Ismael K.G.
@hermeneuticist.bsky.social
AI Ethics & Research Governance consultant at Kairoi (kairoi.uk), working remotely since 2020. Co-leading the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN) with RSA Fellows. Promoting AI literacy with We and AI.
Volunteering for an organisation where staff are manipulative bullies is… draining. And I’ve been working with the same culture of bullying for almost two years. Why do I keep doing it? Who knows.
November 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Volunteering for an organisation where staff are manipulative bullies is… draining. And I’ve been working with the same culture of bullying for almost two years. Why do I keep doing it? Who knows.
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Tbf, "epistemology" means so many different things that it cannot always be used interchangeably with "epistemology"
My biggest pet peeve is academics who use 'method,' 'methodology,' and 'epistemology' interchangeably. They mean different things!!
November 19, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Tbf, "epistemology" means so many different things that it cannot always be used interchangeably with "epistemology"
I feel there’s a threshold determined by something I can’t quite grasp* above which “leadership” is determined by social capital rather than your ability to demonstrate hard work.
*I think it’s about social class, but that still seems too nebulous for what almost feels like a binary.
*I think it’s about social class, but that still seems too nebulous for what almost feels like a binary.
November 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I feel there’s a threshold determined by something I can’t quite grasp* above which “leadership” is determined by social capital rather than your ability to demonstrate hard work.
*I think it’s about social class, but that still seems too nebulous for what almost feels like a binary.
*I think it’s about social class, but that still seems too nebulous for what almost feels like a binary.
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« As leaked, the Omnibus would be the most significant and extraordinary retrenchment in digital rights in a generation »
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/news/ada-lov...
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/news/ada-lov...
Ada Lovelace Institute responds to the leaked copy of the EU digital Omnibus
Michael Birtwistle, Associate Director at the Ada Lovelace Institute, has responded to the leaked text of the EU digital Omnibus
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org
November 17, 2025 at 6:28 AM
« As leaked, the Omnibus would be the most significant and extraordinary retrenchment in digital rights in a generation »
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/news/ada-lov...
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/news/ada-lov...
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By profiling a handful of such companies, we show how “innovation” can serve power as much as progress.
Read the first profiles: privacyinternational.org/long-read/57...
Read the first profiles: privacyinternational.org/long-read/57...
Investigating dual-use technology and the darker side of innovation
We are living through a moment of profound transformation as military imperatives and corporate interests are no longer separate threads in the fabric of technological innovation. Instead they are…
privacyinternational.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
By profiling a handful of such companies, we show how “innovation” can serve power as much as progress.
Read the first profiles: privacyinternational.org/long-read/57...
Read the first profiles: privacyinternational.org/long-read/57...
This paper is interesting but I think it confuses knowledge-based reasoning in good old fashioned AI systems, and big data analytics present in ML models. I am unsure that would undermine the argument, though.
#PhilSky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#PhilSky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Apriori Knowledge in an Era of Computational Opacity: The Role of AI in Mathematical Discovery | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core
Apriori Knowledge in an Era of Computational Opacity: The Role of AI in Mathematical Discovery
www.cambridge.org
November 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
This paper is interesting but I think it confuses knowledge-based reasoning in good old fashioned AI systems, and big data analytics present in ML models. I am unsure that would undermine the argument, though.
#PhilSky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#PhilSky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Coca-Cola ending their AI-generated Christmas ad with “Real Magic™️” feels especially wrong
November 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Coca-Cola ending their AI-generated Christmas ad with “Real Magic™️” feels especially wrong
AI revolution but it’s just the shape of the AI hype cycle
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
AI revolution but it’s just the shape of the AI hype cycle
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Being observed today so I guess I'll go through the slit on the left
November 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Being observed today so I guess I'll go through the slit on the left
Just learned of the “Fear and Greed Index,” which measures the only two things the stock market induces
November 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Just learned of the “Fear and Greed Index,” which measures the only two things the stock market induces
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Reposting, for obvious reasons: "If we expect the public to trust us, we "must be able to show that [our] ethical compasses are not deflected by the magnetism of money.” Evidently, at Harvard, compasses were deflected, indeed.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/jeff...
#epstein #Harvard #summers
www.scientificamerican.com/article/jeff...
#epstein #Harvard #summers
Jeffrey Epstein's Harvard Connections Show How Money Can Distort Research
Letting the rich pay for science that interests them is a bad idea—even if they aren’t convicted sex offenders
www.scientificamerican.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Reposting, for obvious reasons: "If we expect the public to trust us, we "must be able to show that [our] ethical compasses are not deflected by the magnetism of money.” Evidently, at Harvard, compasses were deflected, indeed.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/jeff...
#epstein #Harvard #summers
www.scientificamerican.com/article/jeff...
#epstein #Harvard #summers
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Finally hit publish. Reflections on theGeneva Science and Diplomacy Summit #GESDASummit
open.substack.com/pub/ismaelkh...
open.substack.com/pub/ismaelkh...
