@mjcrockett.bsky.social
Professor of Psychology & Human Values at Princeton | Cognitive scientist curious about technology, narratives, & epistemic (in)justice | They/She š³ļøāš
www.crockettlab.org
@ruha9.bsky.socialReposted by @mjcrockett.bsky.socialIām in DC scheduled to give this talk today. But the organizers flagged slides in my deck that mention racism, structural gaslighting, New Jim Code and other themes that are off limits in the Land of the Free.
@emilymbender.bsky.socialReposted by @mjcrockett.bsky.socialA year ago today, I was on my way to Dharamsala, India (via a 24 hour stop-over in Amsterdam to teach my classes online) for the Mind & Life Dialogue, a truly wonderful event.
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@janerosenzweig.bsky.socialReposted by @mjcrockett.bsky.socialNo, you deserve questions! Questions about your ideas, about other ideas you may not have considered, about where you want to go from there. You might not be getting them already, but if the answer is this, then there is no point in the whole enterprise.
@mehr.nzReposted by @mjcrockett.bsky.socialThis kind of shit keeps happening. Sometimes the effects are innocuous and sometimes they're not, but either way AI firms are fundamentally changing how one has to deal with privacy and confidentiality on the Internet
@mjcrockett.bsky.socialWonderful!!
@natematias.bsky.socialReposted by @mjcrockett.bsky.socialIn case you've been wondering about the viability of AI simulated surveys, Pew has offered in-depth reporting on their experiment with simulated survey participants.
By Athena Chapekis, Arnold Lau, Samuel Bestvater, Sono Shah, Andrew Mercer, Aaron Smith
@carlbergstrom.comReposted by @mjcrockett.bsky.socialTerry Tao @teorth.bsky.social: Indiscriminate brute-force application of AI to mathematics is depleting the field of good questions without renewing this resource or providing commensurate value.
OpenAI: We hear you. Here's a .zip file with 377 hasty AI solutions to important open problems.
@anthropologia.bsky.socialReposted by @mjcrockett.bsky.socialJust listed to @adambecker.bsky.social's podcast episode with @emilymbender.bsky.social and I highly recommend it. One thing that really resonates with me is when Dr. Bender says that she was just doing her work and 'minding her own business' and then this whole AI thing went sideways. Can relate.
@mmitchell.bsky.socialReposted by @mjcrockett.bsky.socialThis is getting a lot of quotes, so I feel I should correct this a bit (sorry @anildash.com!)
āAIā was 100% born toxic! The first AI workshop was born from the field of āautomata studiesā, andā¦1/
(Pictured: the folks who convened for the first workshop. Notice anything notable here?)
@mjcrockett.bsky.socialExcellent piece www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
@mjcrockett.bsky.socialA classic www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/m...
@mjcrockett.bsky.socialAaaaaack
@scalzi.comReposted by @mjcrockett.bsky.socialTo the person noting there is not enough money in the world to license every piece of intellectual property stolen for "AI" training: you're sooooo close to the point, friend, keep going, you'll get there if you try
@andrewdeck.bsky.socialReposted by @mjcrockett.bsky.socialChatGPT is adding the signatures of real New Yorker cartoonists to its AI-generated images. So far, I've found the signatures of more than 15 contributors.
"Itās slop, and unlike the other slop that Iāve encountered, this is slop thatās pretending to be me." www.niemanlab.org/2026/10/chat...
@rebeccasolnit.bsky.socialReposted by @mjcrockett.bsky.socialAnand is the best (and I'm doing an event with him at, yes, @cityartssf.bsky.social Thursday, for his new book Man in the Mirror). Couldn't agree more that cities are refuges or places of last resort for people kicked out of rural/suburban/pseudo-idyllic America.
@niemanlab.orgReposted by @mjcrockett.bsky.socialChatGPT is adding real cartoonistsā signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
@devezer.bsky.socialReposted by @mjcrockett.bsky.socialI don't understand this. 52 years later, why try and replicate the original? It's obviously not going to be the same study. The world has changed; cars, traffic, and people have changed. If one is interested in false memory, why not design the best study you can? What can you conclude meaningfully?
@floresophize.bsky.socialReposted by @mjcrockett.bsky.socialSocial media doesn't just feed you bad information. It trains you in how to treat information: who to trust, how much evidence is enough, what counts as a good explanation.
And it trains you for a world that doesn't exist.
New @PPR (yay!) and free here: philpapers.org/rec/FLOBMS
@cameronjbunker.bsky.socialReposted by @mjcrockett.bsky.socialA Few Days Remaining to Submit to the Media and Technology Precon at @spspnews.bsky.social, featuring talks from @mjcrockett.bsky.social Richard Landers and others, along with early career data blitzes and posters. Submit your media and tech work here by 8 October (11:50 pm) CEST via the link belowš
@jedbrown.orgReposted by @mjcrockett.bsky.socialIf you are an academic who uses arXiv, please consider signing this.
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