Can't wait for our CRAFT workshop on trans AI policy at ACM FAccT this Sunday, June 28 at 2:15 ET, co-organized with @blairaf.com, @jhereia.bsky.social, and @techlissa.bsky.social! programs.sigchi.org/facct/2026/p...
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Ana Brandusescu
Researcher, policy analyst, social scientist. PhD-ing on political power and privatization in the scale of AI governance.
she/her | Montreal | anabrandusescu.com
What they're sharing
Conference Programs programs.sigchi.org
The Original Turing Test Was a Drag Show slate.com
Making sure you're not a bot! mronline.org
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Ana Brandusescu reposted
LinkedIn guys once again mocking my work on trans AI policy then posting about making computers pass so they can win Alan Turing's drag race slate.com/life/2024/06...
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- Patricia Fancher argues in Slate that Turing's 1950 test began as a game in which a man tried to pass as a woman.
- Replacing that man with a machine made the imitation game, in Fancher's framing, 'a computer in drag.'
- Fancher pegs OpenAI's May 2024 Sky voice demo as proof that today's assistants default to a compliant feminine persona.
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Ana Brandusescu reposted
(But see also: mronline.org/2025/05/01/t... — via @anabrandusescu.bsky.social) #FAccT2026
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Recent commentary
I didn't get to ask my question for the Canadian AI Policy in a Global Context panel at #FAccT2026 so hoping it can be answered on here. Re: @cohere.com's current and/or past partnership with Palantir. What has Cohere learned from choosing to partner with a company complicit in human rights abuses?
It is profoundly dystopian that Canada's PM and the Minister of AI and Innovation unveiled the new national AI strategy at a hospital.
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