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J. Nathan Matias 🦣
@J. Nathan Matias 🦣

Social & computer scientist who works alongside communities on science for a safer, fairer, more understanding Internet.

Founder, Citizens and Technology Lab · Visiting Scholar, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia · Assistant Prof at Cornell · Guatemalan-American · Co-founder of @transparenttech

Enjoys taking photos & listening to books/poetry on very long bike rides.

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J. Nathan Matias 🦣 · 1w
I am deeply grateful to my co-authors Marc Aidinoff, Lena Armstrong, Esha Bhandari, Ellery Roberts Biddle, Motahhare Eslami, Karrie Karahalios, Danaé Metaxa, Alondra Nelson, Kristen Vaccaro, and espe...
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J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @J. Nathan Matias 🦣
If you want to know why I took photos of a book about AI in front of a barn and a series of ice cream machines, more details are in the post.

I'll be sharing pictures of the book from other significant locations in the history of science, technology, and fairness over the next few weeks, so follow along!
J. Nathan Matias 🦣 · 1w
To help leaders know how to think about AI evaluation, the chapters in the book use stories to explain the core questions any leader needs to know: - What is AI Auditing? - What kind of work is invol...
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J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @J. Nathan Matias 🦣
I am deeply grateful to my co-authors Marc Aidinoff, Lena Armstrong, Esha Bhandari, Ellery Roberts Biddle, Motahhare Eslami, Karrie Karahalios, Danaé Metaxa, Alondra Nelson, Kristen Vaccaro, and especially Christian Sandvig, who convened us at the Institute for Advanced Study to write this book together. <3

You can read more about the book in this post:

https://natematias.com/portfolio/2026-04-27-auditing-ai/
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J. Nathan Matias 🦣 · 1w
If you want to know why I took photos of a book about AI in front of a barn and a series of ice cream machines, more details are in the post. I'll be sharing pictures of the book from other significant locations in the history of science, technology, and fairness over the next few weeks, so follow ...
J. Nathan Matias 🦣 · 1w
Are you a leader trying to figure out how to evaluate an AI system? Are you in business, journalism, civil society, or the tech industry? I'm excited to share the publication of the (open access) boo...
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J. Nathan Matias 🦣 @J. Nathan Matias 🦣
To help leaders know how to think about AI evaluation, the chapters in the book use stories to explain the core questions any leader needs to know:

- What is AI Auditing?
- What kind of work is involved in an AI evaluation?
- How can leaders make sense of audit results?
- What actions does an evaluation make possible?
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J. Nathan Matias 🦣 · 1w
I am deeply grateful to my co-authors Marc Aidinoff, Lena Armstrong, Esha Bhandari, Ellery Roberts Biddle, Motahhare Eslami, Karrie Karahalios, Danaé Metaxa, Alondra Nelson, Kristen Vaccaro, and especially Christian Sandvig, who convened us at the Institute for Advanced Study to write this book to...
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Are you a leader trying to figure out how to evaluate an AI system? Are you in business, journalism, civil society, or the tech industry?

I'm excited to share the publication of the (open access) book I wish I had in my first job testing AI systems seventeen years ago: "Auditing AI."

Together with a dream team of scientists, policy experts, lawyers, and journalists, we distilled decades of experience in AI evaluation into a get-up-to-speed book for anyone who needs to understand AI evaluation yesterday.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262051729/auditing-ai/


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J. Nathan Matias 🦣 · 1w
To help leaders know how to think about AI evaluation, the chapters in the book use stories to explain the core questions any leader needs to know: - What is AI Auditing? - What kind of work is involved in an AI evaluation? - How can leaders make sense of audit results? - What actions does an evalu...
John Mark Ockerbloom · 1w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqg57ze9t87qkn63zm6yzcf8zlzsldgn5c8v3eq8sc3s7q383ht52szlfwps I've listed it today on Online Books. Thanks for making it available, and letting us know about it!
Cliff'sEsportCorner · 1w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqg57ze9t87qkn63zm6yzcf8zlzsldgn5c8v3eq8sc3s7q383ht52szlfwps Pretty sure some of the FOSS RSS platforms support that but never used that, this is supposed to but just from quick google https://rss.app/blog/transform-your-email-newsletters-into-rss...
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Now that more authors and organizations are understandably requiring email sign-ups to access blog posts, reports, and articles, it's harder than ever to read email.

What are people doing to extract, summarize, and decide what to read from all the newsletter links that are crowding out your inbox?
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Cliff'sEsportCorner · 1w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqg57ze9t87qkn63zm6yzcf8zlzsldgn5c8v3eq8sc3s7q383ht52szlfwps Seems like a false dilemma to me, if I could find any sources good enough to subscribe to I'd consider that a win. If you have more than 6 or so you subscribe to your not filtering fine ...
Luke Kanies · 1w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqg57ze9t87qkn63zm6yzcf8zlzsldgn5c8v3eq8sc3s7q383ht52szlfwps I send them all to feedbin and red them (or not) in my rss reader, which is where I always wanted them anyway.
cobalt · 1w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqg57ze9t87qkn63zm6yzcf8zlzsldgn5c8v3eq8sc3s7q383ht52szlfwps Interesting to look at a sub Reddit as a community. I suppose the r/AskHistorians is a...
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Thanks for your note, @nprofile1q... ! Yes, eleven years into collaborative research with communities on reddit, and I continue to be delighted by the creativity and variation that people bring to different ideas of community.

I would love to learn more about the groups you mention- do you think any of them might be interested in doing the survey? We're hoping to survey enough to be able to do comparisons.