I'm an Amsterdam-based researcher and writer interested in equitable AI, especially gender, language, and technology. I blog about (queer) feminism & AI. Views my own.
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Jasmijn Bastings
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In film, "we'll fix it in post" is what you say when something went wrong on set and you don't want to redo it. AI research has made it our entire methodology: train the model, then patch whatever comes out. Our new ICML oral argues this can't be the basis of a science of AI. 🧵
I thought I was writing an essay explaining a decision to stop using the em dash — or least use it way less — because of how AI chatbots have appropriated it. Instead, I found myself arguing passionately in favor of it. 😑
Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.
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Our call for papers is live!! The 7th Workshop on Gender Bias in NLP will be co-located with AACL and will be remote-only. Deadline for direct submissions is September 2.
Like clockwork
And then he'll post about it on a website rigged to help Nazis and post non-consensual pornography.
New on Transponder: Britain has become a dark mirror for trans rights
www.transponder.blog/britain-has-...
#trans #rights #uk #EHRC #LGBT #gender
📣 Announcing the release of the 🕊️ Annotated Encyclical 🕊️ from the ethics & society folks at @hf.co. Includes citations to relevant academic work.
Very much a WIP. Please add work we haven't added yet!
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Super excited for our CRAFT workshop on trans AI policy at FAccT, co-organized w @jhereia.bsky.social & @anabrandusescu.bsky.social, come join us if you're at the conference!
More details here: programs.sigchi.org/facct/2026/p...
I finally got around to launch my personal blog and the first post is my book review of Karen Hao's Empire of AI. You can read it here: www.transponder.blog/book-review-...
UK PM Starmer set to ban 'harmful' social media for under-16s reut.rs/4g13ksk
Jasmijn Bastings
Mirrors are interesting objects: what others see as being left, mirrors show on the right. A dark mirror, then, shows a bleak alternate reality: one that’s the exact opposite of how everyone else sees it. Such is the case with UK gender politics today. On one of my many
And then he'll post about it on a website rigged to help Nazis and post non-consensual pornography.
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For Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman’s OpenAI, Karen Hao conducted 300 interviews with around 260 people and scrutinized countless documents and correspondence. The result is an impre...
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to announce a ban on "harmful" online platforms for children under 16 while maintaining access to some safer forms of social media, the Times newspaper reported on Monday.
📢 Call for Papers! 📢
Submissions are open for the 7th Workshop on Gender Bias in NLP #GeBNLP, co-located with AACL 2026!
🌐 GeBNLP 2026 will be held in remote-only mode
🗓️ Deadline: September 2, 2026
UK PM Starmer set to ban 'harmful' social media for under-16s reut.rs/4g13ksk
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to announce a ban on "harmful" online platforms for children under 16 while maintaining access to some safer forms of social media, the Times newspaper reported on Monday.
