Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, King’s College London. Eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . Norn Irish in Norwich.
Who's doing dinner? What's for dinner? Are you doing dinner or am I? Do we have stuff for dinner? Is it my turn to cook? Is there chicken? Can you cook? Is pasta okay? Can we not make the kid cook? Should we just get pizza?
The Times and Sunday TimesThe ten questions my husband hates me asking
Ah yes, a classic from The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Right up there with the paperclip maximiser.
Dare Obasanjo“What we need to explain to the world: Number one, we are close to creating a genie that can grant any wish. Number two, we are going to make sure that our first wishes broadly benefit humanity” - Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI — This is definitely the opposite of Anthropic’s AI kills all jobs pitch.
Shadow use of genAI as a reviewer is shitty because you're putting someone else's work into the machine w/o consent, and as an author I'd rather hear Reviewer 2's bad attitudes than LLM platitudes. But if you sanction reviewers you'll just have no reviewers. It's a lose-lose situation.
Margot Finn'IOP Publishing...does not allow the use of AI in its peer review policy, but it believes that generative AI use has skyrocketed nonetheless. As a result, the publisher is trying out a new system that sees reviewers receive a warning where AI use is suspected.' 1/3
If you see this, quote a pic of you in sunglasses
Dr Phoenix CS AndrewsIf you see this, quote a pic of you in sunglasses
I did an interview with the fab @hardeepmatharu.bsky.social from @bylinetimes.bsky.social and here it is, for those who have not yet heard my lengthy discourse on why genAI often sucks, why techbros definitely suck, and why a U16 social media ban is downright stupid: bylinetimes.com/2026/07/21/t...
‘There’s a Value in What We Produce Because We Feel – and an AI Chatbot Can’t Feel’Byline Times' Editor in Chief meets Kate Devlin, Professor of AI and Society at King’s College London, to explore how relationships with AI companions aren’t particularly new, why she believes the und...bylinetimes.comThis is a great read.
Angelos Arnis 🏴Freedom is a complex concept and not even close when it comes to promises of emancipation through technology that billionaire techbros are trying to sell to us. Read my latest on freedom and the tech industry. If you like it, do share - it helps a ton! collectivefutures.blog/whose-freedo...
It's called The Humanities and it's being systematically dismantled due to HE cuts. 😡
Financial TimesUniversities should arm students with AI ‘eval’ powers ft.trib.al/KP8p07e | opinion
Charlene's "I've Never Been to Me."
Becky TylerWhat song did the Sirens sing in The Odyssey? Wrong answers only.