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Jack Stilgoe
@jackstilgoe.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) .. more

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 9d
As the imaginary existential risks of AI are back in, here's a programme I did for the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Analysis, How real is the existential threat from AI?
AI can't kill us, so why are imaginary threats being taken so seriously?
www.bbc.co.uk

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 2h
Particle physicists couldn't have anticipated when they named quarks that it would eventually lead to this ridiculous standfirst

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Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · 2h

We’re hiring a Policy Fellow in Green Industrial Strategy & Green Finance at @iipp-ucl.bsky.social !

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 3h
In the beginning was the Word, and...

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 6h
I lean more towards the former. X-risk clouds liabilities and makes it harder to discuss other risks. But some clever tacticians have used it to fund and draw attention to real risk.

Reposted by Garry Peterson, Juan Rocha, Jack Stilgoe

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Magdalena Skipper @magdalenaskipper.bsky.social · 20h
Many academics are concerned about threats to independent enquiry in higher education. Here’s how @sarahderijcke.nl proposes it can be protected while taking legitimate concerns into account.

I’m a huge fan of this 6-point proposal
🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Six principles for supporting academic freedom in universities
Many academics are concerned about threats to independent enquiry in higher education. Here’s how it can be protected while taking legitimate concerns into account.
www.nature.com

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 22h
If you're outside the UK, you should be able to listen here

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 22h
He’ll take that. Thank you.

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 22h
Fave quote: “A lot of my friends did not start AI companies”.

Samesies

@lizzieohreally.bsky.social
But HOW Might A.I. Kill Us All?
Podcast Episode · What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future · 18 September · 30min
podcasts.apple.com

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 1d
Child one has just started a music degree. And he's just dropped a demo. If you have a couple of mins, please do lend him your ears open.spotify.com/track/26m7zm...
Wishum Well
Zachary Stilgoe · Truffle People · Song · 2026
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Adolfo Neto @adolfoneto.elixiremfoco.com · 1d
N. Katherine Hayles says LLMs are hideously innefficent.

www.instagram.com/reels/Ddeogb...

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UCL Social Data Institute @uclsocialdata.bsky.social · 1d
"There's all sorts of choices and decisions that cartographers are making that gently steer us in one direction or another. And that's what makes them so powerful."

Check out James Cheshire's (SODA Director and Professor in @uclgeography.bsky.social) on BBC Radio Stoke 👇

#maps #cartography #bbc

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Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 1d
This new lawsuit from Universal & Sony against Suno is big, because it makes an argument many have made previously outside of court: that training on ‘synthetic data’ should not get you off the hook for copying people’s work for AI training.

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 1d
One reason news organisations must survive is that when their staff writers leave the comfort of a wage and some status, many of them go nuts for clicks

Reposted by Samuel L. Perry, Jack Stilgoe

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 2d
Cool cool cool. Problem solved.

“AI Force” will “monitor bad behavior”

More of “the mirage of AI deregulation”:

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Trump announces ‘AI Force’ as alarm grows over technology’s advance
US president has resisted calls for regulation but said he would appoint a ‘tsar’ to monitor for ‘bad’ behaviour
giftarticle.ft.com