'Critical Gaps in the Mandatory Reporting Provisions of the Crime and Policing Bill' inc excluding leadership roles & indications of abuse from duty, lack of criminal penalties, & whether reporting overrides sectoral confidentiality. Can the House of Lords fix? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Please share and sign: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...

Please sign and share: www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/no...

@ucunorthumbria.bsky.social skyrocketing and getting mobilised to fight this attack on pay and pensions @northumbriauni.bsky.social www.ucu.org.uk/article/14256

💡 Tackle challenges like hallucinations, trust, and ethical AI deployment. 🔗 findaphd.com/phds/project/phd-in-computing-science-responsible-usage-of-llm-based-tooling-in-high-stakes-decision-making/?p186487 #PhD #LLM #ResponsibleAI #ComputingScience #AcademicOpportunities

If you are in Devon this weekend, catch this show in Exeter (and in the 250th anniversary year of Jane Austen's birth too) exeternorthcott.co.uk/events/sense...

Our written evidence to Parliamentary Human Rights Ctee on the provisions in Crime and Policing Bill on mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse. We highlight 4 key weaknesses: supervisory roles, indicators of abuse, penalties, & duties of confidentiality committees.parliament.uk/writtenevide...

College of Policing publishes new guidance on AI-enabled tools, in conjunction with checklist for responsible AI in policing developed by @probablefutures.bsky.social in collaboration with NPCC www.college.police.uk/guidance/bui...

Chris Zarraga, Director of Schools North East: "Deploy AI with care, conscience and a deep understanding of our communities" #AInorthumbria

Newcastle MP Chi Onwurah talks about the importance of responsible AI and of shaping new developments to be for the benefit of everyone #AInorthumbria

Getting ready for the launch of the Northumbria Centre for Responsible AI this morning #AInorthumbria @northumbriauni.bsky.social @probablefutures.bsky.social

Fantastic ending to Baroness Kidron's speech in the House of Lords yesterday, which led to the government's defeat on AI & copyright. Speaking the UK's creators: "Their property, their labour, is worthy of your protection - because apart from anything else, it is not ours to give away."

"For me, the answer now lies in refusal, the withdrawal of participation from systems that require dishonesty as the price of belonging." Today I am resigning from the National Science Board and the Library of Congress Scholars Council. I wrote about my decision in TIME. time.com/7285045/resi...

""If it looked like a shooting could represent a breach of the rules of conflict, you'd get a phone call from the legal adviser or one of the staff officers in HQ. They'd pick you up on it and help you to clarify the language. 'Do you remember someone making a sudden move?' 'Oh yeah, I do now.'""

New CETaS report 'UK Public Attitudes to National Security Data Processing: Assessing Human and Machine Intrusion' (Powell, Oswald & Janjeva) published today. Based on a nationally representative survey and a citizens panel cetas.turing.ac.uk/publications... 1/3

4/ From Aug. 1 — when the law took effect — to Dec. 13, 2024, at least 70 Louisiana prisoners’ parole hearings were canceled just like that, ProPublica and @veritenews.org found:

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National Data Library continues to be nebulous but this piece suggests whatever it is, it won’t happen in this Parliament www.ft.com/content/85d8...

@daragh.bsky.social & me discuss human rights implications of 'new' UK protest laws in the context of expanding surveillance in @theconversation.com: theconversation.com/banning-face...

Don't forget to register for your free ticket to the upcoming @braiduk.bsky.social x IDI Online Seminar with @clcpaterson.bsky.social tomorrow. Please note that this has been changed to an online-only seminar. Get the Zoom link by signing up in the below Eventbrite link. ➡️ edin.ac/4hxm1Bs

It was a pleasure to deliver an engaging workshop in collaboration with CETaS (the Centre for Emerging Technology and Security) this week at the The Alan Turing Institute inside of the @britishlibrary.bsky.social. Thank you to the speakers and audience for making it so informative and insightful!

Surprise! People don't want AI deciding who gets a kidney transplant and who dies or endures years of misery

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Since writing this article, I have received messages from federal civil servants who tell me it is accurate, and that they are frightened. Please share this with anyone who doesn't understand the scale of the transformation. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Thank you to those who attended our first online event 'AI for intelligence, investigations and public protection' earlier in 2025. It was amazing to see such a diverse array of attendance and interest in our research. Read our follow-up Blogpost which captures the key topics tinyurl.com/yk52ycwy

We are a growing inter-disciplinary research group and are looking to recruit a full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Computer and Information Sciences based at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK. Find out more about the role and how to apply here: tinyurl.com/35enbdrf closing on 20/03/2025

"there were "dangers" in using them if lawyers "don't already have a good idea of the answer"." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Thomson Reuters has won the first major AI copyright case in the US. The decision has big implications for the battle between generative AI companies and rightsholders.

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: A Big Issue investigation has found that some of the UK’s most recognised companies, including Morrisons and John Lewis, still use personality tests for retail roles. 💻 Charities say the use of personality tests for entry-level roles could be discriminatory. 💬 ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4jROcNk

🚨🚨 Timely statement from the American Bar Association on the looming Constitutional Crisis in the US: "The ABA supports the rule of law". Well worth to read the statement in full. 🧵 www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

What does it mean for the UK to follow the US and not sign the French AI Summit Statement? Blog post on the descent of global AI policy in to WWE-style showmanship, and where that leaves the UK.

The FBI’s core values, including integrity, compassion, fairness, and allegiance to the Constitution - and oh, yeah, diversity, are being painted over at the FBI Academy. Source: NYT.

'Falling behind the PACE: lie detectors, policing and lack of foreseeability – an FOI-based study', highlighting non-statutory uses of the polygraph by police in England & Wales, now published open access in Legal Studies journal www.cambridge.org/core/journal...