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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

Making Science Resilient to Threats from Governments & Corporations

How can we make critically-important data resilient to threats from governments and corporations? One essential answer is community/citizen…

Jan 26

Making Science Resilient to Threats from Governments & Corporations

Jan 26

Democracy is a Data Schema

Learning from the EPA about trustworthy tech governance

Jan 4

Democracy is a Data Schema

Jan 4

Maple Syrup Time

Searching for hope on crises that feel impossibly big to change

Nov 17, 2024

Maple Syrup Time

Nov 17, 2024

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, 2024

How Meta Spins the Uncertain Science of AI Safety

Sep 29, 2024

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, 2024

How Critical Design Transforms Ideas and Our World

Jun 4, 2024

Disagreements, Fast And Slow

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

Apr 6, 2024

Disagreements, Fast And Slow

Apr 6, 2024

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, 2024

Can We Crash-Test AI with Artificial Humans?

Mar 26, 2024

Singing A Prayer for Supply Chains

Celebrating & Critiquing Infrastructure

Mar 17, 2024

Singing A Prayer for Supply Chains

Mar 17, 2024

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, 2024

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

Feb 12, 2024

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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