Admin Night - bring your paperwork
donmoynihan.substack.com

Reposted by Meredith Broussard, Jesse H. Kroll, Wolfgang Crämer , and 14 more

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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 14d
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea

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Maggie Jack @slouching.bsky.social · 15d
Friends, there are several CS positions open at NYU; calling in my socio-technical researchers including HCI researchers
cs.nyu.edu/dynamic/jobs...
NYU Computer Science Department
cs.nyu.edu

Reposted by Woodrow Hartzog

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Meredith Broussard, PhD @merbroussard.bsky.social · 16d
Another incredibly important @kashhill piece on chatbots and delusions: What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality
www.nytimes.com