Participating in the FutureLaw 2024 conference in Tallinn. Interesting discussions on IPR, Legal Tech and AI ahead.

Amazing article by 𝚊𝚕𝚎𝚡 𝚌𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣: ' I don’t come to computers for the inaccurate magic of human consciousness. I come to them because they are very accurate when humans are not.' 💀 theverge.com/2024/5/15/2415… via @Verge

GPT-4o still gets foiled by my favorite tokenization-related question ☺️

Going to Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress? Join our Uni Lapland Law
interdisciplinary panel on legal challenges to digital circular economy. Discussants: Annukka Berg,
Taru Rastas, inka orko, Rosa Maria Ballardini, Beatrice Schütte, Sebi Tauciuc. Chairs: Jouko Nuottila & me. 10.6., 11 a.m., Aalto University

Telegram has launched a pretty intense campaign to malign Signal as insecure, with assistance from Elon Musk. The goal seems to be to get activists to switch away from encrypted Signal to mostly-unencrypted Telegram. I want to talk about this a bit. 1/

sorry to be a spoiler but there is no way around a genuinely socially responsible AI without directly tackling systemic inequalities and building accountability mechanisms on the current concentration of power in the hands of big corps/AI companies

I 'm happy to share that
the public #defense of my Doctoral thesis, titled:

“ #Decolonizing Environmental Discourses:
Challenging #EnvironmentalValues
through #Indigenous Ecological #Knowledge ”

will take place on Fri. 24.05.2024 at 12:00 p.m. 
University of Helsinki and also online.

A rough treatment, I hope it's investigated properly...

New publication: my colleague Shu Li and I are providing our two cents on the proposed #AI #Liability #Directive . 👇techreg.org/article/view/1…
LegalTechLab Fac­ulty of Law, HelsinkiUni Uni Lapland Law University of Helsinki University of Lapland ISLC Information Society Law Center ||| Unimi |||

'Unlike companies that make cars or drugs or baby formula, A.I. companies aren’t required to submit their products for testing before releasing them to the public.'

Remember where you heard it first: hbr.org/2021/06/we-sho…

#AIEthics

nytimes.com/2024/04/15/tec…

Shouldn't Meta clearly indicate that 'Meta AI' is a chatbot (as opposed to a person posting on behalf of the org)?
Seems like the first step to handling *waves vaguely* this steaming pile of 💩

Väitöskirjan suoritusaikojan lyhentäminenkö tavoitteena? Tsekatkaapa PRIDE Network Professionals in Doctoral Education juuri julkaisena Handbook on Onboarding. Monet asiat voisimme tehdä paremmin myös Tampere University ! pride-network.eu/onboarding/

I'm sitting this morning wondering which BigTech cloud the 'Lavendar' & 'Where's Daddy?' systems are running on. What APIs they might be using. Which libraries they're likely calling

What work did my former colleagues, did I, did you contribute to that may now be enabling this?

Outrageous. 'A WIRED analysis of the top 10,000 most popular websites shows that dozens of sites say they are sharing data with more than 1,000 companies, while thousands of other websites are sharing data with hundreds of firms.'
#AIEthics #privacy #ads
wired.com/story/cookie-p…

Erikoista toimintaa tosiaan.

Great article explaining how the ad industry collects and sells incredibly sensitive information for purposes other than marketing. By Byron Tau. #privacy #surveillance #AIEthics #PrivacyIsPower

wired.com/story/how-pent…

The Fac. of Law Uni Lapland Law from University of Lapland is organizing interesting #seminars

on the role of law in sustainability together with

Rosa Maria Ballardini, Jukka Similä, Beata Mäihäniemi, LL.D., Tomi Tuominen and more researchers from University of Lapland

Read below for more info.