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Glorious return from @hamishhawk.bsky.social to Thekla last night. We made sure not to be stuck at the back this time!

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I wasn't sure I could be more obsessed with Baldur's Gate 3, but now I discover the (wonderful) narrator is a University of Bristol grad! Chances of enticing her back to do something with @bdfi.bsky.social ... or just, y'know, narrate my lectures? 🤔

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Anyone at a loose end on the afternoon of 26th Feb, do come along and talk to me about humanlike AI. @jgibristol.bsky.social @bdfi.bsky.social www.bristol.ac.uk/golding/turi...

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@jeesjess.bsky.social

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UK Govt: "Unleash the AI, for it shall help us find the potholes!" Meanwhile in Scotland...

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Hello Bluesky 👋 we have joined the movement! Like many others, here at BDFI we have chosen to leave X and seek pastures new. We look forward to interacting here in a more positive and constructive community 🌍

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So is the current narrative really that the last Government was too cautious about AI, and not sufficiently pro-innovation? 🤔

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The man in the automated message on the Manchester Civil Justice Centre phone number genuinely sounds unhinged. It only gets worse the longer you listen. Just wait for the bit about bailiffs. Who approved this???

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What worries me is not government use of AI per se but the slightly credulous way that the government talk about it, which makes me suspect they will be taken for rubes by the tech companies selling their services. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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BBC News - PM plans to 'unleash AI' across UK to boost growth www.bbc.com/news/article... I'm certainly not ruling out that AI could have major benefits, but ... finding potholes? Isn't there a more obvious less 'solutionist' solution, where humans just, well ... report them? 🤷‍♂️

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Happy new year, NZ buddies!

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Dear BC Ferries, are we having a good festive season?

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Celebrating Second Christmas in Vancouver. This time-travelling business is quite fun.

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Our first Dunedin house! Doesn't look to have changed much in 16 years ...

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Morning coffee, Otago Peninsula.

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Great to be back on the best running route ever. Sadly, the performance did not match ...

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Driving down South Island, in an unfamiliar car with all the 'driver assistance' add-ons, and a 90s techno lass in charge of the soundtrack. So is that repeating 'beep-bloop' sound part of this Leftfield track, or is the car telling us the boot's not shut properly? 🤷‍♂️

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At @insidehighered.com I wrote about my concerns about this kind of technology as a threat to human instructional labor, but there's also potential pedagogical issues with introducing a 24/7 assistant that may actually hamper student learning and development.🧵 www.insidehighered.com/opinion/blog...

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I'm interested to know what wiser heads think about this. Kids also encounter loss and sadness when a 'real' pet dies. In the past, that was even seen as a step in their development. Is this different/worse? I suspect it might be, but how?

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It should be said, the state dictating who can marry on the grounds of genetic fitness to breed doesn't have absolutely the best record, historically speaking. www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Here, with a good book and a coffee. Yeah, that'll do nicely.

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The whistle-stop tour of Wellington's best people continues. With @dreddieclark.bsky.social and @andrewtychen.bsky.social

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So great to be back in Wellington and attending/presenting at the 'Conceptualizing and Enforcing Privacy for Workers' workshop at VUW. Brilliantly put together by @amandareillyinnz.bsky.social, thanks so much.

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Looking forward to today’s workshop on Conceptualising and Enforcing Privacy Workshop, chaired by @amandareillyinnz.bsky.social and featuring @digitalfutures.bsky.social amongst many others.

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I don't know if it's curious to be posting this on the day I give a keynote on privacy and tech, but anyway, here's my Spotify most played for 2024.

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Two stages of writing: 1) This shouldn't take too long 2) Oh no

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Geez, NZ Govt, talk about raking your studs down the calf of any residual nostalgia for the place...

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A valuable & nuanced piece. As a long-time AD advocate, I often used to encounter palliative care professionals who tended towards the paternalistic/intransigent on this issue. But people like @doctoroxford.bsky.social display such obvious humility, compassion & respect for their patients.

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Things I've missed about NZ, number one in a likely series: a proper long black. I'm going to need to ration myself or I won't sleep till April, but damn, that's good...

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A sort of homecoming.

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Robocop is a movie about a guy who gets killed on the job and they still made him go back to work

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New from Council of Europe: “Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law Impact Assessment for AI Systems” (HUDERIA): a risk-based approach to assessing and mitigating adverse impacts rm.coe.int/20240704-ecn...

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Are our quality newspapers deliberately misrepresenting what's happened, or are their headlines all written by genAI? The 'passed' claim is certainly misleading if not entirely false, but the second sentence is just misinformation.

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“This article considers the EU’s AI Act and the various ways that it could have four types of ‘Brussels effects’:Extra-territorial application; De facto corporate adoption; Legislative emulation by 3rd countries; and Adoption in international agreements and standards. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

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I wrote about UNION, the gripping and much-needed documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and why it hasn't gotten a distribution deal (spoiler: Bezos has too much money/power). You can stream it on Gathr this weekend and you should! slate.com/culture/2024...

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