Will bridge tech & society for money. Now:@algorithmwatch, some @isdglobal. Was:CASM,@Demos, @10DowningStreet,@DCMS,@stsucl. Unwilling bluetick, posts elsewhere
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Announcement! I have joined @algorithmwatch to lead their 'Auditing Algorithms for Systemic Risks' project.
If you're also thinking about tech regulation, risks, and audits - esp for online platforms / #DSA - I'd love to chat.
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Oliver Marsh (tech & society) retweeted
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Oliver Marsh (tech & society) retweeted
🚨 Reflections from #DisinfoCon 2024 🚨
I had the chance to speak on auditing generative #AI models with @brandobenifei & @olivermmarsh. We discussed open source AI, transparency, and accountability.
Read more on my reflections on the panel here: huggingface.co/blog/frimelle…
Looking forward to speaking about generative AI, democracy, and jigsaw puzzles tomorrow. Also some really excellent speakers on the bill. You can watch online, or if you're in Berlin I look forward to seeing you!
Join this panel moderated by our @FraGiannaccini as we explore quality training data, audits, and other key aspects of generative AI systems with our speakers: 🎙️@brandobenifei @olivermmarsh @frimelle
There's a lot to think about from this UK general election. But for now, I'm just so happy and relieved. Congrats, thanks, and good luck to all involved.
Oliver Marsh (tech & society) retweeted
That Reform vote was expected by all of them. If you didn't see that coming you weren't paying attention.
Reform will come second in *loads* of northern and midlands "traditional" Labour seats.
Hello Crowd! Can you help us Crowdsource evidence of online risks? Learn more and help us here 👉 eu.jotform.com/2335144857030….
(Summary thread below but hopefully all relevant info in link. Or @ or DM me with questions)
#DSA #techpolicy #onlineharms
Then we'll distribute the observations to experts to give views on whether these are or aren't systemic risks. That will help us work with the European Commission to draw up proper guidelines for systemic risks🧠
"Systemic risks" really is a key part of the Digital Services Act - and also increasingly other tech regulation, like the AI Act. So your help in gathering evidence could hopefully be very impactful💥
I'm very happy to answer questions. But bear in mind, if something is unclear - that might be precisely the problem we're trying to solve!
Question for my #DSA folks - how would the Meta announcement that they won't show political content to non-followers work with Art.17? Is that "restricting content", would they need to provide statements of reasons every time they don't show that content to non-followers? Paging @PJLeerssen @mathver
Thread on news of #Crowdtangle closure.
Firstly, PSA to researchers: If you could use data from any of the online platforms with new researcher access programmes/libraries (list in linked survey, scroll down) *please* apply. Then fill out this survey. It will really help very important data access efforts. utexas.qualtrics.com/jfe/for…
Platforms can do that, with very few consequences for them. Which is why, as I'll say until I'm blue in the face, measures like the EU's Digital Services Act are needed. Without it, we'd be in an even more pessimistic scenario.
In the meantime, shout out to people like Brandon, Claire Pershan (@DJEmeritus ) , @RebekahKTromble , Coalition for @transparenttech , @JWI_Berlin and others who are doing great work to coordinate efforts for data access.
My new, extremely petty, gripe: people talking about the 'Year of Elections' saying that "half the world will be voting this year". No! There's lots of children in countries! Or otherwise ineligible people! Lots of people will choose not to vote!
I've been made aware that on this 2nd anniversary of the Ukraine invasion, the "IStandWithRussia" hashtag is appearing again; exactly the same hashtag used in the initial invasion. Here's analysis we did (led by @carljackmiller ) of communities using it files.casmconsulting.co.uk/m…