Keep the Georgian people in your thoughts tonight as they continue to fight for their democratic and European future.

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Een grote CDA-reunie 😉 ‘Een stem op Caroline is een stem op Ursula’ wordt een mooie campagne! ↘️

Important from Marietje Schaake.

It’s twisted & inexplicable that “AI safety” ppl continue to perplex themselves w ill-defined thought experiments focused on the fake far future while AI’s being used by the Israeli military to expedite slaughter now.

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.The University of Chicago really showing the benefits of having clear principals around speech

These licensing deals between publishers and AI companies really, truly depress me—have we learned so little since the last deals w Facebook and Google? Getting a few scraps in exchange for letting tech co's cannibalize and profit from journalists' work?

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Although a huge loss for Stanford it is always amazing to see good things happening to good people. Congratulations to Jeremy Weinstein and the Harvard Kennedy School on the new Dean appointment! ↘️ news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

'The decision to not regulate military AI has a human price. The lines between civilian and military uses of AI are blurring, and we have to ask ourselves how meaningful political discussions of AI safety are, if they don’t cover both.' — Marietje Schaake ow.ly/kkEU50Rs24I

The incorrect information dispensed by NYC’s AI-powered chatbot “is a perfect illustration of how premature adoption of new technology...can create costs for governments — and the public — that far outweigh the benefits,” writes D&S’s Aiha Nguyen. thehill.com/opinion/techno…

Why the Military Can’t Trust AI > by my excellent colleague ⁦Jacquelyn Schneider⁩ and ⁦Max Lamparth⁩ ↘️ foreignaffairs.com/united-states/…

Important piece by Marietje Schaake (especially as more AI giants jump on the national security AI gravy train):

'We have to ask ourselves how meaningful political discussions of AI safety are, if they don’t cover military uses of the technology.'

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Facebook and Instagram hit with EU probes over Russian disinformation ahead of the EU wide elections in June ↘️ politico.eu/article/facebo…

Important that we can #trust what we see #online . Today, we have opened proceedings against @meta as we suspect that their online moderation on facebok and Instagram is insufficient. It lacks transparency of #ads and content moderation.
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.Article36 “calls for new international law on autonomy in weapons systems” ↘️

'The decision to not regulate military AI has a human price. Even if they are systematically imprecise, these systems are often given undue trust in military contexts as they are wrongly seen as impartial.' Marietje Schaake ft.com/content/da03f8…

Russians now bombing random seaside parks, for no discernible reason except terrorism

Military is the missing word in AI safety discussions ↘️ ft.com/content/da03f8…

‘We have to ask ourselves how meaningful political discussions of AI safety are, if they don’t cover military uses of the technology’ Marietje Schaake
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Although a huge loss for Stanford it is always amazing to see good things happening to good people. Congratulations to Jeremy Weinstein and the Harvard Kennedy School on the new Dean appointment! ↘️ news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…

Max Schrems strikes again, this time at OpanAI, alleging the company violates GDPR by making sh*t up ⁦noyb⁩ ↘️ politico.eu/article/chatgp…

Winner-takes-most strikes again.

As FT signs licencing deal with Open AI, joining AP, Axel Springer, Le Monde, and Prisa, I think back to how our survey of 300+ digital leaders in news found 35% expected most $$$ from deals would go to big media companies reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/journalism-med…