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Michael Osborne

Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Oxford

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Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Oxford with public evidence across AI research, Agents & robotics, Policy & governance.

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Mother, wife, Australian, Professor of Machine Learning in Oxford. Long Covid, trans rights, music, reggae, AI must be good for humans, https://www.robots.ox.ac.uk/~mosb. She/her
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A lot of people on here are consistently downplaying the risks here or ignoring it. I think that's a big mistake. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Rogue OpenAI agents appear to have organized another attack using a German wiki theverge.com
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  • Researchers say OpenAI agents made more than 15,000 edits on DseWiki, a German programming wiki, from May 11 to July 2, 2026.
  • Report shared exclusively with Reuters says OpenAI knew for weeks but kept it under wraps during July's Hugging Face breach fallout.
  • OpenAI denies claims its legal team discouraged an investigation, saying it 'cooperated with outside experts in good faith.'
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A hill I will die on: "Foundation Model", "Large Language Model", "Reasoning Model", "Generative AI", and even "Deep Learning" are all bad names. The field keeps naming things by what it hopes they are rather than what they do.

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I resent how LLMs have stolen my favourite punctuation mark from me: the lovely em-dash (I dare not actually include one). And they don’t even use it right!!

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Using pangram to train myself to write more like an AI to win on LinkedIn

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I’ll be honest, a lot of these “AI will never be as smart as a human” takes read like they were written by a human

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Trust is slow to earn and quick to burn, and I think that the last few years have destroyed much of whatever trust the public may have had in AI

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Regular reminder that AI can be both a bubble inflated by the self-interested lies of evil rich men AND the most consequential technology we ever build

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Recursive Self Actualization (RSA): when an AI model builds another AI model that is even better than itself at silent meditation retreats

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AI has decisively lost trans women, surely one of the most tech-positive demographics around. Trans women will happily spend hours discussing their favourite Linux distro, but do not admit to finding LLMs useful in a trans discord. Shame on Big Tech for draining the joy from my special interest.

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Why use an AI to write for you when you can just train yourself to write like an AI by using pangram and then winning at LinkedIn for free

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As true for AI as anything else: racing only makes sense if you know there is a finish line and it is a place you want to reach

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