Tom Bryson Obituary / Biography
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Prof Margaret Boden; Credit: Jay Williams (click through for source)| Adventures in NI
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For those who don't know (background)| Adventures in NI
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Why would Jeff Bezos cancel the The Washington Post's presidential endorsement, fully knowing that the cancellation would be a bigger story than any such endorsement? My guess or at least fear: because the (dis)information age is elevating the importance of reliable sources of news, and he wants more control over one. AI via targeted advertising has made journalism more susceptible to such influence by siphoning its revenue from news media to Google and Meta. We have substantially weakened jo...| Adventures in NI
In October 2024 I sat next to some smart Hertie School first year students during a talk, and learnt they'd never heard of the social network I was putting my best content on, bluesky. Given the political context of the time (just before the Harris/Trump election in the largest year of voting ever), I thought I should create an updateable blogpost. In fact, within four weeks I had 5 times more followers on bluesky, so now the original post (further below) seems an important relic of its time.| Adventures in NI
This has become a FAQ, so I decided to make a blogpost. Feel free to add to it in the comments or by emailing me. My own university, Hertie School, does have a PhD programme, but I'm more interested in people doing empirical research that allows me to make better policy recommendations, so for example work on transparency impacts of digitalising government, or on political polarisation.| Adventures in NI
Has Facebook hacked Science? I wouldn't call the 2023 Science and Nature studies of Facebook's impacts "a debacle" like this otherwise-excellent overview of the present state of Facebook's play does. That link is to an article in The Conversation by professor Timothy Graham of Queensland.| Adventures in NI
Dear potential student, postdoc, or collaborator,| Adventures in NI
This is a somewhat-quickly written post about how AI will and will not be altered by quantum and other forms of scaling. There's also some speculation about how cryptocurrencies will be, though that is speculation and I really am looking for feedback on that. Because cryptocurrencies might otherwise really be a challenge for national power. I massively revised it for clarity on 18 August, let me know if it's still unclear. | Adventures in NI
Geoff Hinton is a super genius to whom I am personally indebted and with whom I am acquainted, because we both spent a lot of time in Edinburgh, including overlaps in the 1990s. However, he is a genius of machine learning, not governance.| Adventures in NI
I was very flattered to be asked by Science to read and review Guardrails: Guiding Human Decisions in the Age of AI, the new book by Urs Gasser and| Adventures in NI
This is my response to the UN's AI Advisory Body's open consultation for their Interim Report: Governing AI for Humanity.| Adventures in NI
History: In 2023, the EU was consolidating its legislation called "The AI Act" (or AI Regulation.) Despite the fact that this is a fairly boring piece of legislation just ensuring that at least some digital products (the ones that may automatically alter human lives) are subject to proper product law, there was a massive amount of lobbying and misinformation. Part of all that was misdirection pretending that the only "real" AI was the newest stuff on the block – large language models (LLM...| Adventures in NI
You can now ignore the below unless you are interested in the writing process or something: the final version is here and much more lovely.| Adventures in NI
I note that none of the advances in AI this year have helped google make blogger more usable. Sorry about the formatting!| Adventures in NI
smart cities and the limits of technodeterminism| Adventures in NI
A Few Quick Bullets for Sleep-Deprived AI Act Negotiators| Adventures in NI
Empathy is a terrible basis for ethics. Empathy is our capacity to understand the emotional state of others based on our ability to model those others and feel what they are likely to be feeling. The problem with it as a basis of ethics is that this process is easier the more we have in common with those others. We want our ethics to be universal, not to apply most to the people we can best identify with.| Adventures in NI
This is just short blogpost integrating some important information concerning US life expectancy. The US is a global outlier with its poor health outcomes, particularly if you consider that it's also a global outlier with how much it spends on health care.| Adventures in NI
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