Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility

cpsr.org

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When did they last update the site?

The “News Flash” announcement about Joichi Ito being selected to head the MIT Media Lab hasn’t just aged, but it’s aged like milk. In his time running the Media Lab, he associated with and took investments from Jeffrey Epstein, and it all came to light in 2019.

If you’re not familiar with the story, here’s a writeup from _The New Yorker_, [How an Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein](https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/how-an-elite-univer...).

I’m pretty sure they’d want to remove that news flash.

Silly me; I thought they were still a thing. I did some quick searches and found out they dissolved in 2013.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Professionals_for_Soc...

Fortunately, the Risks Digest is still around https://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/

> Risks Digest is still around

Been so long. Interesting the added attention toward AI, compared to e.g. real-time and high-reliability

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