1. Following Cass, gender incongruent kids now can’t get anything in the UK until 18

NHS England has instructed all local CAMHS to give all 6k on the GIDS waiting list a mental health assessment by the end of June ‘24.

But how? Local CAMHS have 2-3yr waiting lists as it is. …

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This is the letter the @Guardian did not let me publish, in response to Bell's extended article about The Cass Review;

Highly recommend this episode which includes a talk by Dr Cal Horton on social transition & the Cass Review's epistimological chicanery. #CassFlaws

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

When AI images were invented did they know that the only ppl who wd be excited by them wd be reactionaries & extremists? AI isn’t art - art is about new ideas & imagination - neither of which tech can achieve.

Essentially AI is the regurgitation of the lowest common denominator

Great blog from one of the members of the Connected by Data People's Panel on AI, drawing attention to the lived experience of elderly people and the hollowing out of human contact in an increasingly automated and digital world. connectedbydata.org/blog/2024/04/3…

Is the “multistakeholder approach” to governing digital technologies all that it’s cranked up to be?

For Carnegie Council, I outlined some common pitfalls that have carried forth from #InternetGovernance to the flurry of #AIGovernance initiatives:

carnegieaie.org/blog/five-chal…

Smartphones ban may cause more harm than good, says Molly Russell’s father theguardian.com/technology/202…

I wrote this week’s cover story for [email protected]: ‘Gender Critical Cases: Making Bad Law?’ - link without paywall (putting in details does not sign you up to anything, but avoids bots) + thread 🧵 newlawjournal.co.uk/content/gender… #discrimination #transrights #gendercritical #beliefs

I wonder how FT journalists feel about this, and whether there have been any discussions with them about how content they authored will be used, or on what limits might be set on their required use of ChatGPT.

See also the Writers Guild of America strike. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Writ…

'We also must resist the replacement of democratic institutions by technological processes that remove and reduce the input and engagement of counterpublics.'

datasociety.net/wp-content/upl…

“Under the GDPR, people in the EU have a suite of rights attached to information about them, including a right to have erroneous data corrected. noyb contends OpenAI is failing to comply with this obligation in respect of its chatbot’s output”

In Dhaka the temperature of 42 degrees was 5 degrees above seasonal normal. Here in Orissa, east India, it’s 44.6 degrees, 6.8 above normal. This is not just El Niño. It’s a global crisis of appalling political and financial neglect.

Gaby Hinsliff is simply wrong here. What 'gender critical feminists' say about puberty blockers is that they are harmful and should be banned. What Cass sais is that the evidence is currently insufficient either way but that they do benefit some.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…