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Michael Zimmer
Privacy & data ethics scholar. Director of @MUDataEthics.bsky.social at Marquette University. I also curate @ZuckerbergFiles.bsky.social
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Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones wired.com
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A University System Went All In on A.I. Now It’s Tearing Itself Apart. nytimes.com
Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth Admits the Company’s AI Reorg Was ‘Atrocious’ wired.com
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papers.ssrn.com
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A Judicial Wake-Up Call on Government by AI techpolicy.press
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news.stanford.edu
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The Future Is for Everyone: Free AI Glasses for Every Blind Veteran in America about.fb.com
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What Sort of AI Bubble Are We In? davekarpf.beehiiv.com
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An Inquirer’s Guide to Ethics in AI - Broadview Press broadviewpress.com
Student Prompt for AI Tool Discovery // Generative AI // Marquette University marquette.edu
Man tried to sell 150,000 poop photos he collected via AI app boingboing.net
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California’s public universities spent $16.9 million on A.I. during a financial crisis, and the result has been chaos. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...
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NEW from me & @peard33.bsky.social: Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth told staff that Meta did an “atrocious” job of explaining its vision for its new AI division, and will aim to “rekindle” a more cheerful internal culture through better communication, career growth, and snacks www.wi…
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A quote from my essay in the WSJ, “How to Maintain Our Privacy in the AI Age” – available here as a free PDF papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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DOGE fed grant descriptions into ChatGPT and rubber-stamped the outputs. A court said that's the government's own conduct — not the chatbot's. Jordan Ascher explains why the decision is a landmark for AI accountability.
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Ugh. New evidence that LLMs' sycophancy is degrading humanity news.stanford.edu/stories/2026...
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If Ford started selling vehicles for $10,000 below cost, I bet there would be huge demand for new Ford vehicles. Does that mean they should go build a bunch of factories because of the huge demand?! Great analogy from my brother to this excellent piece by @davekarpf.bsky.social.
Despite its cover imagery, I might be adding "An Inquirer’s Guide to Ethics in AI" to my undergrad (honors) Data, Ethics, and Society class this fall. broadviewpress.com/product/an-i...
My campus has created a prompt so students can ask AI whether it is ok to use AI. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.marquette.edu/generative-a...
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A guy collected 150,000 photos of people's poop from a stool-tracking AI app, then tried to sell the dataset. Enshittification has reached its final, literal form.
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