Andrew Cormack

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Chief Regulatory Adviser @ Jisc, formerly Head of JANET-CERT. Interested in using law as a guide to building responsible digital networks and systems.
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Publications like this recently published "AI Index Report" (Stanford, Google, OpenAI, Microsoft, McKinsey) shape industrial policy.

Key 'AI' investment areas identified by them: healthcare, data/cloud, finance, cybersecurity, retail, industrial automation. Chatbots not so much.

Yay! New data protection paper submitted for publication :) Thanks to reviewers 1 & 2

Statement from the listed authors of Stochastic Parrots on the β€œAI pause” letter

https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March2023

"Regulatory efforts should focus on transparency, accountability and preventing exploitative labor practices."

With @timnitGebru @meg and Angelina McMillan-Major

Blog: on how many of the harms slated for "#ArtificialIntelligence Regulation" aren't actually new... https://regulatorydevelopments.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2023/04/04/ai-regulation-not-so-new/
AI Regulation – not so new? – Regulatory developments

Blog: failing to find much new #DataProtection in the UK Data Protection and Digital Information (No.2) Bill #DPDIB https://regulatorydevelopments.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2023/03/27/data-protection-reform/
Data Protection Reform? – Regulatory developments

Blog: if it's taken a decade to sort out "first-party analytics", maybe #CookieLaw wasn't a good approach? https://regulatorydevelopments.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2023/03/17/cookies-limits-of-regulation/
Cookies: limits of regulation – Regulatory developments

Here is your must-read article for the day, a profile of @emilymbender, and her efforts to deflate the ridiculous hype around large language models such as ChatGPT.

It's also about the people who are behind that hype, and about what their way of thinking has the potential to do to us.

It's worth reading all the way to the end.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html

What's needed is regulation about: how data can be collected and used, transparency of datasets, models and the deployment of text/image generation systems, recourse and contestability of any automated decision making, etc.

Talking about text synthesis machines as if they were "AI" muddies the waters and hampers effective discussions about data rights, transparency, protection from automated decision systems, surveillance, and all the rest of the pressing issues.

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Do not seize the day. This will startle the day and may cause it to become aggressive and give you a nasty bite.

Instead approach the day calmly without making eye contact, pet it gently, and slowly enfold it in a careful embrace

If the day shows any signs of resistance to being engaged with, it is likely to turn on you. Back off and return to bed.