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Joanna Bryson

@j2bryson.bsky.social

Professor of Ethics & Technology @ Hertie School, Berlin. Interests: Artificial & Natural Intelligence; Behavioural Ecology; Cooperation; Digital Governance. Social media policy: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html

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Joanna Bryson@j2bryson.bsky.social · 39m ago

I just got this working & solved @microsoft.com outlook (only!) thinking ^f means search not forward even on a mac, + stackexchange thinking ^b means bold. I *think* it's got good #privacy –at least it's open source! (& now I should donate…) Yes, I use emacs bindings. Macs have command keys for MS.

Takayama Fumihiko@pqrs.org · last mo.

Karabiner-Elements 16.1.0 has been released 🎉 This update focuses on foundation-level improvements, reducing the delay between app startup and when your settings become active for a more convenient experience. karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/docs/release...

Ambrose@ambrosia-engine.bsky.social · 8h ago

"It is impossible to build an artefact that is peer to a human and therefore awarding any artefact legal personhood would break justice and democracy. Indeed, allowing humans too much power (or acknowledging in them too little) does the same!"

Joanna Bryson@j2bryson.bsky.social · 20h ago

Here are three articles about why you wouldn't want there to be anything other than responsibility for the developers of an AI system or else the deployers of it joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2026/05/lega... The EU has done this correctly in their #AIAct #AIA, incidentally.

Joanna Bryson@j2bryson.bsky.social · 8h ago

More book writing: I'm trying to figure out why Microsoft was never declared a utility back in 2000. It looks like (this is gemini – I hit a dead end in the academic literature) even the interoperable file formats were in response to the EU, not US. I didn't believe gemini, but it provided URLs 1/2

Whatever happened to Microsoft?

which of the remedies applied against microsoft in 2000 were effective? Strictly speaking, none of the remedies ordered against Microsoft in 2000 were ever applied. In June 2000, District Judge Thoma...

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Mark Riedl@markriedl.bsky.social · 22h ago

I’m not a lawyer but it doesn’t seem particularly complicated. If a company has an industry accident that damages other companies, then there is liability. Victims would only need to show damages (unclear there were any substantive damages).

Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com · 2d ago

After Anthropic and OpenAI both admitted to their AI models hacking other companies, @lorenzofb.bsky.social and I wanted to find out: Who is legally to blame when an autonomous AI agent hacks something? Lawyers say it's really complicated! Bypass for ad-blockers: web.archive.org/web/20260803...

Alice Stollmeyer@stollmeyer.eurosky.social · yesterday

EU Home Affairs Ministers admit they failed in handling a hybrid attack: "Crisis communication could further be reinforced through timely coordination and should be more coherent, especially to counter malicious external actors engaged in foreign information manipulation and interference." #Ceuta

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Nathalie Tocci@nathalietocci.bsky.social · yesterday

With Russia at the door and the US backing away, Europe has to build its own ‘way of war’. But even in a Europe-focused Nato 3.0, Washington would still want to call the shots. We need an insurance policy. My piece @guardian www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

With Russia at the door and the US backing away, Europe has to build its own ‘way of war’

Even in a Europe-focused Nato 3.0, Washington would still want to call the shots. We need an insurance policy, says Guardian Europe columnist Nathalie Tocci

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Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 2d ago

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds

The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.

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michael veale@michae.lv · 2d ago

You can now access many more digital laws, not just the GDPR, at the UCL Massively Crossreferenced Digital Laws page: EU: GDPR, DSA, DMA, AI Act, UCPD, NIS2 UK: OSA, DPA18, ...+ Each article/para/recital, links to what-cites-it in int'l cases/statutes/guidance homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/law...

