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Andreas Theodorou

@recklesscoding.com

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Faculty at the Polytechnic University of Catalunya (UPC), working on topics related to AI Governance, HRI, and human control. Part of the Smart Sustainable Resources (SSR-UPC) and SINAPSI groups.

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Andreas Theodorou @recklesscoding.com · Nov 12

A bit late to the 'party,' but here I am. The obligatory short intro: I am Assimilated Associate Professor at UPC. Most of my research nowadays focuses on #XAI and #policy relate but I have just started creating a new robotics lab to get back into #transparency, #reactiveplanning, and #HRI! 1/2

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Andreas Theodorou @recklesscoding.com · Dec 13

Raising investment and changing the goalpost in order to derail the ongoing regulation efforts.

Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Dec 13

Also notable: In 2017, Ilya Sutskever estimates that AGI can be built with less than $10 billion—the figures Altman floats in 2024 are now in the trillions.

AGI is a rather handy tool for raising investment in that regard; exciting from a narrative perspective, totally nebulous, and ever expanding.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Dec 13

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · Dec 13

OpenAI responded to Musk's lawsuit, releasing emails that show it discussed becoming a for-profit as early as 2017.

As I showed in my report, being a nonprofit org was crucial to its mythology, recruitment, and eventual valuation—and it was performative from the start.

openai.com/index/elon-m...

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Andreas Theodorou @recklesscoding.com · Dec 10

The best bit? The regulations cover the complete system’s life cycle by mandating assessment to be continuous, not check-once-and-forget checkbox lists. Interestingly, assessment results *need* to be made public! 5/5

Andreas Theodorou @recklesscoding.com · Dec 10

Regardless of the risk level, a great deal of emphasis is placed on 4 core rights: the right to information; the right to data privacy and protection; the right to human choice and participation; and the right to non-discrimination and bias correction. 3/5

Andreas Theodorou @recklesscoding.com · Dec 10

...including ones "that employ subliminal techniques that have the purpose or effect of inducing a natural person to behave in a manner that is harmful or dangerous to their health or safety " This is IMO vague as we often anthropomorphise AI systems. Courts may have to decide what is 'harmful.' 2/5

Andreas Theodorou @recklesscoding.com · Dec 10

On Friday, the Brazilian Senate committee approved their AI regulation bill with an emergency vote set to take place today —alongside a bill on cybsec!
This is a risk-based horizontal legislation, influenced by the AI Act —and GDPR. Like the Act, it prohibits a range of AI systems... 1/5

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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Dec 4

If I had AI-backer VC money instead of making a new LLM I would hire an elite team of librarians to find Actual Information

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Andreas Theodorou @recklesscoding.com · Nov 28

Absolutely great thread on the—mostly British parts—of AI; from the Ancient Greeks to the controversial report by Lighthill to the unnecessary anthropomorphism that we see nowadays in the media.

Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · Nov 27

Off to University of Warwick today to give a history department seminar talk on ‘Reflections on the history of AI’, trains being kind.

If there’s interest I can post the main points here…

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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · Nov 28

Major cloud providers are promising nuclear power will allow them to build as many data centers as they want without a huge climate impact.

This week MV Ramana joins @parismarx.com to discuss the serious problems with those assertions.

Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/252_...

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Jon Agar @jonagar.bsky.social · Nov 27

Off to University of Warwick today to give a history department seminar talk on ‘Reflections on the history of AI’, trains being kind.

If there’s interest I can post the main points here…

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Bhaskar Bhatt @8h45k4r.bsky.social · Nov 25

LLMs don’t store accurate knowledge; they’re probability-based models predicting word sequences based on patterns in texts. While their responses seem credible, they’re unreliable and generate the most likely phrase.

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Virginia Dignum @vdignum.bsky.social · Nov 21

These overhyped articles on #ChatGPT based "research" really get me angry:
@nyt: you are over the top with your headers! And not doing proper journalism work of presenting a balanced, corrected description of the facts!
See www.linkedin.com/posts/graham...

