Studying people and computers (https://www.nickmvincent.com/)
Blogging about data and steering AI (https://dataleverage.substack.com/)
Nick Vincent
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At UBC today for @atproto.science workshop! Much to discuss.
Nick Vincent
We have an exciting panel tomorrow @11am with @nickmvincent.bsky.social Laure Haak (@verime.coop) and Ellie DeSota (@metagov.bsky.social , SciOS)! The panel will explore how governance & sustainability challenges facing the broader atproto ecosystem are mirrored in its open science applications >
🚨Collective action strategies in the age of AI w/ Nick Vincent
I spoke to @nickmvincent, AI researcher and author of the Data Leverage substack, about how AI systems are built on the collective output of humanity's digital labor and what we can do about it.
FULL EPISODE⬇️
🧑💻 New paper at #chi2026 w @lorenzspreen.eurosky.social and @stefanherzog.bsky.social
Are you worried about how social media algorithms affect people’s beliefs? We are, so we tested engagement-based ranking algorithms against alternatives in a pre-reg’d collaborative filtering experiment... 🧵
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I greatly enjoyed this conversation, and I think it might be interesting to a wide range of folks interested in AI, data, collective action, etc! Thanks for having me @tbsocialist.bsky.social (and structuring a really exciting conversation, and putting together such a nice final product!)
Will likely have another blog with more thoughts on the emerging schemes for data licensing / preference signaling (and particular angle that I'm excited about, and think will actually happen: markets for attested evals and attested training data)
I'm planning to post a blog explaining the purposes of the data counterfactuals site (aimed at highlighting connections between technically-focused and socially-driven data-centric work)
Also, a meta blog (very much inspired by teaching grad research communication this term and trying to answer very "dynamic questions") about the value of using coding agents to iterate on fancy sites vs. just sharing simple bullet points, plain text posts and spreadsheets
Thread for some misc thoughts / pins from @atproto.science talks and sessions:
- big gap in demos that give potential users (eg scientists who used to post on other platforms) a “wow” moment for features that at proto enables (I had this recently with semble + margin interop)
Nick Vincent
Longer post(s) coming on these topics, but for those interested in "data counterfactuals" and various "data licenses" proposals I have made some big updates to two static site resources: datacounterfactuals.org and datalicenses.org
