Gary Weatherhead

politics/geopolitics/law

bsky : @garyweatherhead.bsky.social

[jay walsh @badaude]

the @BostonReview asked me, What Was the Internet?

One thing it was (is!) is a space for literary experimentation that bypassed offline gatekeepers, now under threat.

featuring @3ammagazine @MinorLits @TobiasvRyan

https://t.co/2DwDZSNp1V

[Alexander Horne @AlexanderHorne1]

My latest piece on Substack is a bit of a long read. It poses the question “who speaks for the constitution?” & argues that it might be time to replace the Ministry of Justice with a reinstated and rather more focused Department for Constitutional Affairs

https://t.co/wEYTeLEF0J

[Geopolist @Geopolist34]

Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan Sign Landmark Mutual Defence Pact in Mecca
https://t.co/vD5GDGbohi

[Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum]

There is a direct connection between this & Rubio’s attack on the ICC:

- Many countries in the region are States Parties to the ICC

- The ICC has jurisdiction over war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide when perpetrated on State Party territory (article 12(2)(a))

[Carnegie Endowment @CarnegieEndow]

Will AI actually take our jobs? Should we really be worried about Chinese models? And what can we learn from 19th century English craftsmen?

@bcmerchant joins @JonKBateman to discuss on the latest episode of The World Unpacked. Watch here: https://t.co/x7istW6Hyy

[Noema Magazine @NoemaMag]

“As AI rapidly reshapes our world, narrow, single-view thinking risks mistaking part of the picture for the whole. Adopting a fuller, multifaceted perspective can help us govern this technology rather than be governed by it.”

—@AntheaERoberts

https://t.co/5ABKqQahpF

[Jill Goldenziel @JillGoldenziel]

A country that couldn't win on the battlefield won in court instead.

Ten years ago the Philippines beat China in the South China Sea Arbitration.

Read My Latest @Forbes on why it changed the rules of the game: https://t.co/uvFLZ8PNzG

#law

[Soumaya Keynes @SoumayaKeynes]

Even if wealth inequality hasn't changed, the relative importance of income and wealth has. Fab column from @JBurnMurdoch

https://t.co/EoFaCyGOTt

[Arvind Narayanan @random_walker]

I had the honor of giving a keynote at the International Conference on Machine Learning in Seoul last week titled “What will be left for us to work on?” I addressed the widespread anxiety about how we should adapt as AI capabilities increase. I was thrilled by the talk’s reception, so I have made my slides available, annotated with a lightly edited transcript: https://t.co/vNgRJCL57B

I made three arguments. First, the "AI as Normal Technology" framework is a correct and useful as a way to think about AI’s impacts, unless and until there is some future discontinuity such as through recursive self-improvement. Second, even though we should take recursive self-improvement seriously, there is no milestone that companies might achieve in the lab that will suddenly put us all out of work. Third and finally, jobs of the future will be radically different, and a lot of adaptation will be needed. I shared my thinking about what this might look like and ended with a vision of human/AI “co-superintelligence”.

[Georgi Gotev & EUalive @GeorgiGotev]

When the algorithm becomes Big Brother: how we lost control of reality https://t.co/0KXYkwLA1s A review of the book The Power of Perception – When Reality Loses the Battle by @ODragas

[AI Now Institute @AINowInstitute]

Today, we’re launching Anatomy of an AI Kill Chain with @airwars. This new visual project breaks down how AI is transforming every aspect of war and how militaries are offloading life and death decisions to brittle and flawed technologies: https://t.co/qlpCQMIduO

[Carissa Véliz @CarissaVeliz]

I enjoyed doing this podcast with @markhurst on #Prophecy. Check it out! #books https://t.co/HB4KGIWiQF

[Gary Weatherhead @Gary_W__]

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https://t.co/YbCNt7W2VS

[Gary Weatherhead @Gary_W__]

British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted

“Our job is to test the ones that work properly, test them with rigorous evaluation, and then spread them like wildfire through policing.”

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[Mark Kersten || @markkersten.bsky.social @MarkKersten]

The ICC is a canary in the coal mine, whose failing health embodies the Trumpian virus infecting the global rule of law and a wholesale attack on international law - all of it. To save the Court, then, is to save international law itself. https://t.co/h0dra0gWrs #ICC

[Adam Isacson @adam_wola]

Since our report on the Trump administration’s “boat strikes” went out on Friday, two journalistic reports added outrageous new pieces to the puzzle.

https://t.co/Q8CENu13nS

[YouGov @YouGov]

THREAD/ A major new YouGov study in 7 countries examines how people see the US, NATO, and global power, threats and alliances

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Andy Burnham and the rise of ‘aura farming’ in politics

As algorithms as much as manifestos play an increasingly important role in politics, @MinnieStephC4 examines how the new UK Prime Minister is creating his personal brand in the influencer age.

Read our latest newsletter:
https://t.co/GMYe5sJ8GL

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

The leader of Iceland’s largest opposition party is urging European politicians to stay out of the country’s referendum on reopening EU membership talks next month.

She told POLITICO it’s a question of the nation's hard-won sovereignty.

🔗 https://t.co/N3XjiQHdyQ

[Tom Dannenbaum @tomdannenbaum]

🇻🇪’s National Assembly paved the way for ICC w/drawal in December (before 🇺🇸 illegally removed Nicolás Maduro)
https://t.co/qIlwYoxodN
However, with 🇻🇪 & Delcy Rodríguez now under Rubio’s control, this serves the 🇺🇸 campaign to dismantle the ICC.
https://t.co/Xrk1uVxQmG
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