Reflections from Geneva
Science, Diplomacy and –thankfully– nature
open.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Finally hit publish. Reflections on theGeneva Science and Diplomacy Summit #GESDASummit
open.substack.com/pub/ismaelkh...
open.substack.com/pub/ismaelkh...
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
You’ll be surprised at how effective the question “what’s the problem you’re trying to solve?” is at stopping AI enthusiasts in their tracks
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
You’ll be surprised at how effective the question “what’s the problem you’re trying to solve?” is at stopping AI enthusiasts in their tracks
I was involved in writing this week’s Brief 😁
The focus for this and the coming #AIEthics Briefs is on the State of AI Ethics Report’s five parts.
The focus for this and the coming #AIEthics Briefs is on the State of AI Ethics Report’s five parts.
📌 The AI Ethics Brief #177: Community-led AI Governance
The SAIER, performative AI governance, and AI lab transparency
brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...
The SAIER, performative AI governance, and AI lab transparency
brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...
The AI Ethics Brief #177: Community-led AI governance
The SAIER, performative AI governance, and AI lab transparency
brief.montrealethics.ai
November 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I was involved in writing this week’s Brief 😁
The focus for this and the coming #AIEthics Briefs is on the State of AI Ethics Report’s five parts.
The focus for this and the coming #AIEthics Briefs is on the State of AI Ethics Report’s five parts.
“Transformative fair use” is ultimately determined by how much a judge knows about the latest in data storage.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...
![Ultimately, Judge William Alsup ruled that this destructive scanning operation qualified as fair use-but only because Anthropic had legally purchased the books first, destroyed each print copy after scanning, and kept the digital files internally rather than distributing them. The judge compared the process to "conserv[ing] space" through format conversion and found it transformative. Had Anthropic stuck to this approach from the beginning, it might have achieved the first legally sanctioned case of Al fair use. Instead, the company's earlier piracy undermined its position.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pexpsn7wwmadrpcb6hqpeskx/bafkreifimbdzn7ansoqgrihnhnlvdl7u2xdqxqtr2bfrs7mw2exwu6nnwe@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
“Transformative fair use” is ultimately determined by how much a judge knows about the latest in data storage.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...
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"this perception is shaped by narratives that diminish our agency as humans, as they present technology as advancing independently from human activity and interests."
Sounds extremely relevant to our work, @taniaduarte.bsky.social! doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Resisting, Refusing, Reclaiming, Reimagining: Charting Challenges to Narratives of AI Inevitability
Increasingly, artificial intelligence (AI) adoption is widely framed as inevitable; a destiny which cannot be avoided. In the context of AI, “inevitability” is often used to argue for the need to adop...
doi.org
November 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
"this perception is shaped by narratives that diminish our agency as humans, as they present technology as advancing independently from human activity and interests."
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It is helpful to distinguish between the technology and specific products, product categories, and companies. The latter are easier to regulate or just lose steam. Backprop and transformers will not simply disappear, but whether chatbots are a thing ten years from now is anybody’s guess.
November 9, 2025 at 7:33 AM
It is helpful to distinguish between the technology and specific products, product categories, and companies. The latter are easier to regulate or just lose steam. Backprop and transformers will not simply disappear, but whether chatbots are a thing ten years from now is anybody’s guess.
Spain’s enjoying a fascinating thing right now: a nationwide, televised book club featuring former King Juan Carlos’s memoirs
November 7, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Spain’s enjoying a fascinating thing right now: a nationwide, televised book club featuring former King Juan Carlos’s memoirs
Don’t do it, friends.
November 6, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Don’t do it, friends.
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I had a fun time teaching this paper this year: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
November 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I had a fun time teaching this paper this year: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Summit Business Summit 2026 will bring together the greatest businesses in the business of summits
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Summit Business Summit 2026 will bring together the greatest businesses in the business of summits
If I owe you an email, pick an excuse
November 5, 2025 at 8:15 AM
If I owe you an email, pick an excuse
It’s back! The State of AI Ethics Report by @mtlaiethics.bsky.social is back!
Not only has it been a joy to work alongside @renjieb.bsky.social and Connor to edit the many excellent articles, but also an important exploration of who Abhishek Gupta was, and his legacy.
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Not only has it been a joy to work alongside @renjieb.bsky.social and Connor to edit the many excellent articles, but also an important exploration of who Abhishek Gupta was, and his legacy.
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
November 4, 2025 at 10:40 AM
It’s back! The State of AI Ethics Report by @mtlaiethics.bsky.social is back!
Not only has it been a joy to work alongside @renjieb.bsky.social and Connor to edit the many excellent articles, but also an important exploration of who Abhishek Gupta was, and his legacy.
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
Not only has it been a joy to work alongside @renjieb.bsky.social and Connor to edit the many excellent articles, but also an important exploration of who Abhishek Gupta was, and his legacy.
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...