(Laurie Clarke had a good SFW piece about that a while back, noting how the AV lobbying body actually seconds staff to Ofcom to help write these condocs in the industry’s favour. Big tech lobbyists bad, av lobbyists good, two legs bad, four legs good. politico.eu/article/the-gr…)

Scoop (now free to view): Rishi Sunak’s AI Safety Institute is failing to test the safety of most leading AI models like GPT-5 before they’re released — despite heralding a “landmark” deal to check them for big security threats 👇

politico.eu/article/rishi-…

Scoop: Rishi Sunak’s AI Safety Institute (AISI) is failing to do pre-release safety testing on most leading artificial intelligence models six months after heralding a “landmark” deal to do so. 1/3

pro.politico.eu/news/178741

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In a year when we're all so concerned about AI-generated misinformation, the call may coming from inside the house...

📢NEW FROM ME!

On the TikTok ban, the danger of abandoning defense of speech to extremists, & how the liberal tendency to assume a just state 'outside the scope of this paper' leads to confused law/policy that can exacerbate the problems platforms pose.

lpeproject.org/blog/social-me…

Thames Water has paid out over £7.2 billion in dividend payments to its owners since privatisation and taken on £14.3 billion in debt theguardian.com/business/2023/…

imagine, if you will, an approach to water that regarded it as crucial resource stewardship, and management of a vital utility. where there needs to be enough money for maintenance, development, and to pay workers, not fill the coffers of a dozen richer than god pricks

.POLITICOEurope's Laurie Clarke digs in to Matt Davies's essay in our latest collection on AI Nationalism(s), which pushes the UK to interrogate whether “public benefit” exists in the context of AI.

Read the entire global collection here:
ainowinstitute.org/ai-nationalisms

There were fameously no conspiracy theories before the internet, when mass media had a lock on the information ecocsystem, I am sure everyone agreed on the facts of e.g. the Kennedy assassination, the moon landings, the Oklahoma city bombing, fluoridation, AIDS, Area 51, etc?

The heist of the century!!

The government of Honduras is being sued through a secretive international court system for refusing to allow a bunch of libertarian billionaires to create a private city state on the island of Roatán.