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I'm looking for a new PhD student! Particularly someone who is interested in areas including: the work required by practitioners to address social values/ethics in tech design; tech non-use & refusal; tech and urban transit; or tech worker histories.

More about the research I'm doing and how I work with PhD students here: https://ethicsinfrastructures.lmc.gatech.edu/2024/10/26/a-guide-to-working-in-the-creating-ethics-infrastructures-lab/

Georgia Tech Digital Media PhD applications are due December 8, more info about the program and application process here: https://dm.lmc.gatech.edu/admissions/prospective-students/ph-d-applicants/

A Guide to Working in the Creating Ethics Infrastructures Lab

Annabel Rothschild (she/her)Nov 12

Professoring field notes, Fall '25: intro to AI lecture slide deck for Deep Learning starts with Transformers (sequence-to-sequence vs self/multi-attention) ends up with feminist standpoint theory and collapse of the minority (vs majority) voice and why LLMs are authoritarian machines.

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Annabel Rothschild (she/her)Aug 11, 2025

Shout out LinkedIn for telling me _I_ don't talk well enough and that AI can do a better job!

Annabel Rothschild (she/her)Aug 11, 2025

How do you write an AI course policy for a course in...AI? I'm trying to figure that out right now, with a working draft here: https://annabelrothschild.com/2025/08/11/ai-policy-for-an-ai-course/.

I'd love feedback -- we'll be talking in depth about all the FACcT* issues around AI throughout the course, this is just a spoiler.

AI Policy for an AI Course – Annabel Rothschild

Annabel Rothschild (she/her)May 2, 2025

Norppalivebot May 2, 2025

#Norppalive on alkanut! Yritän saada automaattisen tunnistamisen päälle tämän päivän aikana

https://wwf.fi/luontolive/norppalive/

Saimaannorppa on klikkauksen päässä

Erittäin uhanalaisten saimaannorppien köllöttelyä seurataan WWF:n Luontoliven suorassa lähetyksessä.

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Annabel Rothschild (she/her)Jan 24, 2025

Had a lot of conversations with soon-to-be BA/S CS graduates about SWE jobs outside FAANG. Considering recent news about Costco upholding DEI values, I'd like to point out there are 95 (!) open IT jobs, many of them in Seattle and similar cities https://phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf02/ats/careers/v2/jobSearch?act=redirectCwsV2&cws=41&org=COSTCO

Career Center

Annabel Rothschild (she/her)Oct 7, 2024

I really respect the attention to detail, but has ACM rights review ever heard of a state university lol...pretty sure a lot of public unis have some part of the location in the name

Annabel Rothschild (she/her)Jul 16, 2024

"while millions of Americans are advised to turn down their air conditioning to conserve energy, millions are also asking ChatGPT for an energy-sucking synonym, recipe, or haiku. "

So if I ask ChatGPT how to avoid using AC, am I cancelling out my own environmental "win"? Love that for humanity.

https://fortune.com/2024/07/12/ai-bizarro-world-agi-electricity-carbon-emissions/

AI’s Bizarro World, we’re marching towards AGI while carbon emissions soar

AI supporters talk up how artificial intelligence will benefit humanity while downplaying its harm to the environment.

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Annabel Rothschild (she/her)Jul 16, 2024

Had to double check my politics when I realized Goldman Sachs and I are on the same page (gen AI is hype, contributing to climate change, etc.) but for once, we've actually genuinely in accord 🤪 https://www.goldmansachs.com/intelligence/pages/gs-research/gen-ai-too-much-spend-too-little-benefit/report.pdf?ref=404media.co

Annabel Rothschild (she/her)May 29, 2024

asking this question on 29 Mai...