grew up in a theater. wandering through the borderlands of data, critical theory, politics, power, culture, democracy &&&. phd in progress @ ASU.
Joined January 2011
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Ben Gansky retweeted
26 Dec 2023
"The challenge of 'keeping up' with digital transformation is not 'to integrate these tools as rapidly as possible'; it's to secure the core integrity of professionals’ responsibilities in a rapidly digitizing world" cigionline.org/publications/… @seanmmcdonald @bengansky
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Ben Gansky retweeted
6 Dec 2023
Bridging the gap between digitally transformed professional practice and professional governance will require training new professionals to do so.
@seanmmcdonald and @bengansky explore the role of professional education programs to address this.
Details:cigionline.org/publications/…
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Ben Gansky retweeted
23 Dec 2023
How do professional governance organizations teach their members how to navigate digital transformation in their fields of practice?
This paper by @seanmmcdonald and @bengansky explains:
cigionline.org/publications/…
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21 Oct 2023
Looking for accounts of how Google changed intra-org comms and other infrastructure in response to Maven protests and 2018 walkout campaign... (referenced but not detailed in this LOGIC interview, for instance: logicmag.io/distribution/now…)... @mer__edith @bentarnoff help me out 🙏?
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Ben Gansky retweeted
15 Sep 2023
the frauds who claim that this is a credible threat are charlatans
the billionaires who fund their work are robber barons
the institutions that give them titles and honors are money-laundering schemes
the government officials who parrot this bullshit back out are useful idiots
14 Sep 2023
Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority.
And Europe should lead the way, building a new global AI framework built on three pillars: guardrails, governance and guiding innovation ↓
ALT President von der Leyen addressing the European Parliament and standing in the hemicycle.
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Ben Gansky retweeted
28 Aug 2023
This is the same Scale AI that is involved in the recent US announcement of taking "New Actions to Promote Responsible AI Innovation that Protects Americans’ Rights and Safety". whitehouse.gov/briefing-room…
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Ben Gansky retweeted
28 Aug 2023
"Rights groups and labor researchers say Scale AI is among a number of American AI companies that have not abided by basic labor standards for their workers abroad." washingtonpost.com/world/202…
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Ben Gansky retweeted
17 Aug 2023
📢NEW PAPER!
Where @davidthewid, @sarahbmyers & I unpack what Open Source AI even is.
We find that the terms ‘open’ & ‘open source’ are often more marketing than technical descriptor, and that even the most 'open' systems don't alone democratize AI 1/
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
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Ben Gansky retweeted
30 Jun 2023
A major bottlenecks to this work has been compute constraints. Open source without access to compute only serves big corp & elite insts.
eg. only downloading LAION 2B-en requires 6.2TB of storage additional compute to carry out analyses such as running Pysentimiento.
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Ben Gansky retweeted
30 Jun 2023
These datasets are of 2 types: open, “freely available”, & mainly scraped from the CommonCrawl (e.g. LAION-400M & LAION-5B), & those that are closed datasets curated internally by Big Tech corp labs (such as Google’s ALIGN 1.7B/ALIGN 6.6B, JFT-5B, & OpenAI’s WebImageText-WIT.
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Ben Gansky retweeted
30 Jun 2023
“Scrape-first-ask-questions-later” data filtering culture, generating plausibly illegal gargantuan datasets & models has elicited a slew of copyright lawsuits, enmasse fetishization of women’s bodies, outright ban of model outputs from forums & marquee of poor quality datasets
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Ben Gansky retweeted
30 Jun 2023
New paper!📢
On Hate Scaling Laws for Data-Swamps with @vinayprabhu, Sang Han & @VishnuBoddeti
Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2306.13141
Code: github.com/vinayprabhu/hate_…
WARNING: Contains examples of hateful text & NSFW images that might be disturbing, distressing, &/or offensive
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Ben Gansky retweeted
Deeply disturbing insights from @algorithmwatch's newsletter:
The C4 data set, which is used to train large language models such as ChatGPT, is extremely biased towards seeing AI as a super-intelligence over what it is - (part of) a socio-technical system.
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23 Jun 2023
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23 Jun 2023
Fascinating to note that a new imaginary in tech global governance architecture— from information environment (mis/disinformation) to AI — is to “borrow” from scientific bodies.
Three major ones thrown out are CERN, IAEA and IPCC.
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Ben Gansky retweeted
8 Jun 2023
You really, really should not be relying on AI detectors for classroom use.
This new paper shows that not only are they very easy to defeat by just prompting a couple of times, but they have insane false-positive rates against non-native English speakers. arxiv.org/abs/2304.02819
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Ben Gansky retweeted
20 Jun 2023
I strongly agree w concerns about the concentration of AI power, but disagree that open source AI provides respite. In many respects increased corporate control has happened not in spite of OSS but through capturing it. More soon on this from @davidthewid @mer__edith and me.
20 Jun 2023
We should work to avoid a similar single point of failure through concentration of AI power with the same cloud companies. Open source AI can help with that...
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this kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most american cities
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Ben Gansky retweeted
31 May 2023
Machine learning is no excuse to break the law. Today's settlement on Amazon Alexa should set off alarms for parents across the country - and is a warning for every AI company sprinting to acquire more and more data.
My full statement with @LinaKhanFTC and @RKSlaughterFTC:
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Suicide hotlines promise anonymity. Dozens of their websites send sensitive data to Facebook. trib.al/JpocKeV
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