One of the best Akira #Kurosawa films, High and Low (1963), about #capitalism #inequality filled with delicious details about #train and current collectors. krisshrishak.de/blog/high-an... #MovieSky #FilmSky #Cinema

"Malinowski did not write this on his substack, in an op-ed in the New York Times, or in a preprint on arxiv." By doing primary fieldwork he "came to an informed critique of his contemporaries’ extreme reliance on strings of text." ideophone.org/malinowski-1... @dingemansemark.bsky.social

People complain arthouse cinema is inaccessible. But say what you will about Bergman or Tarkovsky or Wong Kar-wai, they never told people to do tens of hours of homework. The Seventh Seal is about a knight in a spiritual battle with Death. That's the background. Simple.

A little less than a day to apply for this role: www.iccl.ie/digital-data... Have a look at the impact of our work since 2021: www.iccl.ie/tag/artifici... If you have an #AI implementation/enforcement idea that is not run-of-the-mill, you might be a good fit. Apply!

Enforce at the @iccl.bsky.social is hiring. Full-time role. Remote in the EU. Apply early. Deadline 5pm Dublin time on 15 April 2026. www.iccl.ie/digital-data... #AI #AIPolicy #EUAIAct #DigitalRights #TechPolicy @abeba.bsky.social @rocher.lc @techpolicypress.bsky.social @leevisaari.bsky.social

if you have some expertise in AI, this is one of the most consequential and rewarding positions you can occupy. apply

Enforce at the @iccl.bsky.social is hiring. Full-time role. Remote in the EU. Apply early. Deadline 5pm Dublin time on 15 April 2026. www.iccl.ie/digital-data... #AI #AIPolicy #EUAIAct #DigitalRights #TechPolicy @abeba.bsky.social @rocher.lc @techpolicypress.bsky.social @leevisaari.bsky.social

From time to time, I will use an LLM for answer generation, but every time I will verify its results. I also presume that search will always be biased and inadequate, and I act accordingly. Do not surrender your humanity to tools that are architecturally and demonstrably unreliable narrators.

The European Data Protection Board has published a case digest (by myself) on decisions made under the one-stop-shop system which consider legitimate interest as a legal basis. www.edpb.europa.eu/system/files...

Response from the President of the @ec.europa.eu It would have been good if the President had provided links or citation to the evidence. www.iccl.ie/wp-content/u...

The complicity of universities cannot be understated... The few of us fighting back aren't enough. openletter.earth/open-letter-...

From the excellent Emily Tucker medium.com/center-on-pr...

Are we going to see similar stories in Ireland as well? www.thestar.com/news/canada/... archive.is/uZ4e5

@mariamurphy.bsky.social and I have written a short report on protecting the ‘Privacy’ in Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) www.iccl.ie/news/new-icc... @iccl.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie

Last month the @coe.int published a report written by @soizicpenicaud.bsky.social and me for equality bodies and other national human rights structures in Europe. It provides policy guidelines on AI and algorithm-driven discrimination. edoc.coe.int/en/artificia...

Finally, dug my own live example (from 12 June 2025) out of the screenshot pile. Unfortunately I didn't capture the question - it would've been something about when exactly was I supposed to cancel my TP status when switching over to a work permit.

I think it's also important to recognize that LLM "summaries" are not epistemically grounded in the ideas of the source material. When they're correct, it's more because *other* writing (in the training corpus) contains similar language. That makes it especially bad when applied to novel results.

Ethical AI is an oxymoron, like automated science

Ireland's Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence published its interim report yesterday. The Committee makes a number of recommendations, which include: 1. "Ireland must not shy away from the EU #AI Act or try to dilute it... www.oireachtas.ie/en/press-cen...

📝 OPEN LETTER 📝 Are you based in NL 🇳🇱 ? Do you also want government to thoughtfully shape our digital future, with care for people and nature? Please share and sign 🖊️ this letter addressed to parties forming the new Dutch government and outgoing administration. 📝 openletter.earth/zorgvuldig-a...

Two, the conflicts of interest for modern connectionism practitioners and supporters need to start to be disclosed and dismantled: "halt the “anything goes” antiscientific dictum of industry funding; and become aware of what follows from our reasoning" For more see: doi.org/10.1037/rev0... 11/n

Very disappointing that ACM using AI summaries that are highly likely to lead readers astray. We can expect more research papers misrepresenting other papers. We can thank AI summaries for that.

From the excellent @fotoole.bsky.social "Now, as then, the world’s largest superpower has fused its interests with those of pusher cartels – for the opium lords of 1839, think the tech bros of 2025."

"The Minister states that “the chatbot was tested extensively...checking responses to “55 questions out of which 53 were deemed successful" Wendy Lyon, an immigration & human rights solicitor at Abbey law, found that many of these 53 “successful” responses were wrong, unhelpful & misleading."

