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Professor of Ethics and Technology, Hertie School Berlin
"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
Can AI do fact-checking? We asked an intrepid @wired.com fact checker to fact-check the LLMs: "According to my research, AI is even more wrong than people might think."
Xitters are saying Microsoft has banned use of AI because it costs more than human programmers, but this sounds like the delta between Claude & Microsoft's own AI is smaller than the value Microsoft gets from forcing its programmers to improve its AI. Have I got that right?
Anthropic’s response and influence on the encyclical is most evident in the claim that “even its creators don’t understand how it works.” In June, I wrote about what that actually means & why Anthropic says it. (Written while I was in Rome, FWIW). www.techpolicy.press/the-blac…
When I woke up this morning I didn't think I'd be spending a bunch of time today getting familiar with Catholic theology, but here we are. Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI. https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/25/encyclical-on-ai/
Yes. And I feel I should reiterate this interview answer I gave. techcrunch.com/2024/03/30/w...
AI boosters claim that LLMs are the future of software development. But that could not be further from the truth. LLMs are the apotheosis of a paradigm 40 years in the making: the tech industry assigns you problems and then sells you the solutions. But that world is now coming…
Also super! arxiv.org/abs/2511.07568 ProcLLM guiding agnetic LLMs with procedural knowledge Vincent Hsiao, Mak Roberts, Leslie N. Smith ProcLLM greatly increases success rate of agentic llms on multi step tasks, very small LLM with this can exceed performance of a big, famous …
Integrating Counterfactual Simulations with Language Models for Explaining Multi-Agent Behaviour Bálint Gyevnár, Christopher G. Lucas, Stefano V. Albrecht, Shay B. Cohen arxiv.org/abs/2505.17801 #AAMAS
How the next wave of technology is upending the global economy and its power structures:
Move over, Mythos: Open-source AI systems have been finding serious bugs in critical software for months. I wrote about how a recent DARPA challenge sparked a sea change in AI's bug-finding power, and how it could especially help critical infrastructure. www.cybersecuritydive.…
Do we collaborate with what we design? tl;dr : no slightly longer tl;dr : AI systems are manifestations of capital, not labour onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Anyone know a (preferably UK-located) expert on AI & financial crime?
Them: “Please be aware of my new 10 volume scholarly trilogy. I don’t expect you to read it, just to deploy it.” Should I write back “please just you yourself ask your LLM what Joanna Bryson would think of your work.” ?
So @overleaf.com now allows "download as docx or md"! cc @chrisschmitz.ai