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Louise Amoore
@amoorelouise.bsky.social
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Professor of Political Geography & Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @leverhulmecal.bsky.social
Algorithms, politics, technology, biometrics, AI, ethics
Author Cloud Ethics http://dukeupress.edu/cloud-ethics .. more

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Louise Jane Amoore, is a British geographer and academic, who specialises in geopolitics, biometrics, state security and the ethics of machine learning. She is Professor of Political Geography at Durham University. From 2017 to 2023, she was a member of the Biometrics and Forensics Ethics Group (BFEG), a non-departmental advisory body which is the "only formally accountable ethics committee" within the UK Government's Home Office. .. more

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Oct 7
Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n
Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI
This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...
www.tandfonline.com

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 5d
Sybil is overjoyed that I had surgery & am not at work for 6 weeks…

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 13d
Sybil, 14 weeks old… anyone would think there is a pattern in whippet behaviour… (the lovely Ed)

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 13d
Current view…

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 13d
5 days in from spine surgery & I’m at the “sounding off on Bluesky” stage of recovery

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 13d
& one of the reasons that matters is that critical response requires more than “but your rule one way travel is benefit fraud risk is stupid/inaccurate”. The hackathon DeepMind/Faculty/OpenAI logic is indifferent to accuracy. Everything is a use-case.

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 13d
HMRC’s Connect system uses ML algorithms. I agree that rules-based data mining also historically had association rules (if, then, else stupidity). These don’t disappear but they find entirely new commercial extractive stupidity.. & it’s not rules based.

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 13d
This kind? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 13d
Or, worse, these are not mistakes from the perspective of machine learning politics of austerity… (errors as productive for targeting, even when it’s a “wrong” target)

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 13d
Or, government in the age of generative AI.. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 13d
2/ run machine learning on unlabelled data in “task agnostic” way; 3/ indifferent to situated human meaning (e.g. two autistic children experience flying); 4) embedded LLMs on AWS cloud, generate plausible outputs even if wildly inaccurate; 5) zero shot ML = zero shot politics

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 13d
Travel data has historically been a correlative proxy. Early 2000s data mining used one way flights (*purchased third party) in terror algorithms. These apparent “errors” by HMRC illuminate machine learning logics: 1/ combine gov cloud data
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
HMRC cuts child benefit for 35,000 families based on incomplete travel data
UK tax agency apologises after flagging people as having emigrated, often when they return via different routes
www.theguardian.com

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 14d
I’m sorry that you will miss Eamonn’s talk for your dialysis. He would audio record it for you I’m sure…

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Martin Paul Eve @eve.gd · 14d
Fuming here. I *really* wanted to go to this event on Thursday, about the history of CD ripping. But I can't, because I have to do dialysis. So frustrating. www.bbk.ac.uk/events/event...
Toward a more perfect rip: Lessons learned in the digital history of "secure" digital audio extraction (DAE) from CD media
Dr Eamonn Bell (Durham, UK) reflects on ripping, digital audio formats and the CD-ripping software ecosystem.
www.bbk.ac.uk

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 14d
& not far from one of the best pubs (& walking in Forest of Bowland).. parkersarms.co.uk
The Parkers Arms
Parkersarms was taken over by Kathy and Stosie in January 2007, a derelict abandoned landmark pub brought back to life.
parkersarms.co.uk

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 14d
Perhaps the best vintage clothing anywhere in the UK revivalaccrington.wixsite.com/revivalaccri...
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We are one of a kind which sell a range of vintage clothing.
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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 14d
Congratulations Dr Sydney Calkin on your Leverhulme Prize @leverhulme.ac.uk such crucial work

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 17d
Ooh Halloween 🎃 👻 fright read… @bnjacobsen.bsky.social @alexcampolo.bsky.social @ludovico-rella.bsky.social @sj-bennett.bsky.social @econsocjournal.bsky.social #PoliticsOfThePrompt

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orgorgorgorgorg @orgorgorgorgorg.bsky.social · 17d
Next Friday (10/31 10AM), ORG will discuss @amoorelouise.bsky.social et al's recent article, "Politics of the Prompt", addressing "the politics of prompting in machine learn­ing, at a time when bureaucratic & democratic government is undergoing trans­formation."

