Dalia Hashim

working on AI policy & ethics and community building w ISNA Canada • prev: @partnershipai; Ontario Digital and Open Government @OntInnovation • views = my own

[Dalia Hashim @DaliaMHashim]

Excited to see the work of the last year come to fruition!

I've been working with journalists, newsrooms, academics and civil society over the past year to produce this responsible AI Adoption Guide for newsrooms.

Take a look! https://t.co/hq9IWjvpqo

[Partnership on AI @PartnershipAI]

AI is quickly changing the news cycle, yet this comes with significant and varied risks.

PAI is proud to share a new resource to help news orgs responsibly harness AI’s potential: “AI Adoption for Newsrooms: A 10-Step Guide.” https://t.co/lAux0qa6J9

#newresource #newsroom

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Pope Leo XIV: "Among these ideologies, I consider particularly insidious the one that suggests that every person must earn or justify his or her own worth, to the point of attributing greater value to those who are more efficient or effective. From this perspective, persons end up being reduced to a means of achieving results, a resource to be used and exploited, and are no longer recognized as a proper end in themselves who should never be instrumentalized. The value of persons, however, does not depend on what they achieve or produce. There are rights that apply to everyone simply by virtue of being human, and no human power can legitimately deny or arbitrarily limit them." #MagnificaHumanitas

[Deena Shakir @deenashakir]

💔 These weren’t distant strangers in a headline. They were part of my greater community. Friends of my aunt and uncle. The shopkeeper who used to hand my cousin potato chips after Sunday school. They died protecting young children.

Senseless, preventable violence fueled by Islamophobic and xenophobic hate — hate that should have no place in this country or anywhere.

[New York Magazine @NYMag]

Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise, and he should know. For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 dummy social-media accounts used to drum up attention on behalf of paying clients.

The point of this kind of marketing is that nobody is supposed to notice it. But lately, the machinery has started to show.

In April, Justin Bieber headlined two consecutive weekends at Coachella. Coachella is the biggest stage in pop music save only for the Super Bowl, the kind of event that in theory generates its own attention. And yet on both weekends, a Discord server writer Lane Brown had been monitoring hosted paid campaigns for Bieber’s Coachella performances, offering clippers — people who are hired to turn a song, trailer, interview, stump speech, or whatever into short, social-media-friendly fragments — as much as a dollar per thousand views.

“On social media, popular opinion is being formed, measured, and manipulated all at once, and every signal the platforms produce — a trending song, a backlash, a talking point, the feeling that ‘everybody’ is suddenly talking about the same thing — can now be fabricated by unseen actors with hidden agendas,” writes Brown.

“Everybody is doing this now,” Lim says. “And if you’re not, you’re behind.”

Brown reports on how the same techniques are now being used to fool people on every app they go to in order to find out what other people think, not just in music but across entertainment, politics, consumer products, and celebrity gossip: https://t.co/hlcdfSmzPc

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

🚨 Holy shit… Stanford just exposed that every major AI company is using your private conversations to train their models by default.

They analyzed the privacy policies of OpenAI, Google, Meta, Anthropic, Microsoft, and Amazon. Reviewed 28 separate documents across all 6 companies. The findings are worrisome.

Every prompt you type. Every file you upload. Every personal detail you share. All of it feeds directly into model training the moment you hit send.
That health question you asked

ChatGPT at 2am? Training data.

Legal situation you described to Claude? Training data.

The photo you uploaded to Gemini? Training data.

Some companies retain your conversations INDEFINITELY. Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI have no confirmed deletion timeline for certain chat data. Your most private conversations could sit on their servers forever.

It gets worse for kids. Four out of six companies allow children aged 13-18 to use their chatbots, and most don’t treat children’s data any differently. Kids’ conversations are likely getting fed into model training by default. Kids who can’t legally consent to it.

Here’s something most people missed: enterprise customers are opted OUT of training by default. You, the consumer paying $20/month? Opted IN. Companies paying thousands?

Protected automatically. There’s a two-tiered privacy system and you’re on the wrong side of it.

OpenAI even frames the opt-in with guilt. Their settings page says “Improve the model for everyone.” Stanford’s researchers flagged this as a textbook dark pattern designed to make you feel bad for protecting your own data.

Meta’s contractors told reporters they routinely see identifiable personal information in the chat data they review. Journalists were able to positively identify at least one real person from chat transcripts shared with them.

