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Rachel Coldicutt

@rachelcoldicutt

5 years

I’m starting a gang and the uniform is Massive Spider Brooches. Who’s with me?

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5 years

Why do “morning routines of successful people” never include 15 minutes saying, “Can you get dressed now?” to a small child and involve coming back into the house to take off and put back on an entire school uniform that is somehow all in the wrong way round?

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4 years

So, my very unsexy opinion about both the A Levels algorithm and the months’ long digital contact tracing farrago is that deploying technology without proper supporting structures and governance is by no means faster and leaner. It is slower, messier and much more dangerous.

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Rachel Coldicutt

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4 years

Please can someone make a public information film for people aged over 70 called, “Stop Popping Out, Yes That Does Mean You”.

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1 year

This press release for the UK AI Safety Summit features DeepMind, Anthropic, Palantir, Microsoft and Faculty and not a single voice from civil society or academia, and no one with lived experience of algorithmic harms

UK to host first global summit on Artificial Intelligence

As the world grapples with the challenges and opportunities presented by the rapid advancement of Artificial Intelligence, the UK will host the first major global summit on AI safety.

www.gov.uk

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Rachel Coldicutt

@rachelcoldicutt

2 months

If you live in one of the 411 Labour constituencies, you can write to your MP to ask them to contest Wes Streeting's decision.

Labour's Wes Streeting 'to make trans puberty blocker ban permanent'

Wes Streeting has reportedly indicated that the Labour government will make the Tories' emergency puberty blocker ban permament.

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5 months

I gave a talk on Thursday about making AI work for 8 billionaires. Just leaving these slides here.

Anissa Gardizy

@anissagardizy8

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breaking: Microsoft and OpenAI are drawing up plans for a $100 billion AI supercomputer The supercomputer, codenamed "Stargate," would contain *millions* of GPUs and require several gigawatts of power Full story here w/ @amir for @theinformation :

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1 year

Briefly considered sending an email that says, "Happy to be the token woman on this panel if you add the text 'Rachel Coldicutt was invited at the last minute, when we realised we'd forgotten to ask any women' in bold ALL CAPS at the top of the event listing."

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5 years

I spoke at an event with Nicholas Negroponte last year. I was on just before him; when he took the stage, he looked at me and said, “If you think technology has had negative consequences, you’re an idiot.” So I guess he’s pursuing a policy of no regrets.

MIT Media Lab founder: Taking Jeffrey Epstein’s money was justified

At an internal meeting, Nicholas Negroponte shocked some people with his comments on funding from the alleged sex trafficker.

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4 years

An eternal loop of this video should replace all tech ethics conferences forever.

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chants of “fuck the algorithm” as a speaker talks of losing her place at medical school because she was downgraded.

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5 years

When I say to a group of business people, “Before you start picking an ethical AI framework, maybe you should make sure you pay your taxes,” lots of people always laugh. I’ve no idea if that’s nervous or reinforcing laughter. Maybe next time I should ask for a show of hands?

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4 years

I know there are more important things, and no one cares about government comms as much as I do, *but* just re-upping the Rishi Sunak personal brand situation.

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2 years

What a time to be a woman in the UK. Massively high childcare costs, “return to the office” orthodoxy turned up to 11, a male MP watching porn in the Commons, girls don’t fancy “hard maths”, and on and on it goes.

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2 years

Does everyone who's incorrectly received a "your upcoming visit" email from the Barbican this evening know it's a sign to gather and form a secret society?

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1 year

We're not even remotely at a point where technologies deploy themselves. What every "should we fear AI?" headline means is really "We should fear powerful people who will deploy technologies to gain more power, regardless of the consequences."

‘A race it might be impossible to stop’: how worried should we be about AI?

Scientists are warning machine learning will soon outsmart humans – maybe it’s time for us to take note

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3 years

Lots of outrage on my TL today about the “tracking women with GPS” proposals, and it’s worth saying - this is how technodeterminism works. It gets rolled out instead of genuine prevention and/or redistribution of power as a way of maintaining the status quo.

