In the summer of 2023, I was fortunate to participate in a double dose of Digital Humanities learning. I signed up for a three-day workshop Manos a la obra organized by the US Latino Digital Humanities Center, and I was the recipient of a Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium Mellon grant/fellowship. A result of this rewarding […]
There’s a fascinating piece of research out from Anthropic. Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats. Maybe you’ve seen it doing the rounds this weekend as it landed on Friday I think. There’s a lot of hyperbolic reaction, even for something that merits serious concern. Nevertheless, it seems these things aren’t ready to be […]
“You good?” a man asked two narcotics detectives late in the summer of 2015. The detectives had just finished an undercover drug deal in Brentwood, a predominately black neighborhood in Jacksonville, Florida, that is among the poorest in the country, when the man unexpectedly approached them. One of the detectives responded that he was looking […]
