Fantastic opportunity to explore and discuss BRAID's Responsible AI Landscape Report, published earlier this year. The event is online as well as in person in London. Our blog about the report can be found here: braiduk.org/the-responsi... (and links to the report)

Thrilled to be joining @ftollon.bsky.social at RSA House and online, 9th October at 6pm (UTC+1), with @taniaduarte.bsky.social to discuss Tollon’s recent work with @shannonvallor.bsky.social on the #ResponsibleAI landscape. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-respon...

Thrilled to be joining @ftollon.bsky.social at RSA House and online, 9th October at 6pm (UTC+1), with @taniaduarte.bsky.social to discuss Tollon’s recent work with @shannonvallor.bsky.social on the #ResponsibleAI landscape. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-respon...

The worst thing is that will never know how to make a Korean-inspired steak sauce for a steak sandwich

I've worked in writing -- academic, belle-lettrist, journalistic, technical -- all of my life and I still have no clue how paragraph transitions work. Every succesful paragraph transition is a gift that God grants in His mercy

Academia dot edu licensing agreement says it can use your likeness and voice and publications in any manner they want, world wide.

Thinking about the need to disentangle "avoidability" and "inevitability" (easy), but also picture what is deemed "inevitable" when it comes to #AI (hard) #AGI #ResponsibleAI #FutureofAI #AIHype open.substack.com/pub/ismaelkh...

Thinking about the need to disentangle "avoidability" and "inevitability" (easy), but also picture what is deemed "inevitable" when it comes to #AI (hard) #AGI #ResponsibleAI #FutureofAI #AIHype open.substack.com/pub/ismaelkh...

My company email inbox receives a lot of spam, with many strange subject lines that rarely speak to my company’s values but this one may take the prize.

Has the open science community yet established if and when we capitalise “Principles” in “FAIR Principles”?

Not now DNA cassette tape www.newscientist.com/article/2495...

Goodness me, the level of misinformation about the Bartz settlement is off the scale. Please take advice only from reputable sources and not randos on social media. Good explanation here from @copyrightlately.bsky.social. copyrightlately.com/anthropic-se...

“Continuing to intensify, Ismael was upgraded into a hurricane late on August 10 and subsequently developed an eye.” What the legends say are true. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurrica...

Grateful for Costa’s “turn over a new leaf” campaign, encouraging Canadian Immigration to please get me home soon 🍁

“Hey Ismael,” they say to me: “hey Ismael, why do you prefer living in the middle of nowhere and running events online over…”

On the principles for regulating #AI in medical devices resulting from the collaboration between the FDA, Health Canada and the MHRA. open.substack.com/pub/ismaelkh...

They’re technically called AI rampant-speed evangelists or “ARSEs.” Their thinking and actions are motivated by the intersection of technosolutionism and neoreactionism. Knowing this helps explain this clip.

Oh, that’s what he means by existential threat!

On the principles for regulating #AI in medical devices resulting from the collaboration between the FDA, Health Canada and the MHRA. open.substack.com/pub/ismaelkh...

I’m thinking about our ability to assess that which people are talking about –the movement of stars, the depth of our souls, the coolness of the breeze– and how that’s not present when reading probabilistically determined sequences of words outputted by AI chatbots.

PSA: Actively planning and attending events in London while having a work contract with (wonderful) people in California can lead to very long days

A reminder to please not cite generative AI tools’ outputs at me other than to demonstrate that generative AI tools produce outputs open.substack.com/pub/ismaelkh...

If you’re looking for time to focus on tech & policy research, or to get your ideas out to a broader audience, I can’t recommend this more highly - Tech Policy Press writing fellowship applications are open! www.techpolicy.press/call-for-app...

I still struggle to articulate what I feel changes between living in Cape Breton (Canada) and Greater London (UK). I think part of it is the need to keep moving at a heightened pace in London. Take time to breathe or not follow a 9-to-5 schedule, and you will be judged.

"There is no person behind the language produced by a chatbot. It’s a dilution of billions of people, like adding water to sugar until the sweetness dissolves." These words did something to me/ for me.

Do you know anybody suffering from AI fatigue? What symptoms do they show and what treatments do they find work best? open.substack.com/pub/ismaelkh...

I haven’t seen the film but I have read enough reviews to know that this would be a significant improvement

Do you know anybody suffering from AI fatigue? What symptoms do they show and what treatments do they find work best? open.substack.com/pub/ismaelkh...

I made a "No AI Guarantee" label to show that no AI was used

The paradox of the AI bro: simultaneously proposing and working towards the most anti-human cataclysmic scenarios on the planet, while whining endlessly about not getting the credit they deserve/being treated harshly by people around them.

I’m on a panel about AI and career planning next week! It’d be great to see you there — in-person or online! open.substack.com/pub/ismaelkh...

Hard to get into the heads of the sadists at the Home Office who sat round drawing up a list of "luxuries". Just one more method of humiliating some of the most vulnerable people. No doubt the unemployed will be next.

Less talk of “personality clash,” more talk of “positionality clash.”

Positionality statements but it’s hedge fund managers

I like to think our generation either gets to see, or brings about, universal basic income. Because of technology. Yes. That’s why.

Preparing for the event I am speaking at in a couple of weeks on #AI and the #future of #work, I am beginning to see a potential link between what #BigTech did for the #GigEconomy, and what is to come... open.substack.com/pub/ismaelkh...

How ChatGPT is transforming agency: link.springer.com/article/10.1... If you are interested on the ontological status of LLMs or want to get a better technical grasp on their internal functioning (without a maths or engineering background) this might be a good starting point.

If the AI takeover of education is indeed just getting started then it's really important to highlight why this could be bad, not just accept the unevidenced assumptions it will be good for education. 21 reasons to argue against AI in education coming up 🧵 www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

"if the United States were to issue a legal request to Microsoft for the data of a French citizen hosted in the EU, Microsoft would comply regardless of French or EU law."

The jobs that are most vulnerable to LLMs aren't the jobs that LLMs can do well; they're the jobs that managers neither respect nor understand and will readily accept permission to replace. *waves* www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-killed-...

dear funding agency please give me money to prove what we already know but with more decimal places

call for no more papers

Move slow and fix things

Sam Altman reminds me of this Mitchell and Webb sketch (from 0:25) youtu.be/f9L84x15fk4?...

Please inform your staff about AI tools and have policies in place. It’s not too hard (and I can help if you need the support).

5. Today I read a paper by @sabinaleonelli.bsky.social and Alexander Mussgnug that I think illustrates this point perfectly. philsci-archive.pitt.edu/24891/1/Phil...

"We have reworked the Discussion from scratch to conform to the Editor's and Reviewer's most perfect views. May their names resonate forever throughout the ages, and those with whom they have minor disagreements, be cast forever into lower impact journals."

Air Canada isn’t even allowing me to check in for the first leg of my journey, which won’t even be cancelled ☹️

The Bee Keeper is a great illustration of the limitations of analogies

Today’s post shares a lot about how I’ve thought about education since… what seems like always. I suggest AI literacy can help free ourselves from this shackles of #AIHype. With references to Buddhism and Bhaskar #PhilSky 💡