Heading into December with energy matched by this koala…

Drumrolls, please! I’m thrilled to share the cover for my forthcoming #book from @doubledaybooks.bsky.social (Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/

Unpopular opinion: claiming that“human-in-the-loop” is your governance of AI is the equivalent of claiming drinking orange juice is your governance of not getting a cold

it is worth remembering that cigarette companies also spent decades selling products they knew would harm and kill people and marketed them specifically to young people to create dependence. let's stop this without having to go through a generation of death and several class actions.

Another casualty of the LLM revolution. In "arXiv’s CS category, review articles and position papers must now be accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review."

Today, in “Bad things that were 100% completely and totally foreseeable and they just let er rip” news www.msn.com/en-gb/public...

And the fact that they even think this is possible shows they have absolutely zero understanding of any concepts and principles related to “bias” 🤨 If they cannot understand the very concepts they invoke, then they have zero credibility to address the problem and should sit this one out.

I've yet to see a single discussion of "Canadian digital sovereignty" include any Indigenous experts, at best we're given a token mention that at some point they'll "consult with Indigenous Peoples" like we're some sort of monolith. Umm, y'all need to consider all our lands, and our distinctiveness.

Sharing our pre-print for a comprehensive silent evaluation of a commercial AI Scribe tool at Women’s and Children’s Health Network in Adelaide! Co-developed by our multi-d team of physicians, Aboriginal Health colleagues and consumers ❤️ url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/X_F4C81VLx...

Hey #AIEthics people (and all people as well!), got a question for you… Is anyone else 100% completely and totally fed up with AI ethics?

I will believe AI has PhD-level knowledge when every response is concluded with a suggestion of a local seminar or talk that has free food 🍕☕️

Our preprint is up! Ever heard of the silent phase of AI evaluation for medical AI? Well, now we’ve summarised the current state of research!

🤩Excited to share that Project CANAIRI has an official website! Find out about our team, our work, and how to get involved! www.projectcanairi.org

Turns out that #Google was publicly logging ChatGPT conversations that people had shared (privately, or so they thought) with friends. There are conversations about mental health, sex, etc. Do you still think #OpenAI take #privacy seriously? By @stokel.bsky.social fastcompanyme.com/technology/g...

I have seen this!! We tested some models with dummy data and found that someone calling someone or something “deadly” was ALWAYS coded as negative sentiment (it’s the opposite!) We ended up deciding the sentiment function will be useless and scrapped it.

It was so much fun chatting to @dsilvaphd.bsky.social on SHE Pod about all things #AIEthics! We chatted about a recent paper I wrote with Mjaye Mazwi and Lauren Oakden-Rayner where we asked, when is an accurate model a bad thing? And why? www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

'Taking the time to do things right isn’t anti-innovation – it is what is required to get deep-rooted change in social systems.' My piece on AI and public services in this week's @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...

Happy Canada Day from the land down under!! 🍁🇨🇦🫎

I think the reality is that, rather than a serious reflection by a qualified scholar, so many people will simply spit out any “edgy” faux-philosophical analysis because publishing literally any bollocks on AI is trendy these days 🤷🏼‍♀️ Bye, Felicia

Good morning

Now I have a paper to refer to when someone asks me why I don’t use Uber!

At AJOB: Bioethicists Must Push Back Against Assaults on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Nancy S. Jecker, Arthur Caplan, Vardit Ravitsky, Patrick Smith, Kayhan Parsi, Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, Faith Fletcher, Mildred Cho, Keisha Ray lnkd.in/g7saphzR

Good opportunity to remind everyone about DuckDuckGo 😉 I haven’t used Google Search in about 4 years now!

Today, in entirely predictable news… Deeply, deeply disturbing article on several fronts. But first: IT’S NOT JUST TEENS. Several intelligent adults have told me ChatGPT has become like their “best friend” and the main market for these things is “virtual girlfriend” so…

Literally my relationship with technology in a nutshell 😂

Couple things important to point out. 1) AI is not ‘doing’ anything. We are. We are doing the bad things. 2) We are delegating thinking to AI. I watched ppl in a workshop recently ask ChatGPT instead of think about the question themselves. That’s a choice.

