New report on digitalisation and datafication of UK universities and the #EdTech industry with findings from the Universities and Unicorns project. It’s aimed at HE and EdTech stakeholders and policymakers. With Morten Hansen, Sam Sellar and Kean Birch. t.ly/S_mrL

Exciting News! Book Two in my #cyberpunk #Yorkshire #CrimeFiction Cyberdales series out now via Northodox Press 📖

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Dear Canada: that is a really misleading graph.

Here is the share of employment by sector since 1976.

'Global #datacenter #electricity use to double by 2026' according to International Energy Agency report || datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/global…

Very excited for this conference on value and data at the New School next week, come by if you can! PERN @[email protected] New School for Social Research
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Thanks to Northodox Press 📖 for sending me this novel by #dylanbyford . First time reading cyberpunk and I loved it #BookTwitter #booktwt

💡⏳Announcing the arrival of Progress in Economic Geography (PEG)! PEG is a peer-reviewed, international journal dedicating to advancing economic geography through multidisciplinary perspectives and cutting-edge research sciencedirect.com/journal/progre…

York's Institute for Technoscience & Society looks to shape public debate, policy - YFile #personaldata #digitaleconomy #ArtificialInteligence #BigTech || yfile.news.yorku.ca/2024/04/10/yor…

Two-thirds of YUFA members at Special General Membership meeting support non-confidence motion in the university's senior leadership yufa.ca/two_thirds_of_…

Love this #ArtificialIntelligence

Forthcoming September 2024. But should be cited already, pre-emptively. Nobody knows what the future may bring. politybooks.com/bookdetail?boo…

Interesting article by Kean Birch on why we need social scientists to understand our 'collective problems and the challenges we want generative AI to address. We then need to work out whether, not simply how, AI can contribute to finding viable solutions'

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New research shows training LLMs on exponentially more data will yield only linear gains. So as Silicon Valley seeks ever more data, compute, energy and human works for AI systems, the improvements will be marginal at best. Something tells me this new info isn't going to stop it.

🚨 New Preprint Altert 🚨

What are assets, what role do they play in financial activity, and how do they link to financial infrastructures?

Preprint of my chapter in CarolaWestermeier //c-westermeier.bsky.social, Malcolm CV & Barbara Brandl forthcoming handbook.

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My best photo from #Eclipse2024

UNESCO’s Ethics of AI team is recruiting! We're looking for 6 experts to contribute to cutting-edge projects on the ethical governance of AI across the following workstreams (please note the deadlines for applications are 16-17 April):

Here's another response to my piece on generative #ArtificialInteligence (some crossover with the other response now too)

Here's one debate about my piece on generative #ArtificialInteligence

My #oped last week seems to be particularly triggering for certain people: 'Generative #artificialintelligence is simply a waste of our time and money || theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…

'Increasingly, generative AI seems like a waste of our collective time and money. While generative AI technologies, like ChatGPT, have some playful uses, they potentially come with enormous social costs and limited social' - Kean Birch #YorkU benefit'theglobeandmail.com/business/comme…