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Dr Simon Thorne

@eusprig

Programme chair for The European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group, EuSpRIG - (“yewsprig”) for short. Academic and researcher in software and spreadsheet quality

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More on the Ministry of Defence 🇬🇧 spreadsheet data leak, it has been revealed that the identities of 100 British officials including #MI5 agents and #SAS operatives. It's hard to imagine a more damaging leak #MOD #DataPrivacy #Excel bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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#Minecraft is a wonderful learning environment, using only ‘red stone’, an in game resource for adding programming functions to the game, Sam has implemented a 5 M word Large Language Model youtu.be/VaeI9YgE1o8?fe… #LLM #Minecraftbuilds #AI #GenerativeAI

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Very true, in fact #LLm generated software also a ticking time bomb but #spreadsheets are particularly vulnerable to a lack of checking and scrutiny. How long will it be before our first AI spreadsheet horror story?

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Another spreadsheet horror story: Gallatin County, Montana over-collected $8.5M in taxes due to one misapplied formula repeated for four years. Automation without verification is not assurance. mountainjournal.org/gallatin-count… #SpreadsheetRisk #Governance

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Complacency - this is what led to this point and unless you address the systemic issues that led you there, another breach is a certainty. #spreadsheets