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@harshp.com
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Did you know that LLMs fail at around 70% of all typical office tasks like generating a report on something from a spreadsheet? The Agent Company is a simulated office environment for benchmarking LLMs - I wrote a blog post about the paper here (with links and a rant): jilltxt.net/llms-fail-at...
LLMs fail at 70% of simple office tasks
Occasionally I love ChatGPT. Like when I gave it a research paper I’d written and the itinerary for my planned trip to Australia this November and asked it to look for related art exhibitions…
jilltxt.net
August 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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The EU must use the anti coercion instrument now, or be humiliated. Europe must be free to enforce its own law on its own soil.
August 26, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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so I am one of the 12 people (including the “god-fathers of AI”) that will be at the Vatican this September for a two full-day working group on the Future of AI

here is my Vatican approved short provocation on 'AI and Fraternity' for the working group
August 4, 2025 at 11:31 AM
(reply to review request) I won't review articles that aren't open access as I'd be performing free labour for the publisher's profit. Providing access to journals which I already access via university is not renumeration, and besides the community still suffers if articles are kept paywalled.
August 4, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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A short blogpost detailing my experience of censorship at the AI for Good Summit with links to both original and censored versions of slides and links to my talk

aial.ie/blog/2025-ai...
AI for Good [Appearance?]
Reflections on the last minute censorship of my keynote at the AI for Good Summit 2025
aial.ie
July 11, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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⏰ Today, CDT Europe, together with 51 experts, academics & civil society organisations, sent an open letter to the European Commission to express our concerns regarding the forthcoming Digital Simplification package, which could include revisiting the AI Act.

👇🏻 Read the full letter on our website:
Open Joint Letter against the Delaying and Reopening of the AI Act
CDT Europe, alongside the European Consumer Organisation (BEUC), European Digital Rights (EDRi) and the European Centre for Not-for-Profit Law (ECNL), co-drafted a letter signed by 52 civil society or...
cdt.org
July 9, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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a couple of hours before my keynote, I went through an intense negotiation with the organisers (for over a hour) where we went through my slides and had to remove anything that mentions 'Palestine' 'Israel' and replace 'genocide' with 'war crimes'

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my keynote happening in a few mins. registration here to stream it

aiforgood.itu.int/summit25/reg...
July 8, 2025 at 9:58 AM
The simplest solution to "stop the clock" on the AI Act is to not use AI. You can't have it both ways, sorry. Want to drive? Get a license. Want to use AI? Get compliant.
July 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Do you think that Europe should bargain away its digital sovereignty to appease Trump and the broligarchy? Strong majorities in Germany, France, and Spain are against that (YouGov).

@coricrider.com and I have a better plan:
www.politico.eu/article/digi...
Digital sovereignty can’t be bargained away
The European Commission has tools, public support and a mandate to act on Big Tech. Trading that away for short-term calm would be a costly mistake.
www.politico.eu
July 3, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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How #US Firms are weakening #EU #AI #Code of practice: By pressuring the European Commission to prioritize a few US firms over 1,000 stakeholders, the companies put entire process at risk and lose credibility as actors of public interest.#AIAct #OpenAI #GAFAM www.techpolicy.press/how-us-firms...
How US Firms Are Weakening the EU AI Code of Practice | TechPolicy.Press
Instead of giving in, the Commission must ensure that the Code reflects the intent of the AI Act and safeguards public interest, write Nemitz and Oueslati.
www.techpolicy.press
June 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance

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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature
An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.
www.nature.com
June 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Draft article "Simple now, Complex later: The Questionable Efficacy of Diluting GDPR Article 30(5)" that questions the Commission's proposal and shows this approach will not yield the intended results, and will lead to more compliance issues for organisations. doi.org/10.31235/osf...
OSF
doi.org
June 14, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Debating the comma - the age old classic delay tactic. If a person did this, we'd be calling them an asshole. cafetechinenglish.substack.com/p/a-simple-c...
A simple comma is going to cost Apple billions in Europe
Starting June 23, Apple will no longer be allowed to collect fees on iOS' external purchases in Europe
cafetechinenglish.substack.com
June 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM