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Chris Marsden

48 trust researcher @chrismarsden.bsky.social · 1,999 followers
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Researcher with public evidence across AI research, Policy & governance.

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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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Calling #AIs “stochastic parrots” is a common yet misapplied turn of phrase these days. One of the authors of the original paper that used the phrase, Dr. Bender, clarifies what the authors really meant and some larger misconceptions about AI and natural language. spectrum.iee…

What Emily Bender Really Meant by "Stochastic Parrots" spectrum.ieee.org
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  • Bender says the 'stochastic parrots' metaphor was meant to describe large language models specifically, not all AI systems.
  • The 2021 paper was co-authored with Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, both later fired by Google before its publication.
  • Bender says the paper's biggest omission was the exploitative labor practices underlying large language models.
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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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"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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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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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

Austerity is fascism's best recruiter: pluralistic.net/2026/04/12/a... When the AI bubble bursts, defective chatbots that replaced skilled workers will disappear, leaving us scrambling to get that work done after the workers who understood it have retrained, retired, or exited…

Pluralistic: Austerity creates fascism (13 Apr 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net
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  • Cory Doctorow pegs current AI investment at $1.4T and calls it 'the money-losingest technology in the history of the human race'.
  • He argues the seven firms making up a third of the S&P 500 are trading the same $100B IOU, and an unwind would vaporise a third of the US market.
  • He ties this to an LSE and Bocconi paper finding UK voters shifted to UKIP, the Brexit Party and Reform after living through 1,700 GP closures since 2013.
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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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