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Game designer, AI ethicist, teacher, concerned environmentalist - www.benbyford.com
26th of September - afternoon of immersive installations, talks, conversation and prototypes by our friends at EmpressVR hdfst.uk/e162249
TechAlchemy at Pervasive Media Studio at Watershed
Join a day of wonder and discovery celebrating Bristol's Immersive Creator Community! What should you expect? 2pm - 6pm: Explore 10+ different VR prototypes, interactive installations, and thought-p...
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And finally in November we’re hosting a curio showcase of strange and experiences - submit your art, game, installation work here docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Strange Peripheral - showcase
What: a free to visit day of strange and new idea, games and interactive media. Were looking to showcase a range of things: from esoteric VR projects, to games with giant controllers; unusual display,...
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Many events coming up with the @bristolgameshub.bsky.social - for up to date info please signup to the newsletter here bristolgameshub.us15.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...
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Ep.116 now live. Lawrence Sheraton and I chat economics, ethical AGI, moral capabilities, elusive obvious, “I feel, therefore I know Ethics”, ethical truth, sycophantic and schizophrenic AI, ethical unlearning and more.. www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/thin...
Thinking ethically with Lawrence Sheraton - Machine Ethics Podcast
This time we're chatting with Lawrence Sheraton about models of economics, will AGI be ethical? moral capabilities of AI, an elusive obvious, how do we know what is right and wrong, “I feel, therefore...
machine-ethics.net
In episodes 109 - 112 we chatted with Rebecca Raper, Dr. Ewelina Kurtys, Dietmar Fischer and James Barrat about: AI morals, safety, guardrails and governance, a post-work future, organoid computing, existential risks of AI, and much more...
Ep.115 E.M. Lewis-Jong & I chat about making human connection easier, speech recognition and linguistic diversity, making useful technologies that have a purpose, @mozilla.org Data Collective, negative uses of datasets, AI literacy, LLM instability & more... www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/data...
Data Collective with E.M. Lewis-Jong - Machine Ethics Podcast
This time we're chatting with E.M. about the promise of AI and making human connection easier, speech recognition and supporting linguistic diversity, making useful technologies that have a purpose, M...
machine-ethics.net
Just tell them it has to be run on 100% renewables or it cannot be built
Two planned datacentres will have higher UK carbon emissions than ExxonMobil, analysis finds
Exclusive: Buckinghamshire and Bedfordshire sites predicted to emit 4.5m tonnes a year when fully running
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We any day away from an AI company “testing” its model by asking it to break out onto the web and copy its weights and run its self millions of times without any oversight, and then being surprised that it does?!
Still have a 1desk going if anyone needs one
Gareth Bagg@baggygruff.bsky.social · 8mo agoIf anyone in Bristol or the South West wants to work in a space with fellow Video Games People (aka some real cool guys) then please reach out! Our new office is lovely and right next to some seriously good lunch spots.
🎉 Submit your game, interactive, immersive and art curios for the Strange Peripheral showcase this November in Bristol, UK docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Stop calling them "data centers." Start calling them pollution centers. 🧵👇
The world’s on fire and I can’t be less surprised… why are we still not doing an enough????!!!!
114. Future of Education with Dr Jonathan P. Strecker - kinds of intelligences, six levels of wisdom, AI hallucinations, AI use in academia, skills atrophy, the anxious generation, rethinking education and more… www.machine-ethics.net/podcast/futu...
Future of Education with Dr Jonathan P. Strecker - Machine Ethics Podcast
This time we're chatting with Jonathan Strecker on the kinds of intelligences, why AI shouldn’t replace learning wholesale, six levels of wisdom, AI hallucinations and lack of trust, AI use in academi...
machine-ethics.net
One of the last slides from a talk I gave last week on AI ethics and games.
if you're in an EU country - europeanaifund.org/building-nar... (wish i was)
Building Narrative Power funding and learning programme - European AI & Society Fund
Building Narrative Power: funding and learning to craft new stories about AI The stories we tell about technologies shape our perceptions of what's valuable, what's possible and what’s not. For too lo...
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EU AI act cites systemic risks as high risk and behavioural manipulation as unacceptable rick profiles for AI systems. Could one not argue that that applies to all LLMs? www.consilium.europa.eu/en/policies/...
Artificial intelligence act
Find out more on the EU's AI act, the first-ever attempt to regulate artificial intelligence to make it safe and trustworthy for all.
consilium.europa.eu
If anyone in Bristol or the South West wants to work in a space with fellow Video Games People (aka some real cool guys) then please reach out! Our new office is lovely and right next to some seriously good lunch spots.
design.ethics.code@benbyford.com · 8mo agoA couple of desks going in our new office near st nicks in Bristol. Dm me
The World’s Top Economists Are Sounding the Alarm on AI www.wsj.com/tech/ai/the-...
The World’s Top Economists Are Sounding the Alarm on AI
Several have joined the chorus of voices warning about the potential global fallout if the AI boom turns to bust.
wsj.com
Technically, they’re Remains now.
Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 3mo agoA fifth of Leave voters have died.
When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.
I'm seeing a lot of this strange hypocrisy at the moment where company "x" is doing something "y" and by doing that thing y they're also planting trees. But, to do y they need to use GenAI which is in turn is environmentally damaging and perpetuating a system of commerce over everything else...🤔
I want to love Mina the hollower but it’s just too damn hard. Reminds me of Gremlins 2 and ghostbusters on the NES and how unforgiving they were 🫠
"Governments can respond now, before the risks materialize, or they can wait and clean up the mess (if they still exist, that is)." In the Guardian, Professor Stuart Russell urges governments to regulate AI preventively, not wait to react after crises hit. www.theguardian.com/...
Are the IPOs going to happen, everyone will cash out, then they’ll all go under??
