Michelle Shevin @michebox.bsky.social Future Preservation Society
Gabriel Geiger @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social Investigative journalist at Lighthouse Reports. Algorithms & surveillance. https://www.lighthousereports.com/team/gabriel-geiger/
Adrienne LaFrance @adriennelaf.bsky.social Human, executive editor of The Atlantic
Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social Writer. Host of Galaxy Brain, the podcast. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip. I have a podcast so please like and subscribe.
Jill Filipovic @jillfilipovic.bsky.social Journalist, author, recovering lawyer. Find me at Slate, the New Statesman, and Substack. Practitioner of yoga, befriender of cats.
jill.substack.com
NYC/HK
Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Professor. Sociologist. NYTimes Opinion Columnist. Books: THICK, LowerEd. Forthcoming: 1)Black Mothering & Daughtering and 2)Mama Bears.
Beliefs: C.R.E.A.M. + the internet ruined everything good + bring back shame.
“I’m just here so I don’t get fined.”
Mike Ananny 🇨🇦 @mikeananny.bsky.social ananny.org
- Media technologies & production cultures
- How sociotechnical systems enact theories of press freedom & “the public”
- GenAI as a public problem
Associate Professor of Communication & Journalism, USC Annenberg
Always 🇨🇦
Safiya Umoja Noble, PhD @safiyanoble.bsky.social Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. #MacFellow
Writer, professor. Comedian.
Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI.
safiyaunoble.com
EmilyTav @emilytav.bsky.social Policy + design + tech. Angry optimist.
Executive Director, Home Screen.
Co-Curator of an oral history of the origins of the U.S. Digital Service.
Lori McGlinchey @macvie.bsky.social Technology+Society - Ford Foundation
genug shoyn
Sayash Kapoor @sayash.bsky.social CS PhD candidate at Princeton. I study the societal impact of AI.
Website: cs.princeton.edu/~sayashk
Book/Substack: aisnakeoil.com
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
Travis Moore @travismoore.bsky.social Founder and Executive Director, TechCongress
Vivian Schiller @vivianschiller.bsky.social 
Becca Ricks @baricks.bsky.social Researcher, technologist, artist. 🐚 Project Director, PTLC at Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social. she/her 〰️
Prev: Head of Open Source Research & Investigations @mozilla.org Foundation, Tech Fellow @hrw.org, engineering & art @ITP-NYU.
nyc/slc
Anna Ciaunica PhD @annaciaunica.bsky.social PI-Cognitive Scientist working on embodiment, self consciousness and social interactions in humans and artificial agents/ Responsible AI / Art & Science
In Lisbon & London
Matteo Wong @matteowong.bsky.social Staff writer on science, tech, and health at The Atlantic covering AI. Signal @matteowong.52
dr dana calacci @dana.witchy.business asst prof at penn state, workers/AI/surveillance. she/her 🏳️⚧️
Danny Spitzberg @dsp.bsky.social 
Eileen Guo @eileenguo.bsky.social Tech features and investigations at @technologyreview.com | proud Los Angeles resident | send me tips (not PR pitches) on Signal: eileenguo.15 | português-español-中文 https://www.technologyreview.com/author/eileen-guo/
davidrotman @davidrotman.bsky.social Long time technology journalist. Particular interests in economics, nanotech, and materials discovery, and inequality. 
Becka White @beckacita.bsky.social researcher at Amnesty Tech's Security Lab | surveillance and gender justice | writer (London Writers Awards; A Writing Chance)
Anna Dent @annadent.bsky.social Research and policy adviser www.abdconsultancy.co.uk
Futures of work, digital welfare state, tech ethics, public sector innovation
Also cats, telly, general silliness
Now with added newsletter! https://www.abdconsultancy.co.uk/digital-welfare-state
Lara Groves @laragroves.bsky.social Senior Researcher in AI accountability @AdaLovelaceInstitute | likes participatory methods & research, civic tech, cycling, beer |
Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social Philosopher and historian of human extinction (sadly, an increasingly relevant topic). Coined the term “TESCREAL” w/ Timnit Gebru. Salon, Truthdig, WaPo, Aeon, etc.
Caroline Sinders @carolinesinders.bsky.social Human rights centered design, art, and policy
https://www.convocation.design/
Executive Director @cordlabs
Elizabeth Renieris @hackylawyer.bsky.social Author, BEYOND DATA (MIT Press); law & policy expert focused on #AI #XR #emergingtech; fellow @ Oxford, Stanford, Harvard; frequent contrarian; hackylawyer.com
Shira Ovide @shiraovide.bsky.social Writes about A.I. for the Washington Post. New Yorker. Bird watcher. Grumpy. https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/shira-ovide/
Nicholas Thompson @nxthompson.bsky.social CEO of The Atlantic. Going out of business soon, since 1857.
Author of “The Running Ground: A father, a son, and the simplest of sports.”
Michelle Manafy @michellemanafy.bsky.social I spend a fair amount of time thinking about digital media. I write and speak about media industry topics, ethical tech & the future of work. Researching the impact of AI on journalism.
Amba Kak @ambakak.bsky.social I co-direct @AINowInstitute; @Signalapp board. Cover art by my mother https://shoumabanerjeekak.com/about-the-artist/
Danielle Citron @daniellecitron.bsky.social Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law; Vice President of the Cyber Civil Rights Initiative; #MacFellow; Author of The Fight for Privacy: Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age (2022) and Hate Crimes in Cyberspace (2014) 🍋
Brent Mittelstadt @bmittelstadt.bsky.social Professor of Data Ethics and Policy at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford and Principal Investigator at the Weizenbaum Institute. Founder of the Governance of Emerging Technologies research programme.
