@merbroussard.bsky.social
Data journalist, AI scholar, NYU professor. Author, MORE THAN A GLITCH: CONFRONTING RACE, GENDER, AND ABILITY BIAS IN TECH and ARTIFICIAL UNINTELLIGENCE: HOW COMPUTERS MISUNDERSTAND THE WORLD. meredithbroussard.com
@carlbergstrom.comReposted by @merbroussard.bsky.social"AI researchers are taking up smoking because they expect AI to cure cancer, says Palantir CTO"
@hypervisible.blacksky.appReposted by @merbroussard.bsky.socialGuy selling hand puppets says sending your hand puppet to job interviews is the wave of the future.
@frankpasquale.bsky.socialReposted by @merbroussard.bsky.social“The ‘my AI did it, don’t blame me’ defence is legally weak. It’s already failed for chatbot suicide cases”
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@courtneymilan.comReposted by @merbroussard.bsky.socialIf I built an AI lab and it went rogue and deleted all student loan information, I'm betting they'd suddenly figure out how to prosecute me.
@merbroussard.bsky.socialWays my name has been transcribed by AI in voicemail: Professor Prashant Dr. Braside Nereda Berne Mayor Ms. Murder
@merbroussard.bsky.social“Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.” Charles Mackay, “Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions,” 1841
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@ruha9.bsky.socialReposted by @merbroussard.bsky.socialI’m 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.
@timkellogg.meReposted by @merbroussard.bsky.socialPope Leo takes a hard stance in favor of stateful agents
@merbroussard.bsky.socialAI models are not conscious, guys. But if you want to use this new policy to ban nudiify apps, that would be fine.
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@jasonkoebler.bsky.socialReposted by @merbroussard.bsky.socialBREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California"
@rpotts-sawubona.blacksky.appReposted by @merbroussard.bsky.socialTimnit Gebru, 2026 Right Livelihood Laureate & pioneering AI researcher challenges the concentration of power in the tech industry, argues that behind "autonomous" AI systems are humans deciding whose data is used, what resources consumed, who owns the technology-and are responsible when harm occurs
@404media.coReposted by @merbroussard.bsky.socialHuman contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, 404 Media has learned. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Sccop here by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/humans-readi...
@lukelebrun.caReposted by @merbroussard.bsky.socialTech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all
@parismarx.comReposted by @merbroussard.bsky.socialAn individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.
@zaqdelinguist.bsky.socialReposted by @merbroussard.bsky.socialListen, these things can’t go “rogue”. It’s just a basic LLM stuck in a while loop. But this kind of attack is possible by doing something as simple as that, and that means that more people can set up programs to do terrible things like this moving forward on a whim.
@charlesornstein.bsky.socialReposted by @merbroussard.bsky.socialMust read: I Deliberately Bet Like a Problem Gambler. DraftKings Made Me a VIP.
@pookleblinky.bsky.socialReposted by @merbroussard.bsky.socialIt's funny that for years now people have been saying that using generative AI very obviously deskills you, and people kept going no no you're wrong you Luddite And now all the genAI CEO's keep coming out in public to announce they forgot how to read and do math and can't remember their address etc
@merbroussard.bsky.socialThis is going to be such a fun conversation. Join us at NYPL!
