@jackstilgoe
Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)
Almost 10,000 authors have come together to publish an empty book protesting the theft of books by tech companies to train AI models.
Titled Don’t Steal This Book, it is empty of text except the names of the authors involved.. 🧵
A reminder that humans in cars - notably omitted from this thanks to motonormativity - kill 1.2m people every year
Some X users turned to the platform's AI chatbot Grok to confirm the video's veracity. But in many cases seen by BBC Verify, Grok wrongly insisted that the AI-generated video was real.
Don’t believe AI on AI! (And question their responses in general)
holy shit
Thank you. Annabel Stilgoe, died 15 Jan 2025 #Mums26
Love the mix of hyperspecific "Killed by a fall from the Belfrey and Alhallows the Great" and stuff like "Teeth"
"Teeth"
Obsessed with this embodied drum machine
🆕 Muskism - A Guide for the Perplexed
Join us for the launch of @quinnslobodian.com & @bentarnoff.com's new book: 'Muskism - A Guide for the Perplexed', featuring the authors in conversation with IIPP Prof. @ceciliarikap.bsky.social & PhD Candidate Iacopo Gronchi.
🔗 Register here: buff.ly/dlw2Ddw
Fever
Our Responsible AI colleague Prokar Dasgupta has just done this… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Just needs a bit of Project Chariot energy
Hello you
Same
I'm someone who spends a lot of time thinking about LLMs, and I have no idea how they would improve the selection of targets in a war. Except for one obvious affordance - they offload accountability.
Thoughts and prayers with the World Book Day parents. Although I did just walk past an excellent Lorax.
With this, covid and Michael Gove, experts a having a tough decade
![Cartoon by Stephen Collins for the Guardian, here's the script:
[Scene is the inside of a SOUP. Some CARROTS and BITS OF BROCCOLI are floating around and a STOCK CUBE and a BAY LEAF have just been dropped in.]
1
STOCK CUBE:
Alright lads - this is Bay Leaf.
My colleague from the spice rack.
2
BROCCOLI:
Hi Bay Leaf
BAY LEAF:
Yuh yuh hi
3
CARROTS:
You up for getting proper blended with us later, Bay Leaf?
BAY LEAF:
Nuh mate, getting scooped out before soup stage.
4
CARROTS:
Oh! So… you’re not being eaten then?
BAY LEAF:
Eaten! Haha
5
BAY LEAF:
Not allowed mate.
I’m afraid I’m a lil’ bit *toooo intense*...
6
BAY LEAF:
Just here for the flavour hit.
Special forces, y’know.
That’s why there’s just one of me.
7
BAY LEAF:
Over-deploy and you’d have this whole soup stiiinking of bay leaf…
8
BAY LEAF:
You might wanna stand back actually.
This place is about to get preeetty bay leafy...
9
[Silent pause]
10
CARROTS:
Are you doing something
BAY LEAF:
Sure am mate.
11
BAY LEAF:
Suuuuure am.
12
BAY LEAF [Getting scooped out by chef’s spoon]:
You need training to perceive it.
CARROTS:
OK](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreibguu2d74i7v7yrkx2z5vsiluhrnkp2uayri2gmcm4gpl4d3dvlgq)
Cartoon by Stephen Collins for the Guardian, here's the script: [Scene is the inside of a SOUP. Some CARROTS and BITS OF BROCCOLI are floating around and a STOCK CUBE and a BAY LEAF have just been dropped in.] 1 STOCK CUBE: Alright lads - this is Bay Leaf. My colleague from the spice rack. 2 BROCCOLI: Hi Bay Leaf BAY LEAF: Yuh yuh hi 3 CARROTS: You up for getting proper blended with us later, Bay Leaf? BAY LEAF: Nuh mate, getting scooped out before soup stage. 4 CARROTS: Oh! So… you’re not being eaten then? BAY LEAF: Eaten! Haha 5 BAY LEAF: Not allowed mate. I’m afraid I’m a lil’ bit *toooo intense*... 6 BAY LEAF: Just here for the flavour hit. Special forces, y’know. That’s why there’s just one of me. 7 BAY LEAF: Over-deploy and you’d have this whole soup stiiinking of bay leaf… 8 BAY LEAF: You might wanna stand back actually. This place is about to get preeetty bay leafy... 9 [Silent pause] 10 CARROTS: Are you doing something BAY LEAF: Sure am mate. 11 BAY LEAF: Suuuuure am. 12 BAY LEAF [Getting scooped out by chef’s spoon]: You need training to perceive it. CARROTS: OK
I’m convinced this is how a bay leaf would talk
Your holiday photos on Instagram might reveal more than you intended. In the latest Bellingcat Open Source Challenge GeoPeter shares photos from his recent travels, it’s up to you to figure out where he stayed and how he made the journey. Challenge.bellingcat.com
Last night a Waymo vehicle froze on an Austin street after a mass shooting, delaying emergency response.
Note to regulators: Crashing is only one of the ways AVs can harm people.
My fave bit is "ChadchachachachachaMalaaaawi"
"Loan or graduate tax?"
On our podcast on Plan 2 student loans @helenmiller.bsky.social, Kate Ogden and @nickhillmanuk.bsky.social note that it depends on the borrower's likely earnings and repayment trajectory.
🎧 Listen here: ifs.org.uk/articles/are...
Definite win
Cosmic UCL poster with Jon Butterworth, Mark Miodownik, Maggie Aderin, Helen Czerski, Kevin Fong, Adam Rutherford
London ppl... University College London is 200 this year & so we have a fabulous evening of science & creativity for you on May 6th. All the UCL-based usual suspects will be there (in the SAME event!), & more to be announced. Join us & bring your friends!
www.bloomsburytheatre.com/event/2026/0...
Harry Brook has taken against AI
Not at all. It's the algorithms that are broken...
Looks like us ‘bloc politics’ people were on to something after all ;)
benansell.substack.com/p/british-po...
The Green victory in Denton is the result which will have the biggest effect on Labour, far more so than a Reform win.
The blithe assumption progressives have nowhere else to go has been proved catastrophically wrong.
Can’t help thinking of this quote from a Labour minister, a year ago…
Lovely piece Brigitte. Did you come across this paper? journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... @ginasue.bsky.social
