The law hasn't kept pace with AI uptake (as our Ada Lovelace Institute work with AWO shows: awo.agency/blog/awo-analy…), leaving people vulnerable to intensified exploitation and discrimination.

Great to see proposals published that would put workers back in control:

Incredibly excited to tell y'all about a project I've been working on for nearly a year with my Data & Society colleague Jenna Burrell, PhD: a special issue of First Monday, 'Ideologies of AI and the consolidation of power'. Every article of the 8 is a banger. firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/…

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Live facial recognition technology is fundamentally flawed and poorly deployed. This is security theatre, and does more damage than good.

The Cass review dismissed almost all scientific studies available based on a deliberate misunderstanding of study ethics and didn't work alongside trans people. It was a rigged review from the get go.

UK Labour will decimate trans rights and the NHS. This country is fucked.

learnt today the last 18 months have been the wettest on record!!! amazing news for UK morale

Horrid new report from +972 Magazine on an 'AI' system called Lavender and 'Where's Daddy?' used by the IDF. Has a 10% error rate, and acceptable 'collateral' from 15 to 100 civilians per target.

This is sick and the future of AI warfare for US Empire.

972mag.com/lavender-ai-is…

delighted that our paper 'Auditing Work: Exploring the New York City algorithmic bias audit regime' has been accepted to #FAccT 24! arxiv.org/abs/2402.08101

Jacob Metcalf 🐀 Alayna Kennedy Briana Vecchione Andrew Strait

We’re going to Rio!!!! Come say hi at FAccT!

ICYMI: We are hiring a Public Participation & Research Practice Lead.

Want to develop, deliver and oversee our public participation and research projects, team and strategy?

Apply by 22 April⬇️

adalovelaceinstitute.org/job/public-par…

Today AI Now Institute published my essay on the UK’s industrial approach to AI over the last 10+ years.

I argue that successive governments have failed to present a coherent vision for the role that the AI industry should play within the UK economy... 🧵

ainowinstitute.org/publication/a-…

would it kill an enterprise to sell me an oat flat white for less than £4

'Tech is embedded within institutions and power structures. Regulation is an important tool for reshaping these structures, strengthening the hand of communities in the face of power that is all too often unaccountable.'

🔥 from fhr in The New Statesman:

newstatesman.com/spotlight/tech…

Great piece looking at the AI imperative in hiring and its pitfalls (ft. small teaser of our Ada/D&S forthcoming research on the NYC bias audit regime)

The government has finally published its response to the AI White Paper consultation, and it’s still lacking any practical steps to get AI under democratic control. Here are my hot takes.

gov.uk/government/con…

Great piece! Polis et al bring a nimble form of 'democracy' that has its uses but there is a risk it becomes the de facto approach to input

OpenAI wants to align its AI to 'human values.' But whose?

My latest feature tells the inside story of OpenAI's ongoing effort to make AI more 'democratic'

time.com/6684266/openai…

House of Lords report on LLMs and Generative AI is out, and there's a lot to like.

In particular, very happy to see sections calling for external auditing of AI systems, and the need for standards and certification of this practice. But...

committees.parliament.uk/publications/4…