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Kris Shrishak
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Enforce Senior Fellow at @iccl.bsky.social | Tech-policy, algorithmic decision making, privacy, cryptography, Internet security, human rights | [email protected]
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abeba.bsky.social
"The Minister states that “the chatbot was tested extensively...checking responses to “55 questions out of which 53 were deemed successful"

Wendy Lyon, an immigration & human rights solicitor at Abbey law, found that many of these 53 “successful” responses were wrong, unhelpful & misleading."
November 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
krisshrishak.bsky.social
Our investigation into Irish Department of Justice use of chatbots. The department hides behind disclaimers while deploying misleading chatbots.

@iccl.bsky.social @abeba.bsky.social @johnnyryan.bsky.social

www.iccl.ie/news/irish-d...
Department of Justice chatbots mislead people seeking information
Irish Department of Justice internalises the AI hype and takes no responsibility for misleading chatbots.
www.iccl.ie
November 19, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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abeba.bsky.social
what a great honour to receive the 25th Irish Tatler Women of the Year Award in the category of Innovation. the optimist in me thinks this marks a turn for recognition of the importance of critical work and accountability in AI

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November 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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philipcball.bsky.social
I fully endorse this. Political leaders are falling prey to AI hype, and seem to lack any kind of help from reputable sources who could counter the false claims of tech CEOs. Where are their science advisers???
November 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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emilymbender.bsky.social
We need our policymakers everywhere to be attuned to the needs of the people, not the whims of CEOs -- and especially not CEOs in the grip of TESCREAList fantasies.

Thank you @abeba.bsky.social and @krisshrishak.bsky.social for speaking up

www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-is-s...
AI Hype Is Steering EU Policy Off Course | TechPolicy.Press
Kris Shrishak and Abeba Birhane say policymakers should stop peddling in unscientific discourse about "AGI" and "superintelligence."
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November 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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benjaminjriley.bsky.social
Although focused on the EU, the warnings offered here are no less true for AI policy in the US, or anywhere else for that matter. In my lifetime I've never seen grandiose hype of what *might* happen with a technology drive what we are doing in the here and now. Not good!
November 17, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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olivia.science
"data centers already accounted for 22% of Ireland's total electricity consumption in 2024. In the Dublin/Meath area, where a third of Ireland's population lives, 48% of the electricity was used by data centers in 2023." @abeba.bsky.social & @krisshrishak.bsky.social

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November 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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techpolicypress.bsky.social
Kris Shrishak and Abeba Birhane say policymakers should stop peddling in unscientific discourse about “AGI” and “superintelligence,” and instead uphold their duty to serve citizens rather than cater to the whims of tech CEOs.
AI Hype Is Steering EU Policy Off Course | TechPolicy.Press
Kris Shrishak and Abeba Birhane say policymakers should stop peddling in unscientific discourse about "AGI" and "superintelligence."
www.techpolicy.press
November 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
krisshrishak.bsky.social
In a short piece for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, @abeba.bsky.social and I write #AIHype Is Steering EU Policy Off Course.

Stop peddling in unscientific discourse about “AGI” and “superintelligence.” Serve citizens. Don't cater to the whims of tech CEOs.

www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-is-s...
AI Hype Is Steering EU Policy Off Course | TechPolicy.Press
Kris Shrishak and Abeba Birhane say policymakers should stop peddling in unscientific discourse about "AGI" and "superintelligence."
www.techpolicy.press
November 17, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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elpaiscyt.bsky.social
¿Burbuja en la IA? El clan tecnológico invierte en sí mismo de forma circular y abre la espita de los despidos masivos