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Leverhulme Trust @leverhulme.ac.uk · 21d
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Black background with gold swirls. Geography Dr Sydney Calkin, Queen Mary University of London Dr Thomas Cowan, University of Nottingham Dr Joshua Dean, University of Bristol Dr Matthew Jones, University of East Anglia Dr Kasia Paprocki, London School of Economics and Political Science Leverhulme Trust logo and URL leverhulme.ac.uk/news/2025PLP.

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 21d
Thank you

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 24d
Another must-read from @ludovico-rella.bsky.social #assetization #cloud #blockchain
ludovico-rella.bsky.social Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social · 24d
Want to know more about #syntheticdata #assetization, #blockchain and #cloudinfrastructures in #finance? In this paper for @financeandspace.bsky.social , I talk about those topics, plus how synthetic data might be reworking financial #subjectivities! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Reposted by John Hogan, Louise Amoore

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Ludovico Rella @ludovico-rella.bsky.social · 24d
Want to know more about #syntheticdata #assetization, #blockchain and #cloudinfrastructures in #finance? In this paper for @financeandspace.bsky.social , I talk about those topics, plus how synthetic data might be reworking financial #subjectivities! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 24d
What are the ethical responsibility of algorithms?
How might we think about forms of power, order, and rationality beyond the story of alliances between big tech and the state?

Join @amoorelouise.bsky.social and Audrey Borowski
Mon. Oct. 20 ~ 2pm ET / 7pm UK
www.tickettailor.com/events/theph...
Select tickets – "On Cloud Ethics and Beyond": Louise Amoore in conversation with Audrey Borowski – Zoom
"On Cloud Ethics and Beyond": Louise Amoore in conversation with Audrey Borowski – Zoom, Mon 20 Oct 2025 - Machine learning algorithms are transforming the ethics and politics of contemporary society....
www.tickettailor.com

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The Philosopher @philosopher1923.bsky.social · 26d
Coming up Mon. Oct. 20 - 2pm ET / 7pm UK

"AI and the Digital: On Cloud Ethics and Beyond"

Join Louise Amoore with Audrewy Borowski as they discuss how machine learning algorithms are transforming the ethics and politics of contemporary society.

www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/ai-an...
AI and the Digital: On Cloud Ethics and Beyond
www.thephilosopher1923.org

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 29d
Thank you Eryk

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · 29d
Thanks Matthew

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · Oct 12
Thoughtful read on how prompts shift the political imagination & how it may influence government decision making. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Politics of the prompt: Government in the age of generative AI
This paper addresses the politics of the technique of prompting in machine learning, at a time when bureaucratic and democratic government is undergoing transformation. Drawing on the case of the U...
www.tandfonline.com

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Oct 9
Congratulations Sam, it’s fabulous work & I am honoured to be part of it with @leverhulmecal.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk @ukri.org #MachineLearning #AI #SyntheticData #MedicalResearch

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Sam Bennett @sj-bennett.bsky.social · Oct 9
✨excited to start my UKRI AI Metascience fellowship, where I’ll examine how AI-generated synthetic data is (re)shaping medical research cultures and knowledge practices. Super happy to be staying at Durham University with @amoorelouise.bsky.social as my mentor!

www.ukri.org/news/interna...
International fellowships to explore AI’s impact on science
New £4 million programme funds early career researchers in the UK, US and Canada to investigate how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming science.
www.ukri.org

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Louise Amoore @amoorelouise.bsky.social · Oct 9
Thanks so much Nina for highlighting this question on speech and politics. It’s always so fascinating that when someone else reads the work it shows a new aspect. So now I’m thinking about how those foreclosures might be prised open (perhaps also with language) Thanks