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ntshmccrthy.bsky.social
Policy, philosophy, ethics in and for engineering, tech, science and AI. Assoc Director of the National Engineering Policy Centre. Hon Prof of Practice @ UCL Dept of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy.
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Happy #internationalwomensday! How disappointing of Radio 4 to open an episode of Saturday Morning Live, featuring a lineup of women guests, with the song ‘Here come the girls’ (lyrics ‘looking so good it’s a god darn shame that they couldn’t all be mine etc’…) Yawn.

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Questions that came up for me today on #philosophyofai 1) AI is great if you like answers. But what if you like questions? 2) If there was a Socratic dialogue where the interlocutor was an LLM, would we still read it now? Cont….

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A great conversation at the AI Fringe talking about #sustainable #AI with @loiclnlg.bsky.social Dame Dawn Childs and Marina Jirotka. Sustainable AI needs good engineering, trusted data and multidisciplinary conversations on its responsible use and development.

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Spent a wonderful day in Liverpool at the Royal Academy of Engineering People’s AI Stewardship Summit this week, connecting local innovators, researchers and stakeholders into conversation on #AI with community participants! The entrepreneurs said they heard lots they would take back to their work ❤️

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What a beautiful location in Liverpool University’s Botanic Gardens for a discussion on Participation, People and Power in Data and AI. Thank you @reemaspatel.bsky.social for organising this with the Digital Good Network, Liverpool Civic Data Cooperative and Responsible AI UK

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Very reflective session at the Royal Society and Google Deepmind AI for science forum - how AI tools will require us to reflect on scientific methods both to adapt to new tools but ensure fundamental scientific principles are preserved

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Please welcome the very excellent Ada Lovelace Institute @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social to BlueSky. Follow for the latest news and updates on our independent research into Data and AI and their impacts on people and society. And memes. Always memes.

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Event this Thursday in person and online - how we can tackle wicked problems #engineering raeng.org.uk/events/2024/...

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Building trustworthy and socially beneficial AI involves listening to what that means to people. At the Royal Academy of Engineering we held the first of a series of conversations between local entrepreneurs and researchers, and Belfast residents, on hopes & fears for AI: youtu.be/4Kuu6OyZkss

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