This paper represents a small but deeply impressive and genuinely important achievement by the much maligned British state in what is probably the most important global issue of our era.
Hear me out ( 🧵) 1/
www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-eva...
More than half of Gen Z-ers living in the United States use generative artificial intelligence regularly, but their feelings about the technology are souring, according to a new survey released on Thursday by Gallup, the Walton Family Foundation and GSV Ventures, a venture capital firm that works in education technology. The percentage of respondents ages 14 to 29 who said they felt hopeful about A.I. declined sharply since last year, down to 18 percent from 27. Young adults' excitement about artificial intelligence dropped, too, and nearly a third of respondents indicated that the technology made them feel angry.
I guess what I’m saying is great consumer products don’t make young people feel anger and despair the more they use them www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/s...
Quantum computers are coming sooner than expected. Now's a good time to check if your encrypted messenger has moved to post-quantum cryptography. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
It's official: Australia's teen social media ban isn't working, yet. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/31/a...
‘Met Police claims crime in Croydon has gone down by 12% since fixed FR cameras were installed. Our analysis found this is only true for certain crime types — & that crime increased in one of the immediate areas with cameras & in several neighbouring areas’ www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...
Photos of Jeni, Adam, Tim and Emily above the words Connected by Data. The photos are licensed to Paul Clarke by CC-BY.
In this blog @jenitennison.com shares why we're winding up in 2027.
"When I set up Connected by Data I also stated my intention that this organisation would have a maximum lifespan of 3-5 years. We are now at the end of our fourth year..."
Read the full blog at: connectedbydata.org/blog/2026/03...
This 50 yr old woman spent 5 months in jail accused of a crime in a state she's never even been to, because Clearview AI misidentified her as the suspect.
A judge signed off on it, cops went along with it, no process in place to even question the AI.
www.cnn.com/2026/03/29/u...
I read your article this morning and sighed over and over. I (and so many others) have been researching, speaking and campaigning about this for years and still companies plough on convinced it’s about efficiency or benevolent care for staff - when it’s neither. *SIGH*
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Meta wants to quietly roll out facial recognition technology in its smart glasses, hoping Americans won’t notice the potential risk to their privacy and civil rights. They’re mistaken. I have serious questions about the privacy risks and ethics of deploying this technology.
A screenshot of an in-platform Character.AI search for "Epstein," which returned about a dozen roleplays based on the sex criminal and his island. Epstein Characters Creators Scenes X ↓↑ Comedy Romance Adventure Kind Human Anime Mafia Pol > EPSTEIN 8TH MARTH epstein in little saint james and he is talking in bulgarian telling people happy march 8th come to my island to... Select Character Epstein's Island Adventure The Island's Grip: A Descent into the Shadows Step into a high-stakes psychological thriller where the world's most... Select Character Epstein Adası epstein adası Select Character BRR BRR PATA PIMA WITH EPSTEIN AND DIDDY DIDDY DANCER Nick eh 30 Scene n?a Select Character
A screenshot of an opening line from a chatbot in a Character.AI-hosted roleplay, in which the bot opens with "hey i'm evil jeffrey epstein."
NEW: Character.AI continues to host bots styled after prolific abusers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, as well as roleplay "scenes" created to gamify Epstein's island.
They aren't hidden. One roleplay is called "Epstein's Island Adventure."
futurism.com/artificial-i...
My college students are writing articles on AI and the future of the arts from a consumer perspective (they are electrical, motor vehicle and carpentry students resitting their GCSE English Language). When asked how they’d feel if they connected with a song or a story and were then told it was AI…
Video: Chris (Simpsons artist) on phones... as narrated by Joe Lycett http://dlvr.it/TR7RlZ
Last night, someone on this here website told me that no one is using AI agents yet and they're still way far in the future. But it's already happening.
A friend last year told me that most people are distracted by the idea that AI is "chatbots." I didn't get that at the time, but now I think I do.
Now this fella knows what’s what
I would love to believe that BBCs Evan Davies was playing devils advocate just now when talking about Ring cameras and their ability to “find” lost dogs in the USA. But frankly he seemed completely unable to comprehend the privacy issues from this commercial mass surveillance. Depressing
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Is the push for more AI and ed tech in classrooms a big opportunity or big risk?
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The NCSC has issued an alert to critical national infrastructure providers, urging them to act now to protect against “severe” cyber threats.
It comes following cyber-attacks which targeted Poland’s energy infrastructure with malware in December. 👀
www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ncsc-wa...
“Not only is most of the chatter on Moltbook meaningless, but there’s also a lot more human involvement that it seems. Many people have pointed out that a lot of the viral comments were in fact posted by people posing as bots.”
Lost my job at the Washington Post today, along with many of the best in the business. I want to keep covering tech and the internet. If you have leads on jobs for me or my colleagues, please reach out. I’m so proud of our work.
Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.
Very much enjoying this discussion and the view that politicians want the responsibility of power but not the risk associated with it, proposed by Paul Ovenden.
Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left.
Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.
@matildamartin.bsky.social tonight set the agenda, reporting first that government was considering ditching mandatory digital ID
"It's hard to find a backbench MP who'll advocate for mandatory digital ID in public, or a minister who will defend it in private," a Labour MP told her
Her exc story 👇
Following receipt of information from X on Friday, UK regulator Ofcom has decided on Monday to open a formal investigation into potential breaches of the Online Safety Act's risk assessment, illegal content, and protection of children duties.
www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safet...
As flagged by @fullfact.org, there's an ENTIRELY AI-GENERATED video of a fake UK politician in the House of Commons doing the rounds on TikTok
It has more than 5 million views
While the original video is flagged as AI, it has been reposted by many other accounts (where it is not labelled as AI)
