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Feb 15, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
The backgrounds of people in "Internet Services" look more like cultural leaders than business leaders. That's a sidebar fining from this cool new paper on the Ivy League educations of the US cultural elite by @BrintSteven @KomeeGee Kayleigh Anderson-Natale, @zfshuker & Suki Wang Image
@BrintSteven @KomeeGee @zfshuker tl;dr: US Cultural elites, compared to business elites or popular artists, are more likely to have graduated from elite undergraduate colleges.
Full paper is here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
In Venture Labor I wrote about the close ties between NYC's Silicon Alley, NYC's cultural industries, and the Ivy League. (How many early startups came out of Brown?)
As "software eats the world," we would expect "internet services" to look more like computer science and other businesses in terms of who gets to be an elite leader. It doesn't yet.
There's a paper in here. Who wants to write it with me?
*finding <coffee before tweeting>

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Sep 19, 2023
A key Mu3k theory made it into the @nytimes opinion pages this week. Touted and burnished by a professor at a top university WITHOUT transparency that Musk funded him for $10 Million for the research. How? 🧵
Humanity is collapsing from population decline. Sound familiar? It's the pet theory of ultra-rich Western white guys like Musk. He funded the center run by the author of this @nytimes op-ed with a $10 million grant. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
What I find EXTRAORDINARY that this funding is not listed on website for the center, the Population Wellbeing Institute, nor did the author say in his op-ed bio that he leads PWI. But Bloomberg broke this story last month about Musk's donation to PWI. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Sep 27, 2020
.@trishgreenhalgh hate to break the news, but you still can't get tested in the UK if you are asymptomatic and have a close contact that is positive.

NHS messaging on this front is still "don't waste tests"

How is this responsible public health?

1/3
"If you do not have symptoms, you must not seek a test, as the scientific evidence shows that the test may not be able to detect whether you have the virus."

2/3
gov.uk/guidance/nhs-t…
From the Test and Trace letter sent to parents of school children: Full text here:
familiesonline.co.uk/news/parents-a…
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Sep 25, 2020
How in hell are we going into a second wave with this as the NHS messaging? Image
I say this having returned from a US state (KY) with free, rapid, on demand testing. Waste a test? Nobody wants to do nasal swab tests for fun. I flew back to the UK knowing I wasn't putting my family at risk (neg.)
And now I sit in 14 days legally mandated quarantine because I actually follow the rules.
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Aug 24, 2020
A case study: Ethics alone are not enough to ensure fairness in algorithmic systems.

@_KarenHao on the UK's A-level mess with quotes from me, @FryRsquared and @techchildrights
technologyreview.com/2020/08/20/100…

The best minds in AI ethics are not even one step removed from this mess.
The goals here were clear: preserve standardisation in unprecedented times. But public trust? Fairness? Equity? People in charge ranked those goals lower than that of standardising marks across schools. But absence of 'ground truth' here -- 2020 individual exam results --> FAIL.
We need instead to understand how these systems are rolled out in practice -- not just open the so-called black box but what's around that box: who built it, who is using it, what are they doing with it, who do they think it is for, what do people know/THINK they know about it.
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Aug 19, 2020
Covid is now the third leading cause of death in the US, behind heart disease and cancer.

In only six months since the first reported cases.
1. Heart Disease 647,457
2. Cancer 599,108
<Insert Covid here: 171,833>
3. Accidents 169,936
Data are for 2017 and cover the whole year. Of course we've only had 6 months of Covid data in 2020 (Feb-Aug), but already it it is the third top cause of death in the US.
cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr…
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Aug 17, 2020
So is today a good day to talk about the gap between how AI & algorithmic systems work and how people SAY they work?

A thread about our new report 1/12
Last week we launched AI@Work, a report on the past year in the structual challenges of AI implementation. oii.ox.ac.uk/blog/ai-work-o… 2/12
What we find is a gap between the social and technological infrastructures to make AI systems work fairly, safely and effectively. 3/12
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