Today (w/ @ox.ac.uk @stanford @MIT @LSE) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19  LLMs, 707 political issues. We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more!  🧵:

We're hiring a Research Engineer for the Societal Resilience team at the AI Security Institute. The role involves building data pipelines, web scraping, ML engineering, and creating simulations to monitor these developments as they happen. job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/aisi/jobs/46...

This does mean one extremely exciting thing - 🚨Job Alert Klaxon🚨 Ada is hiring a new Associate Director to lead our Emerging Tech and Practice research team. I urge you to apply - you'll get to work with some of the best researchers on high impact projects. app.beapplied.com/apply/kefx3r...

Capable of executing tasks and providing conversation or advice, Advanced AI assistants are highly personable and personalised. Our policy briefing defines what makes an Advanced AI Assistant, how they work and how they differ from other forms of AI. www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/policy-brief...

AI companions are on the rise, but what are the possible long-term effects on people and society? @jamiebernardi.bsky.social examines the potential benefits and risks - both individual and systemic - of this type of AI service. www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/ai-comp...

Yesterday was all about AI Opportunities... We're expecting a frontier AI Bill... But what plans does govt need for the harms & challenges already with us? @connectedbydata.org, Demos & @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social convened civil society/industry for some answers demos.co.uk/research/the...

A window into the blackbox - longer form thoughts on new latest batch of algorithms published by the UK Government medium.com/@imogencathe... @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social and ht @halcyene.bsky.social

EU Codes of Practice for GPAI models are out - and it's a great draft. Very impressed by the working groups and team who've driven this. A few thoughts. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/f...

an excerpt from "The Unaccountability Machine", in which I try to outline a theory of the sort of thing that keeps happening open.substack.com/pub/backofmi...