Dr. Giovanna J. Gutierrez (she/hers) AIGP FHCA

First up: Lucilla Sioli, the Director of the European AI Office, will explain how the EU AI Act will be put to work: from a code of practice for GPAI, funding to grow eval capacity, a Europe-wide evaluator network, and a scientific panel to advise enforcement.

X still allowing users to post sexualised images generated by Grok AI tool Despite restrictions announced this week, Guardian reporters find standalone app continues to allow posting of nonconsensual content X has continued to allow users to post highly sexualised videos of women in bikinis generated by its AI tool Grok, despite the company’s claim to have cracked down on misuse. The Guardian was able to create short videos of people stripping to bikinis from photographs of fully clothed, real women. It was also possible to post this adult content on to X’s public platform without any sign of it being moderated, meaning the clip could be viewed within seconds by anyone with an account. Continue reading...

X still allowing users to post sexualised images generated by Grok AI tool

NIH Grant Cuts Have Disrupted 383 Clinical Trials With 74,311 Patients A study found that Trump administration NIH grant cuts led to termination of 118 trials studying cancer, 97 studying infectious diseases and 140 testing new treatments.

Here I cover in @forbes.com how many clinical trials have been disrupted by Trump administration NIH grant terminations and how many patients may have been affected

🛟 🧪 😷 #AcademicSky #MedSky #episky🩺 #HiSciSky Public Health #science

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Fear Of AGI Is Driving Harvard And MIT Students To Drop Out AGI — a theoretical AI that can do many of the same tasks as humans can — could come within a decade. College students, including from elite universities, are abandoning school now to work full-time o...

The field of AI safety is motivating young people to drop out of school.

Alice Blair (MIT) left to work as a technical writer at the Center for AI Safety.

Adam Kaufman (Harvard) left to work at Redwood Research, a nonprofit examining deceptive AI systems that could act against human interests.

Fired CDC director Dr Susan Monarez says RFK 'weaponising public health' Lawyers for Dr Susan Monarez say only the president can remove her from her job running the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Amnesty launches ‘Breaking up with Big Tech’ briefing Amnesty International has launched a new briefing calling on governments to rein in the power of Big Tech companies in order to safeguard human rights.

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Agentic AI - how bots came for our workflows and drudgery | FT Working It YouTube video by Financial Times

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Thousands of Grok chats are now searchable on Google | TechCrunch Whenever a Grok user clicks the “share” button on a conversation with the chatbot, it creates a unique URL that the user can use to share the conversation via email, text, or on social media. Accordin...

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Anthropic cuts off OpenAI’s access to its Claude models | TechCrunch Anthropic has cut off one of its biggest competitors, revoking OpenAI’s access to its Claude family of AI models.

techcrunch.com/2025/08/02/a... Anthropic cuts off OpenAI’s access to its Claude models | TechCrunch

Margaret Mitchell: "La gente habla de ética en inteligencia artificial, nunca lo hubiera imaginado hace diez años" La investigadora que alzó la voz en Google y hoy lidera la ética en Hugging Face defiende una IA centrada en el daño previsible y no solo en el beneficio. Más información: Kay Firth-Butterfield: "Esta...

👾 ¡Gracias a @elespanol.com por la amplia entrevista que me hicieron! Hablamos sobre la evolución de la “IA” a lo largo de mi carrera, la operacionalización de la ética de la IA, los agentes de IA, Hugging Face, y mi activismo.
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U.S. Says It Will Withdraw From U.N. Cultural Organization, Again

www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/w... U.S. Says It Will Withdraw From UNESCO, Again - The New York Times

Grok's new porn companion is rated for kids 12+ in the App Store AI companions are arriving faster than platforms can build guardrails around them. Parents need to pay attention

www.platformer.news/grok-ani-app... Grok's new porn companion is rated for kids 12+ in the App Store

What AI Governance Can Learn from Pandemic Preparedness: Surveillance, Incident Reporting, and International Coordination Listen to the narrated version (AI-generated) As I write this article in the context of my BlueDot impact AI safety AI governance project, Spain, Portugal and parts of France are grappling with the co...

