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Dr Zena Assaad

50 trust researcher @zenaassaad.bsky.social · 1,306 followers

Host Responsible Bytes Podcast 🎙 Assoc Prof @ ANU | UNIDIR Fellow Researching the safety of complex technologies in safety critical domains Top 10 Women in AI APAC | 100 brilliant women in AI ethics | 🇦🇺🇱🇧 https://www.zenaassaad.com Repost ≠ Endorsement

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"Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers" the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...

Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers the-decoder.com

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Munich's Regional Court declared Google's AI Overviews its own speech, rejecting traditional search-engine hosting liability protections.
Google's AI Overviews answered correctly around 91% of queries, but 56% of those correct answers couldn't be verified through the linked sources.
Google confirmed it will appeal the ruling, which could set precedent for AI answer engines including ChatGPT and Perplexity across Europe.

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I've written an essay for @arabreforminit.bsky.social on AI-DSS in targeting operations & how they interact with existing military doctrines, operational practices & IHL. I also talk about why we are seeing such a high civilian death toll in current conflicts 👉🏽 www.arab-refor…

Data, Decisions, and Death: Examining the Role of AI in Contemporary Warfare arab-reform.net

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I've shared some of my reflections on the recent UN informal exchanges on AI in the military domain in my latest blog post, focusing on the relationship between militaries and the private tech sector 👉🏽 www.zenaassaad.com/blog/8w6aee5...

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I was interviewed by e-tech news recently on the project I am leading on decommissioning military AI systems. The full interview is now live ➡️ etech.iec.ch/issue/2026-0...

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Ahead of the UN informal exchanges next week on AI in the military domain, @jessicadorsey.bsky.social @elkeschwarz.bsky.social @profbode.bsky.social & I wrote this piece on the duality of the lifecycle concept - the engineering VS the socio-technical lifecycle opiniojuris.org/…

Bridging Understandings of the Military AI Lifecycle: A Transdisciplinary Socio-Technical Approach to Governance opiniojuris.org

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“OpenAI intends to ditch the prompts and features, betting that its models will be able to automatically understand users’ intentions when they are on the app or site” gizmodo.com/chat-is-dead...

'Chat Is Dead': OpenAI Reportedly Planning Radical Changes to ChatGPT gizmodo.com View on Bluesky →

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New podcast episode is live folks. Chatting with Lorenn Ruster about human dignity & AI. Did you know the Pope's encyclical makes over 100 mentions of human dignity? Lorenn breaks down the significance of dignity in conversations around AI. 🎧 Episode is available anywhere you get your podcasts.

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Talk about a rebrand. Anthropic collaborated with the Pope on the recently released encyclical which includes a bunch of stuff on safeguarding humanity from AI. They went from selling Claude to the U.S. DoD to teaming up with the Vatican. Their PR team is clearly working over time.

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