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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 7d

🥀 🧪 Jane Goodall 1934-2025

Vox @vox.com · 7d

Jane Goodall, one of the most influential environmental figures in human history, has died at 91 while touring the country to deliver an urgent message about nature and human existence.

“We’re destroying the planet,” she said last week during the Forbes Sustainability Leaders Summit in NYC.

Listen to Jane Goodall’s final — and urgent — message

Her final interviews are essential listening for everyone.

www.vox.com

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Alan Winfield @alan-winfield.bsky.social · 8d

We cannot rely on crowd sourced reporting such as the AI Incidents database incidentdatabase.ai, which is excellent but based on press reports and therefore reflects only the tip of the iceberg of AI harms. 2/2

Welcome to the Artificial Intelligence Incident Database

The starting point for information about the AI Incident Database

incidentdatabase.ai

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Alan Winfield @alan-winfield.bsky.social · 8d

Very good. I'm especially pleased to read that the Act includes 'a new mechanism for companies and the public to report “potential critical safety incidents”'. We badly need AI accident and incident (near miss) reporting and investigation. #AI #AISafety #AIRegulation 1/2

Winbuzzer @winbuzzer.com · 8d

California Signs Nation’s First Major AI Safety Law, Forcing Transparency on Tech Giants

#AI #AIRegulation #AISafety #California #SB53 #TechPolicy

winbuzzer.com/2025/09/30/c...

California Signs Nation’s First Major AI Safety Law, Forcing Transparency on Tech Giants - WinBuzzer

California has passed the nation's first major AI safety law, SB 53. The new rules force tech giants to be transparent about their frontier AI models.

winbuzzer.com

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Alan Winfield @alan-winfield.bsky.social · 27d

Good luck Laura👍 Wonderful city, wonderful university.

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Alan Winfield @alan-winfield.bsky.social · 27d

My much bigger concern is accident investigation. I very much hope the South Korean robots are equipped with event data recorders (which we call ethical back boxes), so that when accidents or near miss incidents happen, they can be properly investigated. www.theguardian.com/science/2017...

Give robots an 'ethical black box' to track and explain decisions, say scientists

As robots start to enter public spaces and work alongside humans, the need for safety measures has become more pressing, argue academics

www.theguardian.com

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Alan Winfield @alan-winfield.bsky.social · 27d

To the best of my knowledge the Starship delivery robots that operated for 5 years in Milton Keynes, UK, were not accorded any 'pedestrian' rights. They were regarded a great success, especially during Covid lockdown, see www.mkfm.com/news/local-n... 1/2

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Noelle Sullivan Ph.D @noellesullivan.bsky.social · 28d

If you need some levity in these trying times, here's what's fresh out of Paris....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfUE...

The most INSANE Bohemian Rhapsody Flashmob you will ever see!!

YouTube video by Julien Cohen

www.youtube.com

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Alan Winfield @alan-winfield.bsky.social · Sep 3

Wonderful - thank you Joanna! These are important archival images. #Robotics

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Alan Winfield @alan-winfield.bsky.social · Sep 3

Er, why @bsky.app..?

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Alan Winfield @alan-winfield.bsky.social · Aug 26

Wonderful! I've been in Aarhus several times for the excellent RoboPhilosopy conference. It's a really great city.

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Russ Newell @mrfreeze-ak.bsky.social · Aug 25

#AI From Scientific American:

www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-...

How AI Echo Chambers May Be Fueling Psychotic Episodes

A new wave of delusional thinking fueled by artificial intelligence has researchers investigating the dark side of AI companionship

www.scientificamerican.com

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Margaret Morgan 🇳🇱🇦🇺🇪🇺 @margaretmorgan.bsky.social · Aug 1

This, by @birmo.bsky.social, is the most hopeful thing I've ever read about LLMs.

open.substack.com/pub/aliensid...

But this vast, ultimately unknowable alien machine mind we’re building to replace us as a species need not answer solely to Space Karen and the Zuckerborg or the murderous old clams of the CCP. As in so many things—sovereign wealth funds, taxing fossil fuel companies, and nudie runs from the sauna to the ice bath—Norway shows us how.

