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Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta | now bsky & mstdn.social
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Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta | now bsky & mstdn.social
@TechMilly
Head of Digital Policy @whichuk | advising @CMAgovUK @ChathamHouse | own views | x-@techUK x-@ODIHQ x-@royalsociety x-@TuringInst | literary interests @mgzimeta
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I'm delighted to join @WhichUK heading up their Digital Policy team, covering fair and safe internet access, data, online markets, AI & consumer tech.
We're also recruiting for Principal to join my team 12-month FTC (FT/PT) - deadline for apps 14th Sept: careers.which.co.uk/jobs/principal…
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@UriBram Wow - all these years I'd only known the Latin version, "Ars longa, vita brevis" ("art is long, life is short"), which I took to mean that I wouldn't be able to read or write all the books I want to...
I hadn't known the original was "tekhnē". The sentiment does feel very Greek
GIF
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I loved doing this interview with @TechMilly on technology, utopia and dystopia. One thing I'll take away: tekhnē as a skill or craft or art, and therefore "technology" as any applied know-how, not just machines and software
Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations@five_books
"It’s worth remembering that utopia is an impossibility, and yet we still feel compelled to think about it a lot." Tech policy expert Mahlet Zimeta (@TechMilly) recommends the best books on tech utopias and dystopias: fivebooks.com/best-books/tec…
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(5) "Citizen: An American Lyric" by Claudia Rankine, prize-winning lyric essay/prose poem
My "way in" was this interview with systems engineer Professor @whkchun:
"What does it mean to understand race as techne—as something that makes things possible?"
artnews.com/art-in-america…
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(4) "Voices from Chernobyl" by Svetlana Alexievich
It broke me.
Here's her 2015 @NobelPrize lecture describing the necessity of creating new artistic forms and new artistic languages to explore our new political, technological and cultural jeopardy:
nobelprize.org/prizes/literat…
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I'm thrilled that this is now out in the world! @five_books is one of my favourite websites, my go-to for learning new things, so it was a delight to be interviewed by @UriBram on "The 5 Best Books On Tech Utopias and Dystopias"
Here's my 5, what would yours be, and why? 🧵
Five Books - Expert Book Recommendations@five_books
"It’s worth remembering that utopia is an impossibility, and yet we still feel compelled to think about it a lot." Tech policy expert Mahlet Zimeta (@TechMilly) recommends the best books on tech utopias and dystopias: fivebooks.com/best-books/tec…
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Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta | now bsky & mstdn.social retweeté
Every university in the world should be condemning this.
Staying silent now, and waxing lyrical about 'decolonising the curriculum' later, is all-round moral cowardice.
Muhammad Smiry 🇵🇸@MuhammadSmiry
No universities left in Gaza
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(This is one of the issues I have with the whole AI Safety Institute framing: what will it actually be able to *do* if it does find problems, but the AI companies won't fix them? Give them hard stares?)
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Just been thinking about how the UK AI Safety Institute might practically play out.
It is difficult for costly organisations set up in the dying days of Government, and closely associated with the Prime Minister, to survive the transition to a new administration.
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@AISummitFringe @sarahchander @edri @SandraWachter5 @OxGovTech @Clifford_Chance Fabulous news! + for anyone attending in-person or online, check out this @nesta_uk AI Explainer, which includes bias in AI
It's open to Comments so you can add your thoughts and feedbacks in the doc itself
#heading=h.8wk2149gns2o" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">docs.google.com/document/d/16R…
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@TechMilly @sarahchander @edri @SandraWachter5 @OxGovTech @Clifford_Chance Great news! We've released some additional tickets for people to attend in-person today. Grab yours here to watch this engaging talk at The Knowledge Center, British Library this afternoon aifringe.org/events
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Today @AISummitFringe 1.30pm GMT I'll be on a panel on AI, Bias and Law with the brilliant @sarahchander/@edri (TIME AI 100) & Prof @SandraWachter5/ @OxGovTech, chaired by Herbert Swaniker/ @Clifford_Chance
Tickets have run out but the livestream is here: @AISummitFringe" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@AISummitFringe
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Don't forget to check out this handy Explainer on AI that I've been working on with @nesta_uk which also explores how bias in AI happens
twitter.com/nesta_uk/statu…
Nesta@nesta_uk
NEW: What is AI exactly? What are the building blocks? We’ve put together an explainer to try and reduce the barriers to participation in discussions about how best to harness digital tech, including AI🧵👇 #AIFringe
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I've just found out that some more tickets for attending in person have been released! - Tickets are free: aifringe.org
Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta | now bsky & mstdn.social@TechMilly
Today @AISummitFringe 1.30pm GMT I'll be on a panel on AI, Bias and Law with the brilliant @sarahchander/@edri (TIME AI 100) & Prof @SandraWachter5/ @OxGovTech, chaired by Herbert Swaniker/ @Clifford_Chance Tickets have run out but the livestream is here: @AISummitFringe" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@AISummitFringe
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Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta | now bsky & mstdn.social retweeté
#TheStandardPodcast
Musk at AI Safety Summit as Biden regulates tech
Plus!
Race to control self-learning tech
How AI’s used daily
China AI development race
Expert analysis with @ConnectedByData’s Dr @JeniT
🎧pod.fo/e/1fd99a
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@Sparkes @JakubKrupa +1 @JakubKrupa . (I'm writing a critical evaluation of the Summit for a civil society organisation.) @Sparkes I'd also be interested in your experience of trying to report from/at it if you're willing to chat. DMs should be open if you Follow me - Thank you!
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@BVLSingler Lynchian - all of it.
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The cut back to Rogan in costume here is just *chef's kiss*
Faisal Islam@faisalislam
NEW Elon Musk warns re PM’s AI Summit environmentalist “extinctionists” could programme AI for “human extinction” “How cd AI go wrong? If AI gets programmed by the extinctionists, utility function will be extinction of humanity…won’t even think it’s bad” he tells Joe Rogan
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@GavinFreeguard Where's mine pls
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@sebkrier @rachelcoldicutt @ISGnews But then is it the right theme?
It feels a bit odd to claim both "UK can lead the world in this important topic" and, at the same time, "UK has almost no civil society capacity in this important topic".
(Notwithstanding the wider pushback about the importance of the topic...)
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@rachelcoldicutt @TechMilly @ISGnews Some great orgs in there but it's not clear to me the majority of them work on the predominant themes of the Summit!
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Very long list of civil society orgs here, contrary to many of the claims some people made in the last few weeks! Good stuff. gov.uk/government/pub…
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