Joanna J Bryson

@j2bryson

Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Cognition, Culture, & Society; AI Ethics, Safety, & Policy. Vaguely professional tweets—for more: ; fewer:

Princeton, NJ
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Joined March 2007
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    Jun 13

    vs is a false dichotomy. 1) Regulation creates stable societies that can better sustain (remember & exploit) innovation 2) Most regulation is what biologists call "up regulation" eg funding supporting innovation, defense of IP &c cf

    Artificial Intelligence: What Side Of History Do You Want To Be On? via & are possible. I'm on the side of
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  2. Retweeted
    Aug 10

    Women hacking power at this morning: and describe how stylometry is used to identify the identity of developers from the source code they write. This is already actively used by police enforcement worldwide

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    24 hours ago

    And here is a wired article about the research and I presented today at defcon:

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    6 hours ago

    Check out the latest issue of Adaptive Behavior. Has a review by Carel van Schaik of Agner Fog's book "Warlike and Peaceful Societies: The Interaction of Genes and Culture".

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  5. 2 hours ago

    "Investigators in Sheffield admitted two terminations were carried out as a direct result of the mistaken test reports. Four Down's syndrome babies were also born to mothers who had been told their tests put them in the low-risk group."

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  6. 2 hours ago

    In case anyone ever tells you that worrying about , , or whatever is as stupid as the bug, remember how much effort we put into minimising the that impact, and though we were largely successful, things like this still happened:

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    Aug 3

    Cambridge Analytica was the tip of an iceberg: “Facebook’s SEC filing says it anticipates the discovery of additional incidents of misuse of user data”

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  8. 10 hours ago

    Two incredibly courageous & frightening stories in today. The USA’s institutions failing since at least 1980—2 yrs after wages stopped tracking productivity & re-emerged And now China loses moral compass

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    Aug 8

    I have personally written firmware for actual voting machines and I endorse these sentiments 100 fucking percent. Paper ballots and scrutineers eyes are the only way to prevent shifty fuckery and even then we need to be vigilant.

    Voting Software
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  10. Aug 7

    I did not know that cc

    Replying to @j2bryson @Microsoft
    Fascinating and wise. ... and where’s the first place you think of when you think of AFCR’s in the wild? Did you know there are two nets of AFRC’s across for footfall tracking? One public, one private.
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    Aug 7
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    Bezos agrees, although he may not know what he's asking for..

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  12. Aug 7

    Apparently Nirvana played here cc

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    Aug 7

    Professor explains how can help to reduce the implicit bias in hiring and contribute to improving & .

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  14. Aug 7

    Not sure how I missed this: calling to be regulated, because they don't think it's their job to decide what ethical is. Very sensible position for a company that cares about ethics OR liability (& have wound up the wrong side of the law before.)

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  15. Aug 7

    Thanks Jamie for a fascinating visit to Microsoft (mostly talking with people one-on-one about & ) as well as tweeting my talk! Now at a meeting so still not on top of twitter or email, sorry!

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  16. Aug 5

    This is so awesome – mechanical calculator people used before household calculators. Basically an adding machine, but you can even do division on it. (We had one, I kept forgetting how to do division with it, so clear here...) ht

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  17. Aug 5

    This is actually great! Two exceptions: the line about AGI (though understandable mistake, we thought that on Cog too ) and the lack of detail on how to incorporate ML into (the new) standard software engineering. One of the biggest real questions in .

    A sit down with Danny , VP of & at , the creator of ML systems at some of the world’s leading tech companies Ronny Fehling
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  18. Aug 4

    So while may make it easier for any two parties to find any kind of cooperative equilibrium, we should hope that law is set up such that corruption requires deception, and maintaining that deception should become increasingly problematic with transparency.

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  19. Aug 4

    Not sure I believe this as a general case. I always remember that Libratus totally dominates human poker players even though it can't bluff–being able to accurately price hands proved more important than having that tool in the tool set.

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    Jul 23

    Thanks, Twitter, for making me aware of this 17 year old paper that could have resolved 10 years of debates I've had with colleagues over beers: GRE scores indeed predict graduate school outcomes.

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    Jul 26

    For almost a decade, Greg Bryant, a professor of communication has studied the nature of laughter — and what it reveals about the evolution of human communication and cooperation. See his latest study

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