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1 year

Well I guess this is my daily "read the news and complain about today's ridiculous AI story" tweet. Buckle up, I have a thread

AI likely to spell end of traditional school classroom, leading expert says

Exclusive: Prof Stuart Russell says technology could result in ‘fewer teachers being employed – possibly even none’

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1 year

Has anyone designed an explicitly feminist alternative to Agile software development, oriented towards uncertainty rather than certainty?

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1 year

Secondly, if I were to choose for a particular type of person to become redundant through automation, it's AI experts who declare at conferences that such-such a profession will become redundant because of AI. A bot could make these announcements just as easily.

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1 year

Let me edit that for you: "The future of low-regulation environments in which a few corporate entities use hyperbole to influence governments is chilling - but markets have been regulated before"

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4 years

Walking down the street just now, I got treated to a classic bit of "Cheer up love, it might never happen," and I can't help but wonder what kind of planetary-scale catastrophe they think I'm holding out for.

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4 years

I’ve read a *lot* of UK tech policy documents lately and think I’ve realised what’s up: there’s no vision for society, just a determination to centralise power and bureaucracy. New blog post from me.

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4 years

Governance for complex systems is hard and probably a bit boring if you like the white hot thrill of launching apps that don’t work, but without it the UK is going to have a lot of tidying up to do, for many years, and that is not going to be innovative or exciting.

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6 years

What if Tech Ethics is just a clever way of outsourcing the emotional labour of the tech industry to women?

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@rachelcoldicutt

4 years

Something I’ve realised from homeschooling is that 7 and 8 year olds are expected to context switch all the time, in a way no adult would be capable of. Write a poem for 30 mins! Do some division! Draw a picture! Express some emotions! Learn about bones! Jump up and down!

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5 years

So many nice messages. 😍 Also, I might have a Baileys.

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5 years

So utterly utterly proud to see the incredible @rachelcoldicutt @doteveryone honoured in the 2020 #NewYearsHonours list - she is force for good in a world that needs it, and such a clever clever clever person too. Whoop Whoop Whoop !

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11 months

Couldn't disagree more strongly. We don't need a lone male genius to "solve" for AI safety. It's not a tech problem that needs cracking, but a social issue. Tech has been placed beyond the bounds of existing social contracts because it enables power

We need a political Alan Turing to design AI safeguards

Frontier technology is a challenge that raises a spectrum of concerns

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5 years

I have, as they say, some personal news. I’m leaving @doteveryone at the end of this year, so we’re looking for a new CEO. Help us find a fantastic person to do the best job in responsible tech. All the details here 👉

Doteveryone is hiring a new CEO

After four years I’m stepping down at the end of 2019, and Doteveryone is looking for a new CEO.

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3 years

While I’m idling on Twitter, shout out to the man who watched a panel I was on and then emailed me to say he could help to become a “genuine thought leader in my sector”.

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4 years

I’ve written about the importance of looking after technology, and why being bad at Excel shouldn’t make the UK govt rush to Palantir

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3 years

Wouldn’t it be amazing if schools taught skills for a good life in the climate emergency? Sewing, mending, using tools, cooking and shopping and meal planning, fixing a bike. Perhaps, at some point, those skills will go back to being as significant as “job readiness”.

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3 years

A couple of years ago, I caused some mild outrage by giving an interview in the Times where I talked about heroic billionaires riding to space in c*ck rockets, and someone even made a website to say how deluded I was. Yesterday’s events did not prove me wrong.

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2 years

Don't leave essential infrastructure to whimsical billionaires, part 457

Elon Musk’s SpaceX says it can no longer fund Starlink internet in Ukraine

Firm reportedly asks US government to pick up bill as relationship between Musk and Kyiv breaks down

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2 months

Good morning from AI-boosterville where my eyes have rolled to the top of my head and may never come back down 🙄

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4 years

But we’re going to see more of this. Deploy at speed, repent at leisure. Cummings’ mania for dismantling bureaucracy and working at speed, Gove’s disparagement of the bean counters in the Ditchley speech, dashboard govt, single source of truth. Brexit is going to be *interesting*

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4 years

This is your occasional reminder that, if you are a woman working in any field, if you’re not on a “50 most influential women in” list it is (a) fine, (b) the work of the sisterhood is to lift up others, and (c) probably because you don’t have a PR.

