THREAD: What is happening in UK universities is astonishing. Right now about quarter of universities are laying off staff. Almost all universities expect to make a loss this year. And the entire thing is happening in an effort to deceive the population about migration statistics.

A basic fact of today's digital economy summed up well by James Muldoon: there is no longer any such thing as an independent 'AI startup'

doesnotcomputeai.substack.com/p/the-death-of…

In November, tech companies promised pre-release access of their latest models for safety testing. Turns out, they're refusing to provide it.

Let's say it together - voluntary commitments do not work. We need mandatory requirements, not broken promises.

politico.eu/article/rishi-…

Me, Matt Davies and Mathew Lawrence arguing that rather than a reductive 'arms race' frame to AI industrial strategy, we need a genuinely market-shaping approach that promotes tech for public benefit.

Public compute investments should be used to reshape AI development, challenge concentrated power and promote the creation of public value.

In their new blog, Matt Davies, Eleanor Shearer & Mathew Lawrence identify 4 challenges for this market-shaping approach.

adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/the-role-…

New blog with Eleanor Shearer and Mathew Lawrence on 'public compute' — what it is, why it's important, and how we can leverage it to reshape the AI sector 👇🏻🚀

Our business sec wants us to believe that the past was all about free markets and hard work, because if you looked at empire, you might just notice how much of our current economic model is still based on monopoly renterism + precarious labour

newstatesman.com/ideas/2024/04/…

What I can't stop thinking about is that we watched live, on social media platforms, dozens beg for help at these hospitals, before never hearing from them again. And not one capable nation moved a finger.

The UK should halt arms sales to Israel - not only to send a symbolic message that its genocidal war won't be tolerated but also to dent its ability to kill Palestinians /1
middleeasteye.net/opinion/uk-isr…

My dislike of 'responsible AI' is mostly vibes based but I think this encapsulates it pretty well

If there is still a civilisation in a century, and that civilisation still teaches history - both open questions - this would make an excellent gobbet for The Politics of Climate Change 1988-2035. It should look even more jarring then than now.

In light of recent reports on the use of #AI -targeting systems, I thought I would share again something I wrote a while back on the issue. You can access the full text here or via Philosophy Today qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/bitstrea…

Just three days between these two stories

This isn't journalism, it's PR for the Cass Review while failing to engage with its critics

Newest essay on my Substack where I consider ethical egoism as an alternative to effective altruism and other efficiency-maximizing ethical systems. With Lorde, Spinoza, Yang Zhu, Noam Chomsky playing Super Mario w his grandkids and Rawls's grasscounter

helendecruz.substack.com/p/on-playing-s…

🥲 youtube.com/watch?v=kH2wQ5…

A very well written and cited essay by Dr Hane Maung on Gender GPs website addressing a number of falsehoods & flaws within the Cass Review. I wonder if the author will submit as a rapid response piece to the journal in which Cass papers were published? gendergp.com/response-to-th…