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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 8h

BBC News - US road rage killer's sentence quashed because AI video of victim was shown in court www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Frankly I'd really question that judges ability to judge credibility in any future cases...

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US road rage killer's sentence quashed because AI video of victim was shown in court

The Arizona appeals court ruled that airing an AI message from the dead victim "crossed that line".

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 20h

Somewhat late but I'm just gagging in my tea on discovering that who should be begging the UK to giddy up & regulate AI but... Open AI... 👀 ( It's ok, only big boys like them, not our homegrown minnow start ups, like duuhhh, wtf?) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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OpenAI urges UK lawmakers to rein in technology amid growing safety fears

Company behind ChatGPT tells ministers to seize ‘political window’ on regulation as cross-party committee warns of rising threats to human rights

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The real issue about Rejoin is whether a new referendum unlike the old one has a supermajority required. Constitutionally sensible but unjust & if do we may be sunk.

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Is Nick Bostrum in on this? Is EA paying for it? Can honestly not think of other reason for this inanity / insanity

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Excellent thread on the illusion, hubris and negligence behind the non existent Edinburgh University financial crisis. This reminds me so much of Nottingham, and Dundee. Why can uni VCs get away with acts that would get company CEOs sacked?

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The BBC's reporting of these "rogue AI" stories has been credulous to the point of execrable. Where are their competent tech savvy staff?? @billt.bsky.social @zsk.bsky.social

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THE Vinz Vektor - EN Vtuber @posindustries.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The truly nefarious goal of AI isn't just to make you believe fake things are real, but to also stop believing that real things are.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026

over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say

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TJ McIntyre @tjmcintyre.com · 24/09/2026

Muse has just dumped its entire filesystem, and the instructions include "keep a page for every person in the user's life" with "the nature of the user's relationship with this person: how close they are, what it is built on, how they act with each other, and what it seems to need right now."

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jonny (nonvenomous) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)

Attached: 4 images muse's "self improvement" prompt's second point after basic memory maintenance is an instruction to, every hour, maintain a page per person that you know, and a group page for ever...

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As i revise my year old piece on UK AI governance , our fond belief pouring money into the AISI could create a lucrative global assurance role for the UK looks ever more naive www.politico.com/news/2026/09...

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White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to hold new models from UK testers until US review

U.K. leaders are calling for a shared set of global principles, even as the White House seeks first access to new models for testing.

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Now this is what I call nostalgia...

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Gav Maclean @gavmaclean.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Sure, the last person employed in HE in 2029 wins REF 2029.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

As a special accessibility measure for people over - idk - 45? all short videos should come with a skimmable single paragraph of information that can, ideally, be half-read in the preview window of an email while completing another task.

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Very happy to have in our! trembling hands the hard copy of Law, Policy and the Internet 2nd edn( Hart/Bloomsbury), just out in the nick of time for first semester 2026/7! Order or inspection copies at share.google/RCRm2lmLQNAb... & do note a guide to teaching sample "tech law" course with it!

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I might write a little song about how standards don't fix anything without legal enforcement and routine safety inspections.

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We moved quickly in the G20 and smaller groups to deliver an urgent, practical response.
We came together to agree principles - which everyone implemented at home in a way that was right for them. And it worked.
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And we will work towards agreeing a single set of global principles and standards to ensure the transparency and access we need to increase our preparedness - and to ensure that Al development is safe.
This will bring together welcome initiatives from others - like that proposed by Norway this week.
As His Majesty said, the task before us "is not merely to advance technology, but to ensure that it remains firmly in the service of humanity."
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And I want to reassure un nush people that

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

After ghostbots, next ghost agents. So many ways free simulacra of beloved deceaseds could be used to scam and misadvise. Plus the easier these get to make, the more of a data windfall for AI providers desperate for more ( v sensitive) training data . Small ct from me share.google/pUi2zSO4THhZ...

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A Dead Father, Reincarnated With AI: Is This How We Will Remember Loved Ones Now?

One man’s creation of a chatbot using his dad’s writings and voice recordings raises existential questions for us all.

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Is there any sentence more terrifying than "we will shortly upgrade your account to Meta"?

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Presumably SNP correlates to a nearby source of Caramel Tunnocks Wafers?

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I go over this hill a lot. I generally do think better to go and be spectacular than refuse because blatantly being asked for my gender..

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

So much. Doomerism is , when not simply a distraction and a PR strategy, the ultimate statement of the ultra rich not having enough to worry about

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The very first line is a lie, and we all know it. *None* of this was ever designed to help us, which is why it hurts us and we hate it. It really is that simple, but the media simply cannot bring themselves to say it.

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The humans are rejecting the machines that were supposed to help them | CNN Business

Touchscreens and self-checkout machines were designed to help customers. But restaurants and retailers are ditching them to humanize stores and attract workers.

