New report: Human rights by design: future-proofing human rights protection in the era of AI Council of Europe Commissioner for #HumanRights (May 2023) coe.int/en/web/commiss… #Privacy #DataProtection #ChildDevelopment #AI #Literacy #Education #ArtificialIntelligence #EdTechX

I'm in Perth, Western Australia for a summit on tech ethics, organised by the inspirational Julia Powles, and I woke to this sunrise over the Swan River. Things are looking good over here at the edge of the world

CONGRATULATIONS @JacquelineUWA on this extraordinarily well-deserved accolade. The Geoffrey Dyson Award is ISBS’s most prestigious honour & recognises career achievement at the leading-edge of biomechanics. Bravo! UWA Fulbright Australia AmCham Australia isbs.org/awards?start=1

What a great project. Melissa Korn et al. The Wall Street Journal looked at spending at state flagships over the last 20 years. The universities have been buying their wishlists and passing the costs onto students, raising tuition & fees far beyond losses in state funding: wsj.com/articles/state…

There are some stories that you know will stay with you for a very long time, and this is one of them. Had the honor of profiling these five women who have been warning about AI risks before you'd ever heard of ChatGPT. My latest for Rolling Stone rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

Join us on 27 September with A/Prof Julia Powles from UWA for a discussion on the corporate culpability of large tech organisations. Register here: events.unimelb.edu.au/CAIDE/event/33… This seminar is part of #NSLP and #newlawforemergingtechnologies proudly supported by Menzies Foundation

It's time to talk about Big Tech culpability. Join A/Prof Julia Powles from UWA for a discussion on the corporate culpability of large tech organisations. Register here → go.unimelb.edu.au/us7s Centre for AI and Digital Ethics

Required reading. Come for the in-depth but highly accessible explanations of concentration at every layer of the AI compute stack; stay for the profound questions it asks of the desirability + sustainability of this tech paradigm in the first place.

My search for an earworm-annihilator is at an end

Next weekend I'm in Perth to help guide an interactive policy workshop on AI, automation and drones, with Julia Powles and the amazing folk at the UWA Tech & Policy Lab. We'll be exploring the power of art to shape policy. Come if you're around!

📢 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: The 9th Asian Privacy Scholars Network Conference on Dialogue Between #InternationalLaw & #ComparativeLaw In #DataGovernance, taking place on August 15, 2024 National Tsing Hua University 國立清華大學: forms.gle/2zXiF4DFpjHzKe… with SMU Yong Pung How School of Law ASIL International Law & Technology Interest Group ASIL

Ilya Sutskever People building AGI unable to predict consequences of their actions 3 days in advance.

A brilliant paper from my Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy colleagues analyzing the knowledge creation and sharing practices (forecasting, EA-funded prize competitions, forums) in the AI safety community that enabled this niche and contested set of ideas to go mainstream: drive.google.com/file/d/1HIwKMn…

Who is behind all these parking apps? Are we getting a good bargain? 🚗 Paying for your parking via an app promises ease and efficiency, but we are entering a bargain with unclear terms around data privacy + public revenue, writes Julia Powles (UWA). theconversation.com/parking-apps-a…

"Paying for your parking via an app promises ease and efficiency. But we are entering a bargain with unclear terms around data privacy and public revenue." #AUViews bit.ly/3OjS8IQ by Julia Powles UWA via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand.

.Julia Powles rightly points out its hard to name big tech’s influence b/c even us, digital rights activists are ‘feeding the beast’ at #society5.0 #Ethics