Data Science and AI Fellow
University of Glasgow
AI, labour markets, & policy responses
karenjeffrey.github.io
Karen Jeffrey
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The founder of @patagonia.com made billions, then gave 100% of future profits away to save the planet.
Could this inspire the next generation of tech giants? Looking at you, @anthropic.com, Dario Amodei, Sundar Pichai, Demis Hassabis, @mustafasuleymanai.bsky.social
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📢 Vacancies for Research Software Engineers to work on grand challenges within the Centre for Data Science & AI @glasgow.ac.uk
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Great city, amazing team 🥰
Google staff urge chief executive to block US military AI use - giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... via @FT
🗳️ Would you trust an AI to vote for you? This lab is experimenting with "a personalized AI agent that understands your political preferences and... faithfully cast votes the way you would." Will this help people vote more rationally, or give too much power to AI providers? bit.ly/4d6ssem
"if you are a left-leaning voter in Japan and you ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, or Grok which party to vote for, all four will probably all give you the same answer: the Japanese Communist Party, an extreme party that holds roughly 0.9% of seats in the lower house." open.substack.com/pub/freesyst...
Call for evidence: Artificial Intelligence, business and the future of the workforce @ukparliament.parliament.uk committees.parliament.uk/call-for-evi...
Fantastic opportunity for social sciences or natural science PhD students (or those recently completed) to do an 8 week paid placement with POST @ukparliament.parliament.uk funded by @nuffieldfoundation.org
bit.ly/3P1mjHW closing 23 March
Really useful in-depth discussion of why current theories on the possibility of AI consciousness are far from conclusive, by @eschwitz.bsky.social.
If someone tells you the matter is settled either way -- read this!
I know this has been debated to death, but FWIW: "stochastic parrot" (in the sense of _just_ parroting) is not a good metaphor for LLMs, even if one doesn't like to use terms like intelligence or reasoning.
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Karen Jeffrey
Karen Jeffrey
🥁🥁🥁 Newly out from us today in Science Advances: “Biased AI Writing Assistants Shift Users’ Attitudes on Societal Issues”.
Large Language Models are providing users with autocomplete writing suggestions on many platforms. Could these suggestions shift users’ own attitudes? (spoiler: YES) (1/7)