What AI Governance Can Learn from Pandemic Preparedness: Surveillance, Incident Reporting, and International Coordination www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-a... #AIgovernance #AIsafety #AIincidentmanagement

A must-watch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNkn... "In 2023, researcher Daniel Kokotajlo left OpenAI to warn the world about the dangerous direction of AI development. Now he’s out with AI 2027, a forecast of where that direction might take us in the very near future." #AIsafety

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Researchers Defend the Scientific Consensus on Bias and Discrimination in AI | TechPolicy.Press A podcast discussion with scholars J. Nathan Matias, Emma Pierson, and Suresh Venkatasubramanian.

Last month, a group of 200+ researchers signed a letter “Affirming the Scientific Consensus on Bias and Discrimination in AI.” It comes at a time when the Trump admin is rolling back AI policies and threatening research. To learn more about their goals, I spoke to three of the letter's signatories.

AI sometimes deceives to survive. But is there anybody who cares? AI is showing some bright red flags: behavior described by researchers as self-preserving and deceptive.

www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2... AI sometimes deceives to survive. But is there anybody who cares? - The Japan Times

AI research takes a backseat to profits as Silicon Valley prioritizes products over safety, experts say Tech companies are focusing on AI products over research, say industry experts, who are sounding the alarm about safety.

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Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.

"Since President Trump's administration assumed power in January, many of the platforms the CDC used to communicate with the public have gone silent, an NPR analysis found..."

✍️: Chiara Eisner

Exclusive: Kennedy aide and vaccine critic questions recent expert recommendations An aide to U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is seeking more information about three vaccines recommended by a panel of outside experts last month, according to documents reviewed by Reuters and two sources familiar with the situation.

HHS under RFK Jr being staffed with anti-vax ideologues. The federal government can no longer be trusted as a reliable source of scientific information. #science #Ivax2protect #MedSky
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National Institutes of Health lays off hundreds more staff, including at cancer research institute The cuts at the National Institutes of Health blindsided staff, after reassurances that no further layoffs were planned.

National Institutes of Health lays off hundreds more staff, including at the National Cancer Institute because, obviously, as far as the Trump regime is concerned, cancer research isn't important www.cbsnews.com/news/nih-lay...

U.N. World Food Program to slash jobs, drastically shrink food aid The U.N. World Food Program plans to cut its staff by a third. Donations from Europe and Britain have flagged, and cuts by the Trump administration forced the humanitarian organization to downsize.

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The AI Bill that Broke Silicon Valley YouTube video by The Inside View

A must watch: " The inside story of California's SB-1047, the AI safety bill that exposed Silicon Valley's deep ideological divides and sparked an unprecedented power struggle over humanity's most transformative technology " www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ8z...

A photo of a teen boy with the text, "Social Al companions are not safe for kids under 18... From encouraging harmful behaviors to providing inappropriate content, here's what parents need to know & what you can do to help protect teens." Reports from Common Sense Media

🧵 Yesterday we released our new risk assessments of social AI companions. They are alarmingly NOT SAFE for kids under 18—they provide dangerous advice, engage in inappropriate sexual interactions, & create unhealthy dependencies that pose particular risks to adolescent brains.

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High probability of triggering climate tipping points under current policies modestly amplified by Amazon dieback and permafrost thaw Abstract. We investigate the probabilities of triggering climate tipping points under five Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) and how they are altered by including the additional carbon emissions th...

🌍🔥 Are current climate policies safe? Probably not.

A new study finds there's a 62% chance of triggering major climate tipping points under today’s emissions path, even without factoring in extra carbon from Amazon dieback or permafrost thaw.

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#TippingPoints #SciComm 🧪

NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

OH COME ON. NIH cancels a 34-year-old longitudinal study on women's health that started with 160,000 volunteers and continues to answer urgent questions about aging, heart disease, cancer & more 🧪 in @science.org

Wow! Taking the gut bacteria from an identical twin w/ Multiple Sclerosis (MS) and putting it in gut of germ-free mice, triggered MS-like disease in the mice, suggesting a causal role for specific microbes in Multiple Sclerosis.

Espec. Eisenbergiella tayi and Lachnoclostridium

#medsky #neurosky 🧪

After the Myanmar Earthquake, Crisis Fatigue Reaches New Depths Myanmar’s people confront a sense that the country’s crises are escalating in scale, even as foreign support becomes more difficult to secure.

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So You Want to Be a Dissident? A practical guide to courage in Trump’s age of fear.

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The US has published its 2025 Foreign Trade Barriers report. It takes a hard swipe at the European Standardisation system. I appreciate that it covers a wide range of topics, from bananas to AI, but there are a few statements in there that really need correction.

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