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Carissa Véliz

338 trust researcher @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 19,339 followers
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Researcher with public evidence across AI research, Responsible AI.

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Associate Professor at the University of Oxford. Author of Prophecy ("Witty and surprising...intelligent" - NYT) and Privacy Is Power (An Economist Book of the Year). TED Speaker. Posts about #privacy, #AIethics, #philosophy, #philtech
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At least we get plenty of irony these days. #AIEthics Very revealing quote: “I felt no joy in the work or that I was contributing to society in any way.” www.404media.co/people-train...

People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI 404media.co
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  • Contractors hired to rate ChatGPT responses are being fired for using AI tools including LLMs, GPTZero, Grammarly, and AI translation services.
  • OpenAI's Project Lily has hundreds of contractors read real user prompts and rate responses for sycophancy or anthropomorphizing.
  • Reviewers flag repetitive words, AI-style punctuation like em dashes, and unusually fast completion as tells for AI use.
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Sometimes we make the simple complicated. Meta's current business model depends on #surveillance; therefore, the incentive is for it to design products to further that surveillance, not to benefit you (much less your friends and family!). www.wired.com/story/muse-c...

Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family wired.com
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  • Meta's Muse system prompt instructs the agent to keep a page on every person in a user's life, refreshed on an hourly cadence.
  • Independent researcher Karan Joshi extracted the instructions by asking Muse through its own chat interface to copy and share its software files.
  • Profile sections include Facts, History, The Relationship, In Common, Open Threads and Strengthening, logging birthdays, moves, savings goals and anniversaries.
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Reminder: democracy depends on a commitment to truth. "South Africa withdrew its Draft National Artificial Intelligence Policy because the document cited fake research, created by AI." Similar cases have happened in the US, Australia, Canada, and EU. #AIEthics restofworld.org/…

Fact-check fail: When AI hallucinations derailing governments - Rest of World restofworld.org
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  • South Africa withdrew its Draft National AI Policy in April 2026 after at least six of 67 bibliography sources were flagged as AI fabrications.
  • Deloitte refunded $290,000 of $440,000 charged to Australia's Department of Employment and Workplace Relations for a report with fabricated academic references.
  • EU cybersecurity agency ENISA admitted 26 of 492 footnotes in its threat reports were incorrect.
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"The most promising thing is that people really care about #privacy. Poll after poll shows it. They’re angry about how technology companies are unleashing new technologies recklessly, without accountability." By @daniel-solove.bsky.social www.wsj.com/tech/cyberse...

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  • Daniel Solove argues in the WSJ that consumer-control privacy laws are failing because digital technologies have become too complicated for individuals to manage.
  • His fix shifts responsibility to companies whenever they create an unreasonable risk of harm through uses of data or through AI algorithms.
  • Proposed measures include rigorous data minimization, fiduciary duties, liability for negligent design, liability for harmful algorithms, and multi-stakeholder review.
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The most important cost is not the £320,000 and the 100 hours of police time, it's the loss in civil liberties. There is no democracy without privacy, and we erode them both at our peril. More in Privacy Is Power: amzn.eu/d/0gCH29i5 www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Trial of live facial recognition in London stations leads to a false positive and no arrests theguardian.com
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If you study #philosophy, not only might you have a job (despite your parents' worries), but you might even have an *interesting* job! "In 2024 (...) 7% of those who had studied computer science were unemployed, against just 5.1% of philosophers." www.economist.com/science-and…

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"A way to help more students develop a moral compass is to make ethics part of their curriculum." By @adamgrant.bsky.social I'd add: Cheaters forever live in fear and risk of being caught, and they miss out on the satisfaction of true achievement. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/26/o...

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So very grateful to Dr. Joy Buolamwini (@poetofcode.bsky.social) for giving a copy of #Prophecy to Pope Leo XIV! The work of @ajlunited.bsky.social is extraordinary, and Joy's own book, Unmasking AI, is a tour de force; any work on #AIEthics would be better for citing it. #Books #authors

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