Last week the UK launched its International AI Safety Report. The report looks at the impacts of AI across the board. But with deregulation of AI in the US, how can we stay safe and protect democracy? 🧵https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-ai-safety-report-2025 - ThreadSky

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bennett-innovate.bsky.social • 29 days ago

Last week the UK launched its International AI Safety Report. The report looks at the impacts of AI across the board. But with deregulation of AI in the US, how can we stay safe and protect democracy? 🧵https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/international-ai-safety-report-2025

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bennett-innovate.bsky.social•29 days ago

3 key risk types: malicious use, malfunction, and systemic. AI's ability to create disinformation, facilitate cyber attacks, and develop dangerous technologies is particularly alarming.

bennett-innovate.bsky.social•29 days ago

AI malfunctions can lead to biased decision-making, increased discrimination, and false information generation.

bennett-innovate.bsky.social•29 days ago

Particularly worrying is that AI-supported disinformation in social media is manipulating voters, generating realistic fake news and deepfakes. Conventional disinformation detection methods are easily circumvented, threatening democratic processes.

bennett-innovate.bsky.social•29 days ago

Proposed technical and regulatory countermeasures: robust training and procedures for detecting fake content, diverse training data, regular audits, transparency requirements, and independent security testing.

bennett-innovate.bsky.social•29 days ago

Social media platforms should detect and remove AI-supported disinformation early. The EU must enforce the Digital Services Act and GDPR more consistently, with heavy fines for violations and a dedicated task force.

bennett-innovate.bsky.social•29 days ago

AI systems cause significant ecological damage due to their enormous energy and water consumption. DeepSeek is very efficient, but cheap use could lead to a further scaling of use and the associated climate damage

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