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4 years

This story is what we all need this morning

Astrophysicist gets magnets stuck up nose while inventing coronavirus device

Australian Dr Daniel Reardon ended up in hospital after inserting magnets in his nostrils while building a necklace that warns you when you touch your face

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2 years

Reading this, I think researchers need to make a pact to stop talking to journalists about algorithms and start talking about engagement metrics and business models.

TikTok was ‘just a dancing app’. Then the Ukraine war started

Many features make the platform susceptible to disinformation as world leaders try to harness influencers’ power for good

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5 months

Does The Guardian have a special "open marriage" editor or are they somehow in hock to the shadowy forces of Big Open Marriage because blimey are they trying to make it a thing.

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4 years

I’m just going to stop you there. Don’t look, stop scrolling. The general update appears to be: everything is still terrible and some things appear to be worse.

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2 months

I am a total Angela Rayner mega fan. I might be a bit tired and emotional today (ahem) but every time I think of her being Deputy PM I well up a little bit. So very, very good.

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🚨 BREAKING: Angela Rayner has just gone into No 10 to be appointed Deputy Prime Minister

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9 months

This is disappointing. It's entirely possible to be in favour of joined-up medical records (wch the FDP doesn't actually deliver) while not approving of the faux procurement process or the cost structure or the precedents created by weaving Palantir more deeply into the NHS

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@jburnmurdoch

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@natashaloder The British left: the NHS is under immense pressure please someone help The NHS: okay we’re adopting new technology that doctors have been calling for for years which will make their jobs easier and improve patient outcomes The British left: no not like that

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4 years

Sure, it might be faster to get out the door, but oh boy, that long tail of tidying up after the initial heroic leap is … well, long.

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5 years

If you want to know what middle age is like, I’ve spent most of this year thinking I’m 46 when I’m actually 45, and now I’ve remembered my real age it makes no difference at all.

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5 years

The resignations of women MPs have been making me think of this @wmarybeard piece in @LRB : “You can’t easily fit women into a structure that is already coded as male; you have to change the structure. That means thinking about power differently.“

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I have a favour to ask: pls send examples of rapidly rolled out bits of automation/digital transformation that were intended to save costs or human staff time but didn’t work as intended. (It’s for evidence for a parliamentary enquiry; I’ll credit any examples I use. Thank you!)

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No no no no no no no no no no (via @mikarv )

UK government ‘hackathon’ to search for ways to use AI to cut asylum backlog

Three-day quest for innovations to tackle waiting list of 138,052 attacked as ‘wasting time on nonsense ideas that will go nowhere’

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4 years

When people write those “this is how to write talks” guides, they never include the bit where you lie on the floor and howl at the moon and say, “I hate myself why did I agree to do this?! I have no thoughts! What is wrong?!” And if they did no one would probably ever do talks.

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5 months

So, talk me through how it works if every single graduate is a male economist or a medic. Where are the jobs for them, and what happens to everyone else and, indeed, everything else that needs to happen in a functional society?

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Amazing chart in new brilliant @timleunig post on creative arts degrees. They are bad value for the taxpayer AND the student.

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3 years

I’ve been reflecting lately on what a massive privilege it is to have the social and financial capital necessary to just be yourself in a workplace setting, and not have to exhaust yourself by constantly pretending to be something/someone else.

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3 years

Struck again that viewing pandemic recovery as a binary - pandemic life, non-pandemic life - is a huge mistake, because in reality we will have years of recovery ahead of us, from which the new non-pandemic ways of life will eventually emerge.

