🚨 Our next Speaker Series event will be this Friday, May 10 @ 8am PT/11am ET!

Yaim Cooper and Darren Byler will join us to share their work on how to talk to machine learning scientists about harmful tech

To get Zoom info, email Joy <jming @ infosci [dot] cornell [dot] edu

Lecturer, Computational Sociology:

To support the MSc in Digital Sociology.

Please RT and apply:

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Come work with us at the University of Toronto: Tenure-track job position, Assistant Professor of Journalism Studies
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HAPPY BOOK BIRTHDAY! Counting Feminicide is out in the world as of today! Stay tuned - the open access link is coming up shortly and everyone should be able to read it for free.

Today, on International Workers' Day, we’re highlighting research from our Labor Futures program that explores how technology is disrupting, destabilizing, and transforming the world of work. 1/6

Happening now! There's still time to join us!

Explore the possibilities and limits of decent work in the digital economy, especially in the context of digital labour platforms and artificial intelligence.

Join Media Studies Prof. Rafael Grohmann on Tuesday, April 30: utsc.utoronto.ca/vpdean/great-e…

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Our next Speaker Series event is tomorrow @ 8am PT/11am ET. James Oyange and Sonia Kgomo will join us to talk about African Workers Advocating for Ethical Content Moderation Amidst Big Tech Exploitation

Email Joy for Zoom info! jming @ infosci [dot] cornell [dot] edu

Event: Israel and the AI-Driven, Military-Industrial Complex (Tues, May 14)

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The Role of Public Sector Workers in Ensuring the Responsible Adoption of AI by the State of California, Prepared testimony by (LTRN member!) Annette Bernhardt

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What Workers and Unions Stand to Gain from Recent Executive Orders on Artificial Intelligence by (LTRN member!) Annette Bernhardt and Sara Hinkley

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📢Calling all writers! Today and through the month of April, AJL is launching a new campaign for YOU. #MyWorkMyRights

Has AI 🤖 taken your job, leading to a loss of control over your career? Have you become a copy editor, rather than a writer, because of AI? Has your writing and…

There are seven confirmed instances of misidentification and wrongful arrests due to faulty facial recognition technology in the US. The impact of these harms is falling disproportionately on Black people. Here are their stories. 🧵innocenceproject.org/artificial-int…

It's time to shift the narrative from #AlgorithmicBias to #AlgorithmicHarm . Exercise your right to critique AI systems! You can substantively change how AI systems are deployed & created. A first step is joining our newsletter, at newsletter.ajl.org.

We look forward to seeing some of you at our final office hour session, next Tuesday, 4/30, at 4pm ET.

We are happy to answer questions prospective applicants may have about the roles we are hiring for, and about working at AI Now.

Register to attend:
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ICYMI: Sesame Workshop and its writers have a new union contract that includes “historic jurisdiction and minimum rates” for animated and social media “Sesame Street” content; AI protections; paid parental leave and improvements to social media residuals. washingtonpost.com/style/2024/04/…

Why Design Research is Stuck by Danny Spitzberg and Humphrey Obuobi

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Creating Standards: Our Secret Job as Researchers

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How Not to be an Advocate: a 7-minute video by Danny Spitzberg

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