Tech and Society
Researchers at the intersection of tech and society
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@geomblog.bsky.social
@jennwv.bsky.social
Sr. Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, NYC // Machine Learning, Responsible AI, Transparency, Intelligibility, Human-AI Interaction // WiML Co-founder // Former NeurIPS & current FAccT Program Co-chair // Brooklyn, NY // More at http://jennwv.com
@sepehrvakil.bsky.social
Professor, educator, writer. 📚Revolutionary Engineers available for pre-order now at @MITPress
@fieldsmeyer.com
Senior Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School | Fmr: Senior Policy Advisor to Vice President Harris at the White House | Work on civil rights, democracy, tech, and power. Nothing is inevitable. Writing: amifieldsmeyer.substack.com Get in touch: fieldsmeyer.com
@jubaz.bsky.social
Assistant professor at Georgia Tech in ISyE. I do mechanism design, differential privacy, fairness, and learning theory, mostly. Postdoc @Penn; Ph.D. @Caltech; MSc @Columbia and @Supélec. He/him.
@mbogen.bsky.social
Director of the AI Governance Lab @cendemtech.bsky.social / responsible AI + policy
@sapiezynski.bsky.social
Research Scientist @ Northeastern. Privacy, transparency, fairness, computational social science. www.sapiezynski.com
@cfiesler.bsky.social
information science professor (tech ethics + internet stuff) kind of a content creator (elsewhere also @professorcasey) though not influencing anyone to do anything except maybe learn things she/her
@alexhanna.bsky.social
Director of Research, DAIR Roller derby athlete https://alex-hanna.com Book: thecon.ai Pod+newsletter: https://dair-institute.org/maiht3k 🇪🇬⚧ She/هي 📸 @willtoft.bsky.social Rep📘 @ianbonaparte.bsky.social
@williamis.bsky.social
Research Scientist @DeepMind | Previously @OSFellows & @hrdag. RT != endorsements. Opinions Mine. Pronouns: he/him
@mkgerchick.bsky.social
She/her. Data Science Manager and Algorithmic Justice Specialist at ACLU. Personal account.
@frankpasquale.bsky.social
Law professor; author (The Black Box Society; New Laws of Robotics). Interested in law & technology, AI, political economy, art, and social theory.
@abeba.bsky.social
Founder & PI @aial.ie, @tcddublin.bsky.social AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
@merbroussard.bsky.social
Critical AI, data journalism, literary nonfiction. Professor at NYU. Author, "More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech." meredithbroussard.com
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@rdbinns.bsky.social
Computery guy. HCI, ML, AI, privacy, security, fairness, political economy of tech. He/him. London/Oxford. Football alt at nofoolingreu.bsky.social
@berkustun.bsky.social
Assistant Prof at UCSD. I work on interpretability, fairness, and safety in ML. www.berkustun.com
@dianafreed.bsky.social
Asst. Professor of Computer and Data Science, Brown University | Visiting Scholar at Petrie-Flom, Harvard Law School | Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center For Internet & Society | HCI, Computer Security, Privacy, Policy, and Wellbeing
@sethlazar.org
Philosopher working on normative dimensions of computing and sociotechnical AI safety. Lab: https://mintresearch.org Self: https://sethlazar.org Newsletter: https://philosophyofcomputing.substack.com
@sxz.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Sociology at NYU. Classification, prediction, and AI in decision-making, social policy, and law. www.simonezhang.com
@haldaume3.bsky.social
Human-centered AI #HCAI, NLP & ML. Director TRAILS (Trustworthy AI in Law & Society) and AIM (AI Interdisciplinary Institute at Maryland). Formerly Microsoft Research NYC. Fun: 🧗🧑🍳🧘⛷️🏕️. he/him.
@sarahooker.bsky.social
I lead Cohere For AI. Formerly Research Google Brain. ML Efficiency, LLMs, @trustworthy_ml.
@sashamtl.bsky.social
Climate & AI Lead @HuggingFace, TED speaker, WiML board member, TIME AI 100 (She/her/Dr/🦋)
@mmitchell.bsky.social
Researcher trying to shape AI towards positive outcomes. ML & Ethics +birds. Generally trying to do the right thing. TIME 100 | TED speaker | Senate testimony provider | Navigating public life as a recluse. Former: Google, Microsoft; Current: Hugging Face
@markriedl.bsky.social
AI for storytelling, games, explainability, safety, ethics. Professor at Georgia Tech. Associate Director of ML Center at GT. Time travel expert. Geek. Dad. he/him
@jburrell.bsky.social
Affiliate at Data & Society. Formerly: Professor at UC-Berkeley - School of Information. Latest Pub: ideologies of AI and the consolidation of power (https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm). Currently based in Yokohama (GMT +9).
