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annadent.bsky.social
Research and policy adviser - www.abdconsultancy.co.uk Futures of work & employment support, digital welfare state, ethical tech and AI etc. Now with added newsletter! https://www.abdconsultancy.co.uk/digital-welfare-state
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I walked past Grace Dent then immediately regretted not greeting her as a fellow Dent. That probably doesn't even count as an interaction

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who could have predicted that dumping your every intimate thought into badly run cloud automation systems managed by amoral monoliths in a country without functional corporate oversight would go badly

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"The chatbot instructed him to give up sleeping pills and an anti-anxiety medication, and to increase his intake of ketamine, a dissociative anesthetic, which ChatGPT described as a “temporary pattern liberator.”"

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Two, er, different views on using AI in welfare systems. TBI says we should use AI to improve 'efficiency' and that it can be de-biased - www.linkedin.com/pulse/can-ai...

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These people just live in some other headspace that I can't even fathom. The notion that I need to track my actions to understand myself is mind boggling. That I might want so share all this data with a tech corporation is impossible to conceive.

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So if you didn't sign up you've missed the inaugural edition of my newsletter. BUT all is not lost You can sign up for the next, which will be out in July!

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🚨 6PM, WED 25 June 🚨 Join us for the seventh TGT at the MoJ or online, with: * Antonio Weiss on his new book, "AI Demystified" * ​Becky Miller, Defra, on designing policy with complex evidence lu.ma/jkd8jbzu Please share! Thanks 🙏.

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Oh no I must never go to Japan because I would want to buy most of these

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Appears to be real Paid in crypto LOL

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New from me @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social + Justin-Casimir Braun: Amsterdam believed that it could build a #predictiveAI for welfare fraud that would ALSO be fair, unbiased, & a positive case study for #ResponsibleAI. It didn't work. Our deep dive why: www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/11/1...

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My great grandfather had a shop on Strutton Ground!

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It appears I may be descended from a line of South London cheesemongers

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When everyone else is analysing the spending review but you're having a few days of fresh air

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🔥 Four (yes four) fixed-term jobs now being advertised working across two great projects & with an AMAZING team @changingrealities.bsky.social & @safety-nets.bsky.social 🔥 These are at ‪@uofglasgow.bsky.social‬ as I'm moving there at the end of this month www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...

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Same. At least Microsoft provide a way to opt out and pay the normal amount

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This is probably going out tomorrow 🖥️✉️⤵️

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Here we go...

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Been thinking about this. If the big platforms' AI agents only work within their 'walls' in order to keep your attention, and this triggers other companies to make agents that can 'talk' to the Meta, Google, Amazon etc ones...

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Here's an enormous pinch of salt to go with your AI boosterism

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Watching @publiclawproject.bsky.social webinar on tech and welfare law. Why are there so few legal cases brought against automated decisions in welfare benefits?

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This is just the beginning... www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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