Big companies have teams and budgets for AI ethics. Small firms? They're often left deploying black box systems with no way to audit them. The resource gap in responsible AI is creating two very different realities. #AIethics #SMEs #ResponsibleAI readysaltedcode.substack.com/p/the-small-...

Genevieve Smith-Nunes on Substack substack.com/@readysalted...

I've finally gotten a chance to put together an in-depth introduction to neural graphics for beginners in Slang using a simplified version of our 2D Gaussian splatting example! shader-slang.org/blog/2025/04...

This is brilliant article on Vibe Coding. I have to say I really like this term, very joyful.

When I worked in UK academia I recall hearing of a Japanese man who was baffled at how Britain had decided to run its universities like firms. “Why? Your universities are excellent and your firms are terrible.”

IEEE #Neuroethics Education section of the Framework has officially gone live! As co-chair of the #Education Subcommittee, this is a particularly exciting moment for me, and a significant step forward for the field of neuroethics and education. brain.ieee.org/publications...

JOB: Assistant Professor (tenure track), game studies. Brock University, St. Catherine's, Ontario.

Honored to help shape (via research) the future of #education in Antigua & Barbuda updating of their ICT in Education #Policy! 🇦🇬 The Ministry gathered key stakeholders to update the 2013 policy, focusing on student #privacy, #data security & #AI integration in schools.

The recordings of the symposium will be hosted of the Possibilities Network YouTube channel over the next few weeks.

❄️❄️ The 2024 Advent.js Calendar has begun! 29 little daily gifts of art, games, writing and more, made by wonderful artists and designers. ❄️❄️ Click here to find the calendar on @itch.io: adventjs.itch.io/adventjs-2024

"Science is and has always been social and political, in theory and in practice: every experiment is shaped by the people who design it and carry it out, by the questions they choose to ask, and by the powers that fund it or promote it or suppress it" [email protected] defector.com/do-not-accep...

Excited to announce that me and Dr Ingunn Johanne Ness (SLATE) will be presenting at the #AI & #Education Symposium. December 6th, 11:00 - 17:00 CET Our Talk: Is Synthetic Data the Key to Protecting Student Privacy in Cutting-Edge Research? (2pm) FREE: www.eventbrite.com/e/ai-educati...

Super excited about Lucy Batley speaking at #iLRN2025 talking all things AI, Design, and Immersive Learning. Learn more: www.immersivelrn.org/ilrn2025/home/

We're integrating with MOVIN - the low-latency, LiDAR-based, free-motion capture solution. Integration support coming to Notch 1.0 in December. 💃🕺 Check out their TRACIN capture system at go.notch.one/movin3d #madewithnotch

📢 Call for Submissions: #iLRN2025 Are you ready to showcase your work at the forefront of immersive learning innovation and research? The iLEAD and Doctoral Colloquium streams are still open for submissions until January 8, 2025 June 15-19, 2025, hybrid conference 🔗 www.immersivelrn.org/ilrn2025/

Oh great another use case for AI

Incredibly happy to announce that @kateclancy.bsky.social was awarded the WW Howells Book Prize from the Biological Anthro Section of the AAA for her book "Period: The Real Story of Menstruation" - join us in Toronto at our bus mtg (Friday afternoon: 4:15-6pm) to honor her!

A virtual seminar from the National Academies: "Generative AI & Implications for Science Communication" with me and several amazing other panelists. Happening Nov. 7, 3pm ET. We will discuss all things generative AI! Free and open to anyone. www.nationalacademies.org/event/04-26-...

Definitely worth a watch: #IEEE Workshop on Building #Trust Through IEEE SA #Standards🔹 Ruth Lewis: IEEE #AI #Ethics & Governance Standards & Certification🔹 Katina Michael & Roba Abbas: Soft Law for Age-Appropriate Digital Design for Children: CaseStudy IEEE 2089-2021 youtu.be/Uvntcwbj3qc?...

For weekend readers, a post on ChatGPT, its magical metaphors and inflated sense of self #AI #ChatGPT #metaphorsky #academicsky blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/makingscienc...

Scott long of fb uploaded an entire library of books on Palestine/Israel to the cloud, in digital form (mostly pdf and epub). It's a little over 1700 books, download any that interest you individually, or the whole library (about 13 GB). And feel free to share this. https://tinyurl.com/32aj9364

Interesting: Nightshade’ AI that alters images to ‘poison’ it when used in other training data sets. “Prompt-Specific Poisoning Attacks on Text-to-Image Generative Models”. By Shawn Shan, Wenxin Ding, Josephine Passananti, Haitao Zheng, Ben Y. Zhao. arxiv.org/pdf/2310.138... #ai #openacess #art

If you're interested in reading more translated literature from around the world, and/or introducing a global perspective to students, check out wordswithoutborders.org, dedicated to international writing, now celebrating its 20th year.

I occasionally check if Google has cured itself from AI-brain rot, alas this is a screenshot from just now

This keeps popping up in my feed. BPL launched its Books Unbanned program way back in April 2022, and it now includes Seattle, Los Angeles County, Boston, and San Diego. NYPL has its own program, Books for All. Libraries have been *on this* for a while.

Reposting our faculty opening because we begin reviewing applications in a week. I'm not on the committee but can answer questions. I'm happy here personally. :)

Software updates just sent to 46 year old Voyagers. One patch is aimed at lengthening their lives, amid buildup in residue in thruster plumbing. www.space.com/voyager-prob...

Irish cops data debacle exposes half a million motorist records

Really enjoying WIPO’s (World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) online conference: Conversation in Intellectual Property (#IP) and Frontier Technologies including #AI This is the recoding from day 1 webcast.wipo.int/video/OTHER_...

I am excited to post I passed my #PhD viva last week. This is a still from the end of my online viva. I was lovely engaging two hour conversation. I then got immediately sick and have been in bed since Thursday evening.

Ending free movement from the EU to the UK because of Brexit has led to a 330,000 short fall in the UK labour market, with lower skilled sector hit hardest, the FT finds. Sectors that campaigned for Brexit - agriculture, trucking - are now begging the government to bring in more workers from abroad.