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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · Sep 8

Is also the case that, if the AI bubble comes, it will sting www.theatlantic.com/economy/arch... we've seen highly valued companies that can't make a profit before

Just How Bad Would an AI Bubble Be?

The entire U.S. economy is being propped up by the promise of productivity gains that seem very far from materializing.

www.theatlantic.com

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Institute for the Future of Work @ifow.org · Sep 8

Having admitted that it used pirated works to build its LLM, in "the first class action settlement centered on AI and copyright in the United States", #Anthropic have now agreed to pay compensation to authors. It is unlikely to be the last.

www.wired.com/story/anthro...

Anthropic Agrees to Pay Authors at Least $1.5 Billion in AI Copyright Settlement

Anthropic will pay at least $3,000 for each copyrighted work that it pirated. The company downloaded unauthorized copies of books in early efforts to gather training data for its AI tools.

www.wired.com

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Scotland's Futures Forum @scotfutures.bsky.social · Aug 14

Will AI support or supplant human participation in politics?

Join the compelling conversation chaired by @maggiechapman.bsky.social MSP with our panellists Robert Moran, @pipt.bsky.social, @profvaccari.bsky.social and @ewaluger.bsky.social

📆 Aug 20, 5:30pm ‐ 7:00pm
🎫 t.co/jOCnetKs19

Human-like robot at a podium with microphones, delivering a speech against a colourful blue and yellow background.

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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · Aug 11

“AI could result in ‘unequal care provision for women’”. Another reminder that, without responsible adoption, AI just amplifies our past bad practice and reintroduces it into our present. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

AI tools used by English councils downplay women’s health issues, study finds

Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes

www.theguardian.com

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · Aug 5

Very excited to be recruiting for a Communication and Impact Officer to work with me, @ewaluger.bsky.social and the whole @braiduk.bsky.social team in Edinburgh through late 2028! Opportunity is Grade 7 and applications close 1st Sept

Communication and Impact Officer

The BRAID Communications and Impact Manager will play a pivotal role in enhancing BRAID’s visibility, engagement, and overall impact. The post-holder will contribute to a stakeholder-focussed communic...

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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · Jul 24

The @braiduk.bsky.social team is looking for an administrator to join our project family. Working with me and @shannonvallor.bsky.social and a lovely widerteam. Do please circulate to anyone who might be interested. Deadline 5th August!

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Project Administrator

We are looking for someone to join the BRAID team as Project Administrator. The successful candidate will work closely with other team members to ensure the smooth running of the BRAID Programme, prov...

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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · Jun 30

Always lovely to catch up with you.

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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · Jun 18

Which jacket was designed by AI? ‘Unbelievably Creative’ asking the BRAID community questions about the role of AI in creativity
@braiduk.bsky.social @shannonvallor.bsky.social

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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · Jun 18

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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · Jun 18

Cracking on with the first panel of the day (AI & Society) at our @braiduk.bsky.social community event. Starting with an overview of the @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social AI public attitudes survey. @shannonvallor.bsky.social

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · Jun 18

Kicking off our celebration of the first three years of @braiduk.bsky.social in Manchester at the Lowry and it’s going to be a fantastic day! So proud of all the artists and researchers who make up this amazing community

BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · Jun 18

Excited to be in Manchester where the #BRAIDUK community is gathering. 3 years since the launch of BRAID, we look forward to celebrating the achievements of our community, & exploring together opportunities for the future @christophersmith.bsky.social #AHRC #AcademicSky #AHRC

BRAID-commissioned artists gathered at the Lowry, smiling and with bright colours in the background.

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · Jun 16

Fancy Edinburgh Uni as a visiting fellow? Global Majority Fellowships in NLP 2025-2026, for early careers researchers. For this 1st year, we welcome applications on “Responsible NLP and Digital Cultural Heritage”, working with me! 2-3 months in duration, Visa fees, stipend &travel. Please share!

Global Majority Fellowships 2025-2026

www.responsiblenlp.org

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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · Jun 11

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The British Academy @britishacademy.bsky.social · Jun 6

Join the Early Career Research Network in September for the National Postdoctoral Conference which aims to celebrate, unite, and empower postdoctoral researchers from across the UK. Register here: www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/natio...

National Postdoctoral Conference for ECRs

The National Postdoctoral Conference is a free event taking place in September 2025, open to ECRs from SHAPE and STEM disciplines.

