Everyone don’t forget to turn off your lights, recycle, cycle to work, and ask for new data centres in your area to ask inane questions at that you could have asked search or, god forbid, and real person.

Weird that in the UK the colours are reversed for the left right leaning parties.

Advance Wars

… I hate that I can’t buy any technical audio or computer equipment from an actual shop anymore :( (camera shops are barely holding on)

If we didn’t have billionaires would we still have this round of consumptive large scale data centres / GanAI which have unknown risks and unknown uses for a general citizen?

Random idea: new company type which has to report or is restricted in how much carbon it can release, like a charity has to report each year to be labelled as a charity; this new company type gets access to grants & funding opportunities from innovateUK, &inveatora etc- other companies no longer can

As someone who obvs knows all about the Internet I forgot to include a link buttondown.com/society-of-h...

Are we using technology solutions where we actually need social solutions?

South Korea pushed AI hard in schools. The national program was aborted within months, following massive pushback from students, parents and teachers, after a fortune had already been spent by both the government and education publishers restofworld.org/2025/south-k...

Perhaps an inconvenient truth for the current govt, given the timing of the next election ...

🤦‍♂️ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I made a Discord bot that alerts you in real-time when Twitch streamers start playing your indie game. ...and it's 10% off for Steam Next Fest!! (Code: NEXTFEST10) 🤖👉 impress.games/coverage-bot

youtu.be/_zfN9wnPvU0?... GenAI will eventually eat itself, but will probably take down the internet in the process

T-shirt for ya: rawpaw.ink/products/inf...

Media is dead and we killed it - what if it is unclear whether anything is AI or not, intended to corrode trust, sway your opinion, distract or keep you attention? That is where we’re at

Ep.103 What excites you about AI? www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/what...

Tower Defence games I love www.tandc.games/news/my-favo...

I wonder what we’ll do with all these be AI data centres when we don’t need them anymore 🤔

"The Meta AI chatbot built into Instagram and Facebook can coach teen accounts on suicide, self-harm and eating disorders, a new safety study finds. In one test chat, the bot planned joint suicide — and then kept bringing it back up in later ‭conversations." www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Our new report on how we can shape the AI that gets developed and how it came be used, covered here www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Great outlook from Demis. Not seen many interesting things on ethics from deepmind, but they seem to have their heart and tech in a good place (I love genetics algorithms!) youtu.be/-HzgcbRXUK8?...

We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2025 🎉 The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans. Deadline: September 28th More info 👇 grants.draknek.org

Ha amazing! Hadn’t seen it since it’s been out. The great peeps at Sassy Chaps made it. I helped for a couple of months with some UI programming and animation :) . AI can only take our jobs if we want to live in a completely different economy… check out the podcast ;)

Episode 102 now live! Adir Ben-Yehuda & I chat about–AI automation for web development, Human Machine Interfaces, allowing an LLM to optimism itself, job displacement, vibe coding, Grok's MechaHitler, the ethics and guard rails of LLMs and more… www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/auto...

When this is over these people will reflect on what it means to be a human and be in the world… maybe even have families and look at the sky sometime in awe

Does have a little bit of the book burning vibe to it… (trying but failing not to invoke WWII propaganda machine)…

this is a shocking result - fake hope from LLMs on climate solutions archive.is/8sYNv

Ep.101 out! special live panel at AI Ethics, Risks & Safety Conference 2025. We chat: what is AI, predictions for 5 years, incoming wave of fraud, AI education, copyright, uncertainty of regulation, sovereign AI capabilities, impact on creative industries www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/ai-e...

I said the 2025 would be the year of AI agents in my Jan episode of @machine-ethics.net however I would like to state that it is the year of AI induced disinformation, helped by progress in video models and AI agents

New research from MIT found that those who used ChatGPT can’t remember any of the content of their essays. Key takeaway: the product doesn’t suffer, but the process does. And when it comes to essays, the process *is* how they learn. arxiv.org/pdf/2506.088...

Is AI alignment just Machine Ethics but from a technical point of view?

Played a lot of cool games at UKGE week ago (as well as play testing my new card game to some lovely people): re recommend checking out this simple Ono style game www.kickstarter.com/projects/dri... which is just ending on kickstarter

MCP for LLM agents: hot take, feels like we're doing it wrong www.youtube.com/watch?v=eur8... here their look at apis & data, feels like traditional app dev to me! here we have lots of looping around till we get a result, feels like a waste of literal energy when we already know how to do this...

Sugar coating Ilm blackmail is irresponsible www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You hate 2°C it

Please anyone working in AI / ML listen to this episode, consider who you're working for and what you're doing, and then do something about it. Thank you!

There's a special Playtest Party space at IMPACT! Indie Games — get 2 hours on a table to show your game. If you're coming & have a project you'd like some feedback on, there are still SOME slots left. Submit here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... Props to @martianlawyersclub.bsky.social for this!

Good god just nationalise water companies already, this is ridiculous!

Bristol Games Hub is incredibly proud to be presenting the Expo Space at IMPACT! Indie Games. Showcasing the best in homegrown local talent from Bristol and the South West. Here’s the full line up of the devs and studios we’ll be showcasing this year. 🧵1/15

Most days I wonder why Unity is so terrible. Today it’s stuff like this when looking to use their UI layout groups their own advice is probably don’t bother using their stuff… when Unity?! when are you just going to give us stuff that works???

I think @tante.cc put it best - it's *all* hallucination. The model has no concept of what is true in the world. Based on a newer study, what these models *actually do* is create lots and lots of heuristics (rules of thumb for miniature decisions) and so they are wronger the more advanced they are.

I really wish companies would ditch the easy subscribe HARD unsubscribe pattern... #darkpattern @deceptive.design whisky-me.com its 2025 guys come on, stop trying to screw us!

This is bleak if accurate www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

www.theguardian.com/technology/2... seems obvious to me this one, but also the massive focus on grinding and capital is also disturbing to me

Ep.99 Co-design with Pinar Guvenc now live! We chat on “What's Wrong With” podcast, co-design, is society ready for AI? What is design? co-creation with AI as a stakeholder, bias in design, small language models, human experience, attention, and more... www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/co-d...

Games ethics talk I gave last October youtu.be/SUOiuyOI6SU?... things have moved fast since then in terms of AI, but still happy with it

well this is worrying www.reuters.com/business/hea...

An AI bot answered one of my questions on @stackoverflow.com.web.brid.gy yesterday, not really sure that’s why I go to stack overflow…

is it time for another moonshot? what is the purpose of govenment -> what are we trying to create? do we have any aims? Maybe something like "we will strive to go to the moon!" would be useful to galvanise the public? maybe something like - No homelessness? No poverty? Free Electricity? anything