@whiskeyocelot.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, Northeastern University Co-Director, C4D Formerly: Chief Technologist, DoJ Antitrust Division, DOJ Civil Rights Division
@zey.bsky.social
It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
@alicetiara.bsky.social
Studies social media & society, far-right disinfo. Dir of Research, Data & Society. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
@datasociety.bsky.social
Data & Society is a nonprofit research institute that studies the social implications of data-centric technologies, automation, and AI.
@randomwalker.bsky.social
Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/ BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
@angelinawang.bsky.social
Postdoc at Stanford HAI | ML fairness and algorithmic bias | incoming Asst Prof at Cornell Info Sci and Cornell Tech https://angelina-wang.github.io/
@ellgood.bsky.social
Information law prof @ Rutgers. Philly, animal rights, algorithmic justice, book project on urban tech. Mom, wife, still daughter ..עברנו את פרעה 🇺🇸🌻💔
@angelamczhou.bsky.social
assistant prof at USC Data Sciences and Operations; phd Cornell ORIE. data-driven decision-making, operations research/management, causal inference, algorithmic fairness/equity angelamzhou.github.io
@noupside.bsky.social
✍🏼Studies influence, propaganda, adversarial abuse @Georgetown. Writes @Lawfare, The Atlantic. 📖 Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies Into Reality — on influencers, online crowds, &bespoke realities (invisiblerulers.com) 🦹🏻♀️ Twitter Files supervillain
@katestarbird.bsky.social
Researcher of online rumors & disinformation. Former basketball player. Prof at University of Washington, HCDE. Co-founder of the UW Center for an Informed Public. Personal account: Views may not reflect those of my employer. #RageAgainstTheBullshitMachine
@reniebird.bsky.social
Incoming Prof at Brown University, PI of the GIRAFFE lab, former AI Policy Advisor in the US Senate. PhD at MIT CSAIL '23, Harvard '16, former Google APM. Dog mom to NSDTR Ducki.
@emilymbender.bsky.social
Book: https://thecon.ai Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
@safiyanoble.bsky.social
Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. Writer, researcher, professor. Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI. safiyaunoble.com
@poetofcode.bsky.social
@ruchowdh.bsky.social
www.rummanchowdhury.com www.humane-intelligence.org CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
@michae.lv
assoc. prof, @UCLLaws.bsky.social, technology, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️🌈
@swachter.bsky.social
Professor of Technology and Regulation, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, research on legal & ethical implications of AI, Big Data, & robotics as well as Internet & platform regulation https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/sandra-wachter/
@bmittelstadt.bsky.social
Professor of Data Ethics and Policy & Director of Research at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford. Founder of the Governance of Emerging Technologies research programme.
@aolteanu.bsky.social
Ethical/Responsible AI. Rigor in AI. Opinions my own. Principal Researcher @ Microsoft Research.
@aaroth.bsky.social
Professor at Penn, Amazon Scholar at AWS. Interested in machine learning, uncertainty quantification, game theory, privacy, fairness, and most of the intersections therein
@susser.bsky.social
ethics, politics, and policy in tech faculty, information science @ cornell www.danielsusser.info
@daniellecitron.bsky.social
Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
@rajiinio.bsky.social
AI accountability, audits & eval. Keen on participation & practical outcomes. CS PhDing @UCBerkeley.
@nrmarda.bsky.social
CM for @jakejohnsonmn.bsky.social. Used to do AI stuff in the Biden White House OSTP and at Mozilla.
@alondra.bsky.social
Scholar, author, policy advisor alondranelson.com Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
@zephoria.bsky.social
STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society. Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society Microsoft Research -> Cornell (2025) https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
@friedler.net
CS prof at Haverford, former tech policy at OSTP, research on fairness, accountability, and transparency of ML, @facct.bsky.social co-founder Also at: sorelle@mastodon.social 🦣 (formerly @kdphd 🐦) sorelle.friedler.net
@aselbst.bsky.social
UCLA Law Prof. Focused on law, tech, and justice; posting not necessarily related. He/him. http://ssrn.com/author=1328346
@geomblog.bsky.social
Director, Center for Tech Responsibility@Brown. FAccT OG. AI Bill of Rights coauthor. Former tech advisor to President Biden @WHOSTP. He/him/his. Posts my own.