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Professor of Ethics and Technology, Hertie School Berlin
NEW: On Thursday, @wired.com reported that Meta had quietly added code for a face recognition system to Meta AI, its smart glasses companion app. On Friday, code for the face rec system was removed. @dmehro.bsky.social and @dell.bsky.social with the scoop: www.wired.com/story/…
Don't overlook the importance of the "retrieval" part of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG). Cornell Tech researchers find it is trivially easy to use Reddit to manipulate "deep research" AI www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
"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?
"Nobody needs convincing that a science of the Meaning of Life is the wrong project. I will argue that a science of phenomenal consciousness is wrong for exactly the same reason: neither is amenable to the third-person perspective science requires." by @profdata.bsky.social ar…
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/
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 …
Yes. And I feel I should reiterate this interview answer I gave. techcrunch.com/2024/03/30/w...
Is A.I. creating jobs or killing them? Adding to inflation or fixing it? Boosting productivity or doing little? Nobody knows. And our data (public & private) isn't providing clear answers. My latest on the A.I. data gap and the challenge it poses for policymakers: www.nytimes.…
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…
Anyone know a (preferably UK-located) expert on AI & financial crime?
I bet the #OpenAI + #Anthropic IPOs are high stakes because SpaceX. Musk bought twitter when Tesla value was briefly pumped so he could have the leverage to do that. If big tech had worked with Biden admin on voluntary #DMA compliance (as they did #DSA) this entropy might be over. 1/2 #AIEthics
Decided to go to #AISE26 rather than @epssnet.bsky.social this week. Had not expected either Geneva or Belfast to be shown as in flames directly before the meetings. AISE is @unidir.org AI Security & Ethics et me know if anyone is there. #AIEthics #AISecurity (is #securityEthics a thing?)
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
Center = Joanna Bryson. Left = members they follow (green edges). Right = members who follow them (blue edges). Top = mutual follows (orange edges, slightly larger). Drag any node to reposition; click to open that profile.
