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trying to help computer ppl think more critically about computer, including me

Ass Prof @ UT Austin

PhD@CMU,exNASA/MSR/IntelLabs.

he/him/yinz davidwidder.me Joined February 2017

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Mostly here now: @davidthewid.bsky.social @davidthewid Jul 9

🚨Finally published:

How does the US Military enlist AI researchers in war?

Sireesh Gururaja, Lucy Suchman & I examine 7k US Military grant solicitations for AI research, and show how even "Basic Research" enlists researchers in a warfighting agenda.

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/20…

journals.sagepub.com Basic research, lethal effects: Military artificial intelligence research funding as enlistment -... In the context of unprecedented U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) budgets, this paper examines the recent history of DoD funding for academic research in algorit...

Mostly here now: @davidthewid.bsky.social @davidthewid 5d

am now a PhD advisor, can confirm

Mostly here now: @davidthewid.bsky.social @davidthewid Sep 21, 2022

tip to new PhD students from a 5th year: *show your advisor tables*

it really doesn't matter what you put in the tables.

PhD advisors LOVE tables.
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Mostly here now: @davidthewid.bsky.social @davidthewid 6d

We have a democratic governor in Texas:

Gina Hinojosa, who staked her campaign on public education.

Governor appoints university regents, who have been destroying our universities.

This meaningfully changes things for universities, students, & us early career faculty here.

Mostly here now: @davidthewid.bsky.social @davidthewid Nov 2

Pleased to share that I will be a visiting fellow at Cambridge Digital Humanities for the Easter '27 term.

There, I will examine how the US Military conceives of the "other" as it funds and builds AI systems.

I'll be in Europe for most of summer too-happy to talk, give a talk!

Mostly here now: @davidthewid.bsky.social @davidthewid Jun 11

Yes, it's an AI hype bubble, but no, it popping isn't something we can cheer, either. From Mar Hicks and I, back in 2024: ash.harvard.edu/resources/watc…

ash.harvard.edu Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate – Ash Center