Lilian Edwards

@lilianedwards.bsky.social

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Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , [email protected] .. more

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Lilian Edwards is a Scottish UK-based academic and frequent speaker on issues of Internet law, intellectual property and artificial intelligence. She is on the Advisory Board of the Open Rights Group and the Foundation for Information Policy Research and is the Professor of Law, Innovation and Society at Newcastle Law School at Newcastle University. .. more

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · Dec 12

Since approximately gazillion people have joined lately, I’ve updated my extremely random starter pack of UK and Europe tech, AI, law & policy folk
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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4h

Can't see how - the same people will use AI to generate the summary. Or do editors hope to recognise the summary as slop without er the bother of reading the review?

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4h

Ppl will generate it using GPT. Oh joy.

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4h

Just checked - 68% of all convictions in Scotland occurred in a sheriff summary court for last figs

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4h

Again, but see Scotland

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4h

Except er in Scotland where it's the dominant form. ( Most criminal cases before single sheriff) Whether we are less just than England would be a question on which I suspect there are views .

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4h

Yeh I think better to bolster public interest defenses than rely on perverse juries..

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4h

Blocked! What are you guys up to?? 🤣

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4h

Much more likely elsewhere to leave academe altogether than combine. See comments elsewhere about overwhelming lack of time in underfunded overstudented overadmined unis

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4h

I think it's actually a practice now almost wholly reserved to London although that includes Oxbridgers living in London. As usual the SE bubble is another place. Signed a "provincial" Emerita of 5 universities

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4h

If not clear I personally think this is a loss

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 4h

And actually it's a reverse trend, when I joined Edinburgh most of the senior profs had a side hustle but 35 yrs later who on earth has the time? Only 0.2 decorative profs who are really only barely academics. And practitioners can't get entry level jobs cos no PhD, no pubs

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 15h

The last three weeks papers?

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

I hang on grimly to having some kind of access to Freeview TV for this exact reason. I don't always constantly want to make choices choices! Last night I watched Official Secrets by accident cos it came on, wld never have chosen it..losing browsing is big loss, TV and books...

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks!!

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

A really terrible one that somehow sucks me in every time at this time of year is Last Xmas, the most on the nose film ever...

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Ps just start at 1.46 in - bit of faffing at start ( I didn't edit it!)

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Benjamin and Nelson for me!!!;;

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Wowowowow ♥️

Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 2d

love love love the civic tech representation here! <3 (Hidalgo, Norrick, Van Dyck, & Voegeli)

Beltane @anbhealtaine.bsky.social · 2d

That's a pretty awesome group of people

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Dyou want the terrible ones? Probably Bourne, Bridget Jones and Coyote Ugly. Cos they're ALWAYS ON on something like ITV3. Don't think I've seen anything good 6 times but nearest is Cap Am Winter Soldier which I adore, reincarnation of 70s state conspiracy surveillance genre

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Finally it is doubtful if law is keeping up with the problems behind shiny technical means to deliver explanations. Dun& Bradstreet has just discovered counterfactuals. How long till chain of thought!

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

This creates a tension between "plausible", easy to understand, user-friendly explanations and those "faithful" to underlying reasoning. Yet law does not seem this tension & in latest case CJEU Dun& Bradstreet reinforces out of date mandate for "easy to understand" explns per rec 58 GDPR

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

I discuss the spread of legal mandates of explanations of algorithmic decisions but at same time increasing unreliability of explanations offered by "reasoning" LLMs. Chain of Thought not = explainability! To hallucinatory answers we thus now add hallucinatory explanations..1/2

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Pleased to note my Cambridge lecture on how technical approaches to the right of explanation have gone haywire in the LLM era, is already up!

youtu.be/wLxuq3I2d_s?...

Many thanks to @CIPIL who um may not be here? And to @jennifercobbe for her v kind invitation! 1/3

Faithful or Traitor? The Right of Explanation in a Generative AI World: CIPIL Evening Seminar

YouTube video by Cambridge Law Faculty

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Reposted by Lilian Edwards

Mathias Vermeulen @mathver.bsky.social · 1d

Translating the CJEU judgment in Amazon vs EC on art.40 DSA: (1) giving vetted researchers data isn’t a disproportionate privacy intrusion; (2) compliance may be costly but you can bear it; (3) if you have a better way to study systemic risks, we haven’t heard it. curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...

Reposted by Lilian Edwards

Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 2d

love love love the civic tech representation here! <3 (Hidalgo, Norrick, Van Dyck, & Voegeli)

Beltane @anbhealtaine.bsky.social · 2d

That's a pretty awesome group of people

Committee on Technology

Sarah Aoun
Ruha Benjamin, Ida B Wells Just Data Lab at Princeton
Myaisha Hayes, MediaJustice
Noel Hidalgo, BetaNYC
Sam Jacobs, Food Fight Lab
Katherine Jin, Democratic Socialists of America
Amba Kak, AI Now Institute
Huge Ma, Turbovax
Matt Mitchell
ReNika Moore, ACLU
Alondra Nelson, Institute for Advanced Study
Martha Norrick, Backbone Strategies
Julie Samuels, Tech NYC
Garfield Swaby, New York Public Library
Julie Swoope Democratic Socialists of America
Haley Van Dyck
Elyse Voegeli, 18F
Maia Woluchem, Data & Society

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Have you tried… NOT being a vampire slayer?

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d

Moi aussi

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d

I mean f*CK you mean ANOTHER pair of glasses?! For life???!!!!

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2d

They don't want to spend /lots of money on fat people, at root, because at root it is ALL OUR OWN FAULT ( unlike ppl w high blood pressure, autism etc)

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