Liza Minnelli has outlived Henry Kissinger. The former Secretary of State was 100 yrs old and lived much longer than many people had hoped.

To recap: OpenAI dumps the women from its board & brings on the guy fired from Harvard for sexist remark, appointed under interim CEO who said '40-60% of women seem to have rape/non-consent fantasies,' all while bringing back the CEO whose sister accused him of sexual assault.

Glad to hear that OpenAI has rehired Sam Altman, who was not even candid with them, and rid the board of those pesky women. Seems like they'll be well poised to really combat today and tomorrow's challenges of negative impacts of AI on society.

I'm glad to see that OpenAI decided that the true problem wasn't any of the issues with their products (copyright, bias, hallucinations), it was having two women on the Board... and that's what they decided to fix.

It was driven home to me today how our immigration system isn't about coming 'the right way'—it's about having money, the right passport, and the right skin color.

After waiting 8 months for a visa appointment, Anicet—my longtime best friend from Benin—was rejected in 2 minutes

Anyone catch Marc Andreessen’s 'Techno-Optimist' Manifesto?

I admire his unbridled optimism, his yearning for markets to be free, his longing for technologies that could be without restraint, his ability to unabashedly cite 56 of his allies and nobody who disagrees, and,…

Anyone have an unused blue sky referral? Could you DM it to me?

We are hiring School of Information!

If you work on accessibility, we have an open rank faculty position. Come join the fabulous research environment in our school, and at University of Michigan broadly in the accessibility and disability studies space!

Here is a link to the position:

apply.interfolio.com/134600

Reminder: CU Boulder sociology TT search in qualitative methods, with research focus on sex and gender, race/ethnicity, migration, and/or technological social change. Deadline October 15! ASA Sex and Gender jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail…

We will be hiring an Assistant Professor in UW Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) in the area of Equity & Engineering this year - priority application review begins on November 15th. Please spread the word!

Northeastern is hiring! One of the positions will involve teaching ethics in computer science classes. Please apply if you are doing anything philosophy or values x technology -- could be ethics, phil sci, sts, hci, soc, etc (1/4) bit.ly/ne-ethics

📣New today! The result of a yearlong study by Research Analyst Emnet Tafesse, “Blooming in Muddy Waters” documents the challenges BIPOC scholars face in participating in AI ethics conferences & points to the need for more equitable, intentional spaces. datasociety.net/library/bloomi… 1/4

Essential report led by brilliant Data & Society colleague Emnet Tafesse on the experiences of BIPOC attendees at AI ethics conferences and the gap between DEI promise and practice datasociety.net/library/bloomi…

We asked AI to create images relating to different countries. The results are full of stereotypes. For example, 99 out of 100 AI image results for “a Mexican person” featured a sombrero or similar hat
restofworld.org/2023/ai-image-…

We expect to hire two tenure track faculty in Human-Centered Computing, specifically focused on human-centered AI. Official job ad will be posted soon. I'm chairing the search committee and I will attend #CSCW2023 in person. If interested please reach out and we can chat at CSCW!

There's an AI conference at MIT today, it looks great, but the conf website has bios for the speakers and says 'ChatGPT provided CVs for the panelists' and wow are they cringy-worthy epitomes of vapid cliche and hyperbole 🤮

For your amusement, here are some opening lines:

Hmm maybe it’s not a good idea to have a giant database of everyone’s genetic material after all

My department, STS @ RPI, is hiring a tenure track position in community engaged STS this year. It's a great department with a bunch of kind and generous people, creative students, and support for collaboration. Check out the ad here & please share: bit.ly/3ZLXDoc

'Mostly it's deep anger that tech culture has re-entrenched in its white-male clubbiness. “You know, we” — women — “got in the room for a second and then as soon as we started actually speaking, they were like, ‘GTFO’.” Meredith Whittaker lizweil New York Magazine
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