"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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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
Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities nytimes.com
Open Letter about Industry Funding and Disclosure in Philosophy docs.google.com
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‘I’m the Operator’: The Aftermath of a Self-Driving Tragedy wired.com
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The Sports Car Theory of LLM Adoption buttondown.com
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Autonomous Passenger Vehicles in London london.gov.uk
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The reanimation of pseudoscience and its ethical repercussions research.google
The AI Arms Race podcasts.apple.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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I suffered through Kratsios' answer to Science: the Endless Frontier. The NYT summary is good, but there's more to it. And I should say that I welcome improvements to the scientific enterprise (which is why I'm participating in @alondra.bsky.social and Jenny Reardon's Public's…
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- The White House's July 21 report 'Science: A New Golden Age' reshapes a roughly $200 billion federal R&D budget, steering money away from universities.
- OSTP director Michael Kratsios and OMB director Russell Vought want portable 'golden ticket' awards that follow individual scientists, not their institutions.
- A companion Genesis Mission commitment adds more than $5 billion for AI-driven research across 15-plus agencies, from drug discovery to grid modernization.
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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...
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regular reminder to read @wired.com's incredible piece about the 2018 Uber AV crash that killed Elaine Herzberg www.wired.com/story/uber-s...
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- An Uber self-driving Volvo killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg in Tempe in March 2018, the world's first pedestrian fatality involving a self-driving car.
- The car's system detected an object 5.6 seconds before impact and kept reclassifying it as vehicle, 'other,' and bicycle without alerting the operator.
- Operator Rafaela Vasquez pleaded guilty to endangerment and received three years' supervised probation; prosecutors filed no criminal charges against Uber.
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Remember, if you think you have a communications problem you have an actual problem
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Good morning and welcome to your FT Weekend highlights via giftlink. First this week theologian and philosopher Carmody Grey explains why she declined to help Anthropic with Claude's moral schooling as.ft.com/r/15d7fd75-a...
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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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Earlier today, #AssemblyTransport Chair @carolinerussell.bsky.social spoke with BBC Radio London about the prospect of driverless taxis in London, following the Committee investigation. Find out more about the investigation here: www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/w...
V important discussion. I also like this one... research.google/pubs/the-rea...
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Unusually bleak - and Marxist - analysis of AI development from @onesandtooze.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...
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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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