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Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show.

She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms.

https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-political-donations-income-dark-money-dhs-ethics?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#KristiNoem#DHS#Ethics#USPolitics#Government#Nonprofit

Next was a fantastic talk by Kathleen Creel on algorithmic monoculture, how it can manifest, and mitigation approaches at LIDS. I absolutely love the lottery approach discussed here. Highly recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h36XKNZlYiE (4/5) #AI #ethics

Something that made me happy this week, shared with permission: a junior researcher in our faculty asked for advice on whether or not to use a GenAI service for cross-validating his hand-coded systematic review results

I advised him to do a quickscan of the service against the core principles for research integrity in our faculty GenAI guidelines: honesty, scrupulousness, transparency, independence & reproducibility https://osf.io/preprints/osf/2c48n_v1

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#GenAI #ethics