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AI executives "don’t seem to feel much pressure to win people over," @michellegoldberg.bsky.social writes. The fact that they don't feel constrained by public sentiment "shows how broken America’s democratic feedback loop has become.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/o...
GAID aligns with established behavioral addiction criteria. Affected individuals struggle to limit AI interaction despite negative consequences. Attempts to reduce usage may lead to withdrawal symptoms such as anxiety, irritability, or restlessness. www.sciencedirect.com/scien…
I'll have more to say when the final version of the strategy is published, but the overwhelming emphasis on adoption, infra, & instrumentalist notions of "AI literacy" doesn't bode well for those concerned about trust, safety, equity, labor & human rights, etc. www.cbc.ca/news…
Canada has unveiled its long-awaited national AI strategy, but experts say key questions around regulation, privacy, and accountability remain unanswered. Can Ottawa translate its AI ambitions into public confidence? https://thewalrus.ca/canada-ai-plan/
Lots to digest here but one piece that sticks out is the proposed regulatory framework is mostly voluntary and opaque. Hinges on voluntary certification and selective safety partnerships & evaluations behind closed doors without clear public oversight mechanisms www.pm.gc.ca/e…
Super excited for our CRAFT workshop on trans AI policy at FAccT, co-organized w @jhereia.bsky.social & @anabrandusescu.bsky.social, come join us if you're at the conference! More details here: programs.sigchi.org/facct/2026/p...
States are rolling out generative AI tools to thousands of public employees, but governance and transparency standards often lag behind deployment, writes Javaid Iqbal Sofi. He discusses the sharply different approaches in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Colorado, and Cali…
How to automate your way out of polycrisis arxiv.org/abs/2403.00465
I wrote this piece on the future of AI regulation in Canada when a Conservative election win still seemed likely - the regulatory approach in Canada's new AI strategy is even more conservative than what I anticipated the Conservative approach would be montrealethics.ai/the-dea…
Thread of some of my work for new followers "AI Countergovernance" is an essay that provides a playbook & toolkit for communities and workers to resist harmful AI policies and take AI regulation into their own hands www.midnightsunmag.ca/ai-countergo...
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...
Also a good piece focused on the regulatory capture currently underway in the EU www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-and-...
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
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
Reading my AI bible backwards with my AI bodyguard in the AI background on linkedin .com
Center = blair. Left = members they follow (green edges). Right = members who follow them (blue edges). Top = mutual follows (orange edges, slightly larger). Drag any node to reposition; click to open that profile.
