This poses some interesting questions both for the speech act theory of law and for ideas around legal materiality (how law is made 'real' in the world)

The The Tor Project just published an insightful report on how Israel's defense and surveillance industry, which is marketed as 'field-proven' on Palestinians, exports to the rest of the world and threatens privacy and human rights everywhere.

Here are some examples 🧵⬇️

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Those with instit. funds asked to start there & add

The universities, research centers and think tanks who have over the years invited Israeli military personnel to share their 'expertise', warfare methods, tools and tecniques, have ultimately contributed to normalise Israel's occupation and its oppression of the Palestinian…

#ChatGPT gives a good answer to the original version of the trolley problem as described by Foot 1967.

But modify the description slightly, and it gives a terrible answer.

Tired of saying it, but ChatGPT is just generating statistically likely text, not doing moral reasoning.

How to 'proportionately' kill everyone. Contact chaining, indexing the value of a target to the cost of a bomb, 20+ 'collateral' deaths per machine-generated target, targets produced to meet demand, an algorithmic genocide.

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

Today AI Now Institute published my essay on the UK’s industrial approach to AI over the last 10+ years.

I argue that successive governments have failed to present a coherent vision for the role that the AI industry should play within the UK economy... 🧵

ainowinstitute.org/publication/a-…

Listen to Professor Mike Wooldridge (Michael Wooldridge) on the New Scientist discussing how anxieties around AI distract us from the more immediate risks that the technology poses such as algorithmic bias & fake news.

Listen here: institutions.newscientist.com/video/2422044-…

#compscioxford #OxfordAI

4/ The enormous amount of evidence I have seen, much of it referenced later in this document, has been enough for me to believe that Israel is currently committing genocide against the Palestinian population in Gaza.

The European Environment Agency sent to EU leaders its first-ever report on the climate risks their people face

What are they trying to say in dense bureaucratic-speak? We're in the epoch of total climate f&%kery, to quote Prof. Eliot Jacobson

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The International Alliance of App-Based Transport Workers IAATW, which represents over 100,000 app-based drivers in 20 countries, announces a boycott of thousands of Chevron-branded petrol stations worldwide 'in solidarity with the Palestinian people'.
#BDS #FreePalestine

“Time is linear” not for rideshare apps. Your driver is arriving in 3 minutes or maybe never. Be ready in 14 minutes and also he’s outside right now

🚨 Yesterday, the EU agreed the Platform Work Directive ( #PWD ). It's a game changer for the gig economy 🚕🚴 - time for a 🧵 to look at its key provisions

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📢BREAKING NEWS - The Platform Work Directive has been agreed! This is great for #gigeconomy workers and platforms alike: MS will introduce presumptions of employment, and most importantly - it's the world's first comprehensive set of rules on #algorithmic #management ! 🎉

you know what, sure, peggle make phone calls who gives a shit anymore

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