The privacy policies themselves? Stanford had to dig through 6 separate documents just for OpenAI alone. Most real disclosures were buried in sub-policies no normal person would ever find. The researchers said it was challenging for THEM to piece it together. For consumers? “Practically impossible.”

Only Microsoft explicitly stated they try to remove personal data like names, phone numbers, and addresses before training.

The rest are either vague about it or completely silent.

[Dalia Hashim @DaliaMHashim]

“So when I say I live for my family, my community, and the people whose histories built the ground I walk on, I don’t mean self-erasure. I mean trusteeship."

https://t.co/jpoqimxYfq

[Mohammed R. Mhawish @mrmhawish]

I spent sixteen months reporting this story. It was deep, painful, and at times unbearable.

It follows how surveillance tech is rewriting Gaza in real time — and what it’s doing to the people inside it. Read in @NYMag

https://t.co/DBfVVfn4f0

[Richard Sanders @PulaRJS]

Israel murdered a Reuters journalist. In a hospital.

As rescue workers tried to recover his body, Israel murdered them. Live on TV. Along with three more journalists.

Apparently "it's complicated".

[Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚 @hippyygoat]

THESE JOURNALISTS ARE THE BRAVEST OF BRAVE….‼️

Imagine reporting with an Israeli drone above you listening to every word ready to drop a bomb.

The bravery and dedication are astonishing and courageous.

AT LEAST 242 JOURNALISTS HAVE BEEN MURDERED BY ISRAEL.

[أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif @AnasAlSharif0]

⚠️To Whom It May Concern,
The occupation is now openly threatening a full-scale invasion of Gaza.
For 22 months, the city has been bleeding under relentless bombardment from land, sea, and air.
Tens of thousands have been killed, and hundreds of thousands wounded.

If this madness does not end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.

Please share this message and tag everyone who has the power to help end this massacre. Silence is complicity.

[أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif @AnasAlSharif0]

هذه وصيّتي، ورسالتي الأخيرة.
إن وصلَتكم كلماتي هذه، فاعلموا أن إسرائيل قد نجحت في قتلي وإسكات صوتي.
بداية السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

يعلم الله أنني بذلت كل ما أملك من ج��دٍ وقوة، لأكون سندًا وصوتًا لأبناء شعبي، مذ فتحت عيني على الحياة في أزقّة وحارات مخيّم جباليا للاجئين، وكان أملي أن يمدّ الله في عمري حتى أعود مع أهلي وأحبّتي إلى بلدتنا الأصلية عسقلان المحتلة "المجدل" لكن مشيئة الله كانت أسبق، وحكمه نافذ.
عشتُ الألم بكل تفاصيله، وذُقت الوجع والفقد مرارًا، ورغم ذلك لم أتوانَ يومًا عن نقل الحقيقة كما هي، بلا تزوير أو تحريف، عسى أن يكون الله شاهدًا على من سكتوا ومن قبلوا بقتلنا، ومن حاصروا أنفاسنا ولم تُحرّك أشلاء أطفالنا ونسائنا في قلوبهم ساكنًا ولم يُوقِفوا المذبحة التي يتعرّض لها شعبنا منذ أكثر من عام ونصف.

أوصيكم بفلسطين، درةَ تاجِ المسلمين، ونبضَ قلبِ كلِّ حرٍّ في هذا العالم.
أوصيكم بأهلها، وبأطفالها المظلومين الصغار، الذين لم يُم��لهم العُمرُ ليحلموا ويعيشوا في أمانٍ وسلام،
فقد سُحِقَت أجسادهم الطاهرة بآلاف الأطنان من القنابل والصواريخ الإسرائيلية، فتمزّقت، وتبعثرت أشلاؤهم على الجدران.

أوصيكم ألّا تُسكتكم القيود، ولا تُقعِدكم الحدود، وكونوا جسورًا نحو تحرير البلاد والعباد، حتى تشرق شمسُ الكرامة والحرية على بلادنا السليبة.
أُوصيكم بأهلي خيرًا،
أوصيكم بقُرّة عيني، ابنتي الحبيبة شام، التي لم تسعفني الأيّام لأراها تكبر كما كنتُ أحلم.

