So insanely proud of Lara Groves and this amazing team Jacob Metcalf 🐀 @brianavecchione Alayna Kennedy for winning a best paper award at ACM FAccT. facctconference.org/static/papers2…

📢What are the lessons from New York City's Local Law 144 – the first-ever algorithm bias audit law – for AI regulation? Ada & Data & Society researched the independent auditing of companies that used automated employment decision-making tools. adalovelaceinstitute.org/report/code-co…

Another amazing week at ACM FAccT! So grateful for this time to come together. Thank you to the organisers for all your hard work and for the incredible honour of best paper 🫶🫶🫶 Up next: beach…

CERN was founded in 1954 to pool expertise and resources for scientific research, in service of the common good. A similar multinational model may work for AI governance, writes Elliot Jones (Ada Lovelace Institute). chathamhouse.org/2024/06/artifi…

awesome primer on #FAccT by two of the best, with a lil appearance from me chatting 'Auditing Work'⬇️

📢New blog post! Merlin Stein and Connor Dunlop examine why post-deployment monitoring of AI models is needed, who and what can be monitored, and how monitoring could be improved for the benefit of people and society. adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/post-depl…

this is so much better than having glaciers on earth

Come join me Saffron Huang & Tina Park on Fri 19 as we talk about how to ensure a range of people & communities perspectives are able to shape AI governance. Link to register below! ⤵

Great to see our Ada Lovelace Institute expertise, with evidence from APLE Collective & The Health Foundation inequalities research. Not all digital exclusion is bcoz of people: infrastructure not designed well = not working = increase inequalities. @Anna_Colom Anna

Journalists, politicians & civil society have expressed concerns around how AI could negatively affect elections. We examined the use of AI in a small number of elections in 2024. Our blog post outlines the trends identified by our explorative study.⬇️ adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/beyond-di…

"Our facial images are gathered en masse via CCTV cameras, the passport database and the internet. At no point were we asked about this, nor is there any statutory legal basis for it." 🔥 from Shami Chakrabarti theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

yeeeeah walthamstow 🤍🤍🤍🤍

policy heads, better job in better team you simply will not find... apply!

Timely blog by Julia Smakman to kick off wider Ada work on AI assistants, including action-taking agents, which may pose new risks, such as: - emotional or material dependence - (hyper) personalisation and manipulation - autonomy and lack of control - reduced accountability

DeepMind employees, from executive leadership on down, were a huge part of rejecting Google's Project Maven, selling AI targeting/surveillance to the US military. They're the heart of AI talent at Google, and again they're speaking from a place of rare & significant expertise.

Why we need public participation in AI. I'm hoping it will be of interest to Ian Hogarth, @scitechgovuk, Geoffrey Irving, Matt Clifford, @AISafetyInst, Peter Kyle and others shaping UK AI policy. UCL Science and Technology Studies Responsible Ai UK

Lewisham is the latest borough where the Met has rolled out live facial recognition technology. It feels like this is being slowly introduced in different councils with little to no scrutiny. computerweekly.com/news/366609372…

On today's Lawfare Daily, Kevin Frazier talked to Elliot Jones about the current state of efforts to test AI systems, why evaluations, audits, and related assessments have become a key part of AI regulation, and more. lawfaremedia.org/article/lawfar…

🗣️shouting out Dovetail Orchestra (and my dad!) for doing amazing bits for community music in Bristol dovetailorchestra.org.uk if you play anything + can be in Bris you should go to this ⬇️

thank you AWO esme harrington for having me on Community Spotlight! chatting regulatory & accountability implications of everyone's favourite 'first pancake' law, NYC's #LL144 😃