Eimear Farrell🦋

All things #AI 'The world is endlessly fertile in its yield of sobering wrenching clarifying contexts for thinking about the idea of human rights'

[Eimear Farrell🦋 @eimearfarrell]

Privileged to have worked on the development of Ireland's #NationalAIStrategy, with a great team of colleagues @DeptEnterprise, as well as across Government. The Strategy sets out how Ireland can be an international leader in using #AI to benefit our economy and society.

[Department of Enterprise, Tourism and Employment @DeptEnterprise]

Taoiseach @MichealMartinTD & Minister @RobertTroyTD are launching Ireland’s National AI Strategy: AI – Here for Good.

This serves as a roadmap for how Ireland can leverage AI's potential for unlocking productivity, addressing societal challenges & delivering public services.

[Donncha O'Connell @DonnchaLaw]

Irish lawyer, Michael Farrell, quits Council of Europe rights body over silence on Gaza | Irish Legal News https://t.co/iJYrD0SAAy

[James Cham @jamescham]

From the @jackclarkSF @tylercowen discussion today:
>> What technology should people be paying attention to that isn't AI?

>> Institutions.

[Mariana Mazzucato @MazzucatoM]

Important @IIPP_UCL report by @francesca_bria and @FaustoGernone on why Europe must move beyond incrementalism in digital sovereignty. EuroStack isn't about replicating existing models—it's about building public digital infrastructure and governance structures that enable sustainable growth & the creation of public value.

Read more ➡️ https://t.co/EUreVLfGPM

[Francesca Bria (@francescabria.bsky.social) @francesca_bria]

Sovereign AI, open-source ecosystems, green supercomputing, data commons, and sovereign cloud: Building homegrown alternatives to empower Europe to reclaim control of its digital future—layer by layer, innovation by innovation. #EuroStack #digitalsovereignty

https://t.co/ySIvs4jKdI

[Francesca Bria (@francescabria.bsky.social) @francesca_bria]

Nella mia intervista con @rsta parlo di #EuroStack, il piano per l’indipendenza tecnologica europea: dalle materie critiche all’Intelligenza Artificiale. Dopo la moneta unica e il mercato comune, l’Europa ha bisogno di una infrastruttura digitale comune, una alternativa ai monopoli dei tecno oligarchi. La tecnologia è potere, e l’Europa deve usarla per proteggere i cittadini e la la democrazia. @ilvenerdi.

[Àurea Rodríguez ↗️ @AureaRodriguezL]

Buen informe 👌de @francesca_bria : “Si no actuamos ya, imperios digitales en la sombra dictarán nuestras leyes” https://t.co/madwmlowzj

[Eimear Farrell🦋 @eimearfarrell]

@jackclarkSF (3) Title: Young Girl - "So that the wide sky became deeper on account of her,
the blue sky brighter on account of her, and the unseen ageless house above the hill’s peaks more firmly founded
on account of her."
RIP Annabel

[Eimear Farrell🦋 @eimearfarrell]

@jackclarkSF (2) saw in the hills above Florence (which to me was like your bluebird - it changed the colour of everything around it and made the sky more blue. Here is the poem (from 'The Other Mountain'):

[Eimear Farrell🦋 @eimearfarrell]

@jackclarkSF I've never seen a bluebird in real life, but this makes me long to! Thank you also for reminding me of a beautiful line I read in a poem by Rowan Williams years ago. It reminded me of a friend & colleague who left us too early - I always associate her with a yellow butterfly I

[Jack Clark @jackclarkSF]

Everything machines may be broadly and evenly distributed, but the curiosity to use them effectively is not. An essay for Import AI 397 - coming tomorrow.

[Marietje Schaake @MarietjeSchaake]

Trump and his new tech allies are ready to test the EU’s resolve as a superregulator of tech harms. Strategic autonomy is the name of the game. There is no point in nostalgia for an alliance that will change unrecognisably with Trump’s inauguration ↘️ https://t.co/eOTvkBSwa1

[Hanna Wallach (@hannawallach.bsky.social) @hannawallach]

A Shared Standard for Valid Measurement of Generative AI Systems' Capabilities, Risks, and Impacts: https://t.co/lU5hM0Z252

TL;DR: We introduce a framework that draws on the social sciences and statistics to place disparate-seeming GenAI evaluation practices on a common footing.

[Big Data Value Association @BDVA_eu]

🚨 We are proud to let you know that the white paper "Generative AI and Data Spaces" produced by the Strategic Stakeholder Forum has just been published❗

Read the blog post & download your copy of the white paper 👉 https://t.co/EXj7R7QggW

#DSSC
#AI
#DataSpaces
#GenerativeAI

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

On a day of differences, here's a little miracle of a poem by a child, sent to me by her teacher:
"I am still a child made of love."

[Antoinette Rouvroy @arouvroy]

Canguilhem, 1952 (!). It comes with no surprise, then, that life, that is "mattering", will always remain (in) the blind spot of "AI", capable only to metabolize digital facticities (effects).

[Madhumita Murgia @madhumita29]

Power, people & politics - central forces behind OpenAI’s news from this week. My @ftweekend lunch w/Signal’s mer__edith addresses these exact themes: the economic forces that shape AI’s impact, power of workers & the need for alternative models of tech. https://t.co/DMozNywQHL

[Mila - Institut québécois d'IA @Mila_Quebec]

Many AI experts, including Mila’s @Yoshua_Bengio and @alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor at the @the_IAS, put forward the Manhattan Declaration after a High-level meeting at the @UN General Assembly. Read the Declaration: https://t.co/P5EbNrM3Ag

[Mozilla @mozilla]

What is public AI? It builds on a tradition of public alternatives — such as public transportation and public broadcasting — so that AI works for everyone.

Learn more about our vision for #publicAI ⬇️

https://t.co/xrK3KmmRgI

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

NEW PAPER!

1. Small AI models often perform better than big in context.

2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to surveillance, to research capture.

This & what to do c/o @GaelVaroquaux, @SashaMTL and me ♥️👇

https://t.co/dCOcOwVqd2