وأوصيكم بابني الغالي صلاح، الذي تمنيت أن أكون له عونًا ورفيق دربٍ حتى يشتدّ عوده، فيحمل عني الهمّ، ويُكمل الرسالة.

أوصيكم بوالدتي الحبيبة، التي ب��ركة دعائها وصلتُ لما وصلت إليه، وكانت دعواتها حصني، ونورها طريقي.
أدعو الله أن يُربط على قلبها، ويجزيها ��نّي خير الجزاء.

وأوصيكم كذلك برفيقة العمر، زوجتي الحبيبة أم صلاح بيان، التي فرّقتنا الحرب لأيامٍ وشهورٍ طويلة، لكنها بقيت على العهد، ثابتة كجذع زيتونة لا ينحني، صابرة محتسبة، حملت الأمانة في غيابي بكلّ قوّة وإيمان.

أوصيكم أن تلتفوا حولهم، وأن تكونوا لهم سندًا بعد الله عز وجل.
إن متُّ، فإنني أموت ثابتًا على المبدأ، وأُشهد الله أني راضٍ بقضائه، مؤمنٌ بلقائه، ومتيقّن أن ما عند الله خيرٌ وأبقى.

اللهم تقبّلني في الشهداء، واغفر لي ما تقدّم من ذنبي وما تأخّر، واجعل دمي نورًا يُضيء درب الحرية لشعبي وأهلي.
سامحوني إن قصّرت، وادعوا لي بالرحمة، فإني مضيتُ على ال��هد، ولم أُغيّر ولم أُبدّل.

لا تنسوا غزة…
ولا تنسوني من صالح دعائكم بالمغفرة والقبول.
أنس جمال الشريف
06.04.2025

هذا ما أوصى بنشره الحبيب الغالي أنس عند استشهاده.
إدارة الصفحة

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

At a complete, utter loss.

Journalists @AnasAlSharif0, Anas Al-Hasi, and Mohammed Quraiqa were killed after the IDF bombed the Al-Jazeera tent at Al-Shifa Hospital.

It was 673 days of non-stop coverage by Anas and his team. The Israelis have killed over 250 journalists in Gaza & killed one of the most prolific voices because now the plan is to clean up the crime scene in front of a world that has allowed every crime to be committed against the Palestinians.

Innalilahi wa Innalilahi raji’un.

[Mohammad Alsaafin @malsaafin]

The best, most heroic, and bravest of us.

Never stopped reporting even when Israel killed his father and many colleagues, including his close friends Ismail Alghoul and Hossam Shbat.

Anas Alsharif. Murdered by Israel tonight in Gaza City.

The genocidal regime must be stopped.

[Heather McPherson @HMcPhersonNDP]

Sanctions on every member of the cabinet now. Arms embargo now. Suspend trade now.

Canada must end its complicity!

https://t.co/YlK5rNDyrq

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

🚨AFP issues a statement saying this is the 1st time in their entire history their journalists on the ground face death by starvation

[أنس الشريف Anas Al-Sharif @AnasAlSharif0]

85% of Gaza’s population have entered the "fifth stage" of malnutrition — the most critical and dangerous phase, which is often irreversible even if food becomes available in the future.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

My entire life in politics people have tried to divide Jews and Muslims for cynical purposes. Can't overstate how powerful this solidarity was in obliterating that bullshit.

[Hamza Yusuf @Hamza_a96]

In just the last 72 hours in Gaza:

- A Palestinian girl shot by an Israeli sniper while playing on the beach.
- A baby lying beside his amputated leg.
- A girl begging her dead father to wake up.
- Countless charred bodies pulled from rubble.

Hell on earth.

[Alex Vacca @itsalexvacca]

BREAKING: MIT just completed the first brain scan study of ChatGPT users & the results are terrifying.

Turns out, AI isn't making us more productive. It's making us cognitively bankrupt.

Here's what 4 months of data revealed:

(hint: we've been measuring productivity all wrong)

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

More journalists killed in Gaza than World War 1, World War 2, Vietnam, Yugoslavia & Afghanistan combined

[Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention @LemkinInstitute]

The US-backed distribution of aid in Gaza using ex-military staff is a weaponization of food and a grotesque mockery of humanitarianism. This cruel spectacle is meant to distract from Israel’s plans to forcibly displace all Palestinians from Palestine.

Such action is as far away from humanitarian aid as one can go. We call it what it is: A tool of genocide.