Joanna Bryson
Professor of Ethics & Technology @ Hertie School, Berlin. Interests: Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Behavioural Ecology; Cooperation; Digital Governance. Social media policy: joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to…
- Something that to be honest I don't entirely understand the ramifications of (who benefits long term?) but breaking #privacy doesn't seem to help you in court, which might be a good thing? www.computerweekly.com/opinion/The-...
- www.theguardian.com/environment/... Those of us focused on research can forget how much a university means to local economies and societies. 52% of people on this campus were local to its deprived town, many doing healthcare degrees. But the UK's insane migration policies killed the campus. #brexit
- This is one reason I hate "campus" universities; all our lectures and many other things can and should be public goods, available to build and inform local communities. Link via @uniessexgov.bsky.social's Nicole Baerg, whom I will now signal to try to get her to join bluesky!
- When I was in tech, a company collapsing was a sad loss of community, but people with high salaries & no pension took some months self-funded "sabbatical" then thought of new business ideas and hired each other. University layoffs don't seem to generate that innovation; newspapers seem in between.
- Why do people angry at Bezos unsubscribe from the journalists? Stop using AWS, Amazon, Alexa, etc! These things actually make Bezos money! (And anyway, Amazon undercut legitimate competitors using VC, which is skeezy AF.)
- What the @washingtonpost.com was doing y'day. I picked up an "international NYT" (I still think "IHT," & remember when it was WP & LAP as well as NYT articles) in the airport a week ago today and it was godawful, and I was thinking "good thing I can read the WP "print edition" on my ipad every day."
- On today's Vergecast, I talked w/ @davidpierce.xyz about Anthropic's wild plan to "destructively scan all the books in the world:" why they did it, why a judge found it legal, and why — nefarious as it might sound — what other tech giants did was arguably worse. www.theverge.com/the-vergecast
- This and Colbert, there will be no one domestic to report on the US midterms.
- OK this may sound petty, but canary in the coal mine: I don't know whether to put this www.raconteur.net/technology/w... under the "press" or the "AI slop" parts of my CV. It successfully paraphrases me and links to one of my blogposts, but it seems like an infotainment advertisement? #AIEthics 🐤
- Google Flights seems to be broken. #ThanksAI
- This really is astonishingly good. But then, America was founded by people many of whom were the age of present high school students.
- These paintings and this collection had a huge impact on me as a small girl, though I already decided I wanted to be a paleontologist (in first grade, when I was 5.)
- My nomination for the most influential scientific visualization ever produced. 🧪🌿🌎🪶🐡 #scicomm #sciviz #visualscicomm #sciviz #dinosaurs alwayssomethingtosee.substack.com/p/the-age-of...
- Steven Levitsky per @pkrugman.bsky.social #Trump #USA "Orbán doesn’t arrest journalists. In Hungary if you walk the streets of Budapest or other Hungarian cities, you will not find heavily armed masked men abducting people. That doesn’t happen in Hungary." paulkrugman.substack.com/p/american-d...