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

In terms of dark patterns, you'd be hard put to beat the integration of Audible as an extra service into 02 contract. It has taken me about a yr and the combined IQ of Gemini and GPT to track it down & get me out of it 🥺👀

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So how about this for a "pause AI" proposal: "pause credulous AI reporting". No more media about "breakthroughs" or "rogue agent swarms" or ... UNLESS and UNTIL that media demands the actual empirical evidence and/or focuses on the motivations of & harms by these companies.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

If we look for a moment at Elon Musk, for instance, you can see the harm he's inflicting is not because he has developed super-advanced technologies beyond everyone's wildest dreams, but because he uses the power he has carelessly and believes he can act above the law. That is the danger.

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I can't resist saluting the absolute pitch perfect con that's been perpetrated on us last week or so. Net effect: Open AI and Anthropic get to delay their IPOs again cos they can't show their investors they're almost at AGI -- by - warning us they're almost at AGI. 💯 would con again.

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Coinage i just invented & quite like: politicians who think cutting public sector regulation will somehow bebefit the public - DOGErati

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Good theory this. But where did the billionaires spend COVID? Presumably on their private islands?

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Luis Alberto Montezuma 路易斯·阿尔贝托·蒙特祖玛 @montezumachavez.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I believe this may be the first class action lawsuit brought under Article 22 (ADM rules).

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

It's still summer in Brussels 👌

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Petition for arrival time of plane for EU delay laws to be calculated from when all passengers reach passport control. Airports to compensate airlines proportionately. That would concentrate the mind 😂

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Also cheers @brusselsairport.bsky.social for taking out UP lift from non EU arrivals for large flight of stairs but leaving on the DOWN escalator. ( No up escalator ). Accessibility for the win 😥🙂‍↕️

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

You really wonder if any nation but the Brits would peacefully tolerate these endless punitive queues to enter Schengen. It's Sept: u wonder when EU will admit problem is not pre registration but simply not enough ppl on non EU booths

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Oddly I really do remember this cos we were in HK airport at the end of a very long month traveling around China by train. And the only Western alphabet papers we could find were in German which I know 3 words of so it was Diana gedefunkt or something like that. Dreamlike.

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

New blog Watermarks, Watermarks Everywhere, and not a Stop to Think? EU AI Act Art 50 comes to town. Basically a scream of fury @ people deliberately misunderstanding that art 50 never said it would identify only 100% AI generated text (www.create.ac.uk/blog/2026/08... + some NB points however 1/3

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Watermarks, Watermarks Everywhere, and not a Stop to Think? EU AI Act Art 50 comes to town. - CREATe

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

At what point does a sinus cold stop before you just decide to cut off your own head

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Absolutely the best take on the Odyssey

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

ChatGPT designated by Commission as a Very Large Online Search Engine, something that's been very controversial: pragmatic but not a long-term solution for all generative AI. Imagine a challenge will follow.

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I’ll be giving a talk on AI chatbots and how them libelling you is a big issue and only getting bigger! At the Orkney International Science Festival on September 4th at 9pm - which i must say, is thrilling my little nerdy Scottish heart!! oisf.org/fest-event/c...

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CAN AN AI LIBEL YOU? - Orkney International Science Festival

Online AIs are very accessible, and free; but there can sometimes be unintended consequences, for instance when they start to name real people – which can be us. They can make up a fake quote, saying ...

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Listening to Sarah Harper on R4 about entirely sensible ways we could deal with an aging population for better productivity. Rare to hear such unalloyed sense. 🙏 She is advising Burnham..

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

If quite like to know this too ( scroll up for question!)

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Where DO all the vacuvin rubber stoppers go? Is it the same place as the teaspoons and the biros?

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This is actually a tremendously useful piece. Various thoughts from it (🧵 (1) Apple's alleged solution of enabling real world data capture but not actual taking of visible images seems a smart way to swerve the genre away from primarily *perv" glasses

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I was at my choir & someone read the news about Dolly on her phone & it went round the room like wildfire. In a film we'd all have spontaneously burst into an acapella arrangement of 9 to 5 with choreography etc but it was Scotland IRL so we just felt very sad.

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Norman @noaasm.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Norwegian Minister of Digitalization is calling for stricter regulation of smart glasses and other similar devices. The government is also among other measures exploring the possibility of national ban on facial recognition in public spaces www.regjeringen.no/no/aktuelt/t...

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Tung vil ha strengere regulering av smartbriller

Digitaliseringsministeren vil ha strengere regulering av smartbriller og oppfordrer nå offentlig og privat sektor til å vurdere egne retningslinjer for bruk i sine lokaler og på sin arbeidsplass. Hun ...

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