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3 years

I wrote about how using technology to find new ways to hang out with your friends is an extremely important and revolutionary form of innovation

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5 years

Twitter, I have had a total mind blank. What are your favourite fictional examples of men doing routine acts of care - eg housework, childcare or eldercare - where the men aren’t also super-sad single dads, ridiculed and/or feminised, or the lone survivors of an apocalypse, pls?

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In my 1st week at @doteveryone I went to a meeting at No 10; I’ve started my last day standing up on the 7:10 from Bradford to Leeds. Saying goodbye to a frequently weird and genuinely wonderful 4 years, and a big thank you to @Marthalanefox for making it all possible 😘

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4 years

What, please, is the German compound word for the worry and fury caused being good at spotting second-order effects and not being able to do anything about them.

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2 months

*glances at the state of global IT* *thinks back to last Tuesday when Tony Blair said, "If you were a government today why would you not want to have all of your data in a cloud-based infrastructure so you can analyse it with an LLM?"* 🧐

I'm looking for a man in AI, trust fund, 6 foot, blue eyes

Tony Blair at yesterday’s Future of Britain Conference On Monday morning, along with a couple of thousand other people, I received an email with details of a...

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3 years

Good morning. You might want to mute me for the next hour. I am seated comfortably to watch Dominic Cummings at the Science and Technology Committee, talking about UK ARPA, aka ARIA.

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2 years

I do not want to rate my driver, my experience, my delivery, my visit to your museum, my recent purchase or stay, or my customer service interaction.

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5 years

I’m in a cafe and an older woman has just asked a dad sitting nearby if he is babysitting his baby, and he said, “No, I’m his dad. I look after him.” So that was good.

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5 years

“The software, more commonly used by police and airport security, has been deployed in a cocktail bar in the City to ensure customers are first-come-first-serves.” Nope nope nope nope

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4 years

It’s okay everyone, the person helping guide our country’s strategy through the pandemic had a little drive to test his eyesight, and believed a safeguarding clause meant for women at risk of domestic abuse was aimed at him.

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6 years

I'll believe the Singularity is achievable when I can successfully copy and paste a bulleted list from one application to another.

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6 years

This is the first tech conference I’ve ever been to where the queue for the women’s loos goes out the door and round the corner. So I’m calling that a win 😉 #ResponsibleTech19

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4 years

There are *templates* and he has a *colour palette* and a *slogan* and the sort of signature that could be put on football boots. Sometimes he's Rishi with the graphics, other times he'll grudgingly share an HMG graphic, but at no moment are there any > dodgy > arrows.

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4 years

Parents! Good luck tmw! If you’re also supposed to be working, can we all agree to set the bar as low as possible? Anyone posting pictures of their 7 yr old “accidentally” doing some particle physics or reading Chrétien de Troyes in medieval French is out of the club, no Qs asked

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4 years

I think, the line, “Sensibly designed, the computer algorithms could have been used to moderate teacher assessments in a constructive way” quite deeply misunderstands what happens when algorithms meet traditionally unfair and high risk situations.

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2 years

Very pleased to share new research from @CarefulTrouble today + news of a £400k Makers and Maintainers Fund, developed in partnership with @peoplesbiz and @CassieRobinson . The Case for Community Tech

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4 years

From the very start of @doteveryone @marthalanefox set the tough challenge of knowing when to bow out, and it’s happening today. The best people I’ve ever worked with - thank you all for blazing a trail. Enjoy this celebration of their achievements

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2 years

Algorithmic timelines are crafted differently by different platforms to increase different kinds of engagement. Making it about algorithms focusses scrutiny on a 2nd order effect and makes it seem like a passive, unintended side effect — this is a straight-up business decision.

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3 years

Perhaps I will start a new movement of Technology Pragmatists that never get called on to give media comment because our opinion about quite a lot of things is, “it has some okay aspects and also some terrible ones”.

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3 years

I mean, this is how it's done. So amazing.

