Full Professor of Critical AI Literacy | Slow AI When to use AI and when to leave it the hell alone. https://theslowai.substack.com/
⚡ 315 datacentres want more power than Britain uses Ofgem says the connection queue now seeks 73GW. The whole country peaks at 45GW. 🔗 ofgem.gov.uk/press-release/ofgem-acts-free-grid-capacity-tackling-speculative-data-centre-projects #AI #DataCentres #Energy
Ofgem acts to free up grid capacity by tackling speculative data centre projectsOur consultation on plans to tackle speculative data centre projects in Britain's electricity connections queue.ofgem.gov.uk🤖 One in five posts in a crisis is a bot A cyberliteracy preprint on wargaming social media manipulation opens with the figure: nearly a fifth of posts during global events are bot-generated, amplifying false content. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2607.23993 #AI #Misinformation #DigitalLiteracy 🧪
On Capturing the Narrative: Social Media Manipulation Wargaming for CyberliteracyMisinformation is deeply embedded in online discourse, with nearly one in five posts during global events generated by bots that amplify false content. In recent years, the use of Generative AI has fu...arxiv.org🏛️ Meet Trump's AI brain trust Wired profiles the small circle of advisers now shaping US AI policy, mostly drawn from the industry the policy is meant to govern. 🔗 wired.com/story/this-is-donald-trumps-ai-brain-trust/ #AI #AIPolicy #US #TechPolicy
This Is Donald Trump’s AI Brain Trust“It’s not an argument with two sides, it’s an argument with 10 sides,” one senior administration official tells WIRED about how US AI policy is being shaped.wired.com👁️ Lamp posts are learning to watch The Guardian reports AI-enabled smart lamp-posts spreading across UK streets, and nobody voted on the surveillance. 🔗 theguardian.com/world/2026/jul/28/spies-in-sky-worried-ai-enabled-smart-lamp-posts-surveillance #AI #Surveillance #UK
Spies in the sky: how worried should we be about the arrival of AI-enabled smart lamp-posts?The new breed of camera-equipped streetlights has the potential to fight crime and track down missing persons. Or will it just take Britain one step closer to a surveillance state?theguardian.com📜 AI staff beg for regulation Employees at major AI labs have petitioned Washington to regulate the tech they build, saying safeguards aren't enough. 🔗 engadget.com/2225612/ai-company-employees-petition-us-government-for-regulation/ #AI #AIRegulation #TechEthics #AISafety
AI company employees petition US government for regulation - EngadgetA thousand workers from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta and more have signed the letter.engadget.com🏛️ Vallance is back to chair the UK's AI taskforce Patrick Vallance returns to lead the government's new AI taskforce, deciding how far AI reaches into public services. 🔗 computerweekly.com/news/366646216/Patrick-Vallance-returns-as-AI-taskforce-chair #AI #UKPolitics #Government
Patrick Vallance returns as AI taskforce chair | Computer WeeklyFollowing stepping down as science minister, Vallance’s return marks a rethink on AI, taking best practices from the UK’s Covid-19 Taskforcecomputerweekly.com💾 Samsung's own chip staff are leaving for the rival next door Engineers are reportedly jumping from Samsung to SK Hynix as AI memory demand reshapes who leads in chips. 🔗 technologyreview.com/2026/07/28/1140853/samsung-chip-workers-exodus-sk-hynix #AI #Semiconductors #Samsung
Samsung’s chip workers are jumping ship to rival SK HynixAs the battle over the future of AI chips plays out, the fight for top talent is also ramping up.technologyreview.com🔞 Hugging Face is hosting nudify tools Reporting found Hugging Face used to strip clothes from photos of women and children with open AI models. 🔗 theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/971723/hugging-face-nudify-deepfake-undress-women-children #AI #ChildSafety #TechEthics
Hugging Face is being used to easily undress women and childrenDid we learn nothing from Grok?theverge.com📡 Nvidia may cosign OpenAI's rent Nvidia is weighing a $250bn guarantee so OpenAI can lease SoftBank's 10GW Ohio site, a Cold War uranium plant. 🔗 tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/nvidia-weighs-250-billion-guarantee-so-openai-can-lease-softbanks-10-gigawatt-ohio-campus #AI #OpenAI
Nvidia weighs $250 billion guarantee so OpenAI can lease SoftBank's 10-gigawatt Ohio campus, report claims — Nvidia also said to be discussing $350 billion deal to finance chips for the siteEvery partner lease guarantee Nvidia has disclosed adds up to $3.5 billion.tomshardware.com🏛️ US universities let AI rules bend, Europe doesn't A review of leading university AI policies found American institutions hand professors discretion, while European ones lock in stricter rules on plagiarism and bias. 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/berj.70256 #HigherEd #AIGovernance #AIPolicy #Universities 🧪
<em>British Educational Research Journal</em> | BERA Journal | Wiley Online LibraryAs generative AI becomes increasingly integrated into higher education, institutions face challenges in balancing its benefits with potential risks, including plagiarism, misinformation, bias and pri....doi.org✍️ AI feedback lifted scores, not mood 110 Chinese EFL students using ChatGPT feedback on essays scored higher, yet reported more anxiety and boredom than students without it. 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/jcal.70293 #AIinEducation #EdTech #Research #Wellbeing 🧪
The Effects of Out‐of‐Class <fc>AI</fc>‐Generated Feedback on <fc>EFL</fc> Learners' Writing Achievement and Emotions: Evidence From a Quasi‐Experimental StudyBackground Research has investigated how AI-generated feedback affects L2 writing development. Less attention has been paid, however, to students' emotional experiences when using generative AI tool...doi.org🎓 Finnish teachers pick skills over questions A study of 13 Finnish primary teachers found AI education leans hard on skill drills and future employability, with critical thinking largely left out. 🔗 doi.org/10.1002/jcal.70302 #AIEducation #CriticalAILiteracy #EdTech #Teaching 🧪
From Competency to Agency: Teachers' Views of the Purposes of <fc>AI</fc> EducationBackground As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes an increasingly prominent societal and educational phenomenon, teachers are required to determine not only how but also why students are educated a...doi.org