yet another #AIES26 panel. A Russian is talking about RF laws for LAWS (lethal autonomous weapons) which is hard to take seriously given Putin was claiming there were no humans in the loop controlling Russian AI tanks about a decade ago.
An Egyptian praises his colleagues and says we can't have fragmentation or the superpowers will exploit us. My final #AISE26 thread here https://mastodon.social/@j2bryson.bsky[email protected]/116777451343830502 because it was all pretty big news.
On 16 September, EDRi and 63 organisations, academics and experts in privacy, encryption, child safety, sex workers' rights and consumer rights issued a joint statement urging the European Commission to prioritise effective child safety measures while expressing serious concerns about the suitability, proportionality, and negative impact on fundamental rights of current age verification proposals.
OK, Chang is also on board with having audits of AI so we can ensure we know who should be accountable. #AISE26
Artem Lomakin: all kinds of tech was innovated & tested in cold war europe, including the internet.
Just realised I'm friends with the transhumanist I didn't name here :-) I have the worst name & face recognition; I recognised him by his policy eventually.
Argh: "We've noticed, AI does make mistakes." AI IS NOT THE ACTOR (I won't name that guy either) #anthropomorphism #AIEthics
Ha, "civil society is part of our infrastructure" says someone shouting out transhumanist British efforts on AI "safety" and related (e.g. genomic "resilience", which AFAIK means ending aging).
Amy Chang, Cisco "human control is too slow to be meaningful" (ignoring some excellent conversations about this yesterday)
Kazuo Noguchi, Hitachi "AGI is considered coming soon"
I'm glad most people have gone home (Friday afternoon in Europe!)
ha: the best of the lot on the previous panel (in terms of admitting others were doing similar things at the same time), Edelman, presented as being from MIT, but left his soft-money job there in 2022 (again, I only know because he's honest on LI). Meanwhile on that platform, Cristina Caffarra reports a big dissing of EU regulatory capacities, trying to call us "middle powers" cf #AISE26
The information age allows all kinds of collusion, but also collective debunking.
๐ง๐ต๐ฒ "๐บ๐ฎ๐ ๐ถ๐บ๐ฎ๐น๐ถ๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฝ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐" ๐ป๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ โ๐๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ถ๐ป ๐๐, ๐ผ๐ป๐น๐ ๐ฐ๐ต๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ ๐ต๐๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฏ๐๐ถ๐น๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐บ๐ฎ๐๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ & ๐ต๐ผ๐ฝ๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ ๐น๐ฒ๐ ๐๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ถ๐ฟ ๐๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฐ๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐บ๐ฝ๐๐๐ฒโ, ๐ถ๐ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ณ๐๐น๐น ๐๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด. Fed further by the #Europe2031 fable doing the rounds, ostensibly โintended to encourage Europe" but could have been written by Microsoft. "Europe is just a Middle Power, will never catch up, fear & doom, AI frontier models are so existential we must get them at all costs even if this means yet more dependency. Because US tech is so vastly superior, the market already decided". More or less. One wonders how this dystopian novelette, deeply biased against Europeโs capabilities & drunk on Silicon Valley cool aid, coincidentally saw the light just ahead of the G7. So our pavid politicians can panic & beg for compute. ๐ ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐ณ๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐ ๐๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐ถ๐ป ๐ฃ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ๐ ๐ฎ๐ VivaTech. Eurostack held a workshop (co-chaired w Yann Lechelle) in the splendid surrounds of Ministรจre des Affaires รฉtrangรจres franรงais at Quai d'Orsay, official host of #EuropeanTechSovereigntySummit. We care for powering up all of Europe's tech stack - with AI as a (key) user case. Last year we put Eurostack on the map, this year we focused on two key private sector initiatives underway: ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐ฑ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐ฒ: we are partnering with aDRI / IRN โ A Digital Resilience Initiative (David Djaรฏz, Arno Pons) to measure dependency first, and then funnel migration projects to independent system integrators. ๐ฅ ๐๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ณ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐๐ฒ๐ต๐ถ๐ฐ๐น๐ฒ๐: w multiple VCs & capital allocators in the room we discussed options for a Eurostack ๐๐ฎ๐๐ฎ๐น๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ป๐ฑ, pooling money from family offices & institutional investors finally moving into European tech (as the FT said at the weekend, "sovereignty is good investment" right now). Same themes were discussed in the Summit Plenary (with Yann Lechelle, Nicolas Rose, Vit Horky and Quentin Adam + a woman in red), followed by a keynote by Germany's Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger resonating w our position: various public initiatives fine, but private sector (demand & funding) must move strongly to support the mission. VivaTech over at Expo was also wall-to-wall #Sovereignty. The Franco-German follow-up to the Berlin Summit was unveiled by Digital Ministers Anne Le Hรฉnanff and Karsten Wildberger, glad to join the stage @GermanPavillion for comments on the #AIForumfortheFuture (w Britta Behrendt German Federal Chancellery, Thomas Courbe French Enterprise, Valerie DAGAND Numeum & Meike Neitz). And many more discussions of the Eurostack mission at the #Sovereignty_Arena and in events/meetings around town. Too many allies and friends to mention! ๐ช๐ฒ ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฒ ๐บ๐ผ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ฎ ๐บ๐ผ๐๐ป๐๐ฎ๐ถ๐ป, ๐'๐ฎ๐น๐น. ๐๐ ๐ถ๐ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ธ๐ถ๐ป๐ด. | 16 comments on LinkedIn
Joanna Bryson, blathering
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