Cool cool. This forced social experiment is certain to end well. Anybody know the DSMB we can talk to? 😩

I slept in my rage against the machine T-shirt and woke up down on the street

No, the verdict in the ‘social media addiction’ lawsuit was not a win against big tech, it creates a legal precedent for mass surveillance, censorship, the total destruction of the open web.

Go to badinternetbills.com and fight these laws!! 👈👈👈

Check it out, ethics folks! Post-doc roles in public health ethics with @maxwellsmith.bsky.social

Ah we proudly rock the Franglais over here! “Mettez your déchets in the bin!” “What did you do at récré?” “Souliers sur les feet s’il vous plait!”

Remember way back in the good old days when they were saying it’s gonna free us all up to live more value-driven lives with quality time and happy vibes? And most people actually believed them when they said it?

I’ve been saying this was going to happen for years now. An industry that is running amok with zero accountability while hiding behind “responsible AI” and “ethics principles” will not go unnoticed indefinitely.

Power, policy and protection: a feminist framework in the age of AI "AI can either be the most powerful accelerant of inequality we have ever built, or one of the most effective levellers at our disposal"

"AI can either be the most powerful accelerant of inequality we have ever built, or one of the most effective levellers at our disposal"

Do you know what too, the other day my kid asked their teacher where the data goes and whether they can choose not to use an AI based tool and the teacher did not know any of the answers to those questions. This is trouble.

Trump orders US agencies to stop use of Anthropic technology amid dispute over ethics of AI Hours after exclusion of Anthropic, OpenAI announces fresh Pentagon deal, but says it will maintain same safety guardrails at the heart of the dispute

One thing I can absolutely guarantee:

This is not a dispute over “ethics of AI.” It’s not a dispute over “guardrails.”

It’s about power.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Project CANAIRI Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are moving into healthcare at a steady pace in the hopes that they will augment care, administrative tasks, and support clinicians in their daily workflows. The fie...

This work is part of Project CANAIRI and if you’re interested in the silent phase, please get in touch with me to get involved!

www.projectcanairi.org

We advocate for the silent phase as potentially the MOST IMPORTANT stage of AI translation because it gives you specific, local evidence for performance in your setting. And we can do them better than how we are now - this means less wasteful translation and research, and more reliable evidence

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Some devices approved by regulators had substantial performance drops in new settings. Thankfully, these papers described SILENT evals - so, they found out the tool was worse than the status quo before they changed patient care!

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Major gaps concern failure case analysis, fairness, and clinical verification of outputs.

You know, the stuff that is most important to clinicians calibrating their use of the tool 😳

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So what is a “silent trial”?

Apparently, everyone has a different definition (just ask our reviewers 🤭)

We made a taxonomy in Table 1 to promote consistency

A scoping review of silent trials for medical artificial intelligence - Nature Health This scoping review examines previous experience in performing silent evaluations of clinical AI applications, collecting evidence from 75 studies on implementation features and the sociotechnical con...

What is a silent evaluation in #HealthAI ? And how do you do one?

👀 check out our new paper!

We performed a scoping study re published practices in silent evals for AI/ML tools - everything from hospital-based prediction algos to regulatory-approved medical devices

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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I’m just so shocked that these technologies we were promised would free up our time for relaxing and enjoying life seem to… exacerbate our rapacious productivity obsession?? I am shocked, shocked i tell you! #leopardatemyface

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Baffling how many AI-pushers still arguing “well, humans make mistakes all the time!” It’s like, uh yes, well done on that utterly scintillating observation, but perhaps the KIND of errors matters somewhat, no?

Fortunately the handy image provided illustrates a healthy, moderate pour for your reference

“Okay, but like… why?”

AI conference's papers contaminated by AI hallucinations : 100 vibe citations spotted in 51 NeurIPS papers show vetting efforts have room for improvement

I wonder if folks will start caring when they realise their h indexes will take a hit from failing to cite their real papers? #VibeCiting #AIEthics

www.theregister.com/2026/01/22/n...

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By contrast, is a pharma company was talking about how their new drug worked really hard to pass phase 1, 2, 3 trials to learn how to be a good little drug and help those humans…

Heading into December with energy matched by this koala…

Placed my order! Can’t wait to read, and congrats @carissaveliz.bsky.social !

Drumrolls, please! I’m thrilled to share the cover for my forthcoming #book from @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
(Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/

Unpopular opinion: claiming that“human-in-the-loop” is your governance of AI is the equivalent of claiming drinking orange juice is your governance of not getting a cold

it is worth remembering that cigarette companies also spent decades selling products they knew would harm and kill people and marketed them specifically to young people to create dependence. let's stop this without having to go through a generation of death and several class actions.

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I move for immediate approval to cancel phrases such as “AI pioneers/godfathers,” and all variants