John Birmingham, Defeating the fanboys of the Torment Nexus

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Patrick Barkham @patrickbarkham.bsky.social · Aug 1

Lovely story from the brilliant @britishwildlife.bsky.social magazine. This mag is endlessly fascinating – recommend if you're not a subscriber already. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Tourist discovers ‘extinct’ jellyfish while rock-pooling in Outer Hebrides

Thistle-shaped Depastrum cyathiforme was last seen in France in 1976, but has now been found on South Uist

www.theguardian.com

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rémi @okremiok.bsky.social · Aug 1

implemented midi

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Simon Knott @simoninsuffolk.bsky.social · Aug 1

Hull Minster, early evening in spring.

#YorkshireDay #GodsOwnCounty

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Alan Winfield @alan-winfield.bsky.social · Jul 26

A wonderful appointment - congratulations🍾🍾🍾

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Amanda J. McGee @amcgeewrites.bsky.social · Jul 16

There is someone out there who wants your weird little book. Even if you doubt yourself sometimes, don't doubt their earnest enthusiasm.

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Alan Winfield @alan-winfield.bsky.social · Jul 16

Earlier today I searched for #ethical generative #AI, and found this @wired.com article: I’m Not Convinced Ethical Generative AI Currently Exists www.wired.com/story/the-pr...

Short answer: no.

I’m Not Convinced Ethical Generative AI Currently Exists

WIRED’s advice columnist considers whether some AI tools are more ethical than others, and if developers can make AI wiser.

www.wired.com

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Alan Winfield @alan-winfield.bsky.social · Jul 2

AI and why we should all be worried. A recent talk for the Swindon Science Cafe alanwinfield.blogspot.com/2025/06/ai-a... #AI #AIethics #sustainability #exploitation

AI and why we should all be worried - AI's dirty secrets

I gave a new talk on AI for the Swindon Science Cafe on 3rd June. Here below are the slides. This talk is an updated version of a short t...

alanwinfield.blogspot.com

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Jun 8

'Rising Tides' by contemporary US painter Samantha French #WomensArt

Painting featuring a Black woman, head and shoulders, floating under turquoise water with eyes closed smiling and with bubbles coming out of her nose

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Gary Wing @garywingart.bsky.social · Jun 8

A portrait presented to a good chum for his 60th birthday present today.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Jun 8

US painter Maria Oakey Dewing,
A Bed of Poppies, (c.1909) #WomensArt

Painting of red pink and whiteflowers in a grassy meadow

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Mark G. Bilby @mgbilby.bsky.social · May 24

Educators should attend. Education cannot merely involve using AI, given its proclivity to lie, deceive, and fabricate because that is what humans and human-behavior trained predictive algorithms do. Education must be a massive critique and dismantling of AI.

Alan Winfield @alan-winfield.bsky.social · May 24

This is extraordinary. A database tracking legal decisions in cases where generative #AI produced hallucinated content; both fabricated citations and ficticious court rulings. 112 cases so far; 19 this month: www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...

Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

AI Hallucination Cases Database – Damien Charlotin

Database tracking legal cases where generative AI produced hallucinated citations submitted in court filings.

www.damiencharlotin.com

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Eerke Boiten @eerkeboiten.bsky.social · May 25

LLM reveals all the situations where you need text, but you don't really want to write it and you're not sure anybody is going to read it.

Alan Winfield @alan-winfield.bsky.social · May 24

This is extraordinary. A database tracking legal decisions in cases where generative #AI produced hallucinated content; both fabricated citations and ficticious court rulings. 112 cases so far; 19 this month: www.damiencharlotin.com/hallucinatio...

Source: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

AI Hallucination Cases Database – Damien Charlotin

Database tracking legal cases where generative AI produced hallucinated citations submitted in court filings.

www.damiencharlotin.com

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Jun 2

Natalie Rak, also known as Rak, is a Poland based street artist #WomensArt
#Monday

Photo of the side of a building with a large mural of a girl tipping a watering can, beside the building a real small tree grows, giving the impression the girl in the image is watering it

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