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Shared emphasis UK Wants to Lead the World on AI Safety. It Can’t Decide Where To Start Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Development 10d ago
⚡ 3 h early
Meta glasses school harassment

Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools

8 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

8 experts 3 communities 1 sources clustered
Hypervisible Lilian Edwards Eileen Clancy 🧿 Woodrow Hartzog Mary Anne Franks Amanda Tepski Maggie Harrison Dupré ae

“If you build a tool that makes it easy to spy on and harass people, that's exactly what people will use it for. This is all by design. futurism.com/artificial-i...”

“Today in unsurprising but depressing news: "every single one of the many smart glasses videos we found were captured by teen boys — and their bad behavior was overwhelmingly directed at girls." futurism.com/artificial-i...”

2 experts discussed this · 16 posts
Maggie Harrison Dupré: NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In…
Maggie Harrison Dupré: We found dozens of videos shared by teens using smart glasses to record content at middle and high schools. Some of these videos are "Come With Me" or "Day in My Life" -style influencer content. Ki…
Hypervisible : NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In…
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Primary source futurism.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 14d ago

Eu text provenance

4 directory members surfaced this signal.

4 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Lilian Edwards Frank Pasquale Andrew Curran Stephan Geering

“OpenAI has rolled out its text watermarking solution to meet EU AIA art 50, textGrain. Seems very similar in concept to Google&Anthropic. interestingly only being added by default to users in EU despite California rules also demanding watermarks tho not(yet…”

Primary source openai.com ↗
Developing AI field signal Analysis 2d ago
middle power leverage AI geopolitics vassalage essay

“Middle Power Leverage” is Vassalage with Better Branding

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 1 community 2 sources clustered
Lilian Edwards Cristina Caffarra

“Frontier lab money is being showered theough proxy funds all over Europe to create new think tanks with young researchers carrying exhalted titles and self styling as “AI experts”, pushing this ridiculous “Middle Powers” narrative. This is in fact just vass…”

Primary source open.substack.com ↗ escapeforward.substack.com ↗
Established Safety & security Analysis 14d ago
⚡ 15 h early
UK AI safety direction unclear

UK Wants to Lead the World on AI Safety. It Can’t Decide Where To Start

2 directory members surfaced this signal.

2 experts 1 community 1 sources clustered
Tech Policy Press Lilian Edwards
How the network is reacting 2 experts are emphasizing concern & critique.
Shared emphasis

Concern & critique

2 experts

Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“The UK government is positioning itself as a global leader on AI safety while struggling to agree on how far rules should go — and what risks they should address, reports Evie Breese.”

Primary source techpolicy.press ↗
Established Policy & governance Development 17d ago
AI video court sentence quashed US

US road rage killer's sentence quashed because AI video of victim was shown in court

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Lilian Edwards

“BBC News - US road rage killer's sentence quashed because AI video of victim was shown in court www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Frankly I'd really question that judges ability to judge credibility in any future cases...”

Primary source bbc.co.uk ↗
Established Safety & security Development 17d ago
OpenAI urges UK AI safety rules

OpenAI urges UK lawmakers to rein in technology amid growing safety fears

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Lilian Edwards

“Somewhat late but I'm just gagging in my tea on discovering that who should be begging the UK to giddy up & regulate AI but... Open AI... 👀 ( It's ok, only big boys like them, not our homegrown minnow start ups, like duuhhh, wtf?) www.theguardian.com/techno…”

Primary source theguardian.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 13d ago

This is much the longest and perhaps the most personal podcast I've ever done! having listened to it in the course of an endlessly delayed journey to Stockholm I can at least now tentatively… | Lilian Edwards

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Lilian Edwards

“I did a podcast with the lovely Legal 4Tech people who mysteriously don't seem to be on BlueSky! If you can bear me being long and silly it's about the new book and a bunch of AI related topics. On LI lnkd.in/p/eENNAUjT or (eg) Spotify open.spotify.com/epis…”

Primary source linkedin.com ↗
Established Policy & governance Signal 13d ago

A Data Lawyer's honest advice: How to AI with Lilian Edwards

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Lilian Edwards

“I did a podcast with the lovely Legal 4Tech people who mysteriously don't seem to be on BlueSky! If you can bear me being long and silly it's about the new book and a bunch of AI related topics. On LI lnkd.in/p/eENNAUjT or (eg) Spotify open.spotify.com/epis…”

Primary source open.spotify.com ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 13d ago

This is much the longest and perhaps the most personal podcast I've ever done! having listened to it in the course of an endlessly delayed journey to Stockholm I can at least now tentatively… | Lilian Edwards

1 directory member surfaced this signal.

1 expert 1 community 1 sources clustered
Lilian Edwards

“I did a podcast with the lovely Legal 4Tech people who mysteriously don't seem to be on BlueSky! If you can bear me being long and silly it's about the new book and a bunch of AI related topics. On LI lnkd.in/p/eENNAUjT or (eg) Spotify open.spotify.com/epis…”

Primary source lnkd.in ↗
Debates gaining attention

What experts are discussing without an anchoring article

2 experts · 11 posts · 1d ago
Lilian Edwards Mary Branscombe
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Mary Branscombe: just experimented with getting Copilot in my browser to summarise a long and wibbling video (that could have been a blog post) and did someone design this feature for me? (and maybe @katebevan.com …
Mary Branscombe: it's a little bit too 'this is the KEY INSIGHT' (I'll decide what's the most interesting bit, thank you robot) but I'll take that over watching a long and rambling video
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