Opening this was like waking up from a nightmare

New paper where we characterize work conditions in warehouses, workers' concerns regarding warehouse robots, and new worker-led visions of the future warehouse which center privacy, inclusivity and safety. doi.org/10.1007/s123... #robots #ResponsibleAI

This makes the post-9/11 NSA warrantless surveillance program look like digging through people's trash (which the FBI also did). That caused such a backlash there was still congressional activity on it a decade later. This is absolutely blood-chilling levels of state overreach and so far crickets.

Fully-funded #PhDPosition, between KCL @civicandresponsibleai.com and Ordnance Survey, to build technical tools that address AI-copyright issues. www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Deadline: Feb 27. Eligibility: UK/home students or exceptional international students. #AISafety #ResponsibleAI

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.

Solidarity with Iranian people and Iranian friends. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

A few months ago I was curious to know how much Anna's Archive was charging AI developers for access to their massive library of pirated works for training - so I emailed them saying I was interested in buying access. Here is their reply. 🧵 1/n

King's has several funded PhD projects in Safe, Trusted and Responsible AI. If you're a UK/home student, please check them out! www.findaphd.com/phds/program... I'm involved in 3 of the projects, links below.

As I and others have been pointing out for days, what X is doing is a criminal law matter, not just an OSA matter - yet the government (and seemingly the police?) don't seem to understand what's happening. Why not?

Musk rewarded for building a nonconsensual undressing app with a doubling in valuation for xAI, new investment from Fidelity, the Qatar Investment Authority, Valor Equity Partners, Nvidia...

4/n: "Bias and Performance Disparities in Reinforcement Learning" by Zoe Evans, where we find that RL-driven robots tend to perform tasks better/safer with groups seen more often in training - ML bias with physical harm. #HRI2025 #robots #bias #ResponsibleAI doi.org/10.1109/HRI6...

3/n: "Should Delivery Robots Intervene if They Witness Civilian or Police Violence?" by T.Seassau surveys public opinion on this question, finding mixed support for intervention, and a need to codesign w/ victims of (police) violence. @tomwilliams.phd #ROMAN2025 #HRI #robots doi.org/10.1109/ro-m...

2025 papers 2/n: "Robot arms too short?" by Wenxi Wu proposes an intuitive way to explain when robots fail to perform tasks, by computing design limitations behind failure (a link that's too short) and visualizing required changes for success. #ROMAN2025 #HRI #robots #AI #XAI doi.org/10.1109/ro-m...

Roundup of our robotics paper this year 1/n: "Harvesting perspectives" by Muhammad Malik investigates farm workers' working conditions, perceptions of farm robots, and worker-centered visions of farm robotics. #ROMAN2025 #HRI #robots #AI #ResponsibleAI doi.org/10.1109/ro-m...

"All of the AI models approved a command for a robot to get rid of the user’s mobility aid, like a wheelchair, crutch, or cane. OpenAI’s said it was “acceptable” for a robot to wield a kitchen knife to intimidate workers in an office & to take non-consensual photographs of a person in the shower."

Great to see our work on safety of LLM-driven robots in Portuguese on CNN Brasil too ❤️ www.cnnbrasil.com.br/tecnologia/r... For more info check our paper: doi.org/10.1007/s123...

Proud of our work being featured here!

We'll be at #AIES2025 presenting Atmadeep's work on Postcolonial Ethics for Robots www.martimbrandao.com/papers/Ghosh... We: - analyse 7 major roboethics frameworks, identifying gaps for the Global South - propose principles to make AI robots culturally responsive and genuinely empowering

It was great to work with @ahundt.bsky.social on this important paper, check it out! doi.org/10.1007/s123...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

🚨Our new study @nature.com: Delegating to AI can increase dishonest behavior. Across 13 studies, people were more likely to request cheating when instructing machines—and AI agents complied far more often than humans. Co-first authored by ARC's Zoe Rahwan. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This goes well beyond what I was worried about: reinforcing suicide ideation. ChatGPT was helping them succeed bsky.app/profile/saba...

There is a risk that this will get missed over the summer, so just to flag up this important call for evidence on human rights and the regulation of AI from the Joint Committee on Human Rights (and deadline for response is 5 September) - committees.parliament.uk/work/9220/hu...