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Dawn Turner @dadair.bsky.social · Jun 6

Fitting for today’s cat fight.

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · May 27

The Labour government’s plan for economic growth, public service reform, and thus its electoral hopes, rest on the country adopting AI.

But its strategy of breathlessly bigging up bleeding-edge AI and pursuing massive data center investments is not cutting through to voters, MPs fear.

Labour’s AI gold rush gets stuck in the mud

Ministers are preparing a string of AI announcements for early June, but voters are skeptical about the technology. That leaves the ruling Labour Party with a huge problem.

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Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · May 26

Electronic Legal Deposit materials are back online in 5 legal deposit reading rooms after the British Library cyberattack! Hurrah. But not in London yet. ICYDK, this encompasses vast swathes of modern digital texts including journal papers & books, & other media. Great to see it back!

Guides: Electronic legal deposit: Introduction

Access electronic legal deposit at partner libraries

bl.libguides.com

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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · May 16

Is the before or after the locusts and the floods?

Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · May 16

I hard second this one!

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · May 8

“We are told repeatedly that AI will eventually help us solve social issues, including climate change...while AI infrastructures are right now burdening communities and undermining climate goals,” D&S’s @tamigraph.bsky.social tells @leximcmenamin.com @teenvogue.com. www.teenvogue.com/story/chatgp...

ChatGPT Is Everywhere — Why Aren't We Talking About Its Environmental Costs?

One estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search.

www.teenvogue.com

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Ewa Luger @ewaluger.bsky.social · May 8

Really great talk and discussion with @dynarch.bsky.social. The full recording will be available soon.

BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · May 8

A big thank you to @dynarch.bsky.social for a great seminar and to @ewaluger.bsky.social for hosting.

The recording of this seminar will be on our website soon, so keep an eye out!

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BRAID UK @braiduk.bsky.social · May 8

Kicking off our next Lecture Series with our speaker @dynarch.bsky.social hosted by @ewaluger.bsky.social. Lydia is talking on Responsible Use of AI in the Creative Industries.

The recording of this seminar will be available soon on our website!

@designinf.bsky.social

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Design Informatics @designinf.bsky.social · Apr 29

Join next @braiduk.bsky.social x IDI Hybrid Seminar where @dynarch.bsky.social will provide key insights from her scoping BRAID project ‘Creating a dynamic #archive of Responsible AI Ecosystems in the context of #CreativeAI’

📅 Thu 8 May
⏰ 4 – 5pm
📍@inspacegallery.bsky.social/ Zoom
🎟 edin.ac/3CoJbuZ

Infographic of BRAID x IDI seminar with Lydia Farina on 8th May, 4-5pm and her picture at the bottom right.

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Prof. Marion Oswald, MBE @marion-infolaw.bsky.social · Apr 29

New CETaS report 'UK Public Attitudes to National Security Data Processing: Assessing Human and Machine Intrusion' (Powell, Oswald & Janjeva) published today. Based on a nationally representative survey and a citizens panel cetas.turing.ac.uk/publications... 1/3

UK Public Attitudes to National Security Data Processing: Assessing Human and Machine Intrusion

Emerging technologies are transforming national security data processing, as many analytical tasks can now be automated – including through machine learning

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Institute for the Future of Work @ifow.org · Apr 17

Excellent research workshop last night at the RSA in London on 'AI and the Novel', led by @clemicollett.bsky.social as part of the work she is doing with us and @mctd.bsky.social, with funding from @braiduk.bsky.social. Rich discussions about risks and opportunities across the field!

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Apr 17

Nasty work. www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

But their defense also hinges on the argument that the individual books themselves are, essentially, worthless—one expert witness for Meta describes that the influence of a single book in LLM pretraining “adjusted its performance by less than 0.06% on industry standard benchmarks, a meaningless change no different from noise.” Furthermore, Meta says, that while the company “has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in LLM development,” they see no market in paying authors to license their books because “for there to be a market, there must be something of value to exchange, but none of Plaintiffs works has economic value, individually, as training data.” (An argument essential to fair use, but that also sounds like a scaled up version of a scenario in which the New York Philharmonic board argues against paying individual members of the orchestra because the organization spent a lot of money on the upkeep of David Geffen Hall, and also, a solo bassoon cannot play every part in “The Rite of Spring.”)

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