Come work with us! We are looking for a Senior Lecturer in Public Policy to contribute to the academic life of the School, as well as the wider @policyatkings.bsky.social which we sit within. 🗓️ Apply by 17 August ➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/154406-...
Elena Simperl
@elenasimperl.bsky.social
Academic at King's College London, co-director of the King’s Institute for AI, director of research at the Open Data Institute. Working on the sociotechnicalities of data. Views my own.
Almost every LLM that reaches a broad audience is quantized—compressed to run cheaply. USC's Emilio Ferrara argues this compression is treated as a safety nonevent, when it should be treated as a change to the deployed system. This has policy implications, he says.
The Model You Audit Is Not the Model You Ship
Almost every LLM that reaches a broad audience is quantized—with under-appreciated ramifications for AI safety, writes Emilio Ferrara.
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Read our latest blog on our research highlighting the challenges and opportunities facing citizen science water data. England’s water system is facing an unprecedented overhaul. Yet, money and regulation can't fix a fundamental flaw: incomplete, fragmented data. buff.ly/DIrcRWh
Collaborative data infrastructure for building trust in citizen science data
Working with Stream to build a trust framework for citizen science data in the water sector
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Are you an early career researcher in the humanities and social sciences? Join the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the British Academy Knowledge Frontiers Symposium to network with fellow researchers in an in-person symposium in Bonn, Germany. Apply now: https://bit.ly/4yL3Stm
AI is becoming part of everyday work, but its productivity impact will depend on whether it can create lasting gains. In this Productivity Puzzles episode, @bartvanark.bsky.social discusses this with Martin Baily and @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social. Listen here: www.productivity.ac.uk/podcast/the-...
𝗝𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝘂𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲 𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿, 𝗦𝗶𝗿 𝗥𝗼𝗴𝗲𝗿 𝗝𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹. @bobbyduffy.bsky.social will explore "The Generation Myth: Separating fact from fiction in the demographic debate" 🗓️ 10 September 2026 🕕 18:00–19:30 📍 Bayes Business School | Online 🔗 Register: natcen.ac.uk/events/sir-r...
More ripple effects from the AI boom: The cost of the biggest, most visible billboards along Highway 101 in San Francisco has surged 20%-30% from pre-pandemic levels, sfstandard.com/2026/08/03/b...
One billboard, $3M a year: Welcome to AI’s advertising arms race
The cost of the biggest, most visible signs along the U.S. 101 has surged 20%-30% from pre-pandemic levels. Nearly all are leased by AI, tech, and finance companies.
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Three commitments, but will they folliw through? 1. Terms of service: eligible researchers are not contractually prohibited from scraping public data. 2. Updated vetting to reduce processing times and endless back and forth communication. 3. Better free API data access.
Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 3d agoThe European Commission accepted X's revised DSA remedies on data access on July 15. Vineet John Samuel on why the commitments are a partial victory and what researchers need to do to verify they hold.
Announcing our next FREE webinar: Can we share confidential health data in the public interest? Thursday 24 September, 2 - 3pm BST. How do clinicians navigate the high-stakes decision to share confidential patient information in the public interest? buff.ly/1RGEfYm
#TheWeekinData: Queue jumping *DfE data breach *Commitment fees *Still going rogue The UK’s Department for Education (DFE) confirmed this week that a cyber-attack took place on its helpdesk and Turing Scheme portal. Find out more… buff.ly/qVOEtoh
This is wildly irresponsible of Google - allowing people to create AI generated satellite images. Satellite imagery has always been such a useful and reliable source because it came from reliable sources, but now Google is messing with it at source. www.digitaldigging.org/p/how-to-pla...
How to plant a nuclear plant in Iran
The question is: what on earth is Google doing?
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Behind every research breakthrough is a network of data resources that makes discovery possible. We're excited to partner with @Wellcome.org to map the data resource ecosystem and expand Infra Finder with verified profiles of these critical resources. Learn more:
Wellcome partners with IOI to map the data resources powering open research
IOI's new initiative that maps the data resource ecosystem
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It's happening again... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
A closely watched gauge of risk in holding the debt of companies at the centre of the AI boom is rising rapidly, underscoring growing jitters over Big Tech’s vast spending on data centres, chips and computer memory. ft.trib.al/INz9FJ0
Interesting timing…
Tom Warren@tomwarren.co.uk · last wk.Nvidia and Microsoft have launched an open AI security alliance, most notably without OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic. It comes after Hugging Face used a Chinese open-weight AI to defend itself against rogue OpenAI agents www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
Data is always good.
