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"Technology is not the problem - you are!"
In which I explain the book's title at the @techintproblem launch event at the British Library.
Full highlights video at vimeo.com/980902379
What an amazing life!
Hubert Butler (23 Oct 1900 Co #Kilkenny-5 Jan 1991). Essayist; history, archaeology, politics/religion of E Europe before & during WW2. Travelled to Nazi Austria on own initiative/expense & helped save Jewish people from being sent to concentration camps✡️ dib.ie/biography/butler-hube…
I am glad to finally hear condemnation of the cynical government Covid policy of sending potentially (often actually) infectious patients from hospitals into care homes, causing the foreseeable deaths of thousands of the most vulnerable people.
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"Lies, damned lies... lets talk about stats" discussion at Battle of Ideas @acadofideas with @ProfAliceS @statsjamie @ObhishekSaha Josie Appleton and chair @TimandraHarknes #BattleFest. As one attendee said, lovely to be in a room of people sharing my hobby of FOI requests.
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Off to do some battle!
Panel on stats with @ProfAliceS @statsjamie Josie Appleton, chair @TimandraHarknes
battleofideas.org.uk/session…
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Celebrating the birthday of quaternions today. Led by Prof Tony Farrell
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Does AI undermine human agency?
Looking forward to discussing this at the @LivingFreedomUK forum in London on 24 Nov, 6.30pm! Free to attend: livingfreedom.org.uk/event/l…
Me on the problems with humanising AI:
‘Endowing AI models with a predisposition to pursue their own interests creates a technology that is harder for humans to control.’
Read @TimandraHarknes on Anthropic’s Claude cruelty policy 👇
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I chair a LOT of events, but this festival is still unequalled for serious audience engagement with such a wide range of ideas.
Come join me next weekend for debates on AI, drones and statistics - and dozens of other subjects!
FIVE DAYS TO GO TILL #BattleFest 2026
Ask questions, offer anecdotes, make points - above all, DISAGREE with the speakers. We give you, the audience, over HALF of each session - the Battle of Ideas is DEMOCRACY IN ACTION.
110+ SESSIONS, 400+ SPEAKERS, 3500+ ATTENDEES
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Why we shouldn’t be kind to Claude… although Kant might disagree…
‘Endowing AI models with a predisposition to pursue their own interests creates a technology that is harder for humans to control.’
Read @TimandraHarknes on Anthropic’s Claude cruelty policy 👇
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Do we have moral duties to AI? What would Kant say?
Anthropic has banned user cruelty towards its AI model.
But anthropomorphising Claude is a slippery slope, argues @TimandraHarknes 👇
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Should we be kinder to Claude? It’s a moral dilemma, as I wrote for @unherd -
unherd.com/newsroom/anthropi…
Listen if anyone else is scared of a 92 year old one-legged man in a wheelchair holding a dinner knife, just call me and I will come and sort him out without using a taser.
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It will never stop amazing me that people who consider themselves pro refugee, pro immigrant and general Pro Good Guys Of the Left sneeringly describe the half-dead Holocaust survivors who went to Israel after having been so failed by Europe as “settler colonialists”
Happy to inform you all that @BBCRadio3 is doing a “birthday mixtape” for Steve Reich, who is turning 90 🎂🥳🎹🎻🎹🎻🎹
I’m on @BBCRadio4 talking about AI-written web content with the Media Show right now
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We're hiring an editorial assistant.
Deadline for applications is 9/10/26. More info here:
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