Graham Walker, MD on LinkedIn: I'll break down this JAMA study into 4 takeaways: 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲… | 73 comments

I'll break down this JAMA study into 4 takeaways: 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲, 𝗲𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻, 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲, and 𝗷𝘂𝗱𝗴𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁. Read the study or NYT article… | 73 comments on LinkedIn

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Andreas Theodorou @recklesscoding.com · Nov 20

And yes, this applies to continental Europe universities too as they are, increasingly, follow the British trend of going after metrics while also reducing education spending.

Andreas Theodorou @recklesscoding.com · Nov 20

Or, maybe, the UK government should reduce the amount of resource-wasting bureaucracy (e.g. REF) and fund *all* universities better —especially, if we want to ensure academic freedom. Relying ever more on soft money tends to benefit high-TLR research, but damages fundamental work.

PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · Nov 20

The most prestigious unis should be more like US colleges in how they are funded, Oxford chancellor hopeful Dominic Grieve told @matildamartin.bsky.social

The ex-Tory MP said Oxford & Cambridge should embrace "philanthropy" & be less dependent on tuition fees

www.politicshome.com/news/article...

Oxbridge Should 'Move' Towards How US Universities Are Funded

The country's most prestigious universities should become more like US colleges in how they are funded, candidate for next Oxford chancellor Domini...

www.politicshome.com

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PoliticsHome @politicshome.bsky.social · Nov 20

Oxbridge Should 'Move' Towards How US Universities Are Funded

The country's most prestigious universities should become more like US colleges in how they are funded, candidate for next Oxford chancellor Domini...

www.politicshome.com

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Andreas Theodorou @recklesscoding.com · Nov 20

Probably because it provides an incentive to produce data that are 'publication worthy.' A financial or some other form of payout at the end of the study is guaranteed regardless of the study results. Moreover, keeping private data associated with the research data would create a nightmare for DPOs.

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Virginia Dignum @vdignum.bsky.social · Nov 19

A starterpack on important, critical voices on #AI #ResponsibleAI #AIgovernance #AIpolicy #AIethics
More suggestions welcome!
go.bsky.app/ECWQzUA

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Louise A. Dennis @louiseadennis.bsky.social · Nov 19

I have a PDRA post available in Assurance for Robotic Autonomous Systems. Really looking for someone with some experience of formal verification or possibly a background in CyberSecurity. Details at: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #formal_verification #formal_methods #academic_jobs

Research Associate - Assurance for Robotic Autonomous Systems:Manchester

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk

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Andreas Theodorou @recklesscoding.com · Nov 19

I will be happy with that as it helps the transition from X to here even if I strongly believe that these metrics —or the citation ones— do more harm than good to academia as a whole.

Altmetric @altmetric.com · Nov 18

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Andreas Theodorou @recklesscoding.com · Nov 13

I just got a TiaGO robot —meant to be more robust and powerful than Pepper, but also costs 5x as much— where I plan to port the code!

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European Commission @ec.europa.eu · Nov 13

AI in Europe: safe, trustworthy, and human-centric.

We are inviting feedback to help prepare new guidelines on the AI system definition and practices that break the AI Act – the world's first comprehensive regulation on artificial intelligence.

Have your say here 👉 europa.eu/!6m8JcV

#AI

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Joanna Bryson @j2bryson.bsky.social · Nov 11

Just heard that the new Trump voters strongly overlap with those who own doge cryptocurrency (the cheapest one) who thought their "investment" would go to 0 with Harris and go to the moon with Elon. Which is why Elon was announced to be the head of DOGE: Dept Of Governance Efficiency

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Andreas Theodorou @recklesscoding.com · Nov 12

A shoutout to my PhD supervisor @j2bryson.bsky.social whose social media policy (joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guid...) inspired me to join. 2/2

Guidance to my social media communications as of October 2024

artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security

joanna-bryson.blogspot.com

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arxiv cs.RO @arxiv-cs-ro.bsky.social · Jul 24

Georgios Bakirtzis, Manolis Chiou, Andreas Theodorou
Negotiating Control: Neurosymbolic Variable Autonomy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.16254

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Alessandro Bozzon @alessandrobozzon.com · Dec 13

Job alert! We have a vacancy for an assistant/associate/full professor for top female scientists. Topic: designing and engineering Human-Centered AI Systems. Deadline: Jan 21st. Reach out via email if you are interested and you have questions. More info bit.ly/KInD-HCAI-DTF

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