"The AI Bill of Rights has become one kind of infrastructure, diffuse and informal, but generative." Bad administrations can repeal good policies, but they can't stop others building on them. Superb piece, @alondra.bsky.social
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Jack Stilgoe
Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
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A civic grammar for AI rights | Science science.org
Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va
Open Letter about Industry Funding and Disclosure in Philosophy docs.google.com
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The Sports Car Theory of LLM Adoption buttondown.com
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Making Sense of AI: An anthology of language, metaphor and public understanding makingsciencepublic.com
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UK invests £60m in two university-led AI research labs - Research Professional News researchprofessionalnews.com
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The Pope has done a rather lovely critique of technological instrumentalism for AI www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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- Pope Leo XIV's 42,300-word Magnifica Humanitas, signed May 15 and published May 25, addresses AI as the central challenge to human dignity.
- The encyclical states AI systems are 'cultivated' not 'built' and explicitly denies they possess experience, a body, or the capacity to feel pain.
- Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah spoke at the Vatican's May 25 presentation alongside theologians and three cardinals.
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As philosophy rushes to claim expertise on AI, AI companies rush to control the philosophical narrative. Unlike other disciplines, philosophy has no standards for reporting conflicts of interest. This petition endeavors to change that: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Remember, if you think you have a communications problem you have an actual problem
AI Weekly's analysis
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- Around 40% of voters in the West tell pollsters they want AI banned from most industries, according to The Economist.
- Protests against data centers have reportedly scuppered nearly $100bn worth of planned AI infrastructure projects.
- Americans rank AI 29th out of 39 election issues, suggesting the backlash is intense but electorally fragmented.
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I'm in the grip of about 10000 massive deadlines, so I've obviously spent this morning writing a newsletter about a topic that is completely and utterly tangential buttondown.com/justenoughin...
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In today's post I have gathered together all my recent posts on #AI and #metaphor into a little anthology. #AIMetaphorObservatory makingsciencepublic.com/2026/06/19/m...
I was on @thetimes.com radio with @figlover.bsky.social to talk about self-driving vehicles and the politics of tech www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7d6...
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UK invests £60m in two university-led AI research labs. Minister makes case for “forward-facing” academic research infrastructure. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-p...
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I've been reviewing some of the footage from the 2023 AI Summit. We should have talked more about Monocle Man.
It would be good if journalists could stop asking AI leaders about jobs. The AI leaders don't know about jobs, and it's the topic they want to talk about, as it's clearly not their responsibility.
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