a recent New York State audit of NYC's Local Law 144 — designed to ostensibly regulate potential bias and discrimination in automated employment tools — is fairly scathing in its assessment of how implementation and enforcement of the law is going. simply put, LL 144 does not work.

Registration is open for the first Accountable AI Research Conference, at The Wharton School in Philadelphia on Feb. 6, 2026. ai-analytics.wharton.upenn.edu/wharton-acco... If you're an AI governance practitioner or researcher, looking for insights on the future of responsible AI, please join us!

On AI’s ‘mediocrity trap’ — experiments indicates that while AI helps the less skilled make something passable, the highly skilled don’t use it to produce something better than they could have; they produce something ok, but lose motivation to make it great. www.jin-li.org/uploads/1/1/...

Some inspiring words on cinema in the streaming era from the Pope. Yes, THAT Pope.

6 more days to submit to this call for papers for the inaugural Accountable AI conference at Wharton. Should be an interesting interdisciplinary conversation!

Really excited to present one of the papers coming out of my PhD at the AI, Ethics and Society (AIES) conference tomorrow called "The ‘Wild West’ of Medicine: Exploring the Emergence of ‘Grassroots’ AI Governance in Radiology". Link here: ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI.... Thread on the paper below 👇

They've lost the 9yos

🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Research: low productivity gains from AI may stem from employees using AI to produce "workslop", or low-effort, passable work that creates more work for others (Harvard Business Review) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

California’s DMV says Tesla should lose its license to sell cars in the state, as the company fights allegations of misleading drivers into thinking its vehicles can operate autonomously without human oversight.

These things seem to bear repeating over and over again

Beautiful, and thoughtful. For just one example, see this excerpt. I'm increasingly captivated by the idea that "attention is all you need" is both the rallying cry for transformers and an exhortation for us to preserve ours.

We are wildly unprepared to think about and manage water as the precious and limited resource it truly is.

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

"Business Insider identified 1,240 data centers in America already built or approved for construction at the end of last year — the most comprehensive tally to date. That's nearly four times the number in 2010."

Call for Papers - The Politics of AI: Governance, Resistance, Alternatives www.criticalinfralab.net/preview/?id=... We invite proposals for our symposium that offer critical perspectives on AI & environment, AI & society, and the political economy of AI. Please share widely!

Steph Wright of the Scottish AI Alliance asking exactly the right question at our @braiduk.bsky.social gathering in Manchester: ‘How can we change the narrative from ‘Are you ready for AI? How can we make you AI-ready?’ to ‘Is AI ready for you? Is it good enough yet to be in your life, or business?’

....the Middle East, Latin America, or Russia and the Post-Soviet space, great power/imperial conflict, international law..technology/AI, or the international politics of the environment. Deadline - Friday 27 June 2025 Apply here my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

THREE 5-year Lectureships in IR at Oxford. One person will have expertise in Historical and Interpretive Methods; another in Qualitative Methods, and a third in Quantitative Methods We're looking for people with substantive expertise in historical international relations, the IR of Africa...

Me every sunny day: God I love Scotland

“If my products are so good for everyone, why wouldn’t I guarantee its safety by holding myself to account? Who wins if we have biased, unsustainable, deceptive AI? Is it the 8 billionaires, or the other 8 billion people?” My interview @computerweekly.bsky.social & Seb Klovig tinyurl.com/4my8rke3

My colleague Peter Conti-Brown and I have a project connecting the dots between AI governance and financial regulation. Below is the first in a series of contributions from our recent workshop, by Penn Carey Law School regulatory expert Cary Coglianese. open.substack.com/pub/petercon...

Only in Scotland would you see a bunch of barbecues going in the park on a day that feels like 35F (2C)

The institutional Democratic Party is guided by an almost pathological level of conflict avoidance in almost every direction. “What can we do to make the least number of people mad?” is just a bankrupt way to operate.

Hi all! I am looking to recruit an intern for this summer at Sony AI. The researcher should have documented expertise in qualitative studies and an interest in studying how responsible AI is conducted within organizations. Feel free to share widely! tinyurl.com/hci-sony

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Why would you report as fact a claim that even the person making it admits is entirely made up? www.thetimes.com/business-mon...

BBC just released damning research on AI assistants' news accuracy. Results: 51% of AI responses had significant issues. 19% introduced errors when citing BBC. 13% misquoted or made up BBC content entirely. 🤐🤐 www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/... via @ezraeeman.bsky.social

If a human-rights campaigner offered a "vibes-based estimate" on something in a national newspaper, they would be regarded as a laughing stock.

So grateful for @abeba.bsky.social on stage at the AI Action Summit, challenging us to be honest about the fact that we’re moving backward, not forward toward a shared social contract as Big Tech have now walked back nearly every voluntary commitment they once made to be responsible social actors.

Now hiring in law & tech @ucllaws.bsky.social! Lecturer/Assoc Prof in IP & IT law: intersection of platform reg, emerging tech, copyright/designs. Join me @bernardkeenan.bsky.social Orla Lynskey @alinatrapova.bsky.social Ilanah Fhima, Matt Fisher, Robin Jacob & friends www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Microsoft Research: GenAI can inhibit critical engagement with work and can potentially lead to long-term overreliance on the tool and diminished skill for independent problem-solving. Microsoft: *sells GenAI aggressively into the Education 365 packages*

✨bottom-up, emergent processes have shaped the NHS - how does AI fit into this messy, complicated history - and shape its future? And how might these AI-directed transformations of care (re)create forms of epistemic injustice? Some questions we reflect on here: www.frontiersin.org/journals/soc...

Re-upping this. So lucky to have so many people to love and hold dear.

Thrilled to launch the Accountable AI Lab at Wharton AI & Analytics! We’re tackling the critical challenges of ethics, governance, and regulation for AI innovation that benefits both business and society. Learn more: ai-analytics.wharton.upenn.edu/news/announc... #WhartonAI #AccountableAI

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🚨 Call for Participants 🚨: I am currently looking to recruit radiologists for a study I am conducting on the Governance of AI in Radiology. Voluntary participation in this study involves a 40 minute- 1 hour interview (on Microsoft Teams). Link to sign up here: calendly.com/b-ganesh/phd...

Big news in AI governance: last week in San Francisco was the launch of the international network of AI safety institutes. Ten initial government members, a joint testing exercise, and a US government task force on AI testing. www.nist.gov/news-events/...

This is .. alarming to say the least. The bureaucratic over-scrutiny of medical insurance claims (via ~50 algorithms ?!) in order to systematically & specifically deny mental health care. www.propublica.org/article/unit...

It is not *easy* to be informed about this stuff - you have to read, you have to consider counterfactuals, you oftentimes have to pay money for good stuff, but a series of curation algorithms has gotten people convinced that this instant terror and ecstasy is not only acceptable but *good* for them

not saying anything groundbreaking here, but I really think "politics as a form of content to be served up and consumed like all other forms of content" has been an enormous, underrated disaster in terms of giving folks the illusion of being informed while essentially being gamed like a drug addict

This feels like an incredibly grim time and I just don’t know what to say except for we need each other more than ever

Asked my dad to help me proofread something because he’s really good at it. His email response is cracking me up

One of the biggest and quietest problems with the world is that actual news keeps getting locked behind paywalls, while disinformation is always freely available.

An exciting moment this week!

Zuckerberg pledges to take less accountability going forward techcrunch.com/2024/09/11/m...

No shade to England, but the train ride back to Edinburgh always hits different. The stunning landscapes get me every time even three years later!

Is it too early to be struggling w the whole “absent-minded professor” thing?