VERSUS

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Marcus Rashford becomes the youngest person ever to top the Sunday Times Giving List. The 23-year-old has donated £20 million to food, poverty and community charities (partnered with FareShare) – a sum greater than his personal wealth. MORE:

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3 years

On first read, this might well be the best bit of UK govt guidance on this I have seen. Lots of good clear stuff, and this 👇 is almost worth a street party.

Reuben Binns @[email protected]

@RDBinns

3 years

New guidance on automated decision making in government, from UK gov ( @cabinetofficeuk , Central digital& data office (who don't seem to be on Twitter?), and @OfficeforAI ):

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5 years

This feels like a nope. Why should my *phone* decide where I should be looking? Auto-correct for facial expressions is a whole new weird world of darkness. (And maybe where the animoji training data has been going?)

Matt Webb 🌸🌼🌸

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5 years

Whoa. iOS 13 will ARTIFICIALLY RE-POINT YOUR EYEBALLS in video calls so you're looking right at the other person instead of where you're actually looking, which is the screen Hey Apple, so long as we're doing this, how about fixing my hair and maybe also the bags under my eyes

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4 years

This is *interesting*. A church in Kent is hiring a journalist, in recognition of the role local news has in building communities.

The good news: Kent church posts vacancy for journalist

Parish wants ‘multi-skilled journalist’ to write mix of community and church-based news

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3 years

While looking for something this morning I found this screengrab of a BBC website I used to run for teenage girls in the early 2000s. It’s from the WayBack Machine, so some images have deprecated, and clearly our alt text was terrible

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Is the *actual plan* to make it too expensive to move to the UK, too expensive to have children, too expensive to be educated, too expensive to import or export, too expensive to run any useful facilities? Because, if it is, it's working and I idk but it seems like a bad plan.

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2 years

I feel like there is not nearly enough discussion of the cultural emergency presented by the 1000s of soulless, vibe-free chain cafés in London. Everywhere is now like that place under the stairs in the airport, but somehow deader, stiller, more brightly lit.

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2 years

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about how designing places and systems to be child-friendly liberates so much other potential.

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This tool should never have been put into development. It's all very well publicly showboating now and saying it's too effective/too dangerous, but the much easier thing is just not to make it

OpenAI deems its voice cloning tool too risky for general release

Delaying the Voice Engine technology rollout minimises the potential for misinformation in an important global election year

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Also, honestly, I would like to stop talking about AI now and just talk about power, but no one wants to talk about power and everyone wants to talk about AI

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5 years

Really all the credit should go to the wonderful @doteveryone team. Thank you gang for a brilliant last 4 years, and here’s to everything you’ll achieve in the next 4 🤩🤩🤩

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5 years

Hugely proud that @rachelcoldicutt has been recognised in #NewYearHonours for her work championing responsible technology- bravo 👏💪🎉

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Lastly, the frontline of automation in public services isn't luxury autonomous communism, it's cost savings that affect the most vulnerable in society by reducing human interaction where it's most needed. Why aren't experts at AI conferences talking about that?

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6 years

The @doteveryoneuk Digital Understanding report launches today, setting out Britain’s 5 digital blind spots, and a challenge to the tech sector and gov to do the hard work to make tech understandable #peoplepowertech

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4 years

If any other SE Londoners are waiting for rain while looking at a clear blue sky: hold tight, I am hanging out some laundry *and* lighting the barbecue. If that doesn’t conjure it, nothing will.

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4 years

Whenever I’ve read and learnt from and cited the work of @timnitGebru and @mmitchell_ai , I thought maybe there was hope for Google. But I guess we all know the answer now. Thank you both for leading and inspiring; whatever is next will be extraordinary.

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4 years

Is it socially acceptable to knit during a work-related Zoom call?

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@rachelcoldicutt

4 years

I’ve had a very relaxing and productive day today, because it turns out the new email filter I set up yesterday contained a *small error* that put all new incoming email straight in the bin.

