Technocultural Ethicist | Assoc. Prof & Director @digethics@LoyolaChicago | Author of Digital Game Culture in Korea: The Social at Play (2023) | AE @CACMmag
has anyone tracked the disappearance of bowling alleys, skate rinks, arcades (*not* barcades), shopping malls, and generally low-cost safe places for teenagers to hang out in american cities/suburbs?
1. Using AI tools to trick, mislead, or defraud people is illegal.
This week @FTC announced an enforcement sweep against multiple firms that baselessly hyped their AI products or sold AI tools that turbocharged deceptive practices.
ftc.gov/news-events/news/pre…
The @Suntimes, @WBEZ and @chalkbeatCHI just published an extensive voter guide tool for Chicago's first-ever school board elections!
Search your address, learn candidates' credentials, see how much $$ they've raised and how they compare on top issues: suntimes.com/voterguide
Meet all of the people running in Chicago’s historic school board elections! Early voting starts next week on Oct. 3. Now is the time to get informed and be ready to cast your ballot.
Years ago I was on a search committee at Trinity College and we were puzzling over one letter of rec that seemed sort of lukewarm until my dear colleague Jerry Watts held it up and pointed at the signature line and said "She is British!"
Data for Policy 2024 pic! I'm in the second row looking super happy after presenting "Gaming Data: Digital urban twins, open data platforms and the ethics surrounding governing data," w Fran Meissner and Michael Nagenborg. TY @Loyola_SOC for yr support! @digethics@simlabchicago
Reppin' the 312 in London. Data for Policy 2024 Day 1 gets off to a roaring start!
The Center for Digital Ethics and Policy at Loyola University Chicago @digethics@SIMLabChicago
📢📢#CriticalAI DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCES FOR TEACHING CRITICAL AI LITERACIES
DESIGN JUSTICE LABS is an NEH and RU-sponsored set of resources for teaching about "generative AI" from design justice and critical AI perspectives. rutgers.box.com/s/v1ywq3701c…
"The history of AI is often told as the story of machines getting smarter over time. What's lost is the human element in the narrative, how intelligent machines are designed, trained, and powered by human minds and bodies." spectrum.ieee.org/untold-his…
BREAKING: The head of Israel workers union the @histadruthadash decided to order a general strike on Monday to protest against the Netanyahu government and call for a hostage deal. This is an unprecedented step that hasn't happened since October 7. Last time this happened was in March 2023 after Netanyahu tried to fire minister of defense Gallant
Modern academic: "Balancing research, teaching, and writing isn't easy, which is why it's so important to habituate good scholarly routine. Discipline. Focus. Drive."
19th century academic: "I take cocaine" .
Automated license plate readers already can create a massive surveillance dragnet of people’s cars and driving patterns, EFF’s @Maassive told @TheIntercept, but face recognition technology adds “a whole new dimension to the privacy invasion.”
theintercept.com/2024/08/27/…
Interested in this argument? I miiight have also written a book that talks about gaming and addiction. "If we want to know why many teens choose...to spend 10 or 20 hours a week playing games, rather than pathologising them, we ought to look around us."
theguardian.com/games/articl…
Reppin' the 312 in London. Data for Policy 2024 Day 1 gets off to a roaring start!
The Center for Digital Ethics and Policy at Loyola University Chicago @digethics@SIMLabChicago