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❓How to use procurement to slow down public sector AI adoption--or why not to do it.

📨up to 2k words, by 30.06.24, at [email protected].

🏆Top 3 blogs get a book!

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LATEST: Britain likely to DROP controversial data protection reform on Thursday, according to four people briefed on ongoing discussions 👇

pro.politico.eu/news/180365

The FTC has done something really cool that more agencies should consider doing: posing research questions they hope researchers will pursue! A quick thread with the questions I'm most interested in and why it's helpful when agencies do this:
ftc.gov/policy/advocac…

NEW REPORT: The next govt must focus on prevention or risk worse public services and higher taxes/debt

We look at the barriers to a more preventative approach to public services, how these could be overcome and the benefits to the government and public

instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/pr…

New piece forthcoming with Gianclaudio Malgieri: Impacted Stakeholder Participation in AI and Data Governance papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… Many thanks to those who have already workshopped it. Abstract is available for now; draft to come after we incorporate some feedback (or by email)

BREAKING

We said we would #DefendDemocracy ...

AND WE'VE WON our case against Government anti-protest laws that completely ignored the will of Parliament

You have experience around data protection and AI? Please consider this 👇

Good morning! A reminder that you can hire us Careful Trouble for AI training, mentoring and strategic advice, to help member social responsibility in your approach to AI.

The fourth call for evidence on #generativeAI my team has been working on is live on ICO - Information Commissioner's Office website. Please share or provide evidence here: ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/…

#ArtificialIntelligence #dataprotection #informationrights #largelanguagemodels

Following the launch of their 6 election pledges today, we've called on the Labour Party to be more ambitious in the education sector and not to follow the austerity mindset of the current government 👇

The REF 'is also the battering ram that has allowed a bureaucratic army to transform universities from self-managing entities into managed ones. Instead of communities of scholars, they are now quasi-corporations'.

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⏰ Reminder ⏰

Peter Birks & inaugural Margaret Brazier Book Prizes, nomination deadline 31/5.

Birks Prizes – for early career scholars (up to 6 yrs)

Brazier Prizes – open to mid-career scholars (6-15 years or PT equivalent)

#bookprize #deadline

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The risk that direct awards of potentially very lucrative public contracts for AI-related work will become the norm where tech companies claim to have unique capabilities worries me. This is a clear instance of the ways this can play out. Some comments included in the piece

How Dominic Cummings’ favorite AI firm captured the British government. trib.al/aokr1Ml

Join us for a free online 'A More Inclusive Data Science' session for #BristolDataWeek . Speakers:
👉 Catherine Hobbs Catherine Hobbs (she/her)
👉 Amy Gallimore
👉 Rachel Dugdale Rachel @ Complexical
👉 Betsy Muriithi Wa Muriithi
When: 4th June, 12:00-13:00 BST
Book: tinyurl.com/289w9a32

What have we learned about AI safety since Bletchley?

What governance role should AI safety institutes play?

Our new blog post looks at the UK's AI Safety Institute as a model - and argues for more context-specific evaluations and new statutory powers.

adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/safety-fi…

Acceptance and prioritisation criteria: NHSE’s independent procurement and choice panel. The PSR, and the criteria the Panel will use for deciding whether a request is eligible for review and how work will be prioritised.
HCSA
england.nhs.uk/publication/ac…

📢Call for papers! Submissions are invited for our upcoming 'UKCLA Early Career Workshop in Constitutional Law and Theory' - jointly organised by the University of Bristol's Centre for European and Public Law and University of Liverpool's Public Law Unit.

Deadline: 24 May 2024

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There is even a banner, so it must be happening for real!

No evidence foreign students are abusing UK graduate visas, review finds dlvr.it/T6rv18