Just in case anyone is confused about where I stand... you can be proudly and loudly against antisemitism and also against genocide.

What would it take for me to feel safe wearing a kippah after Bondi? | Glen Berman | The Guardian 'I do not feel safe wearing a kippah because I fear that to many Australians this would be interpreted as a sign that I support Israel. I do not want people to make assumptions about my politics based on my appearance..' 'So, what does Jewish safety mean after Bondi? The trouble is I do not want to live in a fortress. I do not want to live in a society where protest is banned, where politicians legislate what political slogans are acceptableand what are not, where armed police patrol Bondi and stand guard outside Jewish schools, where universities and cultural institutions are continually surveilled, where our borders are closed and migrant communities are treated as suspect. I do not want my safety to depend on poorly thought out authoritarian policies enacted in a kneejerk race to score political wins. And, make no mistake, these policies are poorly thought out. Banning legitimate political debate and protest will make it easier for extremists to radicalise people who already feel disenfranchised and silenced by our political system. Doubling down on the conflation of anti-Israel protest with antisemitism will only lead more people to disregard and discount threats to Jewish safety.' 'The trouble is, safety is a relational concept. One is not safe in the abstract; one is safe from something. Those who want us to live in a fortress are very clear here. For them, Jewish safety means safety from Palestinians, pro-Palestine protesters and Muslim migrants, and the path to Jewish safety is immigration reform. This is an Islamophobic, misinformed and dehumanising view of Jewish safety, but one we must engage with because it is being spread across our news and social media. It’s also a view of safety taken straight from the playbook of far-right populists: weaponise a legitimate fear to build a political coalition by attacking a minority group.' theguardian.com/australia-ne…

After one too many conversations about the ways GenAI peer review = shitshow for all involved, I dashed off this slightly polemic commentary on how I think we should talk about GenAI as an epistemic carcinogen. Welcome feedback! link.springer.com/article/10…

The role govt research funders & uni administrations play in incentivising academics to seek corporate investment is sometimes missed in discussions of corporate capture of #AI. My #AoIR2024 paper explored this - and the extended abstract is now up at: doi.org/10.5210/spir.v2024i0….

I'm at @NeurIPSConf , presenting this work with @glenberman, @nedcpr and @wes_deng . Come check out our poster at the EvalEval workshop on Sunday, or DM me to chat!

*drum roll* Grand reveal! AusSTS is returning to Naarm/Melbourne in 2025 so save the date for 9 - 11 July. The theme for #AusSTS2025 is Signals and Noises

If you’re at #CSCW2024, join our SIG on "Collaboratively Designing and Evaluating Responsible AI Interventions"! We’ll explore how CSCW researchers can contribute to RAI research and practice. No need to register—just drop by from 2:30 to 4:00 pm CST in Room Cartago!

📢 NEW PUB! @nedcpr, @margaret_eby, and I wrote this last Spring to theorize the disorienting impact ChatGPT has on social institutions & norms. 2 years later, everything feels different, but many aspects of AI development remain the same. Read more here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…

In Queensland, there is serious debate re a government bailout of a casino which last year was found to be laundering money to save ~1000 jobs. Meanwhile: theguardian.com/australia-ne… Hospitality jobs matter. So do academic jobs. We can do better for both.