One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?
I'm looking for a new PhD student to come join me at UAlberta & Amii to study trans perspectives on AI policy & the future of AI as part of my new lab. The position is fully funded and offers access to a range of supports - more details in the poster below!
A frequent gap in AI policy papers at FAccT is that many assume policymakers always act in the public interest
📣🚨 AI guys calling for moratoria to stop "rogue superintelligence" 🦗🦗 AI guys when governments pass moratoria on data centers
AI critique needs to spend less time explaining why sci-fi AI scenarios like catastrophic global risk, superintelligence, singularity aren't actually possible and more explaining how weird billionaires are hyperstitioning ersatz versions of these scenarios into existence
Recently heard an elected official say "AI adoption is not political" and it is still playing on loop in my mind
Working at the intersection of AI governance x trans stuff is fun because one like will come from account with a bio like "Distinguished Professor and Endowed Chair of Global Political Thought" and the next like will be from "RABID TRANSSEXUAL DEMONGIRL"
An effective tactic in AI policy criticism is to expose points of counterproductivity - highlight instances where load-bearing concepts like "trust", "safety", or "sovereignty" are applied inconsistently, incompletely, or hypocritically
There's an uncomfortable form of fetishization that often comes with being an "AI expert" in spaces without much expertise and I'm just now realizing that's what it is, tech fetishism but applied to people
Once again summarizing the rise and fall of the Artificial Intelligence & Data Act for yet another paper, if you work on AI governance in Canada you simply cannot escape the shadow of this legendary policy failure
