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Multiple readings Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones Policy & governance · 2 attributable reactions Shared emphasis AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Established Culture, work & education Development 20d ago
⚡ 384 h early
Meta glasses face recognition rollout

Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

12 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Justin Hendrix Kashmir Hill dell cameron evacide Katie Drummond Eileen Clancy 🧿 Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue Andrew Couts +4
How the network is reacting Experts are approaching this through 2 distinct lenses.
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Policy & governance

1 expert

Rules, institutions and accountability.

“The Meta Ray-Ban creep glasses already have facial-recognition capabilities--Meta just hasn't enabled them yet. www.wired.com/story/meta-s...”

Building & implementation

1 expert

How teams are shipping and applying it.

“While dormant, three AI models — for face detection, cropping, and encoding — have been pushed from Meta's servers. The system is designed to pull faceprints from those servers and store them locally. (Meta says it isn't building a central face database.) w…”

2 experts discussed this · 7 posts
dell cameron: NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.
Justin Hendrix: NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.
dell cameron: While dormant, three AI models — for face detection, cropping, and encoding — have been pushed from Meta's servers. The system is designed to pull faceprints from those servers and store them local…
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Primary source wired.com ↗
Established AI field signal Development 5d ago
⚡ 7 h early
Google spiralling AI costs

Google burning through cash with spiralling AI costs

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

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Mar Hicks Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue

“www.bbc.com/news/article... Google in the poorhouse! "The company's free cash flow, the cash it maintained after paying for operations and investments, came in at negative $5.9bn (£4.3bn) for the first time in at least a decade, according to its past financ…”

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Established AI field signal Signal 13d ago
⚡ 35 h early

How chaos surrounding ai can sink college presidency

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Olivia Guest Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue Jed Brown

“This prez fell prey to reflexive "AI first" 'tudes www.chronicle.com/article/how-... This seems right "Clay Shirky [of NYU]... suggested that the best thing" a prez "can do...is to fall back on what it has always been good at: “convene a broad, complicated …”

“Live by the slop, die by the slop. > “Jay telling us to question [AI’s] output and then asking AI to rank the UWs and then presenting it to us is comical,” Noah Fritz, a regent, who is a student, wrote to Jack Salzwedel, another regent, during the February …”

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Developing Responsible AI Development 1d ago
⚡ 174 h early

AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring

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Data & Society Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue
How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing concern & critique.
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Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“New research suggests that LLMs can develop their own biases from experience, separate from their training data. This can lead them to stereotype job applicants even more than humans do. www.technologyreview.com/2026/07/20/1...”

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Established Culture, work & education Signal 18d ago
⚡ 409 h early

Artificial Humanities Fictional Perspective on

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Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue Nina Beguš

“#CriticalAI4.1, Be sure to check out literary scholar James Dobson's drawing on of AI interdisciplinarian Nina Beguš' work to explain what humanists must do to effectively make sense of gen AI! read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...”

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Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue: #CriticalAI4.1, Professor James Dobson turns to the work of interdisciplinary AI scholar Nina Beguš to uncover the ways humanists can respond to and make sense of gen AI technologies. read.dukeupre…
Nina Beguš: #CriticalAI4.1, Professor James Dobson turns to the work of interdisciplinary AI scholar Nina Beguš to uncover the ways humanists can respond to and make sense of gen AI technologies. read.dukeupre…
Nina Beguš: The book is 50% off until the end of June: doi.org/10.3998/mpub... Also available under open access and free on Kindle! Another book in this framework, also on sale, is coming out in the fall: essa…
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Established AI field signal Signal 14d ago

The Mechanic and the Luddite Ruthless Criticism

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Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue

“#CriticalAI4.1, Its early, but you know what I want for Christmas? Media scholar Gavin Mueller's essay on how STS scholar Jathan Sadowski's work can better structure the opposition to corporate tech's expansion of AI! Don't forget to check it out! read.duke…”

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Established AI field signal Signal 15d ago

More Than Words How to Think About Writing in the

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Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue

“#CriticalAI4.1, Remember the Titans? No! Remember to check out literary scholar Bruce Robbin's reflection on John Warner's work where he argues that the soulless prose of AI generated writing is reflective of human writing in bureaucratic, impersonal contex…”

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Established AI field signal Signal 20d ago

The Digital Closet How the Internet Became

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Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue

“#CriticalAI4.1, Don't forget to check out digital studies scholar Kat Brewster's assessment of the heteronormative biases of AI algorithms! read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...”

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Established Culture, work & education Signal 19d ago

Artificial Intelligence Modern Magic or Dangerous

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Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue

“#CriticalAI4.1, Reminder to check out historian Amira Moeding's use of Yorick Wilks' work to challenge the idea that AI systems can "understand" language! read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...”

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