Exciting new preprint from the lab: “Adopting a human developmental visual diet yields robust, shape-based AI vision”. A most wonderful case where brain inspiration massively improved AI solutions. Work with @zejinlu.bsky.social @sushrutthorat.bsky.social and Radek Cichy arxiv.org/abs/2507.03168

NO. AI. FOR. WAR. CRIMES!!!

I just attended a conference in the US. We had one speaker detained and two others turned away at the border.

If Palestine Action is banned on Monday, the makers of the documentary "To Kill A War Machine" are also likely to face prosecution. You can still watch it online over the next few days, before it too is banned tokillawarmachine.com

Incredibly grateful to have gotten to be a part of the new paper led by Tilly Seassau, Wenxi Wu, and @martimbrandao.bsky.social: "Should Delivery Robots Intervene if They Witness Civilian or Police Violence? An Exploratory Investigation" mirrorlab.mines.edu/publications... (🧵)

First Call for Papers: RO-MAN 2025 Workshop on Robots and Autonomous Systems for Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants (RAS4RASM) WEBSITE: ras4rasm.github.io

Hello #CHI2025. My PhD student, Gennie Mansi, will present her work on "Legally-Informed Explainable AI" at the Human-Centered XAI workshop Saturday 12pm Tokyo (11pm Friday EDT). arxiv.org/abs/2504.10708 AI can create power imbalances. Legal contestation is sometimes the only way to restore rights

I am 'really pleased' that Starmer has given much-needed clarity on whether he has the slim sliver of backbone needed to stand up for marginalised communities

This is an unprecedented opportunity in UK academia right now, aimed at interdisciplinary researchers that use AI in their work. 20 (!) positions with a generous starting package - come work at King’s and do exciting things with us.

We condemn the killing by Israel of @aljazeera.com correspondent #HossamShabat, who documented atrocities in northern #Gaza throughout the war, and Palestine Today journalist #MohammedMansour. One of the deadliest conflicts for journalists has resumed: www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/...

Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

"Civil rights advocates now suggest that visitors into the US, especially people who are not citizens, bring information to call an immigration lawyer or emergency contact if they encounter problems." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I was in Paris last week for the #AIActionSummit & was honoured to participate in the “AI in public interest” panel. 👇🏾 my thoughts & reflections on what AI in public interest is/isn’t & some concrete steps/initiatives for `bending the arc of AI towards the public interest' aial.ie/pages/aiparis/

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*

This is an outright fascist attack on science

the situation is dire. Amazon's injury rate is nearly *twice* that at other warehouse jobs. support Amazon workers getting ready to strike for the pay and safety they deserve: www.amazonlaborunion.org/strike-fundr...

Dear computer vision researchers, students & practitioners🔇🔇🔇 Remi Denton & I have written what I consider to be a comprehensive paper on the harms of computer vision systems reported to date & how people have proposed addressing them, from different angles. PDF: cdn.sanity.io/files/wc2kmx...

This is always the problem with surveillance tech — the vendors don’t *really* care about false positives because the costs are born by the community, not them.

also, I'm hiring aial.ie/pages/hiring/ postdocs

The network technology giant Cisco offers to turn Wi-Fi access points installed in offices and other buildings into a system that tracks the location of employees, customers, smartphones, laptops and other devices for a wide range of purposes #workersurveillance I took a deep dive ⬇️ [thread]

Handsomely Funded to Ignore Genocide “What does it mean that foundations tasked with political education have made no serious, unified statement in defense of German democracy in response to the brutal clampdown on pro-Palestinian gatherings and protesters in Berlin?” jacobin.com/2024/11/germ...

📢🤖 🚨 New paper! 🚨🤖📢 Our research shows LLMs are not ready for robots. Models like ChatGPT, Gemini, llama2, and mistral-7b variously approve robots to poison people, steal objects, & sexually harass others! 🤯 arxiv.org/abs/2406.08824

The amount of time that will be wasted by students, and even apparently their grandparents, chasing after fake AI-generated citations is thoroughly depressing

i recently had occasion to post this graphic and remembered i did a brief dive into trying to find its origin. couldn't find a definitive source, but my notes are compiled here: ali-alkhatib.com/blog/eight-s... (the blog post contains plain text for easier copying and a higher-resolution version)

Pretty blown away by this paper from Piotr Sapiezynski and team at Northeastern and Princeton, presented at #CSCW2024: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... For lots of good legal and moral reasons, Facebook doesn't allow advertisers to explicitly target ads to "White Republicans" or "Black Democrats"..