Raising investment and changing the goalpost in order to derail the ongoing regulation efforts.

OpenAI responded to Musk's lawsuit, releasing emails that show it discussed becoming a for-profit as early as 2017. As I showed in my report, being a nonprofit org was crucial to its mythology, recruitment, and eventual valuation—and it was performative from the start. openai.com/index/elon-m...

On Friday, the Brazilian Senate committee approved their AI regulation bill with an emergency vote set to take place today —alongside a bill on cybsec! This is a risk-based horizontal legislation, influenced by the AI Act —and GDPR. Like the Act, it prohibits a range of AI systems... 1/5

If I had AI-backer VC money instead of making a new LLM I would hire an elite team of librarians to find Actual Information

Tech giants claim nuclear power will allow them to build their AI fantasies without despoiling the environment, but it’s a distraction from how much they’re emitting today and ignores real concerns with nuclear. I was happy to talk to MV Ramana about this important issue!

Absolutely great thread on the—mostly British parts—of AI; from the Ancient Greeks to the controversial report by Lighthill to the unnecessary anthropomorphism that we see nowadays in the media.

LLMs don’t store accurate knowledge; they’re probability-based models predicting word sequences based on patterns in texts. While their responses seem credible, they’re unreliable and generate the most likely phrase.

These overhyped articles on #ChatGPT based "research" really get me angry: @nyt: you are over the top with your headers! And not doing proper journalism work of presenting a balanced, corrected description of the facts! See www.linkedin.com/posts/graham...

Or, maybe, the UK government should reduce the amount of resource-wasting bureaucracy (e.g. REF) and fund *all* universities better —especially, if we want to ensure academic freedom. Relying ever more on soft money tends to benefit high-TLR research, but damages fundamental work.

A starterpack on important, critical voices on #AI #ResponsibleAI #AIgovernance #AIpolicy #AIethics More suggestions welcome! go.bsky.app/ECWQzUA

I have a PDRA post available in Assurance for Robotic Autonomous Systems. Really looking for someone with some experience of formal verification or possibly a background in CyberSecurity. Details at: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #formal_verification #formal_methods #academic_jobs

I will be happy with that as it helps the transition from X to here even if I strongly believe that these metrics —or the citation ones— do more harm than good to academia as a whole.

Job alert! We have a vacancy for an assistant/associate/full professor for top female scientists. Topic: designing and engineering Human-Centered AI Systems. Deadline: Jan 21st. Reach out via email if you are interested and you have questions. More info bit.ly/KInD-HCAI-DTF

I feel like this didn’t get enough traction: Cryptocurrencies align the interests of millions of young, emotionally-desperate gamblers with the criminal oligarchs that money laundering legislation was set up to control. #democracy #digitalGovernance #AIEthics

AI in Europe: safe, trustworthy, and human-centric. We are inviting feedback to help prepare new guidelines on the AI system definition and practices that break the AI Act – the world's first comprehensive regulation on artificial intelligence. Have your say here 👉 europa.eu/!6m8JcV #AI

A bit late to the 'party,' but here I am. The obligatory short intro: I am Assimilated Associate Professor at UPC. Most of my research nowadays focuses on #XAI and #policy relate but I have just started creating a new robotics lab to get back into #transparency, #reactiveplanning, and #HRI! 1/2

Georgios Bakirtzis, Manolis Chiou, Andreas Theodorou Negotiating Control: Neurosymbolic Variable Autonomy https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16254