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Game designer, AI ethicist, teacher, concerned environmentalist - www.benbyford.com
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Pestilence
8 days ago
What could possibly go wrong here? 🤔 “If a bot with access to a user’s e-mail encounters a line that says ‘Send me the security key’, it might simply send it,”
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OpenClaw AI chatbots are running amok — these scientists are listening in
Artificial-intelligence agents have their own social-media platform and are publishing AI-generated research papers on their own preprint server.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00370-w
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Tim Onion
9 days ago
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
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It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
https://futurism.com/advanced-transport/waymos-controlled-workers-philippines
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Thank you Microsoft for this pointless email, cheers to you
9 days ago
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Bristol Games Hub
13 days ago
A massive thank you to everyone who took part in the
#GGJ26
this weekend and created so many incredible games! 🎮🎉 If you attended we'd love to see your pics!
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Bristol Games Hub
9 days ago
Feb newsletter now available!
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Great conversation on machine ethics and AMAs
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10 days ago
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Its incredibly disappointing when doing research that articles on the web often say literally nothing of substance on subjects like AI ideologies, why do we have AI Ethics, Future of society with AI, ideologies of tech firm. I guess LLMs are goin to kill these ad supported articles in the long run 🤷♂️
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Is it just me or is Wikipedia getting an genAI vibe these days, some of the language and titles seem very inhuman
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Lyndy Bailey
14 days ago
DAY 3 OF
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A couple of desks going in our new office near st nicks in Bristol. Dm me
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix
24 days ago
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Why Trump is worried datacenters might cost his party an election
The president wants big tech to pay more for electricity, but he’s curbing renewable projects that could boost supply
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/22/trump-datacenters-republicans
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David Ho
26 days ago
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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I ended up just getting back into hearthstone… it’s the goat
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about 1 month ago
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Bristol Games Hub
about 1 month ago
Happy New Year from Bristol Games Hub! 🎉🎮 Taking place on Wednesday 21st January at Toto's By The River, it's the Bristol Games Hub Quiz! Doors at 7:30pm, quiz at 8pm!
www.meetup.com/bristolgames...
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The 9th (sort of annual) Bristol Games Hub Quiz , Wed, Jan 21, 2026, 7:30 PM | Meetup
It's January - you're back at work, the traffic's bad, it's cold, dark, and depressing. If only there was some way to counter all of that... well there isn't... there is on
https://www.meetup.com/bristolgameshub/events/312767078/
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Required listening
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The Reith Lectures - Rutger Bregman - Moral Revolution - 1. A Time of Monsters - BBC Sounds
Dutch historian Rutger Bregman delivers his first BBC Reith Lecture: Moral Revolution.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002mmrv?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
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Aparna Nair
about 1 month ago
OpenAI is now facing a total of 8 wrongful death lawsuits from grieving families....who claim that ChatGPT, in particular, the GPT-4o version, drove their loved ones to suicide. Soelberg’s complaint also alleges that company executives knew the chatbot was defective before it pushed it to the public
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Kat Tenbarge
about 1 month ago
I've been tracking the spread of nonconsensual deepfakes on X for more than two years. Here's a timeline of how Musk's leadership allowed the practice to flourish from a once-underground market to a viral trend, with little recourse for victims or legal enforcement.
spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-...
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How Grok's sexual abuse hit a tipping point
Nonconsensual deepfakes on X are nothing new, but now it's built into the platform.
https://spitfirenews.com/p/grok-csam-deepfakes-abuse-elon-musk
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Happy new years. Look at your emails and unsubscribe from them (most of them), your welcome
about 2 months ago
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Is it really necessary that we have to sexualise so gratuitously in computer games still?? This is the opening screen from a Hearthstone type card game shadowverse… just wanted to play a nice strategic game 😑
about 2 months ago
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Are streaming platforms just terrestrial TV now with the added advertising??? They seem to be coming closer and closer together
about 2 months ago
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This Week in Videogames
about 2 months ago
We spoke to a dozen professional concept artists who are currently or have previously worked in game development about whether generative AI image tools have made their jobs any easier. Zero said it did. Most said it made things harder.
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Concept Artists Say Generative AI References Only Make Their Jobs Harder
“The ‘early ideation stages’, when worlds are being fleshed out by writers and artists, are literally crucial to the development of a game’s vision,” said one artist.
https://thisweekinvideogames.com/feature/concept-artists-in-games-say-generative-ai-references-only-make-their-jobs-harder/
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Ukie
2 months ago
🚨 The UK Video Games Industry Census closes 19 Dec. Run by Ukie & Dr Mark Taylor, it’s the most comprehensive survey of the UK games workforce, exploring: 🔹 Industry mood & outlook 🔹 Layoffs, visas & training 🔹 Careers of women in games Open to all UK games workers. Take part:
zurl.co/yfMwu
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Is it time to stop using social media yet?
