Alexandra Scott🌻

Graduate Scholar @DIGHR_YorkU, PhD student @OsgoodeNews, LLM, JD, BSc(Eng) @QueensU. Lethal autonomous weapon systems and international humanitarian law. ☕️🧶🐶

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

"ChatGPT told a young mother in Maine that she could talk to spirits in another dimension. It told an accountant in Manhattan that he was in a computer-simulated reality like Neo in The Matrix. It told a corporate recruiter in Toronto that he had invented a math formula that would break the internet, and advised him to contact national security agencies to warn them.

The Times has uncovered nearly 50 cases of people having mental health crises during conversations with ChatGPT. Nine were hospitalized; three died. After Adam Raine’s parents filed a wrongful-death lawsuit in August, OpenAI acknowledged that its safety guardrails could 'degrade' in long conversations. It also said it was working to make the chatbot 'more supportive in moments of crisis.'"

Important piece written by @kashhill & @jenvalentino. Link below.

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As I've written several times, AI chatbots are dangerous and must be regulated; the current level of oversight and enforcement is too low.

Also, children should NOT use AI chatbots unsupervised.

Hopefully, 2026 will be the year of AI chatbot oversight, regulation, and enforcement.

[Alexandra Scott🌻 @alexandratscott]

@David_Gunkel Really heartened to see a substantial cluster next to @NoelSharkey! Very interested to see the work of those in the "Thinking Otherwise" group as well. Is there a full list of all names somewhere?

[Alexandra Scott🌻 @alexandratscott]

Apologies to anyone who has sent me an email and is waiting for a reply, I have been unwell for the past week and a half and am behind on everything as a result.

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Re-reading your draft

[Alexandra Scott🌻 @alexandratscott]

Honoured to have had the opportunity to not only attend @chris_m_h’s fantastic presentation at @DIGHR_YorkU today but also to present with him in the audience. Great conversations about a complex and timely subject.

[Alexandra Scott🌻 @alexandratscott]

Had an absolutely brilliant week at the 7th “Silent Leges Inter Arma?” conference! I will be forever grateful for the amazing conversations I had and all of the advice that was so generously and freely given to me by everyone with whom I had the pleasure of speaking.

[ISMLLW-BE @ismllwbe]

@ISMLLW We thank the institutional partners of the 7th ‘Silent Leges Inter Arma?’ Conference for their contribution to the success of our event: the Dutch Group of the @ISMLLW, the @Lieber_Inst and the @NavalWarCollege.

[ACDS/CLSA @acds_clsa]

Congratulations to Olaoluwa Oni (@OsgoodeNews) on winning the 2024 Roderick A. Macdonald Graduate Student Essay Prize for “The Transit Visa: International Law, Language, And More, More, More Borders”! 👏

[David J. Gunkel @David_Gunkel]

John-Stewart Gordon's book "The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Human Rights Legislation" @Palgrave has a really interesting and useful section on the debate concerning #robotrights and #AI moral status.
https://t.co/DpP0UDPiVy

[Alexandra Scott🌻 @alexandratscott]

why do the shortest pieces take the longest to write? I want to submit a snappy 2-3 page proposal outlining the two legal questions I want to answer with my dissertation and instead this beast is 7 pages. no one has time to read 7 pages.

[MSF International @MSF]

🚨#Gaza: As Israeli military strikes continued last night in the Middle Area, Al-Aqsa hospital is barely coping with the influx of patients and dead people. “It’s a scene of devastation. This hospital is a sinking ship.” - Karin Huster, MSF medical adviser in Gaza.

[MSF International @MSF]

🔊 Earlier today, Karin Huster, an MSF medical adviser in #Gaza, described to us the ‘insane escalation of hostilities’ across the Gaza Strip over the last 24-48 hours, calling the situation ‘apocalyptic’.

We need to have a ceasefire.

[Doctors w/o Borders @MSF_USA]

Gaza UPDATE:

On the night of May 26, the trauma stabilization point MSF supports in Tal al Sultan recorded 180 wounded patients and 28 dead after Israeli airstrikes hit a camp sheltering displaced people in a designated safe zone.

Read: https://t.co/jwhdAmbe2X

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

Google AI overview suggests adding glue to get cheese to stick to pizza, and it turns out the source is an 11 year old Reddit comment from user F*cksmith 😂

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

The family of Henrietta Lacks can pursue compensation from a pharmaceutical company over its use of her HeLa cells, which have been influential in modern medicine after being taken without her consent decades ago https://t.co/Tf1bjAfgIP

[MSF International @MSF]

After a strike on Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza on 18 May, 34 patients were admitted to nearby Al Awda hospital, and amid nearby fighting, the hospital has now run out of drinking water... 1/4

[MSF International @MSF]

Our medical teams have witnessed a shocking increase in extreme violence against Palestinians in the West Bank.

Since 7 October, Israeli forces and settlers have reportedly killed 479 Palestinians, including 116 children, in the West Bank alone👇
https://t.co/ObGelVNhSP

[Luiza Jarovsky, PhD @LuizaJarovsky]

🚨BREAKING: Council of Europe adopts 1st international treaty on AI. Here's what you need to know:

➡️The treaty - the Council of Europe Framework Convention on artificial intelligence and human rights, democracy, and the rule of law - was adopted in Strasbourg during the annual ministerial meeting of the Council of Europe's Committee of Ministers. According to the official release:

"The treaty, which is also open to non-European countries, sets out a legal framework that covers the entire lifecycle of AI systems and addresses the risks they may pose, while promoting responsible innovation."

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"The convention adopts a risk-based approach to the design, development, use, and decommissioning of AI systems, which requires carefully considering any potential negative consequences of using AI systems."

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"The treaty covers the use of AI systems in the public sector – including companies acting on its behalf - and in the private sector. The convention offers parties two ways of complying with its principles and obligations when regulating the private sector: parties may opt to be directly obliged by the relevant convention provisions or, as an alternative, take other measures to comply with the treaty's provisions while fully respecting their international obligations regarding human rights, democracy and the rule of law. This approach is necessary because of the differences in legal systems around the world"

➡️Link to the treaty below.

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[Michael Fakhri @MichaelFakhri]

My conversation with Alex De Waal on the right to food and starvation for EJIL:Talk!, now in writing https://t.co/6HFFd78fwI