Enjoying Yunhyong Kim’s spotlights on student projects. The projects combine an element of fun with careful use of AI in an arts & humanities context. Very interesting to read about the human effort dedicated to ‘quality control’ and creative direction.

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Last week I published in El Confidencial a story about an algorithm used in the prisons of Catalonia, Spain. The outcomes of this predictive system can define the future of any inmate and potentially infringe their rights.

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📣 Exciting news for the Scottish public sector!

The Scottish Government is seeking public sector leaders and those interested in public sector data to actively participate in shaping the future of our data-driven initiatives.

Learn more: government-transformation.com/data/scottish-…

Chair of the NHS Confederation Victor Adebowale spot on here.

Another plug for the legal theory festival in general and the workshop on legislation and legislative interpretation which will take place on the afternoon of 5th June.

“The mission of a university is to coach students in how to learn, not tell them what to think. It is to invite debate, not suppress it. Truth is a process and method – more verb than noun.”

The Law Society have come out strong on the Rwanda Bill.

The Law Society 💪

Looking forward to this year’s CPDP Conferences where we’ll be discussing the CSAR proposal, the affordances of available technologies for online child protection and fundamental rights implications, with a stellar line up of speakers.

The judgment in Trudi Warner contempt case👇

judiciary.uk/judgments/hm-s…

👇Important case at the intersection of protest, contempt of court and the powers of juries.

Companies will have access to images from more than 100 cameras. Those images will then be analyzed using AI to run 'intelligent & algorithm-based technology' that will surveil crowds attending a pop concert by the Black-Eyed Peas as well as a soccer match dw.com/en/paris-tests…

I’d missed this by Lord Justice Birss on transforming justice through a focus on data. Needs careful reading but worth noting the suggestion that specialist third party systems might be built on top of the existing HM Courts and Tribunals Service systems. judiciary.uk/speech-by-lord…

Important reading - one of many reasons why LLMs are not the answer to the access to justice problem.

The idea LLMs might substitute for humans in user surveys is 🤯. It seems to depend on the notion LLMs can capture & output opinions associated with different groups. Surely the whole point of user surveys is to reconnect with people not profiles?👇offers useful critique.

Again, slapping a disclaimer on a healthcare chatbot doesn’t make it responsible AI.

This event is happening tomorrow! Join Paul Gooding Sarah Ames Joe Nockels Zoe Bartliff Lynn Verschuren Cassy Kist to share your thoughts on digital shifts in working with cultural collections! 👇 SGSAH UofG Arts & Humanities UofG Information Studies UofG Humanities UofG Digital Cultural Heritage Network

I wish the @ft would check the case law of the European Court of Human Rights, before suggesting that European values align with ever more investment in Large Whatever Models. See the updated fact sheet of the Court on climate change case law: echr.coe.int/documents/d/ec…

Policing Areas of Research Interest have how been published by NPCC Science & Technology and Chief Scientific Adviser's Office.
These high level ARIs have been formulated through engagement with NPCC Coordination Committees & wider partners. 👇🏽
science.police.uk/delivery/resou…

Excited for Strathclyde Law School's new interdisciplinary LLM this Autumn!

I'm leading a brand new module centring public law as a way of interrogating technological change🤖

We also have expertise on AI reg., human rights, IP, data science & more.

And potential EU scholarships👀