This is jarring

In #Melbourne? Fan of @emilymbender.bsky.social? In conversation with Dr @kobotic.bsky.social Tues 1st July, Kaleide Theatre, #RMIT, discussing her book written with Dr @alexhanna.bsky.social #TheAICon. Learn how to cut through the #AI hype www.readings.com.au/events/emily...

The competition to be the most dangerous and ethically compromised tech platform is stiff, but Meta are in it to win!

And the book doesn’t ask you for permission to see your contacts, geographic information, wallet, medical records, and every piece of information about you just to read it? And you only have to pay once or even not at all for this miracle?? Incredible. #TeamBooks

Exactly how many talks, policy papers, interviews, and reports do you think are out there warning about precisely this likelihood? Because I know it's a lot more than a few. "‘We Acted Too Quickly’: Over Half of Companies Regret AI-Driven Layoffs, Report Finds" www.techrepublic.com/article/news...

This is our new “drove car off a bridge because following google maps” Some ppl may not jump off a cliff if all their friends did it, but they might if the synthetic text extruding machine told them to 😕 @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE …wait, I did that wrong 😅

this just started and i'm already losing my mind and screaming Western white folk basically putting an AI avatar on stage and pretending it is a refugee from sudan — literally interacting with it as if it is a “woman that fled to chad from sudan” just fucking shoot me

Controversial take here but… I think we’re so deep in this now and the beliefs are so dogmatic that the only way out is to just push at Mach speed all the way to absurd as fast as possible so that even the most koolaid-y drinking are faced with the inevitable reality that this is beyond ridiculous

Yeah I don’t even know what to say anymore. I feel like no amount of these stories are changing anyone’s perspective and it is well and truly depressing.

Pope Protein Drink XII😂😂😂 I’m in training!! 🏃‍♀️

On being called DEI and why it isn’t the burn they think it is

A lovely new piece by @mdmccradden.bsky.social and colleagues: "Better predictions are meaningless unless they facilitate better decisions." #bioethics #AI #decsionmaking www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Calling on Australian youth 12-17yrs! We want to hear youths views on #HealthAI - what is fair and unfair, what’s okay when working with AI and patients, and what earns your trust or not? 🤝 Survey is around 30min ⏰ Respondents entered into a prize draw! 🎁 surveys.adelaide.edu.au/redcap/surve...

For more on why this sobering finding could have implications for how we integrate AI into our lives, see this Preview from @mdmccradden.bsky.social et al www.cell.com/patterns/ful... and the expert reactions collected @smclondon.bsky.social www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-react...

Also this month, van Amsterdam et al show that prediction models, including AI models, can be well-validated for accuracy but still have harmful consequences when applied to the real-world, such as in clinical decision-making. www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

“Algorithms codify and preserve the past, but decisions imagine new futures. With our actions as the guidepost, we can use data-driven insights without reifying history for accuracy’s sake.” Our new paper in @cp-patterns.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

Our new paper touches on some of the under-represented issues in ethics & tech in paediatrics 📣environmental impact and its relationship to global equity 📣codesign with youth 📣nurses at the forefront of tech We advocate for a broader look on ethics of tech www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Les Francos, come on - we know better. ‘Woke’ ideology gives us French-speaking schools in predominantly English provinces, helps us push back against French Immersion schools being downsized and scrapped, & ensures dual-language communication across Canada. 🇨🇦 ⚜️

Uh, yeah… as my mother always said, « t’occupe toi d’tes onions » 🧅 😂 www.ft.com/content/02ed...

“Compared with the patients’ doctors, the AI model more often failed to detect the presence of disease in Black patients or women, as well in those 40 years or younger.” 😒 Filing this one away for the next time someone offers the truly stupendous retort of “but humans are biased too”

no shit www.science.org/content/arti...

Health AI research, meet critical appraisal 🤯 Time to get serious about methodology! PROBAST+AI is a tool for reviewing the quality, applicability, and risk of bias in AI studies. Very pleased to have had a part in this important work! #AIEthics #Bioethics #MedTwitter www.bmj.com/content/388/...