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Congratulations Catherine, and good luck!

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Good spots, useful to note

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This will be interesting

[Guardian news @guardiannews]

UK first European country to approve lab-grown meat, starting with pet food https://t.co/BXPGh0y3N9

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The big three ideas people

[Kate Raworth @KateRaworth]

Three books that could be quite useful for the UK's new Labour government.

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This is really good to see. People starting to take an interest in missions

[Mariana Mazzucato @MazzucatoM]

In ⁦@Telegraph⁩ on my influence ⁦@Keir_Starmer⁩ missions. As we argue in ⁦@IIPP_UCL⁩ missions can’t be buzzword (old wine in new bottles). Must change how we “do” government (from procurement to finance) & fair contracts. Our global report coming out this Thurs!

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Ethical supply chain verification needed?

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

Italy raided factories & found that Armani and Dior bags are made by illegal Chinese workers in Italy who sleep in the workshop and make €2-3/hr. Both companies have been placed under Italian court administration.

Dior paid a supplier $57 to assemble* a handbag that sells for $2,780

Armani bags that were sold to consumers for €1,800 cost €93* to make.

(These don’t include raw materials costs)

People often wrongly conflate higher prices for higher ethical standards.

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

🚨 BREAKING: The World Intellectual Property Organization – @WIPO publishes the "Patent Landscape Report on Generative AI," and it's a MUST-READ for everyone in AI. Below are the [impressive] key findings:

"➵ 54,000 GenAI-related inventions (patent families) were filed and more than 75,000 scientific publications published between 2014 and 2023.

➵ The growth is rapid, with the number of GenAI patents increasing eightfold since the 2017 introduction of the deep neural network architecture behind the Large Language Models that have become synonymous with GenAI.

➵ In 2023 alone over 25% of all GenAI patents globally were published, and over 45% of all GenAI scientific papers were published.

➵ GenAI patents still currently only represent 6% of all AI patents globally.

➵ The top 10 GenAI patent applicants are: Tencent (2,074 inventions), Ping An Insurance (1,564 inventions), Baidu (1,234 inventions), Chinese Academy of Sciences (607), IBM (601), Alibaba Group (571), Samsung Electronics (468), Alphabet (443), ByteDance (418), Microsoft (377).

➵ The top five inventor locations are China (38,210 inventions), US (6,276 inventions), Republic of Korea (4,155 inventions), Japan (3,409) and India (1,350).

➵ Image and video data dominate GenAI patents (17,996 inventions), followed by text (13,494 inventions) and speech/music (13,480 inventions). GenAI patents using molecule, gene and protein-based data are growing rapidly (1,494 inventions since 2014) with 78% average annual growth over the past five years.

➵ GenAI patents span across a diverse range of sectors, including in life sciences (5,346 inventions), document management and publishing (4,976 inventions) and over 2,000 inventions in each of business solutions, industry and manufacturing, transportation, security, and telecommunications.

➵ In the future, GenAI can help design new molecules, expediting drug development. It can automate tasks in document management and publishing, be increasingly used in retail assistance systems and customer service chatbots and enable new product design and optimization, including in public transportation systems and autonomous driving."

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➡ A very interesting report - don't miss it (link below).

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Tres cool

[MarieFranceRemillard @MFRemillard]

Mick Jagger & Françoise Hardy
July 1965

Jagger said that Hardy was his ultimate feminine woman

Photo: Jean-Marie Périer

#FrançoiseHardy #MickJagger #feminine

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Brilliant, I think I am now doing most of these fairly regularly, but the reminder helps.

[Hannah Crush Hiles @HannahHiles]

My mum’s book group read @DrMichaelMosley’s Just One Thing recently and one of them produced this summary of his brilliant, sensible, achievable advice (that we could all benefit from following!) #MichaelMosley #RIPMichaelMosley

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Fascinating post from Zoe on the importance of the role of narrative and storytelling in conveying complex scenarios and ideas

[Zoe Kleinman @zsk]

I was very intrigued when this Accountancy website asked to interview me. Accounting is definitely not in my wheelhouse! But what they were fascinated by is the art of storytelling. In my world this is explaining tech news simply on TV, radio and online, in theirs its presentations and reports for their boards. We had more to learn from each other than I expected….

https://t.co/ulV9OIffJZ

[Carissa Véliz @CarissaVeliz]

Machine learning models memorize aspects of the training data. That means they are memorizing some personal data. #privacy #AIEthics

https://t.co/7fG9fwUrla

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Fascinating and thought provoking interview, well worth seeking out if you missed it at the weekend #governance #leadership #venice #philosophy

[Nicolas Berggruen @NBerggruen]

“There are a lot of good thinkers in Europe, but not always a lot of great doers. In America, there are a lot of great doers… not so many thinkers”

Thank you @FT @htsi
https://t.co/YJQlCAOpgL

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

An incredible story:

When the latest batch of solar plants come on line, Texas will have added more solar capacity per capita in a single year than any US state and any country in the world.

“economics can turn even the biggest climate change sceptic into a clean energy evangelist.”

Data from @EmberClimate.

https://t.co/s9Fdk6PHK8

[Wolfgang Blau @wblau]

„The study is the first peer-reviewed paper in a scientific journal to argue that no more fossil fuel projects are needed as renewable energy sources take up the demand, and expands on the findings produced in 2021 by the International Energy Agency.“
https://t.co/bqizWLDxMD

[Carissa Véliz @CarissaVeliz]

Very much enjoyed my conversation with @TOEwithCurt. Thanks, Curt! #podcast #privacy #surveillance

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We need to catch up

[Dave Jones @CleanPowerDave]

This graph blows my mind..

63% of solar panels and 65% of wind turbines installed last year were installed in China 🤯

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Further evidence of why tech ethics matters #AI #ethics

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

Google has just sent this announcement, and here's what's getting clear:

Everything we do on our devices will be AI-supported, edited, and recreated.

Soon, we'll become the AI

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Mission-oriented policy how-to #innovation #strategy #Mission

[Mariana Mazzucato @MazzucatoM]

The challenges facing the UK require a radically new approach to governance.

Building on work with governments around the world to implement mission-oriented industrial and innovation policy, our new report sets out recommendations for how the UK can adopt an ambitious, cross-sectoral mission-oriented approach to mobilise innovation, direct growth, and rebuild public trust.

Read the report here: https://t.co/VY6OiPNfqJ

Join the virtual launch this evening at 17:30 BST: https://t.co/KlkJFoP0Oz

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Timely, examining the carbon impact of AI #AI #ethics #carbonfootprint

[Mariana Mazzucato @MazzucatoM]

My article today on why the ‘cloud’ is not fuzzy and light but carbon heavy. And why we need carbon disclosures for the supply chain of AI, and tech more generally. “The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates” https://t.co/knrTrD6XMF

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

🚨BREAKING: This will be the structure of the EU AI Office. Here's what you need to know:

➡️According to the official page, from 16 June, the organizational setup of the European AI office will consist of 5 units and 2 advisors:

➵ The “Excellence in AI and Robotics” unit
➵ The “Regulation and Compliance” unit
➵ The “AI Safety” unit
➵ The “AI Innovation and Policy Coordination” unit
➵ The “AI for Societal Good” unit
➵ The Lead Scientific Advisor
➵ The Advisor for International Affairs

➡️The AI Office will employ over 140 staff, including:

➵ Technology Specialists
➵ Administrative Assistants
➵ Lawyers
➵ Policy Specialists
➵ Economists

➡️The AI Office will recruit people with a variety of backgrounds, and you can sign up to receive their updates (link below).

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