Reva Schwartz 

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DC resident, gov researcher in trustworthy and responsible AI, background in linguistics, phonetics, and human language technology, trying to help people understand what socio -technical even means, personal account (she/her) 
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Reva Schwartz Sep 10, 2023
Paris MarxSep 10, 2023

In this week’s Disconnect Roundup, I talk about a technology I actually think is good and cool, plus provide a breakdown of what we know from the new Elon Musk documentary along with labor updates and other news you might have missed!

https://www.disconnect.blog/p/roundup-a-tech-that-might-save-us

#tech #elonmusk

Roundup: A tech that might save us?

Read to the end for a museum exhibition on a fascinating tech project

Disconnect
Reva Schwartz Aug 29, 2023
Jason Pettus Aug 29, 2023
Social media makes it sound like every single person in America either slavishly uses AI bots or passionately hates them, but it turns out that most Americans have never used an LLM, don't really know what it is, and couldn't care less. https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/28/survey-finds-relatively-few-americans-actually-use-or-fear-chatgpt/
TechCrunch is part of the Yahoo family of brands

Reva Schwartz Aug 23, 2023
Bastian Greshake TzovarasAug 23, 2023
«Automation blindness is inescapable – and it's the inconvenient truth that #AI boosters conspicuously fail to mention when they are discussing how they will justify the trillion-dollar valuations they ascribe to super-advanced autocomplete systems. Instead, they wave around "humans in the loop," using low-waged workers as props in a Big Store con, just a way to (temporarily) cool the marks.» @pluralistic’s great take on why human supervision of AI won’t work. https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/23/automation-blindness/
Pluralistic: Supervised AI isn’t (23 August 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Reva Schwartz Aug 16, 2023
Public Interest JobsAug 14, 2023

If you've ever wanted to consider joining federal service but aren't familiar with USAJobs, the government's website for job listings, now's the chance to learn all about it!

The Office of Personnel Management is hosting an information session on using USAJobs this Wednesday, August 16th from 11:30-1pm ET!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/navigating-usajobs-tickets-691674094837?aff=oddtdtcreator

Navigating USAJOBS

In this session, members of the USAJOBS Engagement team will provide participants with information on navigating the USAJOBS website.

Eventbrite
Reva Schwartz Aug 7, 2023
Rob PegoraroAug 7, 2023
Interesting piece by @robinsonmeyer about a climate measure tucked into last year's appropriations bill that will make the U.S. government the first in the world to pay companies to remove carbon dioxide from the air. The initial funding isn't much, but Meyer explains that government funding over time can be an outsized lever to increase adoption of CO2 capture.
https://heatmap.news/economy/carbon-removal-us-government
The U.S. Government Will Pay to Remove Carbon From Atmosphere

The key climate technology lands a big customer.

Heatmap News
Reva Schwartz Aug 1, 2023
Upol EhsanAug 1, 2023

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OpenAI quietly shut down its "AI" detector.

Did shutting it down undo the harms?

No, its Algorithmic Imprint lives on.

Here's how ⤵️

#AI #ML #chatgpt #mastodon #responsibleAI #AIethics #generativeAI

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/07/openai-discontinues-its-ai-writing-detector-due-to-low-rate-of-accuracy/

OpenAI discontinues its AI writing detector due to “low rate of accuracy”

Research shows that any AI writing detector can be defeated—and false positives abound.

Ars Technica
Reva Schwartz Jul 31, 2023
Lauren WeinsteinJul 30, 2023
I am not enamored of arguments saying that the solution to AI problems is "educating the users" to be more skeptical, or to fact check, etc. Education is not going to solve the problems. We've been trying to educate people about account security and phishes and other scams for decades, and about misinformation for years, and it's all only getting worse. Most people are nontechnical, have busy lives, and do not have the background nor interest to learn about how these systems work, any more than how a toaster works. It is the responsibility of these systems to be safe, not to try push the responsibility onto the users.
Reva Schwartz Jul 27, 2023
Show threadAral BalkanJul 27, 2023

Angela Davis says it best:

“Virtually every institution seized upon that term, ‘diversity.’ And I always ask, ‘Well, where is justice here?’ Are you simply going to ask those who have been marginalized or subjugated to come inside of the institution and participate in the same process that led precisely to their marginalization? Diversity and inclusion without substantive change, without radical change, accomplishes nothing.”

https://jezebel.com/angela-davis-on-racial-reckoning-diversity-and-inclusi-1844853369

#diversity #justice #neoliberalism

Angela Davis on Racial Reckoning: 'Diversity and Inclusion Without Radical Change Accomplishes Nothing'

For any fashion or culture magazine, the September issue is most important, anchoring their fall and winter coverage. This chaotic year, Vanity Fair has used the opportunity much more wisely than their contemporaries. The Great Fire, a special issue of the mag, which was guest-edited by Ta-Nehisi Coates, explores our…

Jezebel
Reva Schwartz Jul 16, 2023
Paris MarxJul 16, 2023
i see the future of computing is progressing well 🫠
Reva Schwartz Jul 5, 2023
ColleenJul 5, 2023
The Fourth of July in Petworth continues to be a spectacle.