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Assoc Prof @ ANU | UNIDIR Fellow
Researching the safety of complex technologies in safety critical domains
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Dr Zena Assaad
Global watchdog calls for tighter controls on agentic AI in finance reut.rs/4okE8iv
A WIRED timeline shows how dozens of governments, companies, and other organizations across Europe are moving, or planning to shift, away from US Big Tech. www.wired.com/story/all-th...
We are running a side event on Tuesday 16th 1:15-2:45, on Responsible Military AI Governance, where we'll be unpacking these two lifecycles a little more. Info on the side event can be found here 👉🏽 www.linkedin.com/safety/go/?u...
‘Killer of trust’: social media groups fuel misinformation in UK, report finds
"Landmark German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers" the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...
“OpenAI intends to ditch the prompts and features, betting that its models will be able to automatically understand users’ intentions when they are on the app or site”
gizmodo.com/chat-is-dead...
Registrations for this @icrc.org event are still open for those interested in attending 👉🏽 bit.ly/4olTjrN
Some interesting reads in this new issue on risk regulation with a focus on the EU AI Act
Ahead of the UN informal exchanges next week on AI in the military domain, @jessicadorsey.bsky.social @elkeschwarz.bsky.social @profbode.bsky.social & I wrote this piece on the duality of the lifecycle concept - the engineering VS the socio-technical lifecycle
opiniojuris.org/2026/06/12/b...
Global regulators said increasingly autonomous forms of AI could amplify risks for the financial system and called for new controls as adoption accelerates.
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A WIRED timeline shows how dozens of governments, companies, and other organizations across Europe are moving, or planning to shift, away from US Big Tech.
📢 Call for papers
The @icrc.org call for papers on Protection of Civilians & IHL in the Age of AI is now open.
Abstracts are due 1 September. More information can be found here 👉🏽 international-review.icrc.org/call-for-pap...
Investigation reveals more than 4.4 million people live in ‘news deserts’ that lack dedicated local reporting
Local social media groups are fuelling misinformation in areas with no reliable sources of news, according to an investigation that reveals the scale of fake news flowing to vulnerable communities across Britain.
Misinformation was nearly three times more common in areas with little or no recognised local journalism, according to a study of tens of thousands of posts seen by the Guardian. Immigration and Islamophobia were the most common topics of misinformation across Facebook and X. Continue reading...
A German regional court has ruled that Google is directly liable for the content of its AI search overviews. According to the court, previous limited liability protections for search engine operators...
[Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law; Zena Assaad is an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering, Australian National Universit…