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 · 1h

Alternately she psychically intuited I,'d gone to look at a kitten to KEEP HER COMPANY and is getting her dirty protest in early

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1h

And your ears

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1h

I'm trying to do both. Read The Ministry of Time if you haven't

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1h

Empirical unprecedented evidence

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1h

In way more important news than anything about AI my um robust cat has mysteriously not eaten for 3 days so today's plans cancelled in favour of V-E-T.

She ate half a mouse a few days before which is a bit radical and wondering if she's mus-intolerant.

Anyway le sigh

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1h

I find this continually v weird in that Edinburgh did essentially the same thing ages ago but just haven't wanked on about it ( and afaics been a bit more thoughtful about bit)

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1h

Plus, still, effing AI doomer ville

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1h

"Mrs Merton, what about the £10bn donation from Ellison made you think AI might be more interesting than Anglo Saxon Norse and Celtic?" share.google/ndok7Sq6X7lf...

Oracle's Larry Ellison invests £10bn in Oxford for AI | James Dancer posted on the topic | LinkedIn

Oracle founder Larry Ellison will now invest over $15bn in Oxford, putting the city in the top ranks of global science and innovation in AI. From an original plan to invest $1bn in the city, the Elli...

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1h

The UK CDPA88 was in fact incredibly ahead of its time in having an explicit provision about ownership of computer generated works ( which UK has signally failed to exploit)

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1h

I assumed you were implying as Andres certainly was I think that copyright law had failed to deal with current "AI" woes? As for other I stick by point that few people had encountered Internet till at vest early 90s and I v much doubt any legislators. Certainly not over here 🤣

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1h

Oxford and Cambridge both run very high pressure sales on their "executive" courses. More usefully sometimes they graciously let civil servants go too ... Tho again no doubt on our dollar

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1h

I forgot you were in Cambridge!

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1h

Given this year it can hardly avoid being a climax! Or so I'm telling myself...

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 2h

I don't think it's fair if obvious. They have as they keep saying inherited no money. I do think they have floundered around like dead chickens. But that should signal incompetence not actual malevolent disregard for ordinary people ,( not "working people") like Johnson, Mogg and Truss

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 16h

& will never have time / expertise to get everything right ( what is right?) for all time. The current AI copyright wars are a debate in the courts between different social priorities . They are not an indicator of law being worn out any more than fairness or accountability are .

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 16h

Legal principles on the whole adapt very well to innovation - but they remain an interpretative framework whether you're talking railways, cars or AI. You cannot legislate anew for every phase of every new invention nor should you as legislators likely to have own biases and lacunae ,

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 16h

The problem with AI is not that copyright doesn't provide solutions but that whatever side you're on u may not like the deal it seems to give you. So you argue. What entirely new law would u invent to regulate training data issues? ( Even the AIA in essence doesn't go there )

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 17h

Well the Internet didn't begin even on paper till 1981 or so and in reality for anyone outside academe or the military till early 90s. They'd have had to have been v clairvoyant to have predicted ML let alone LLMs...

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 21h

But still!

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 21h

Er I know hon

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 21h

World peace obviously! I wish I had dreams like that...

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 21h

I have only just discovered there is a hardback revival because publishers are spray painting the paper-end ( is there a word for this?) AITAH ( not just for not knowing that word?) ?

( Fore-edge says the internet which seems reasonably something I've never heard of)

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 22h

No just populist 🤣

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 22h

Now illegal I think ?

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

I think this is astute, both the article and the comment. Reform ( wonderfully described by Michael Gove recently as more Dick Emery than blackshirts) would be a natural fit. Scared now

Jeni Tennison @jenitennison.com · 1d

One driver for hostility to AI is the lack of say people have as it pervades their lives, work, education, healthcare, entertainment etc. A feeling we never asked for this, but it's happening anyway.

An effective political response would relocate power over AI's deployment to those it affects.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 1d

"One major question, going into 2026, is which party will speak for the Americans who abhor the incursions of AI into their lives and want to see its reach restricted. Another is whether widespread public hostility to [AI] even matters given all the money behind it." - @michellegoldberg.bsky.social

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

I think that's absolutely right. It's the next stage upgrade of the constant low level fury have over being only able to reach call centres, sites with no phone numbers or support, MFA, password madness, CAPTCHAs et al. Feeling of constantly having to traverse occupied territory to get to basic life

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Hahaha

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

@cgoanta.bsky.social

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

Oh COME ON. Andres I know you're on holiday but please don't sound like youve been replaced by a bot

Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 1d

I once saw Sean Connery's brother filming an advert in the car park of Safeway's in Muirend ( Glasgow)

Rhodri Marsden @rhodri.biz · 1d

Please quote this with stories of your minor interactions with non-celebrities, e.g. “I once accidentally bumped into a man in the Wellingborough branch of Holland & Barrett”

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