Academic; writer. Professor of AI & Society, Chair-Director @kings-dfi.bsky.social, King’s College London. Eye-rolling at AI nonsense on a daily basis. #academicsky . Norn Irish in Norwich.
Kate Devlin
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Joining the chorus of disapproval for the under-16s social media ban. There *is* unhealthy usage and ill-effects in this age group, but this is the equivalent of dealing with school shootings by banning children from schools. Fix the platforms. They are poisoning *everyone*'s minds in the same way.
Who the hell wrote Starmer's speech? It's so self-contradictory!
They had taken on far too much exciting work and somehow managed to do most of it but it there was a lot of behind-the-scenes crying, overwhelm paralysis, and low-key mania involved.
(My temperature is 39°C and I'm starting to think the patch of sun on the wall opposite my bed might be the tunnel of light that we're told not to go into, but I will rant until the paracetamol kicks in.)
Under 16s to be banned from social media, and a white supremacist who fuels riots on our streets, still allowed to run a whole platform.
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Calm the fuck down, Holland & Barrett. I bought a £1.79 bag of sesame seeds from you a week ago because the independent place was shut.
I'm ill this evening so my tl;dr is I agree with Dan and, furthermore, kids could be better protected online by ending stuff like infinite scroll and video autoplay and tightening up tech companies' accountability, and a ban flies in the face of the evidence on this. And the NSPCC thinks so too.
Actually, no, I'm not finished: in over a decade of research I have seen how online spaces are places where friendships form and lives are built and sometimes saved. Cutting it off on a whim removes a valuable resource for people who face awful things in real life.
This is outrageous.
When I hire KPMG to validate my priors I expect to receive the wildly overconfident lies of a 23 year old MBA, not those of some stinking robot.
