Cian O’Donovan
@cianooo.bsky.social
Director, UCL Centre for Responsible Innovation. ➕ at large @ UCL STS.
Reposted by Cian O’Donovan
There's much, much more in the report, and more analysis to follow zenodo.org/records/1511.... The work was led by @cianooo.bsky.social, with a team of MSc students from @stsucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @uclnews.bsky.social
Visions, values, voices: a survey of artificial intelligence researchers
As excitement and investment in artificial intelligence grow, a number of surveys have sought to understand public views. There have been very few attempts to understand the attitudes of AI researcher...
zenodo.org
April 10, 2025 at 12:55 PM
There's much, much more in the report, and more analysis to follow zenodo.org/records/1511.... The work was led by @cianooo.bsky.social, with a team of MSc students from @stsucl.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk @uclnews.bsky.social
Debates about tech governance and responsility are boiling onto the street. If you work for Meta or Google or Amazon or Microsoft and are up for a chat about this - in confidence - I'd love to talk. Get in touch direct - cian.o@ucl.ac.uk
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Debates about tech governance and responsility are boiling onto the street. If you work for Meta or Google or Amazon or Microsoft and are up for a chat about this - in confidence - I'd love to talk. Get in touch direct - cian.o@ucl.ac.uk
But what I want to know is this: what do tech workers and AI researchers think of all this? A few passed by. They looked understandably sheepish and reluctant to talk - a bunch of usually very sedate and bookish protesters were shouting 'thieves' directly at them.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
But what I want to know is this: what do tech workers and AI researchers think of all this? A few passed by. They looked understandably sheepish and reluctant to talk - a bunch of usually very sedate and bookish protesters were shouting 'thieves' directly at them.
This is really relevant to debates in the UK right now about copyright and whether tech firms should be allowed do build statistical models from any data they can get their hands on.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
This is really relevant to debates in the UK right now about copyright and whether tech firms should be allowed do build statistical models from any data they can get their hands on.
People had found upwards of 30 of their books in the Atlantic's list of millions. They were seething. They said they felt violated. A lifetime's work unacknowledged and unremunerated.
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
People had found upwards of 30 of their books in the Atlantic's list of millions. They were seething. They said they felt violated. A lifetime's work unacknowledged and unremunerated.
I'm a social scientiest so I did what I usually do, I had a few chats. People told me they were really angry. By way of an article in The Atlantic, many had just found out that their books had been hooverd up into Meta's big AI system, Llama. (www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...).
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
www.theatlantic.com
April 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I'm a social scientiest so I did what I usually do, I had a few chats. People told me they were really angry. By way of an article in The Atlantic, many had just found out that their books had been hooverd up into Meta's big AI system, Llama. (www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...).
This is sad. What a hero.
January 30, 2025 at 7:53 PM
This is sad. What a hero.