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Michael Veale

Professor of technology law and policy at UCL

308 trust policy @michae.lv · 8,762 followers
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Professor of technology law and policy at UCL with public evidence across Policy & governance, AI research, Compute & infrastructure.

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prof @laws.ucl.ac.uk, technology, law, policy, society, whimsical latvian top level domain names. michae.lv and fediverse https://someone.elses.computer/@mikarv 🏳️‍🌈
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sainsbury‘s pauses AI shoplifting detection face scanning from Gordon’s Wine Bar spin out surveillance company Facewatch after incorrect customer ejection www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Sainsbury’s store pauses AI scanning after false shoplifting accusation theguardian.com
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  • Sainsbury's paused its Facewatch facial recognition cameras at its East Dulwich store after a shopper was wrongly flagged and escorted from the self-checkout.
  • The retailer and Facewatch both blamed 'human error' and cited a 99.98% accuracy rate, without explaining what triggered the alert against Matt Arnold.
  • Facewatch already runs in 55 Sainsbury's branches, with up to 150 additional stores planned before Christmas.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 11 ↻ 5 ↩ 1 · 3 from the directory shared this · 20h ago

now the AI Omnibus has been published, if you want to read a version with redline or a total consolidated version (not just the list of what has been deleted and added, which is what the omnibus is), i've published both recast and track-change versions on my website michae.lv/…

AI Act as amended by Omnibus (Recast, original and redline) michae.lv
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so much talk about the EU AI Act, but so little talk about the California AI watermarking provisions, SB 942, (extremely similar to the AIA) which became enforceable on the 2nd August

View on Bluesky · ♥ 11 ↻ 7 ↩ 2 · 12d ago

genuine q: if ai coding is massively increasing engineers’ productivity why does software either feel the same or worse? where is this productivity actually going?

View on Bluesky · ♥ 14 ↻ 2 ↩ 4 · 50d ago

have not seen anyone note that, in relation to AI SynthID text watermarking: all methods deployed by AI firms rely on private keys for security so no cheap/local/private detection. EU AI Act guidelines say it should not be this way, it should be local/interoperable. the deployed methods are not!

View on Bluesky · ♥ 12 ↻ 3 ↩ 2 · 22h ago
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