Assistant Prof @DukeSanford, Affiliate @datasociety, Affiliate @CITAP, PhD from @RutgersCommInfo. Platform governance, tech ethics, mom.
New York, NY
Joined January 2009
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Read the long-awaited (sorry about that) follow-up in my "Working History of the Verified Badge" series for
@datasociety.
Part II: The battle between Friendsters and Fakesters
datasociety.net/points/a-wor…
My desire to spend at least 25% of my time at @AoIR_org in the hotel pool is slightly at odds with my desire to never be seen in a swimsuit by colleagues.
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Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
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“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows
We are making the same intellectual mistake with concerns about AI and its ability to persuade as we did in the algos and misinfo debate.
We keep treating persuasion as some sort of tech capability rather than a social process.
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Tomorrow on the podcast. David Robinson quit his job on Open AI's safety team. In his first interview since leaving OpenAI, he tells me why.
I haven’t known what to make of the other AI whistleblowers, but I very much trust @dgrobinson.
New in The Atlantic:
@dgrobinson resigned this week. He was among the longest-tenured employees at OpenAI—and oversaw safety reports on 12 frontier launches.
He is very worried: “The time for trial and error is over.”
You can read his essay here:
theatlantic.com/technology/2…
I really want to write a book about comment sections – like stories of comment sections, viral comments, the best comments of all time, how comment sections make us feel hope and/or despair (etc)...but alas, I am currently writing not that book.
There is something very “what if the company behind Kool-Aid funded Heaven’s Gate” about the current AI doomsday hypotheses.
Kinda hard to take an industry seriously that's currently in a loop of “we’re all gonna die, but we can’t slow down because of China, even though they regulate AI and reverse engineer our models, so the faster we go the faster they go actually.”
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📚 New book: De Gruyter Handbook of Technology, Media, & Democracy
Co-edited by DWC faculty @pmnapoli, @robyncaplan & Ken Rogerson
Learn about the Handbook: degruyterbrill.com/document/…
ALT Book cover of the De Gruyter Handbook of Technology, Media, and Democracy. Below are photos of the three co-editors: Philip Napoli, Robyn Caplan, and Ken Rogerson.
I just walked downstairs to get a drink, and then walked upstairs without a drink and realized that instead of getting the drink, I'd cleaned the toilet bowl downstairs. Middle age is wild.
It's baby's first edited volume! Check out the book I edited with @pmnapoli and @rogerson, now published by @degruyter_brill, with chapters from @Ali_Christopher, @blakeplease, @jonathan_c_ong, @TomDivon, and many others!
New book: The De Gruyter Handbook of Technology, Media, and Democracy, co-edited with my Duke/DeWitt Wallace Center colleagues, @robyncaplan and @rogerson. Contributors from across the world, as well as a number of contributors from the Duke community.
degruyterbrill.com/document/…
I also wrote a chapter for the book: "The Problem of Authority in Platform Governance: A Platforms-in-Society Approach." In it, I offer a broader definition of platform governance (in case you were looking for one). Access it here: degruyterbrill.com/document/…
tfw you're writing a book chapter for an edited volume, and you have to rewrite an argument you've already made but somehow do it differently.
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If you're interested in this issue I wrote about it a few weeks ago in my newsletter, Converger: converger.kevinbankston.com/…