Amy Borrett@amyborrett.ft.com · last wk.NHS hospitals using Palantir’s patient discharge tool have registered “no noticeable improvement” in performance, according to new @healthfoundation.bsky.social analysis that contrasts sharply with @england.nhs.uk's claims More @financialtimes.com as.ft.com/r/6300abcb-e...
📣 And applications are now open to all King's College London doctoral & postdoctoral researchers to join the next cohort and take part in this unique opportunity to engage directly with the inner workings of parliament. ⏰ Deadline 16 August ➡️ www.kcl.ac.uk/policy-insti...
Universities should arm students with AI ‘eval’ powers ft.trib.al/KP8p07e | opinion
Universities should arm students with AI ‘eval’ powers
Organisations will need people with the skills to test models constantly against what they actually need
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The research track is kicking off at #Wikimania 2026 with a keynote by @elenasimperl.bsky.social :)
Keynote: AI and the knowledge commons: Balancing automation and human agency for resilience and trust Wikimania 2026
Initiatives such as Wikipedia, Zooniverse, Reddit, and OpenStreetMap have become foundational digital infrastructure that enable large-scale, collaborative knowledge production. For decades, their vol...
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Our team has today released a huge analysis of the AI economy as seen through 15 million aggregated and de-identified human-AI interactions across the Gemini App, AI Mode, and the Gemini API. Most comprehensive look at how real people are using AI at scale yet! blog.google/innovation-a...
Understanding the AI economy
We’re releasing the first Activity, Task, Landscape, and Adoption Study (ATLAS) report, showing how people use Google’s AI tools.
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🟠 Now open: ERC Starting Grant 2027 call for proposals! 🗓️ Deadline: 14 Oct 2026 📄 Call details: link.europa.eu/RwNMpX Planning to apply? Let our ERC Classes videos guide you through the application evaluation process. 👉 t.co/qGPy7Y8UhS #ERCStG #FrontierResearch @scienceinnovation.ec.europa.eu
Agree with this. The (then) Science and Technology Committee existed prior to DSIT and should continue after it, including scrutiny of public sector adoption of digital, data and AI, the responsibility for which is now distributed across departments. committees.parliament.uk/committee/13...
Role - Science, Innovation and Technology Committee - Committees - UK Parliament
The Science, Innovation and Technology Select Committee is appointed by the House of Commons to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technol...
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Jenny Andrew@drandrewv2.bsky.social · 2w agoPlenty being said about the dissolution of DSIT… personally, I think it’ll be a nightmare for a bunch of civil servants, esp. the tech specialists, and could go either way for R&D, BUT I am grieving the loss of the mighty SITC - the select committee - who IMO have been the stars of this Parliament.
Today, Knight Foundation and Village Media announced a new initiative to launch 15 newsrooms across three U.S. states. The partnership brings Village's proven model for sustainable local journalism to communities where trusted local information is increasingly at risk. Story link in comments.
Important topic, even more so when science is now the brief of a new government department.
UK Research and Innovation@ukri.org · 2w agoThe UK Metascience Unit has launched the ‘National AI in Research’ Survey. We're looking for researchers across all disciplines and career stages to share their views on the use of AI in research. The survey will be published and used to inform national policy on AI in research.
The UK Metascience Unit has launched the ‘National AI in Research’ Survey. We're looking for researchers across all disciplines and career stages to share their views on the use of AI in research. The survey will be published and used to inform national policy on AI in research.
National AI in Research Survey
Please take the time to complete our survey. Your feedback is important.
smartsurvey.co.uk
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The ERC Work Programme 2027 has been adopted. Planning to apply for an ERC grant? The first call, Starting Grants, opens on 22 July. Find out more 👉 erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
New ERC Work Programme sets out 2027 funding opportunities
The European Commission has today adopted the European Research Council (ERC) Work Programme 2027, setting out the funding opportunities, grant budgets, competition timetable and application rules for...
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