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Rachel Coldicutt

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Firstly, let's look at the headline. Sure, Stuart Russell is an expert, but he's not an expert in either education or child welfare, he's an expert in AI. You know the saying, "When you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail" - well, that applies here. The idea that teaching

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Rachel Coldicutt

@rachelcoldicutt

5 years

Happy Ada Lovelace Day to all the pencil-case wielding, sparkly brooch wearing, furious, determined women out there.

Doteveryone

@doteveryone

5 years

@rachelcoldicutt @site_gallery The @site_gallery has called for the submission of short stories in the genre of speculative/sci-fi, from a feminist perspective. 📚🚀 Rachel has chosen the winner who will be taking part in this evening's talk and reading. #AdaLovelaceDay

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Rachel Coldicutt

@rachelcoldicutt

5 years

In superlatively great metaphorical behaviour, Google have cancelled their ethics board after one week - because they couldn’t get the ethics of an ethics board right

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Rachel Coldicutt

@rachelcoldicutt

5 years

Do you know what would be exciting and cool? Britain being part of some kind of pan-European “better trains, less flying” infrastructure project, that would deliver long-term options for more climate-friendly travel.

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Rachel Coldicutt

@rachelcoldicutt

3 years

Also, in case this is useful information for you rn, everyone I follow who works in the NHS is tweeting that you should wear a mask in crowded indoor situations and on public transport. Just in case you were waivering on that.

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Rachel Coldicutt

@rachelcoldicutt

3 years

Put your hand up if you're a person in their late 40s who's spent the last 20 years making other people use technology in the name of, ahem, digital transformation and BEING MODERN who is now grudgingly admitting that learning new things is a bit difficult.

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Rachel Coldicutt

@rachelcoldicutt

2 years

The Gender Pay Gap Bot is so glorious and such a triumph of open data.

Gender Pay Gap Bot

@PayGapApp

2 years

In this organisation, women's median hourly pay is 22.5% lower than men's.

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Rachel Coldicutt

@rachelcoldicutt

1 year

While this tweet is doing some numbers, worth saying that there is *zero funding* in the UK right now for critical tech work in civil society. There's some money for litigation, but nothing to support creating critical infrastructures for scrutiny and resistance.

Rachel Coldicutt

@rachelcoldicutt

1 year

This press release for the UK AI Safety Summit features DeepMind, Anthropic, Palantir, Microsoft and Faculty and not a single voice from civil society or academia, and no one with lived experience of algorithmic harms

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Rachel Coldicutt

@rachelcoldicutt

4 years

Today we’re sharing the findings from Glimmers - a real-time investigation into technology and civil society. We’ve looked at how communities and charities digitally transformed at speed since March — and what that means for the near future @plotlondon

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Rachel Coldicutt

@rachelcoldicutt

6 years

So, my take on Chief Ethics Officers is: don’t hire one. Don’t hire a woman to keep you honest then scapegoat her when you realise your ethics aren’t a compliance issue, but a part of the DNA of your business that need to be clearly expressed and built into your shipping process.

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Rachel Coldicutt

@rachelcoldicutt

3 years

A few people have asked me what I’m doing at the moment, so I thought I’d explain. A blog post about what we’re doing at Careful Industries, and why

A Careful Industries update

This is not so much a weeknote as a “two-year note” — an attempt to pull together the different strands of work we’re doing at Careful…

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Rachel Coldicutt

@rachelcoldicutt

1 year

For years and years and years and years I’ve resisted having a supermarket loyalty card. I’ve recently caved because, everything is so frickin’ expensive these days, and it really is quite a big deal that food gets cheaper when you give away data about your personal habits

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Rachel Coldicutt

@rachelcoldicutt

5 years

I'm late to this, but I blogged my thoughts on the now-infamous Dominic Cummings job ad and the folly of his ambitions for data-driven policy making

Inside the Clubcard Panopticon: Why Dominic Cummings’ Seeing Room might not see all that much

“A basic problem for people in politics is that approximately none have the hard skills necessary to distinguish great people from…

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