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Lilian Edwards
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Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , lilian@lilianedwards.co.uk .. more

Lilian Edwards is a Scottish UK-based academic and frequent speaker on issues of Internet law, intellectual property and artificial intelligence. She is on the Advisory Board of the Open Rights Group and the Foundation for Information Policy Research and is the Professor of Law, Innovation and Society at Newcastle Law School at Newcastle University. .. more

Political science 30%
Law 24%
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Since approximately gazillion people have joined lately, I’ve updated my extremely random starter pack of UK and Europe tech, AI, law & policy folk
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ec.europa.eu/commission/p... The EU seems to have mandated agentic AI without thinking very hard about the security, scraping and other risks. Hard anti-competition makes bad law.
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Highlights, press releases and speeches
ec.europa.eu

Who would you bring into government now if you were Starmer? Real question.

Theres a difference between between formula extruded romance that is literally bought by the yard - they get it on Kindle Unltd not book by book - and “real” romance which i read! @jennycolgan.bsky.social ❤️
But i literally know cos this friend reads it, honest. Its extruded product

Ok can we have Sue Grey back now then? 🙏

What we actually want is a solid slap dunk corporate manslaughter case

These are excellent

I really want to know your job now!

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"No you can't put out a report on AI regulation without actually having a lawyer involved. No a philosopher won't do, honest. Yes I know they'll be helpfully vague. Or an STS person. Better but still no cigar. Soz.""
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"Don't use gerunds in headlines and crossheads, for the love of God."
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

“Would you say more about what’s worrying you here?”

How did your class on AI in education go?

As I think I said, people reading formula romance are looking for.. formula. I can't think of a happier marriage than that and LLMs. It is not expression. None of this is expression. If slop is not what we want we need non algorithmic feeds & contextual ads.

Christ why aren't we all doing this *scales fall from eyes*. We are on the B Ark....😭

It's the only ray of hope out thrre

No limited immunity as in the EU and UK either or a much limited one. We'd be as Sanchez currently wants, able to "go behind" the server, hold Musk ( and Bezos for labour laws and Zuck for privacy) responsible for their harms.

Would we have had a slower Internet but a much healthier one???

We hear a lot about how s 230 (c ) made the Internet. I've never believed that narrative - was loads else going on Inc massive VC capital, skills, and no risk aversion.
But wow, what an Internet it made.

Would we be in a better place if there'd been no immunity, no Internet exceptionalism? 1/n

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The only 3 people the rabid British newspapers have gone after are 3 who definitely didn't abuse girls - Mandelson who was infamous for other reasons, Starmer who built a career in part by directing prosecution of paedophile gangs, McSweeney who was simply uncaring about historical associations.

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Green corbynite is a rock that is lethal to centrist supporters of Labour

How to spot AI generated romance ;In several romances written with A.I. programs, a peculiar metaphor recurs: in the throes of passion, the hero utters his lover’s name “like a ragged prayer.
But truly if u want formula do you care??

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/b...
The New Fabio Is Claude
www.nytimes.com

We talked about this in 96 and then in 2000 and it was too late even then! I begin to think the mistake was ever to treat these gaps as Internet exceptional. No s 230c. No ltd liability. Interesting thought experiment

Moltbook was peak AI theater share.google/JwiURwxlGHs7... finally some common sense. Also best seen as "hallucination by design" 💯
Moltbook was peak AI theater
The viral social network for bots reveals as much about our own current mania for AI as it does about the future of agents.
share.google

Hahahagahaha you could read that at least two ways.is the UK not already finished?
ways.is

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Rejoinerism would honestly be an extremely good strategy for Labour to pursue at this point

Well it will be. Presumably in law it has vicarious liability anyway

Yeh exactly. I heard a story about this yesterday that utterly chilled me

Or not like. Definitely someone to be bundled into a hostile foreign power run Waymo...

Am I the only one who continually reads this guy as AI Carbs? I genuinely thought he was like the Labour Sophia the first 3 times

I lived entirely on natural smarts (including several prizes) until (a) I hit something actually intriguing ( comparative law) and (b) I narrowly failed a basic exam ( Evidence) for first time in entire life ( boy it was boring)

Glorious innit

"having people overseas influencing American vehicles is a safety issue.” wow this beats sending over sleeper agents anytime
futurism.com/advanced-tra...
It Turns Out That When Waymos Are Stumped, They Get Intervention From Workers in the Philippines
During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.
futurism.com

Am seeing the reactions to criticism of Heathcliff casting without having seen the crits. Is this the definition of a filter bubble