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Chris Marsden

48 trust researcher @chrismarsden.bsky.social · 1,999 followers
Professional on LinkedIn, no quote without permission pls. I'm not the news. Often post blue skies. Mainly sports politics (not US) travel. Prof AI & Internet/tech co-regulation: views personal. He/him #FirstGen Liverpool, cricket & cycling tragic #JFT97
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social

Late Friday, the Commerce Department eased its block on Anthropic's Mythos. But UC Berkeley Risk and Security Lab's Andrew W. Reddie argues Lutnick's letter leaves the hard question unanswered. www.techpolicy.press/commerce-eas...

Commerce Eased Its Block on Anthropic's Mythos, But Major Questions Remain | TechPolicy.Press techpolicy.press
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  • Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick exempted 'certain trusted partners' from export license requirements for Anthropic's Mythos 5, covering named entities and their foreign national employees.
  • The original controls were imposed two weeks earlier after an Amazon researcher, relayed via CEO Andy Jassey, reported a jailbreak vulnerability in Anthropic's Fable 5 that could enable cyber attacks.
  • The Export Administration Regulations were designed for physical goods, leaving it legally unsettled whether cloud-accessed AI capabilities constitute a 'deemed export.'
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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social

This interview with Simon Johnson, chair of the new UK AI Economics Institute, is interesting not so much because it is very revelatory but because his views will presumably shape policy and ministerial opinions giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

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"AI is better understood through past history & current engagement with its actual consequences for contemporary human society than guesses about how it might work magic. More grounded approaches to AI keep on getting dragged back into irresolvable fights"about AGI knightcolum…

AI as Social Technology knightcolumbia.org
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  • Farrell and Shalizi argue AI models are social technologies comparable to markets and bureaucracies, not autonomous intelligent agents.
  • All such systems generate lossy, incomplete, and uninvertible representations of reality, creating power effects that benefit some groups over others.
  • The social-technology framing shifts focus from AGI speculation to questions about power, lossiness, and who bears the cost of AI's simplifications.
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Dublin; 2023 #datacentres (used 20%) of Ireland’s electricity. “This is a planetary thing. We have to have some courage to show up, it’s difficult when you’re up against forces that have all the money and all the intelligence and all the bandwidth in the world.” www.theguardia…

‘We’re up against forces that have all the money in the world’: Erin Brockovich on her battle against AI datacentres theguardian.com
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net

Before "agentic AI," we had the idea that software was your agent on the internet. That's why the technical term for a browser is a "user agent." Your browser acts on your behalf to retrieve and show it you information, in the format you choose. It's your agent: pluralistic.ne…

Pluralistic: The disenshittified internet starts with loyal “user agents” (07 May 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net
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  • Doctorow argues internet decay sets in when the constraints on companies (competition, regulation, rival tech, worker dissent) fall away at once.
  • He calls for 'faithful' user agents that act on the user's behalf, modeled on the fiduciary duties owed by lawyers and doctors.
  • DMCA Section 1201, with penalties up to five years and $500,000, criminalizes modifying apps and removes the discipline that web ad-blockers still provide.
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Dr Conroy's appointment puts an AI ethics specialist, rather than a conventional technical specialist or former regulator, at the head of Australia's first AI safety body. She is the first confirmed member of the AI Safety Institute which was announced in November 2025 www.abc…

Philosopher tasked with keeping Australians safe from AI abc.net.au
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net

The EU has the GDPR, but it also has Ireland, the country where all GDPR cases against Big Tech go to die, because any tax haven inevitably becomes a crime haven: pluralistic.net/2025/10/31/l... 16/

Pluralistic: The internet was made for privacy (31 Oct 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net
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  • Doctorow argues mass internet surveillance is a policy outcome, not a technical inevitability, because modern encryption can render data unscramblable by unauthorized parties.
  • He notes Congress has not updated American consumer privacy law since 1988, leaving the commercial surveillance stack to grow in a legislative vacuum.
  • His pitch is predistribution, banning data collection upfront, rather than redistribution through breakups, fines, and taxes after monopolies form.
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