Honoured to be appointed to the Scientific Panel for the EU AI Act. It's a really top-class group; I can think of few groups I've been so excited to work as part of. It's going to be really important to get this right. digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/...
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Sean O hEigeartaigh
Academic, AI nerd and science nerd more broadly. Currently obsessed with stravinsky (not sure how that happened).
What they're sharing
AI Act Scientific Panel digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
nytimes.com
Google DeepMind Workers Vote to Unionize Over Military AI Deals wired.com
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United Kingdom-Germany joint statement on the safety and security of advanced artificial intelligence gov.uk
AI Scenarios 2030: Helping policymakers plan for the future of AI - GOV.UK gov.uk
csah.cam.ac.uk
UTAW: Trust is not Governance utaw.tech
CASP — Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy | University of Cambridge casp.ac
Caring for Disagreement: Response to ÓhÉigeartaigh and Corsi - Philosophy & Technology link.springer.com
Articles & links
Incredible research by Antonia Juelich: Boko Haram's use of frontier AI: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/u...
AI Weekly's analysis
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- Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province are using TikTok in the Lake Chad Basin to host live programs and answer user questions.
- The Islamic State runs a program called News Harvest featuring AI-generated news anchors, and circulated a guide in 2023 on using generative AI securely.
- Al-Qaida-affiliated groups have warned members that adversaries could use AI-generated audio to give fake commands to followers.
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Sean O hEigeartaigh reposted
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Seems very good! https://t.co/ZLkunnl3nz
It was a genuine pleasure to provide feedback on these excellent and detailed AI scenarios now published by GO Science (with input from DSIT, AISI and external experts) - I was particularly impressed by how seriously they took their premises. www.gov.uk/government/p...
Quite exciting that our international team at CFI provides 5% (and in fact, fully 10% if you count associate fellows and former CFI staff) of the entire EU AI Act Scientific Panel. Lovely of the School of Arts and Humanities to highlight it. www.csah.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid...
Thoughtful essay from Andreas Kirsch about corporate governance, surveillance and military uses of AI, and the Google/Pentagon contract. Worth a read. utaw.tech/news/trust-i...
casp.ac/reports/ai-e...
A thoughtful and generous response by Matthew Willis to Giulio Corsi and my commentary on their paper in Philosophy and Technology. I'm particularly grateful to the journal for supporting this kind of academic dialogue; I think it's very helpful. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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