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¿Burbuja en la IA? El clan tecnológico invierte en sí mismo de forma circular y abre la espita de los despidos masivos
Las grandes empresas de inteligencia artificial se financian en un círculo cerrado que genera recelos ante un posible estallido tras la creación de un oligopolio
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November 17, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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adw.bsky.social
Just in time for the meeting my school is having I’ve just learned is definitely about us incorporating AI into our workflow somehow
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · Sep 6
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Abstract: Under the banner of progress, products have been uncritically adopted or even imposed on users — in past centuries with tobacco and combustion engines, and in the 21st with social media. For these collective blunders, we now regret our involvement or apathy as scientists, and society struggles to put the genie back in the bottle. Currently, we are similarly entangled with artificial intelligence (AI) technology. For example, software updates are rolled out seamlessly and non-consensually, Microsoft Office is bundled with chatbots, and we, our students, and our employers have had no say, as it is not considered a valid position to reject AI technologies in our teaching and research. This is why in June 2025, we co-authored an Open Letter calling on our employers to reverse and rethink their stance on uncritically adopting AI technologies. In this position piece, we expound on why universities must take their role seriously toa) counter the technology industry’s marketing, hype, and harm; and to b) safeguard higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, and scientific integrity. We include pointers to relevant work to further inform our colleagues. Figure 1. A cartoon set theoretic view on various terms (see Table 1) used when discussing the superset AI (black outline, hatched background): LLMs are in orange; ANNs are in magenta; generative models are in blue; and finally, chatbots are in green. Where these intersect, the colours reflect that, e.g. generative adversarial network (GAN) and Boltzmann machine (BM) models are in the purple subset because they are both generative and ANNs. In the case of proprietary closed source models, e.g. OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Apple’s Siri, we cannot verify their implementation and so academics can only make educated guesses (cf. Dingemanse 2025). Undefined terms used above: BERT (Devlin et al. 2019); AlexNet (Krizhevsky et al. 2017); A.L.I.C.E. (Wallace 2009); ELIZA (Weizenbaum 1966); Jabberwacky (Twist 2003); linear discriminant analysis (LDA); quadratic discriminant analysis (QDA). Table 1. Below some of the typical terminological disarray is untangled. Importantly, none of these terms are orthogonal nor do they exclusively pick out the types of products we may wish to critique or proscribe. Protecting the Ecosystem of Human Knowledge: Five Principles
November 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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emp1.bsky.social
This is one of the main reasons we live in times of tyranny and a misinterpreted social anarchy, with those in power behaving above the law. Society has driven to consider the avoidance of social norms as ultimate freedom, abandoning all sense of duty,
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November 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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leoguari.bsky.social
"These generative AI systems give sometimes correct and sometimes wrong information. The errors are not bugs, but by design. They "predict" next words based on probabilities. Facts are not their forte." (Sigh)
November 14, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
Hey!! Here's my new piece for The New Republic!!

It's about how Meta is cramming generative video slop (the most energy-intensive of the gen systems) into its massive global advertising engine: a recipe for an order magnitude worsening of its already-huge harms 😱

newrepublic.com/article/2028...
a slop generated baby hippo swimming in water In 2021, every active Meta user cost around one kilogram of carbon dioxide equivalent, or CO2e—a way of measuring greenhouse gases—in terms of direct and unadjusted power grid emissions. By 2024, that had risen to 1.8 kilograms of CO2e. Similarly, every $1 million of revenue caused about 26 tonnes of CO2e in 2021. That’s now 36 tonnes. Meta did not respond to a request for comment for this story. Meta’s push to force-feed advertising slop into every single corner of the massive digital space it controls could not have worse timing. The country it’s headquartered in is pouring cash into resuscitating coal and accelerating gas. The United States just saw the first two half-year periods with an increase in coal generation for at least half a decade (probably longer), as the Trump administration sets about pouring millions into keeping coal on life support. meta's emissions rising fast
November 11, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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fabiochiusi.bsky.social
“A recent response from the European Commission to our access to documents request not only revealed that the President of the Commission was repeating the words of tech CEOs, but it also accidentally divulged the Commission’s use of generative AI in public documents.”

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November 14, 2025 at 7:19 AM
krisshrishak.bsky.social
The European Commission uses ChatGPT outputs in public documents.

