Bev Townsend

[UKRI TAS Hub @tas_hub]

The Project Team

Lead Contact
Radu Calinescu (Prev. Norman Dandy)

Co- Investigators
Calum Imrie
@amel_bennaceur
@DrCPaterson
@bevatownsend
@boyd_doreen
Seumas Bates
Andy Smith
@VJHodge

Business Partners
@2excelgeo
@Forest_Research
@BangorUni
@BUForestry

[Xuechunzi Bai @baixuechunzi]

🚨 New Preprint 🚨
OpenAI says that the new GPT-4o model is carefully designed and evaluated to be safe and unbiased. But implicit biases often run deep and are harder to detect and remove than surface-level biases. In our preprint, we ask, are GPT-4o and other LLMs really unbiased?

Details in the🧵 below!

[York Law School @UoYLaw]

Congratulations to @bevatownsend who is a recipient of a @BRAID_UK Fellowship
This £2.4m initiative @EdinburghUni will help organisations develop solutions to #AI challenges, and it builds on @UniOfYork’s work on the impact of AI
Read more: https://t.co/KcVuDsS6wf #YorkResearch

[Bev Townsend @bevatownsend]

What a privilege to be awarded this and for the continuing support that the York Law School provides.

[York Law School @UoYLaw]

Congratulations to @bevatownsend who is a recipient of a @BRAID_UK Fellowship
This £2.4m initiative @EdinburghUni will help organisations develop solutions to #AI challenges, and it builds on @UniOfYork’s work on the impact of AI
Read more: https://t.co/KcVuDsS6wf #YorkResearch

[Bev Townsend @bevatownsend]

@Braid_UK @ahrcpress @EdinburghUni @UKRI_News So excited to begin this important work. What a wonderful opportunity to be awarded one of these Fellowships and to work with BRAID.

[UKRI TAS Hub @tas_hub]

How can AI help protect our forests?

Learn more about our project Autonomous Systems for Forest ProtEctioN (ASPEN) by following the link: https://t.co/mLWXudW20u

#EarthDay2024

Dr Norman Dandy
Dr Radu Calinesc
@bevatownsend
@boyd_doreen
@amel_bennaceur

#AISolutions

[Ada Lovelace Institute @AdaLovelaceInst]

Read our policy briefing which identifies key considerations for deploying foundation models in the public sector⬇️(6/6)
https://t.co/6iDsYQARD9

[Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards]

Coming reluctantly out of Twitter holiday (literally - crocodiles and stingrays!) in case anyone has not noticed the new AI Regulation Bill that seems to have suddenly appeared. https://t.co/vKm4b3BqK3
A (less short than I hoped) thread:

[Bev Townsend @bevatownsend]

Find out which countries are doing what as we Map the AI Regulatory Landscape across 12 African countries according to key themes
Also insights on the regulatory aspects African countries might wish to consider in moving regulatory measures forward.
https://t.co/mwoSwQkK0p

[Nigel Warburton 🇺🇦 #FreeUkraine @philosophybites]

Philosophy, truth, and the Emperor’s New Clothes. An excellent interview with ⁦@TWilliamson55⁩ (from 2012). H/t ⁦@JTasioulas⁩ https://t.co/KwIHMb3Gcp

[The Institute for Ethics in AI @EthicsInAI]

Britain to crack down on AI chatbots scraping people’s data https://t.co/cYkitg0fSg

[Seth Lazar @sethlazar]

Haven't posted a video to YouTube since my HotWheels days, but thought I might share my talk on ethics for generative agents, from Cornell Tech earlier this month. Very early work, but have a look if you're interested: https://t.co/Qao8D8Zt26

[Gopal Ramchurn @gramchurn]

Amazing to see the @tas_hub Regulators workshop coming together in London today to discuss AI regulation. Many thanks to the team for making this happen and looking forward to the discussion! @jenn_speech @tas_function @tas_governance @tas_resilience @TAS_Security @tas_trust

[Ethiek Instituut UU @[email protected] @EthiekInstituut]

'Conversations on AI governance continue to reflect the perspectives of a few industrialized economies', write @arthurgwagwa and @bevatownsend in @Global_Policy. Instead, we should adopt a relational concept of self-determination and non-dominance.

https://t.co/t62Vo8g6nT

[Professor Toby Walsh FAA FTSE @TobyWalsh]

The claimed emergent abilities in large language models are a mirage https://t.co/b3MVKocWvq

[Laura Mahrenbach @LauraMahrenbach]

Want to know how #Africa is engaging with #AI and the governance dilemmas countries are facing? Check out the latest commentary from @bevatownsend and @arthurgwagwa in my series on #AI and governance @Global_Policy 👇
https://t.co/bND6VLYzO0

[Laura Mahrenbach @LauraMahrenbach]

Many thanks to Gregory Chin, Eva-Maria Nag and the team at Global Policy for the opportunity to participate in the Emerging Global Governance project and for all the help along the way. More information on the project here.👇Stay tuned! https://t.co/OlD18a2ilR
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[Laura Mahrenbach @LauraMahrenbach]

...Eva Erman, Markus Furendal, @BernardsNick, Laura Quinteros, Jing Cheng, Giuseppina D'Agostino, @patibeast, Simon Barber, Nicholas Gebhardt, Craig Hamilton, @mayer_iras, @GAfterman,@arthurgwagwa, @bevatownsend, @till_klein and Claudia Juech.
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[Laura Mahrenbach @LauraMahrenbach]

Happy to announce that my new commentary series discussing #AI, social change and #GlobalGovernance @Global_Policy is published! Featuring bi/weekly contributions from...
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