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Science for Survival and Hope: Receiving the Rise25 Award

Ordinary people can transform the Internet for good through science.

Oct 16, 2023

Science for Survival and Hope: Receiving the Rise25 Award

Oct 16, 2023

J. Nathan Matias

How Meta Spins the Uncertain Science of AI Safety

Companies spin scientific results as evidence of safety while also undermining findings. Where do we go from here?

Sep 29

How Meta Spins the Uncertain Science of AI Safety

Sep 29

J. Nathan Matias

How Critical Design Transforms Ideas and Our World

How can scientists, technologists, and activist-scholars learn to create positive transformations in our work and our world? And how can we…

Jun 4

How Critical Design Transforms Ideas and Our World

Jun 4

J. Nathan Matias

Disagreements, Fast And Slow

Henry Farrell explains how I’m mistaken — and I’m loving it

Apr 6

Disagreements, Fast And Slow

Apr 6

J. Nathan Matias

Can We Crash-Test AI with Artificial Humans?

Proxies are a promising and potentially-risky way to test the safety of AI systems

Mar 26

Can We Crash-Test AI with Artificial Humans?

Mar 26

J. Nathan Matias

Singing A Prayer for Supply Chains

Celebrating & Critiquing Infrastructure

Mar 17

Singing A Prayer for Supply Chains

Mar 17

J. Nathan Matias

Can We Explain Online Toxicity When We Don’t Know What it Is?

A new paper claims to explain online toxicity with a simple model. But a lot depends on what we mean by “toxic.”

Feb 12

Can We Explain Online Toxicity When We Don’t Know What it Is?

Feb 12

J. Nathan Matias

Seeing Water as a Complex System: Riding with John Fleck

John Fleck may be the only law school professor with a favorite ditch. And he’s on a mission to convince the rest of us to care about them…

Apr 21, 2023

Seeing Water as a Complex System: Riding with John Fleck

Apr 21, 2023

J. Nathan Matias

Escaping Sprawl and Facing History at Foothills Nature Preserve

When local politician Alyssa Cisneros took her daughter to Foothills Nature Preserve in Palo Alto on July 4th 2020, she was hoping to…

Mar 5, 2023

Foreground: Foothills Nature Preserve. Background: housing developments

Mar 5, 2023

J. Nathan Matias

How Twitter misleads us about how many people have left — and what to do about it

Social feeds are engines for distorting social understanding. Here’s how to push back against the algorithm.

Jan 5, 2023

How Twitter misleads us about how many people have left — and what to do about it

Jan 5, 2023

J. Nathan Matias

J. Nathan Matias

Citizen social science to improve digital life & hold tech accountable. Assistant Prof, Cornell. citizensandtech.org Prev: Princeton, MIT. Guatemalan-American

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