Sarah Rajtmajer

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves. -sir edmund hillary

Anyone running HSR experiments and willing to consider including what @srajtmajer.bsky.social and I call a "consent-insert" mini-experiment? Let me us know.

Some details on the consent-insert are on pp 45-49 of Defending Consent in Privacy Law
ssrn.com/abstract=620...

absolutely brilliant

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

Close up of a brown padlock hanging off of a metal fence.

Defending Consent in Privacy #Law

In this article, the authors propose a new #legal standard of demonstrably informed consent.

Authors: Brett M. Frischmann, Sarah Rajtmajer

Read More: spkl.io/63325AvCTd
@srajtmajer.bsky.social @brettfrischmann.bsky.social

Some minds are louder than others.
His is quiet on the hill.
The mountain doesn’t know what it took to get here, but I do.
Every run earned twice
once on the inside, once on the snow.

Learning Password Best Practices Through In-Task Instruction Users often make security- and privacy-relevant decisions without a clear understanding of the rules that govern safe behavior. We introduce pedagogical friction, a design approach that introduces bri...

arxiv.org/abs/2601.06650

"results support pedagogical friction as a lightweight and generalizable intervention for security- and privacy-critical interfaces. "

Chatbots overemphasize sociodemographic stereotypes, researchers report | Penn State University Artificial intelligence-powered chatbots, which can be trained to reflect certain demographic attributes such as race or ethnicity, rely on superficial stereotypes that diminish the authentic experien...

We've been studying how chatbots act like people. They default to stereotypes a lot... w/ @shomir.bsky.social

www.psu.edu/news/informa...

My absolute favorite for my Discrete Math class at Penn State 😍 So simple, so beautiful.

Reminder that the world will be less beautiful if we replace human connection with AI companions (4th grade-colored glasses)

Thrilled to post a new article co-authored with @srajtmajer.bsky.social, titled:

Defending Consent in Privacy Law

ssrn.com/abstract=620...

Alt. title: Reforming the Moral Magic of Consent in Privacy Law

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Feedback welcome!

AI Delusions Are Leading to Domestic Abuse, Harassment, and Stalking ChatGPT and other AI chatbots are reinforcing users' delusions about other people — fueling fixations linked to stalking and other abuses.

NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.

futurism.com/artificial-i...

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.

We noticed.

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Hey, remember that time I said that pointing out that AI is giving bad data to ICE is missing the point because ICE doesn't actually care if the data is good? Check out how right I am.

Keep kids away from AI companions.

@fanchyna.bsky.social thank you for joining me on the journey

Sending him out of the nest with a PhD and a great job 👨‍🎓 🥹

Feels like a "notional example" for a data ethics class.

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Music is common humanity

“What we’re seeing is the monetisation of hate”

The truth-teller is the most powerful person in any room.

‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...

The tech industry has a lot to answer for and we may run out of lamp posts.

Nearly a third of social media research has undisclosed ties to industry, preprint claims Industry-linked studies were also more likely to focus on particular topics, suggesting these ties may be skewing the field

One of the issues that has come up again and again in my reporting on misinformation and social media is the massive influence social media companies have on research in the field.

Last night a preprint dropped that tries to get at this with some numbers. My piece in @science.org (and 🧪🧵 coming):

Discipline starts at sunrise every damn day. Facing demons and chasing dreams.

If you’re at AAAI next week, check out our work on stereotyping in LLMs.

We find LLMs flatten identities into predictable and racially charged patterns.

When outside is dark, there is comfort in children and the arts.

Incredible. A reminder of the power of this technology…if we can use it wisely.

One year ago today, we checked in to @mayoclinic.org. I am grateful beyond words every day for this incredible place full of brilliant and caring minds. And of course, for one most courageous and beautiful boy.