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The greatest New Yorker cartoon of all time.

🔍 How do we understand #AI's role in data science? In next week's LSE School of Public Policy, LSE Press & LSE Data Science Institute event, Andrew Murray, Dorottya Sallai, Helen Margetts, & Kenneth Benoit will discuss the above question and more. In person and online. Info 👇 lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/11…

Very interesting findings and report, thank you.

New opportunity alert! Interested in joining Prof. Helen Margetts' project, "Information exchange between governments and citizens in a digital society" on a variable-hours, flexible basis as a research assistant? Learn more and apply by 18 November 2024. oii.ox.ac.uk/people/vacanci…

Fascinating ! There Are Three Types of Twilight | Scientific American scientificamerican.com/article/there-…

Must have run out of space before they could mention Dyson bought 36k acres of farmland to avoid inheritance tax.

#AI & #DataScience present new opportunities for policymaking. In tonight's LSE School of Public Policy & LSE Data Science Institute event, Helen Margetts, Andrew Murray, Dorottya Sallai & Chloe Smith will discuss the benefits & limitations of using AI. Hybrid. Info 👇 lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/11…

Together with Helen Margetts, I recently published a piece on the adoption of #DataScience and #AI methods in government. We focus on adoption pace, penetration, and profundity, as different methods can change policy practice in various different ways. 👉doi.org/10.31389/lsepp…

⚖️ The Turing's HUDERIA framework for AI governance has been adopted by the Council of Europe (Council of Europe). It ensures AI systems uphold human rights, democracy & the rule of law. 📰 Find out more: bit.ly/41lcp8e #AIethics #HumanRights #ResponsibleInnovation

McFadden got a lot of flak over his govt start up remarks today. But a recent OA paper by Helen Margetts and me shows that getting civil servants to stop marginalizing *some* Silicon Valley approaches to online services brought many improvements to 2020s tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New!  Hear from Helen Margetts Oxford Internet Institute The Alan Turing Institute sharing her insights on how to rebuild public trust in credible information sources with Matthew Syed BBC Radio 4 ‘Sideways’ programme: celebrating 25 years of the 21st century. Listen via BBC Sounds: bit.ly/4h21rZz

At 11pm that night, she sent an urgent email to the head of the local council explaining all the ways they were failing in their duty to this woman and demanding to know how they would support her going forward. That’s somebody who cares about the safety of women and girls. 2/2

How could Keir Starmer's AI plan change government (and your lives)? This week's Expert Factor explains all....🎙️ Helen Margetts joins Paul Johnson Institute for Fiscal Studies and Hannah White Institute for Government for a fascinating discussion instituteforgovernment.org.uk/podcast/expert…

How will the new AI Opportunities Action Plan change government (and your lives)? Helen Margetts, professor at Oxford Internet Institute and director of the Turing’s public policy programme discussed this on The Expert Factor podcast: bit.ly/3PLL9bR

Today, we are publishing the first-ever International AI Safety Report, backed by 30 countries and the OECD, UN, and EU. It summarises the state of the science on AI capabilities and risks, and how to mitigate those risks. 🧵 Link to full Report: assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/679a0c48… 1/16

🎙️ UCL Uncovering Politics🎙️ New (and timely!) episode on AI and Public Services, with Helen Margetts, Cosima Dorobantu and Jonathan Bright The Alan Turing Institute. Listen on apple podcasts (or other podcast platforms!) podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ai-… University of Oxford UCL UCL Policy Lab @politicalquarterly.bsky.social

It was great fun recording this podcast with Alan Renwick at my wonderful former department UCL Political Science - School of Public Policy and colleagues Cosmina Dorobantu Jonathan Bright The Alan Turing Institute Oxford Internet Institute

Helen Margetts Cosmina Dorobantu Jonathan Bright 🇺🇦 This episode is featured in this week's edition of the Best of Technology: buff.ly/3XabKDp

📈Out today in PNASNews!📈 In a large pre-registered experiment (n=25,982), we find evidence that scaling the size of LLMs yields sharply diminishing persuasive returns for static political messages.  🧵: