James Garforth (jamesgarforth.bsky.social)

Teaches ethics / social responsibility @infAtEd.
Gone to the blue place that isn't a garbage fire.
Who else's opinions would they be? He/him.

[Björn Ross @bjoernross]

How do I make sure my LLM research is ethical? Read our whitepaper, or hear about it at #coling2025
https://t.co/IpbKtz0YQc
Joint work with @MxEddie_, @NikVits, @ZeerakTalat, @jgarforth, Arno Onken, @Dr_Atoosa and @alexandrabirch1
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[James Garforth (jamesgarforth.bsky.social) @jgarforth]

@davidthewid This sounds amazing, well deserved congratulations!

[James Garforth (jamesgarforth.bsky.social) @jgarforth]

My people!

[James Garforth (jamesgarforth.bsky.social) @jgarforth]

@superwomble @HumzaYousaf Oh yeah that's great, so long as they haven't learned to stick those components together.

[James Garforth (jamesgarforth.bsky.social) @jgarforth]

@superwomble @HumzaYousaf https://t.co/pgdFj4A6JR

[mike cook @mtrc]

The use of AI is expanding to meet the needs caused by the expanding use of AI.

[James Garforth (jamesgarforth.bsky.social) @jgarforth]

OK some of them haven't fully lost it (but I hope they topple the others) https://t.co/jWut1x33cp

[Sebastian Salek @sebastiansalek]

This might be the most switched-on crop of Labour MPs we’ve ever had.

15 of them are presenting private members’ bills today. It’s the biggest clue yet which issues they care most about.

The list of bills:

[James Garforth (jamesgarforth.bsky.social) @jgarforth]

The UK's government is psychotic

[Pop Base @PopBase]

The UK’s Prime Minister is proposing giving free weight-loss drugs such as Ozempic to unemployed obese people in order to encourage them to work:

“[The drug is] very important for our NHS, because, yes we need more money for the NHS, but we've also got to think differently.”

[James Garforth (jamesgarforth.bsky.social) @jgarforth]

Oh, also:
https://t.co/AMrC0ffIYt

[Frances Ryan @DrFrancesRyan]

Job coaches sent to mental health wards is clearly obscene but it’s the natural end point of an agenda that equates health with productivity. If you believe humans are only valuable when they earn a wage, the NHS is a tool - not to help patients - but to get them back to work.

[Ali Alkhatib @_alialkhatib]

i keep thinking of something David Graeber wrote

> The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently

it's not precisely correct to say this gives me solace. but it gives me the faintest outline of hope i guess

[James Garforth (jamesgarforth.bsky.social) @jgarforth]

@nickclegg What the hell happened to this man?

[James Garforth (jamesgarforth.bsky.social) @jgarforth]

I guess we ran out of physics?

[James Garforth (jamesgarforth.bsky.social) @jgarforth]

@EmilyannNault @lynneabaillie @EDINrobotics @ITT_Research Congratulations Emilyann!

[James Garforth (jamesgarforth.bsky.social) @jgarforth]

@danielleboyerr Coming back to Edinburgh?

[James Garforth (jamesgarforth.bsky.social) @jgarforth]

Just the most well deserved!

[Benedetta Catanzariti @techno_katt]

✨Thrilled to announce that my PhD dissertation has received the 2024 Andrew Webster PhD prize for best thesis in the field of Science & Technology Studies. Grateful to @Assist_UK for this recognition and to my wonderful supervisors for their support!✨
https://t.co/NGgC5dXyNz

[Alex Hanna (اليكس حنٌا) @alexhanna]

As opposed to your rockets, which are meant to bring puppies and sunshine, right?

[James Garforth (jamesgarforth.bsky.social) @jgarforth]

@Jessica_Brough To be clear this is a joke. I cannot work out if it reads as actually aggressive

[James Garforth (jamesgarforth.bsky.social) @jgarforth]

@Jessica_Brough I've never been more glad you don't think about me

[James Garforth (jamesgarforth.bsky.social) @jgarforth]

I wanted to comment on how little this government understands AI but WHAT ON EARTH IS THIS PICTURE. I had to check this was a real tweet, because my god he looks like he's starting a podcast a doxxing immigrants.

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

We can build a future where AI drives growth, creates wealth and attracts investment in the UK, strengthening our position on the world stage.

https://t.co/UG0fyZQMte

[James Garforth (jamesgarforth.bsky.social) @jgarforth]

OpenAI have almost certainly said this about every version of ChatGPT. They were, and remain, woefully out of their depths.

[Guardian US @GuardianUS]

OpenAI says the latest ChatGPT can ‘think’ – and I have thoughts https://t.co/Ea9Eszr8HX