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Joanna Joy Bryson is professor at Hertie School in Berlin. She works on Artificial Intelligence, ethics and collaborative cognition. She… more

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I think so, can’t you register from there?

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Slaves should be robots

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More than half the people here seem to be quantum, so I guess that could explain some empty rooms.
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I don’t mean to complain but I don’t know what I’m doing here. I gave a talk to 30 people and now have no one to talk to until at least the dinner at in 2.5 hours.
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by Joanna Bryson

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www.hertie-school.org/en/datascien... @hertiedatascience.bsky.social attn @ianwalker.bsky.social @spoke32.bsky.social Data Driven Approaches for Understanding and Advancing Urban Cycling all day 7 November @hertieschool.bsky.social Berlin!
Data-Driven Approaches for Understanding and Advancing Urban Cycling
<h3>Overview</h3> <p>Financial and spatial resources for urban mobility are limited, making decisions about how to prioritize between transport modes inherently complex. Expanding cycling infrastructu...
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I think they were already losing both the hegemony and the capacity to regulate companies of the scale they've allowed these to grow to, even before they started dismantling their state capacity.
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There must be some evil scientist somewhere who has set up a system for "validating" "sentient AIs" But is there a good scientist who IDK donates the money they make this way to digital literacy?

#AIEthics
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by Joanna Bryson

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@vdignum.bsky.social if you know any students with such interests!

Reposted by Joanna Bryson

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NHANES is an invaluable tool that many researchers including myself use to report on conditions in the general population.

Like the fact that ~40% of 12-21yo females are iron deficient.

Tinyurl.com/JAMAFe

And so much more important work.

But they’re destroying it all.
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Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Anne Applebaum, Rebecca Solnit , and 4 more

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Please remind us who the domestic terrorists are again.
Photo from Chicago: DHS militarized agent holding a gun up directly in someone’s face as the victim has their hands up, pleading for them not to shoot.
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by Joanna Bryson

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I still can't get sapir.psych.wisc.edu/papers/lupya... to resolve, and it's no longer the weekend (though it's still Trump.)
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Your briefcase was your backpack AND your laptop.
(And maybe your mobile phone, but that was also your wallet and your wristwatch.)

www.noahbrier.com/archives/201...
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by Joanna Bryson

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I decided people might not know enough about briefcases anymore to understand briefcase terms, and now I have a slide with the Blues Brothers in it :-)
A briefcase was a backpack AND a laptop. Your critically important work – thus locked clasps, handcuffs. Your valuable tools (pens, slide rule). Identity (business cards, possibly passport). Your lunch. Drawings by some child in your life. (blues brothers cover to "briefcase full of blues" with a box around the handcuff to the briefcase; also, a picture of the inside of a briefcase in a (my) living room)
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by Joanna Bryson

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When she died I tweeted 'Let's all take the bus to work and put a sign up in the window "Not a Loser".'

Some guy from @youranoncentral.bsky.social said "this is why I come to twitter" :-)

by Joanna Bryson

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Crude, Cheesy, Second-Rate Consciousness (me, in 2010, initially because I've been asked to do a commentary on Dennett, but Vienna didn't do anything with it so I put it in AISB.)

You know, this isn't that bad. Some day maybe I should do a collection... jjb.conjugateprior.org/ftp/Bryson-c...
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Reposted by Joanna Bryson

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www.wired.com/story/satell...
Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data
With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...
www.wired.com
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Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Andreas Wagner

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nanochat by Andrej Karpathy is neat - 8,000 lines of code (mostly Python, a tiny bit of Rust) that can train an LLM on $100 of rented cloud compute which can then be served with a web chat UI on a much smaller machine https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/13/nanochat/
nanochat
Really interesting new project from Andrej Karpathy, described at length in this discussion post. It provides a full ChatGPT-style LLM, including training, inference and a web Ui, that can be …
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Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Anna O. Law, Marc Lynch , and 13 more

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After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.
Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT
The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...
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Is AI a "shiny toy with a price?"

As Avriel Epps and I were writing a proposal, we noticed a 👩🏾‍🍳🤌🏾 Taylor Swift reference in @alondra.bsky.social's @science.org article about AI's "Cruel Summer"

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
An ELSI for AI: Learning from genetics to govern algorithms
In the United States, the summer of 2025 will be remembered as artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) cruel summer—a season when the unheeded risks and dangers of AI became undeniably clear. Recent months h...
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Prominent #news outlets reject #Pentagon rules before signing deadline

The #WashingtonPost joined the #NewYorkTimes, #CNN & #TheAtlantic in refusing to sign the restrictive new policy.
#law #democracy #Constitution #FreePress #Fou...
#usan class="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#usa #gopn class="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#gop #fascistsss="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#fascists #fascismass="text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400">#fascism

👉 Vote 'em Out!
Prominent news outlets reject Pentagon rules before signing deadline
The Washington Post and other major news outlets have refused to sign the Defense Department’s restrictive new press policy, citing First Amendment concerns.
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by Joanna Bryson

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Seriously, it's been 4 days, NO OTHER UNIVERSITY but @mit.edu has made a move yet? Have I missed something? #Compact
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great story, this chart RULES
Charts showing average battery pack cost in 2024 $/kWh and battery storage capacity additions globally in GW
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by Joanna Bryson

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"programmable subjects"? You mean, software?

www.preprints.org/manuscript/2...

I mean, it sounds interesting, but...

LLM Agents as Programmable Subjects: Assays and Benchmarks for Agentic Behavior and Alignment
Gaurav Koley and Aditya Thiruvengadam
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Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Daniel Ziblatt, Anna O. Law , and 13 more

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“Win every election” is not a viable strategy for preventing authoritarianism
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I think that he could have been treated unfairly positively and unfairly negatively both at the same time, though actually the article goes on to make Turing still sound like a hero for many reasons. But doesn't one move over to allow more people on the winner's podium?
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by Joanna Bryson

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I can't get the first, colour link to download? But re the abstract of the arxiv one, this was the most recent time I managed to get t EoL: joanna-bryson.squarespace.com/s/cultural-r... (2010)
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by Joanna Bryson — Reposted by David Underdown

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When you get to the part about the valves, you're like "this man invented memory"

via @gillianrbrown1.bsky.social !
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 3d
I need a Tommy Flowers Was Robbed t-shirt. Great piece!
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Move over, Alan Turing: meet the working-class hero of Bletchley Park you didn’t see in the movies
The Oxbridge-educated boffin is feted as the codebreaking genius who helped Britain win the war. But should a little-known Post Office engineer named Tommy Flowers be seen as the real father of comput...
www.theguardian.com
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by Joanna Bryson

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Please see my pinned post here for a lot of data and discussion about this enormous AI bubble.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 3d
"Since the wealthiest 10 per cent of the population own 85 per cent of US stocks, they enjoy the largest wealth effect when they go up... the latest data shows America’s consumer economy rests largely on ...[the spending of the] top 10 per cent" #AI #irrationalexuberance www.ft.com/content/6cc8...
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Over the past few years, Beijing has been mirroring the U.S. economic-security toolkit. China is developing its own architecture to manage risk, preserve chokepoints, and respond in kind. It's also learning from the United States.
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"Since the wealthiest 10 per cent of the population own 85 per cent of US stocks, they enjoy the largest wealth effect when they go up... the latest data shows America’s consumer economy rests largely on ...[the spending of the] top 10 per cent" #AI #irrationalexuberance www.ft.com/content/6cc8...
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