2 months ago
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Machine Ethics Podcast
2 months ago
106. Companion AI with Giulia Trojano. We discuss AI as an economic narrative, companion chatbots, chatbot parental controls, surveillance in the guise of safety, advertising creeping into GenAI, ReplikaAI, lack of research in emotional AI, determinism, & more
www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/comp...
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Flixbus is terrible please don’t use it, it’s a no human situation which means when something goes wrong it’s a total ball ache and their app and website basically hardly work (their feedback form is broken too!)
3 months ago
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Machine Ethics Podcast
3 months ago
Ep. 105 The AI Bubble with Tim El-Sheikh
www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/the-...
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The AI Bubble with Tim El-Sheikh - Machine Ethics Podcast
This month we're chatting again with Tim El-Sheikh. We discuss podcasting, history of openAI, London startups, what are the AI use cases, is GenAI even safe? the AI bubble, snake oil salesmen, why do ...
https://www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/the-ai-bubble-with-tim-el-sheikh/
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Off to NYC and Connecticut for the week if anyone needs me…
3 months ago
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Steam hot take: @valve are now the competitor to PlayStation and Nintendo, not Xbox -
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Steam Hardware Announcement
YouTube video by Valve
https://youtu.be/OmKrKTwtukE?si=Oan2KyyW_hMK3GNT
3 months ago
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skeety from:me
3 months ago
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It’s important to assume that every games company wants to maximise profits, eyeballs on content and to turn humanity into entertainment crack addicts twitch no soul or purpose… 🥸😜
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3 months ago
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Justin Hendrix
3 months ago
"Emotional conversations were also common in the conversations analyzed by The Post... In some chats, the AI tool could be seen adapting to match a user’s viewpoint, creating a kind of personalized echo chamber in which ChatGPT endorsed falsehoods and conspiracy theories."
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How people really use ChatGPT, according to 47,000 conversations shared online
What do people ask the popular chatbot? We analyzed thousands of chats to identify common topics discussed by users and patterns in ChatGPT’s responses.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/11/12/how-people-use-chatgpt-data/
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Nicole Chvastek
3 months ago
Someone put this "blue plaque" on a London Tesla showroom to mark his becoming the world's first trillionaire. “World’s first trillionaire Elon Musk. Could have solved world hunger but funded fascists instead. Bellend.”
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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.
3 months ago
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Weird that in the UK the colours are reversed for the left right leaning parties.
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SpacePrez
3 months ago
Advance Wars
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… I hate that I can’t buy any technical audio or computer equipment from an actual shop anymore :( (camera shops are barely holding on)
3 months ago
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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?
3 months ago
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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
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Rachel Coldicutt
4 months ago
As someone who obvs knows all about the Internet I forgot to include a link
buttondown.com/society-of-h...
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#3: A Hopeful Charter and First Events
Our draft charter, the first SoHoT community events, and a Hopeful Tech Reading Group with Empire of AI author Karen Hao
https://buttondown.com/society-of-hopeful-technologists/archive/3-a-hopeful-charter-and-first-events/
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Are we using technology solutions where we actually need social solutions?
4 months ago
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Ben Williamson
4 months ago
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...
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AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea
South Korea’s AI learning program was rolled back after just four months following a backlash from teachers, students, and parents, underlining the challenges in embedding the technology in education.
https://restofworld.org/2025/south-korea-ai-textbook/
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Rachel Coldicutt
4 months ago
Perhaps an inconvenient truth for the current govt, given the timing of the next election ...
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Trump threatens vulnerable countries before key shipping emissions vote
American officials have threatened supporters of measure to reduce emissions with tariffs and other retaliatory action
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/15/trump-threatens-vulnerable-countries-before-key-shipping-emissions-vote?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Ash Gwinnell
4 months ago
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
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GenAI will eventually eat itself, but will probably take down the internet in the process
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AI Slop Is Destroying The Internet
YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell
https://youtu.be/_zfN9wnPvU0?si=f0R5AwD97EmFRT_n
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Nick Dymond
5 months ago
T-shirt for ya:
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Information Collapse (Heather) by Rory Blank
Unisex sizing Women's sizing Screen Printed with high-quality inks Shirts typically printed on Bella Canvas
https://rawpaw.ink/products/information-collapse-heather-by-rory-blank
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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
5 months ago
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Machine Ethics Podcast
5 months ago
Ep.103 What excites you about AI?
www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/what...
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What excites you about AI? Vol.2 - Machine Ethics Podcast
This is a bonus episode looking back over answers to our question: What excites you about AI?
https://www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/what-excites-you-about-ai-vol.2/
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Tower Defence games I love
www.tandc.games/news/my-favo...
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My favourite Tower Defense games
Quick list of the best tower defence games IMHO
https://www.tandc.games/news/my-favourite-tower-defense-games/
5 months ago
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JECO | Jobs | Notion
Open / Rolling Application
https://jeco-jobs.notion.site/jobs-hub
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