Damon Beres @damonberes.com Journalist focused on the effects of technology on people and the planet, senior editor at The Atlantic //
Writing EASY MODE, a book on tech, humanity, and the value of friction, for Scribner
SIGNAL: Damon.63
📨 dberes@theatlantic.com
✴️ damonberes.com
Jay Peters @jaypeters.net Senior Reporter at @theverge.com. Email tips to jay.peters@theverge.com.
Personal website is https://jaypeters.net.
Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social Security & Investigations Director at @WIRED.com. Send tips and/or dog pics.
Signal: couts.01
Olivia Solon @oliviasolon.bsky.social Covering tech at Bloomberg from London
Signal: @oliviasolon.13
Email: osolon2@bloomberg.net
Felicia Wong @feliciawong.bsky.social Paradigm shift for all! It’s time. Roosevelt Institute, Roosevelt Forward.
Michelle Miller @michelleimiller.bsky.social Hello, I’m from the labor movement. I co-founded Coworker and now I work at the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School.
(She/Her)
Catherine Bracy @catherinebracy.com Founder + CEO of TechEquity (techequity.us). Author of World Eaters: How Venture Capital is Cannibalizing the Economy. Long-suffering Tottenham Hotspur supporter.
Nick Couldry @couldrynick.bsky.social I teach media communications and social theory at London School of Economics. Main interests: data colonialism, AI, rebuilding social media. Links to my two new books: https://linktr.ee/SpaceOfTheWorldBook https://lnk.to/DataGrabBook
Anita Chan @anitachan.bsky.social Scholar, Speaker, Educator
Author, Predatory Data: Eugenics in Big Tech & Our Fight for an Independent Future
Director, Community Data Clinic, communitydata.illinois.edu
anitachan.org
Ben Whitelaw @benwhitelaw.bsky.social Founder and editor of everythinginmoderation.co. Co-host & writer of ctrlaltspeech.com puns. Media consultant by day. #LUFC fan by birthright.
Anya Kamenetz @anya1anya.bsky.social Ex-NPR. Writer. New Narratives Fellow, EHRP. Books: Generation Debt, DIY U, The Art of Screen Time, The Test, The Stolen Year, and next up: Falling In Love With The World Again. thegoldenhour.substack.com
Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, FRSE. Co-Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social and BRAID @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own. Humble servant to Carol and Puffin. She/her.
Brandon Silverman @brandonsilverman.bsky.social working on something new. former ceo & co-founder of crowdtangle, policy advocate for open internet & transparency, 3x boy-dad, less frequent dog walker.
Evan Ratliff @evrat.bsky.social Journalist. Host of SHELL GAME, author of THE MASTERMIND. Dispirited to even be here. I only follow Mike Isaac.
Nik Marda @nrmarda.bsky.social CM for @jakejohnsonmn.bsky.social. Used to do AI stuff in the Biden White House OSTP and at Mozilla.
Deepti Doshi @deeptidoshi.bsky.social Co-Director, @newpublic.org
Formerly: Facebook, Haiyya, Escuela Nueva, Acumen
Mama, Aiden + Luca
Greg M. Epstein @gregmepstein.bsky.social Humanist/atheist chaplain at places. Opinions mine not Harvard's/MIT's. NYT Bestselling & award-winning 📚 Good Without God + Tech Agnostic. Reclaiming my last name from evil. Reforming the tech religion. Took '25 off social media, now ~back.
divya siddarth @divya.bsky.social 
Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in Teaching and writing media studies at CU Boulder. Helping to build a cooperative fediverse with Social.coop. Fan of democratic experiences and divine mysteries. Co-leading metagov.org, start.coop, wagingnonviolence.org.
Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com NYT Bestselling Author – ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR (HarperCollins/Mariner) tinyurl.com/yxpvn488
Fmr White House Sr Policy Advisor | Fmr Sr Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School
Contact: fieldsmeyer.com
More: amifieldsmeyer.substack.com
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social Situationist Cybernetics. I make films with and against AI to see what isn’t there. Gates Scholar, Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social NYT bestselling author of EMPIRE OF AI: empireofai.com. ai reporter. national magazine award & american humanist media award winner. words in The Atlantic. formerly WSJ, MIT Tech Review, KSJ@MIT. email: http://karendhao.com/contact.
Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app Personal Account
Author: Deep Unlearning (you can now preorder at https://shorturl.at/sCdjl)
Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://dair-institute.org)
alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social Dir of Research, Data & Society. Academic. Studies tech & society, far-right disinfo. UNC CITAP. Loves pop cult. Mom, fashion victim, sci fi/fantasy enthusiast. Author of The Private is Political, Status Update. NYC forever. She/her/femme 💅🏻 tiara.org
Melanie Mitchell @melaniemitchell.bsky.social Professor, Santa Fe Institute. Research on AI, cognitive science, and complex systems.
Website: https://melaniemitchell.me
Substack: https://aiguide.substack.com/
Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social Book: https://thecon.ai
Web: https://faculty.washington.edu/ebender
Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social An independent research and policy institute working toward a future where people, not technology, come first.
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