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Slides and transcript from my talk on the challenges of designing with language models

Extreme weather is ‘smacking us in the face’ with worse to come, but a ‘tiny window’ of hope remains, say leading climate scientists

A handbook to help you imagine better responses to ‘problems’

Many of the details of how the EU's Digital Services Act will be enforced are still being worked out, writes Gabby Miller.

With Collective Action School, Xiaowei Wang hopes to redefine what it means to work in tech.

Shadow AI is potentially a lot more pernicious and pervasive than Shadow IT, says Abhishek Gupta.

A literary analytics project called Prosecraft has shuttered after backlash from the writing community. It's a harbinger of a bigger cultural tide shift.

Tamara Kneese, Data & Society Research Institute Download full report here. In the second half of this report, I examine organizing campaigns and coalitions—in historical and contemporary contexts both inside and outside of the tech industry—that seek to connect labor rights to environmental justice goals. This section goes beyond automation and deskilling concerns connected to […]

Tamara Kneese, Data & Society Research Institute Download full report here. Introduction In the second half of 2023, generative AI is dominating headlines. Policymakers, technologists, and activists are all grappling with its potential implications for communities and the planet. Integrating LLMs (large language models) into search engines may multiply the carbon emissions associated with each […]

The most marvellous app I’ve had the good fortune to click on has become the subject of the latest moral panic

Tokenization process gives unfair advantage to English.

Employees describe the psychological trauma of reading and viewing graphic content, low pay and abrupt dismissals

The sheer expense of operating chatbots could throttle the artificial intelligence boom.

The EFF will award Alexandra Elbakyan, founder of 'pirate' library Sci-Hub, for her efforts to provide access to scientific knowledge.

Today the risks of artificial intelligence are clear — but the warning signs have been there all along

When OpenAI added the GPTBot support page, it also introduced a way to block the service from scraping your website through robots.txt files.

CHANI, an astrology-focused tech and media company, is showing how caring for employees while giving funds to a social impact organization can also grow your bottom line.

This startup wants to help millions of people whose languages are marginalized online gain better access to AI tools

A new paper shows that the behavior of ChatGPT changes over time. But it doesn't necessarily mean that the model degrades.

Tiny Awards is a celebration of the "small, playful, and heartfelt web." I helped narrow the nominees down to 16 finalists, now you decide who wins: voting's open until July 20.

If I started Thesis Whisperer today, 10th of July 2023, you would never hear about me. I built a readership in my little corner of academia, and some measure of influence, by sharing my work online…

Should we see billionaires as innovators whose curiosity will bring benefits to the rest of us? David Blunt explores the ethics of innovation.

Western men are grappling with their first experience of colonialism in the only way they know how – assuming they're the first ones here!

Using generative AI (like ChatGPT) in business improves users’ performance by 66%, averaged across 3 case studies. More complex tasks have bigger gains, and less-skilled workers benefit the most from AI use.

The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and the most at risk.

Over half of essays written by people were wrongly flagged as AI-made, with implications for students and job applicants

Training and running AI models emits a vast amount of carbon—but AI is also being used to boost fossil fuel extraction and generate climate misinformation

Industry narratives attempt to stave off regulation, but large-scale AI needs more scrutiny, not less.

Public corporations exist to generate returns for their shareholders