UCL Massively Crossreferenced Digital Laws Varying digital legal instruments across jurisdictions, each able to be clicked on a section/article/paragraph basis to find the hard and soft law instruments that cite and interpret each specific part (or substantively very similar parts of previous/neighbouring laws.) Snippets provided for each citing source along with original links to that source. Typically thousands of citations for each. Citing documents can be ordered by date, citation numbers, or 'authority/influence' (PageRank algorithm). Database of citing documents maintained and updated daily/weekly; the below documents intended to be updated weekly. Last update 3 August 2026. Document coverage and national grammar for document detection is strongest and best tested for UK, Ireland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, EU and ECHR, but the database contains and attempts to link administrative decisions and guidance from other jurisdictions. Unlike Westlaw or other providers, this is not only free, with links to the originals, and incorporates a large amount of guidance and secondary material. Documents generated from a dataset held and maintained by Michael Veale, Professor of Technology Law and Policy, Faculty of Laws, University College London. If you wish to study these instruments and the tech and practices that interact with them, consider learning about it at UCL Laws: on our LLM in Law and Technology, or our week-long executive education on AI for Lawyers: Technological Understanding for Compliance and Litigation.
michael veale@michae.lv · 6d ago

Parts of the GDPR are cited and interpreted by thousands of pieces of case law and guidance, but there's no easy and free way to find out what. We've made a tool which makes it super easy, for 13,000 citing documents, all in one place. More regulations to come! homepages.ucl.ac.uk/~ucqnmve/law...

Image of the interface, featuring Article 5 with citation counts per article and per paragraph.
Mark Riedl@markriedl.bsky.social · 2d ago

I've recently been writing about the singularity. I discuss how the engineering parts of "recursive self-improvement"--the leading contender to how we get to the singularity--are easy but limited, and how the parts that look like research are really hard and expensive medium.com/@mark-riedl/...

What to Expect When You Are Expecting Recursive Self Improvement

There is a new buzzword that is taking the world of AI by storm: Recursive Self Improvement (RSI). See for example, this blog post from…

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Sian Green@drsiangreen.bsky.social · 7d ago

Super excited to share that my latest paper from my PhD is now published! 🎉 If you're into camera traps, citizen science, animal individual ID or pine martens this ones for you! 😆 doi.org/10.1002/rse2... Big thanks to my co-authors and everyone who in the MammalWeb community who contributed! 📷

Citizen Science for Individual Identification of Pine Martens Martes martes From Camera Trap Footage

Camera traps generate large volumes of wildlife footage, but identifying animals to the individual level remains challenging and time-consuming. Using European pine martens in the Forest of Dean as a....

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Georg Weizsäcker@georgweizsaecker.bsky.social · 2d ago

The minister has every right to make it her business to meet billionaire investors. The public has every right to learn about it. That‘s the freedom of information act.

abgeordnetenwatch@abgeordnetenwatch.de · 5d ago

NEU: Die Wirtschaftsministerin traf den Chef eines Finanzinvestors, der Milliarden investieren will – auch in die Rüstungsbranche. Wir haben die Unterlagen zu dem Treffen über das #IFG erhalten. www.abgeordnetenwatch.de/recherchen/l...

Joanna Bryson@j2bryson.bsky.social · 2d ago

In the late 1990s, Nature decided it should be more inclusive (have a wider range of submitting authors) so sent submission tutors to the hoi polloi of ECRs at MIT (&Harvard) where I happened to be a PhD. At that time, only 10% of submissions were reviewed, but 50% of those got published eventually.

Angela Andersen@angelaandersen.bsky.social · 4d ago

Kudos to @science.org for this self-analysis of the peer review process. These kind of data are never shared and don't have to be. Wildly refreshing to see it out in the open. Editorial and peer review dynamics at elite general science journals | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Dr. Lucky Tran@luckytran.com · 3d ago

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

Ben Ansell@benansell.bsky.social · 4d ago

Glad someone senior from the sector is pushing back. Labour MPs need to understand the serious real anger from graduates and the people who produce them. And the dangerous financial situation they have allowed to fester, or indeed worsened, in one of Britain’s leading sectors.

Labour has harmed universities as much as Trump, London School of Economics head says

LSE vice-chancellor Larry Kramer points to domestic student fees freeze, international student limits and rise in employers’ national insurance

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