@iccl.bsky.social has filed a complaint to the European Ombudsman as this use likely violates Commission's own guidelines and its obligation under EU treaties

www.iccl.ie/news/europea...
European Commission breaches own AI guidelines by using ChatGPT in public documents
ICCL has filed a complaint to the European Ombudsman against the European Commission for its use of generative AI in public documents, which likely violates its own guidelines and its obligation under...
www.iccl.ie
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 AM
krisshrishak.bsky.social
I will be at #GIJC25 next week. Looking forward to meeting investigative journalists and others working on important issues.

Suggestions on people I could meet?
@andre.netzpolitik.org @balkanizator.bsky.social @giacomoza.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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rosamundevb.bsky.social
My lecture today was about the AI act in which I also discussed the recent attempt by EC of weakening GDPR and AI act in the form of the digital omnibus package stimulated by the #AI Hype (see also open letter @krisshrishak.bsky.social) These are undemocratic developments that should worry everyone.
November 13, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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balkanizator.bsky.social
Btw 2020 and 2021 Europol landed enormous volumes of data as a part of three mega-hack operations that dismantled encrypted communication systems. This would become the starting point of the agency's AI ambitions. New investigation out with @giacomoza.bsky.social and @stavinoha.bsky.social
Hungry for data: Inside Europol’s secretive AI programme | Computer Weekly
The EU’s law enforcement agency has been quietly amassing data to feed an ambitious but secretive artificial intelligence development programme that could have far-reaching privacy implications for pe...
www.computerweekly.com
November 13, 2025 at 8:14 AM
krisshrishak.bsky.social
Europol's AI programme wearesolomon.com/mag/format/i...
Hungry for data: Inside Europol’s secretive AI program
Europol’s growing appetite for data and artificial intelligence is transforming European policing, largely out of public view, and without clear oversight.
wearesolomon.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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netzpolitik.org
Papagei der Tech-Bosse: Wissenschaftler, die zu Künstlicher Intelligenz forschen, widersprechen Ursula von der Leyen. Sie wiederhole nur „unwissenschaftliche Marketingaussagen“ von US-Konzernen netzpolitik.org/2025/kuenstl...
„Künstliche Intelligenz“: Ursula von der Leyen als Papagei der Tech-Bosse
EU-Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen macht sich die Übertreibungen der Tech-Bosse über „Künstliche Intelligenz“ zu eigen. Dagegen protestieren nun Wissenschaftler: Die EU sollte eher ein Aug...
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November 12, 2025 at 7:47 AM
krisshrishak.bsky.social
Old excuse: there is too much training data so they cannot know what is in there

New excuse: training data does not tell them about the model behaviour so they don't care

Real excuse: It takes care and effort to curate and understand the data; Doing so will expose the snake oil salesmen of GenAI
abeba.bsky.social Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 13d
flat out lies. these tech ceos take regulators and the masses for fools
“If you want to know how a model will behave, the only way of doing it is to run it,” Mensch also suggested. “You do need to have some empirical testing, what’s happening. Knowing the input data that has been used for training is not going to tell you whether your model is going to behave well in [a healthcare use-case], for instance. You don’t really care about what’s in the training data. You do care about the empirical behaviour of the model. So you don’t need knowledge of the training data. And if you had knowledge of the training data, it wouldn’t even teach you whether the model is going to behave well or not. So this is why I’m saying it’s neither necessary nor sufficient.”
November 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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johnnyryan.bsky.social
As we write in The Guardian this morning, the Commission’s plan to gut EU digital rules will hurt Europe’s startups and give U.S. tech an unassailable advantage, confirming Europe as a digital vassal.
Piece by George Riekeles and I.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The EU has let US tech giants run riot. Diluting our data law will only entrench their power | Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles
The GDPR is Europe’s defence against digital oligarchy and child harm. Deregulation plans are misguided, say Johnny Ryan and Georg Riekeles
www.theguardian.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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msoares.bsky.social
Cientistas europeus, preocupados com as consequências políticos endossarem o hype dos geradores de lero-lero, imploram a Ursula Vanderléa: "por favor, PARE agora!"
November 11, 2025 at 8:48 PM