Political scientist working in emerging tech regulation. Previously Research-Innovation Lead at Trilateral Research. Privacy, ethical AI and responsible innovation. Manchester UK
David Barnard-Wills
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On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍
airesistlist.org
Join @dairinstitute.bsky.social, @asaskat.bsky.social, and ASA Section on Children and Youth as we host a panel on non-academic careers for sociologists. We’ll be joined with experts from civil society and government who will discuss their career trajectories. May 28, 11 AM PT/2 PM ET on Twitch.
Today's post goes back to the issue of #polysemy or multiple meanings in #AI discourse and calls for more critical polysemy awareness as part of AI #literacy makingsciencepublic.com/2026/05/29/a...
AI can reveal your location from a single photo. Vision‑Language Models can determine where any photo is taken, without any GPS data
What does that means for your privacy?
new @cdt.org study out this morning looks at how chatbots deploy manipulative "dark patterns" to get people to offer up more than they bargained for: www.404media.co/new-study-re...
Happy #WorldGothDay!
I made a playlist of 100 favorite tracks—2 per year from 1977 to 2026! (The real capital-G stuff starts around '81.)
Some iconic tracks, to be sure, but a lot of them are very deep cuts known only to those who were there. All wonderful.
Enjoy!
www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
The social scientist turned (sort of) AI researcher, turned regulator in me is very interested in this www.normaltech.ai/p/open-world...
ICO statement on the UK govt AI growth lab. ico.org.uk/about-the-ic...
Alex Hanna
TLDR: Not reliably enough www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/reality...
I have recently written two posts on the issue of multiple meanings, polysemy and ambiguity, in AI discourse. When chatting with various people interested in AI metaphors, which has so far been my …
One of the most surprising — and concerning — capabilities of the newest Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems is their ability to infer geographic location from images. Vision‑Language Models (VLMs)...
A new study by the Center for Democracy & Technology shows how chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini, Replika and more can lead users down paths they didn't intend.
curated by Alex Reed for World Goth Day, 2026: two songs per year from 1977 to 2026—some iconic, but with lots and very deep cuts. There's bit of darkwave, a...
Introducing CRUX, a new project for evaluating AI on long, messy tasks
www.normaltech.ai
The Government has announced it is launching the advisory AI Growth Lab. This will bring together regulators to give AI innovators and adopters clear, practical information on how existing regulations...
ico.org.uk
A new benchmark grounded in how real users actually probe AI identity during interactions – covering five languages, across text and speech.
