Katie (Kathryn) Conrad

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Researcher with public evidence across AI research, Culture, work & education, Responsible AI.

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Prof. of English at University of Kansas. Tech and culture. AI ethics. Critical AI literacy. Pandora’s Bot on Substack. Library of Babel Group. Zine publisher. #aiethics #criticalailiteracy

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Katie (Kathryn) Conrad @kconrad.bsky.social

Very excited to see this launch! The Library of Babel Group is proud to be on this list, a collaborative venture with Karen Hao, We and AI, DAIR, and Refugee Law Lab. airesistlist.org

The AI Resist List airesistlist.org
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Karen Hao launched the AI Resist List on the one-year anniversary of her book Empire of AI as a publicly accessible, community-contributed database.
  • The database organizes entries by 'Pillars of Support' sustaining AI empires, a framework adapted from Choose Democracy's authoritarianism resistance model.
  • Entries span labor actions, legal challenges, and grassroots campaigns across gig work, healthcare, education, and law enforcement sectors.
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social

While we’re on the subject of companies and journalists locating accountability in “AI” instead of the companies that design, test, and deploy their models, can I remind everyone that the UN, of all places, is doing the exact same thing? www.techpolicy.press/how-the-uns-...

How the UN’s Scientific Panel Erases Human Responsibility for AI | TechPolicy.Press techpolicy.press
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Salvaggio traces how OECD's 2019 'human-defined objectives' language got stripped by the UN panel's 2026 definition of an AI system.
  • The essay argues the panel's line about chatbots 'developing sycophancy' hides that RLHF and an engagement-driven business model produced the behavior.
  • He offers the IPCC as a better template: it consistently attributes warming to human activity rather than to a self-directed system.
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My daughter: “Never date a guy who uses AI. Because he doesn’t understand consent.”

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