"Whenever a person delegates a decision to an LLM, they are trying to off-load accountability for that decision, and if a company that sells an LLM portrays the product as having a moral center, it is offering a way for its customers to abdicate their responsibilities."
Cynthia Khoo
Articles & links
Emma Weil from @upturn.org plugs their Benefits Tech Advocacy Hub — if you're a technologist who wants to do good, go sign up to help! www.btah.org #FAccT2026
Danica @danicapawlick.bsky.social makes evergreen point that all this is not new. Anne @apasek.bsky.social suggests "sustainable AI" may be rhetorical decoy (cf @cyberlyra.bsky.social @zephoria.bsky.social et al below), & can't rely on needing *all data* to act, b/c what if ne…
(But see also: mronline.org/2025/05/01/t... — via @anabrandusescu.bsky.social) #FAccT2026
See also: "It’s crucial for scaling up data collection that chatbots... are fun to play with. [W]hen we play we are more open, more vulnerable, ...most willing to share, and most susceptible to suggestion." -Emily Tucker @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social
This part of the keynote is starting to pre-empt one of the excellent papers in the Global Conflicts session I'm chairing later today! (Doing separate thread on that.) On how Israel's Lavender and other AI-based targeting systems in Gaza violate intl humanitarian law. #FAccT2026
Article co-authored by Tina Park & @mbogen.bsky.social on example earlier re insurers refusing to cover social media companies under certain circs, or in this case, specifically Meta: "a Delaware judge ruled... Meta’s liability insurers are not obligated to cover [legal defens…
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