ICYMI: why it's a bad idea for the UK government to give US tech giant Palantir a role at the heart of the state - and why ministers need to take the chance to kick them out of the NHS: www.lbc.co.uk/article/pala...
Foxglove Legal
so sorry to be missing #EdTech26 (hello to all!) but grateful to @iltasky.bsky.social for livestreaming keynotes ilta.ie/edtech-2026/
this morning's keynote on AI & Education by @abeba.blacksky.app (@aial.ie) was outstanding: core values of education (love, trust, empathy, care) cannot be datafied
In our conclusion, we stress that industry capture is not just an urgent academic concern but a pressing real-world issue with global consequences. While, gegulators may engage with industry, governance must ultimately protect the public interest, not corporate power.
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We survey and highlight transferable lessons from adjacent movements, namely Big Oil, Big Tobacco and Big Pharma.
We advocate for supporting grassroots groups, CSOs and independent academics that are doing amazing work to hold Big AI and regulators accountable and to ensure the rule of law.
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"AIAL, one of the few independent sources of research into AI’s societal risks, conducts testing that is a model for evaluating systems before they are released to the public." www.macfound.org/press/grante...
Civil society orgs and investigative journalists are doing indispensable work: promoting counter narratives and resistance, exposing lobbying and deregulation, documenting harms, advancing strategic litigation... Support them. Fund them. Amplify their work.
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Not just lobbying! our new paper maps 27 mechanisms of regulatory capture used by Big AI + 11 narrative framings that rationalise capture.
“Big AI’s Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity” will be presented at #FAccT2026 next month arxiv.org/abs/2605.068...
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Congratulations to Dr @abeba.blacksky.app on being elected to the AI Act Advisory Forum! Abeba is director of the @aial.ie of @tcddublin.bsky.social & ADAPT.
Learn more about the lab: aial.ie
Catherine Cronin
Dr Abeba Birhane
Dr Abeba Birhane
Dr Abeba Birhane
Dr Abeba Birhane
On Sat a well attended screening of doc GHOST IN THE MACHINE examined the roots of #AI offering audiences a critical look at the forces that have shaped the tech's development. Followed by an engaging Q&A w/ @abeba.blacksky.app @aial.ie & host @elaineburke.bsky.social @fortechssakepod.bsky.social
Should we really be handing more and more parts of our public services to Big Tech firms, whose leaders are not particularly keen on democracy? writes Donald Campbell
SCREENING SAT JUNE 6th - Ghost in the Machine w/ Q&A with Dr. @abeba.blacksky.app, Director of @aial.ie @tcddublin.bsky.social and chaired by @elaineburke.bsky.social host of @fortechssakepod.bsky.social
TICKETS: ifi.ie/film/ghost-i...
SCREENING SATURDAY JUNE 6th Valerie Veatch’s gripping documentary exposes the hidden history of AI, not as a neutral system of algorithms, but as a technology shaped by racism, misogyny, eugenics, and...