Our investigation into Irish Department of Justice use of chatbots. The department hides behind disclaimers while deploying misleading chatbots. @iccl.bsky.social @abeba.bsky.social @johnnyryan.bsky.social www.iccl.ie/news/irish-d...

what a great honour to receive the 25th Irish Tatler Women of the Year Award in the category of Innovation. the optimist in me thinks this marks a turn for recognition of the importance of critical work and accountability in AI www.businesspost.ie/life-luxury/...

I fully endorse this. Political leaders are falling prey to AI hype, and seem to lack any kind of help from reputable sources who could counter the false claims of tech CEOs. Where are their science advisers???

We need our policymakers everywhere to be attuned to the needs of the people, not the whims of CEOs -- and especially not CEOs in the grip of TESCREAList fantasies. Thank you @abeba.bsky.social and @krisshrishak.bsky.social for speaking up www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-is-s...

Although focused on the EU, the warnings offered here are no less true for AI policy in the US, or anywhere else for that matter. In my lifetime I've never seen grandiose hype of what *might* happen with a technology drive what we are doing in the here and now. Not good!

"data centers already accounted for 22% of Ireland's total electricity consumption in 2024. In the Dublin/Meath area, where a third of Ireland's population lives, 48% of the electricity was used by data centers in 2023." @abeba.bsky.social & @krisshrishak.bsky.social ✍🏼 www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

Kris Shrishak and Abeba Birhane say policymakers should stop peddling in unscientific discourse about “AGI” and “superintelligence,” and instead uphold their duty to serve citizens rather than cater to the whims of tech CEOs.

In a short piece for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, @abeba.bsky.social and I write #AIHype Is Steering EU Policy Off Course. Stop peddling in unscientific discourse about “AGI” and “superintelligence.” Serve citizens. Don't cater to the whims of tech CEOs. www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-is-s...

¿Burbuja en la IA? El clan tecnológico invierte en sí mismo de forma circular y abre la espita de los despidos masivos elpais.com/tecnologia/2...

Just in time for the meeting my school is having I’ve just learned is definitely about us incorporating AI into our workflow somehow

This is one of the main reasons we live in times of tyranny and a misinterpreted social anarchy, with those in power behaving above the law. Society has driven to consider the avoidance of social norms as ultimate freedom, abandoning all sense of duty, 1/2

"These generative AI systems give sometimes correct and sometimes wrong information. The errors are not bugs, but by design. They "predict" next words based on probabilities. Facts are not their forte." (Sigh)

Hey!! Here's my new piece for The New Republic!! It's about how Meta is cramming generative video slop (the most energy-intensive of the gen systems) into its massive global advertising engine: a recipe for an order magnitude worsening of its already-huge harms 😱 newrepublic.com/article/2028...

“A recent response from the European Commission to our access to documents request not only revealed that the President of the Commission was repeating the words of tech CEOs, but it also accidentally divulged the Commission’s use of generative AI in public documents.” 🤦‍♂️

The European Commission uses ChatGPT outputs in public documents. @iccl.bsky.social has filed a complaint to the European Ombudsman as this use likely violates Commission's own guidelines and its obligation under EU treaties www.iccl.ie/news/europea...

I will be at #GIJC25 next week. Looking forward to meeting investigative journalists and others working on important issues. Suggestions on people I could meet? @andre.netzpolitik.org @balkanizator.bsky.social @giacomoza.bsky.social

My lecture today was about the AI act in which I also discussed the recent attempt by EC of weakening GDPR and AI act in the form of the digital omnibus package stimulated by the #AI Hype (see also open letter @krisshrishak.bsky.social) These are undemocratic developments that should worry everyone.

Btw 2020 and 2021 Europol landed enormous volumes of data as a part of three mega-hack operations that dismantled encrypted communication systems. This would become the starting point of the agency's AI ambitions. New investigation out with @giacomoza.bsky.social and @stavinoha.bsky.social

Europol's AI programme wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...

Papagei der Tech-Bosse: Wissenschaftler, die zu Künstlicher Intelligenz forschen, widersprechen Ursula von der Leyen. Sie wiederhole nur „unwissenschaftliche Marketingaussagen“ von US-Konzernen netzpolitik.org/2025/kuenstl...

Old excuse: there is too much training data so they cannot know what is in there New excuse: training data does not tell them about the model behaviour so they don't care Real excuse: It takes care and effort to curate and understand the data; Doing so will expose the snake oil salesmen of GenAI

As we write in The Guardian this morning, the Commission’s plan to gut EU digital rules will hurt Europe’s startups and give U.S. tech an unassailable advantage, confirming Europe as a digital vassal. Piece by George Riekeles and I. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Cientistas europeus, preocupados com as consequências políticos endossarem o hype dos geradores de lero-lero, imploram a Ursula Vanderléa: "por favor, PARE agora!"

The reason we have no competitive AI labs in Europe is the lack of funding. Not our privacy laws. Not the lack of talent (we have plenty, they just move, because Europe is a baren wasteland when it comes to IT/CS). Fucking morons.

If we designed roads for cars in the same way we design bike paths, we'd never have to worry about speeding again. Problem solved.