We warned about this exact scenario last year: That AI companies will situate themselves as the arbiters of life or death, taking over the arbitration of risk determinations and subverting democratic processes. All through the co-option of safety engineering terminology.

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I am giving my inaugural lecture as Professor of Technology Law and Policy @laws.ucl.ac.uk on 26 Nov, in-person & online. The topic: 'high dimensional data law' — how data protection is (or is not) coping with text, images and complex 'content' generally. Registration: www.ucl.ac.uk/laws/events/...

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I'm presenting this paper this afternoon in Malmo! Here's a peek at the poster, which previews the article's core arguments. Come find me to talk more about how we can reclaim democratic control over AI futures :) Read full paper here: doi.org/10.1609/aies...

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I will be presenting "Data Annotation as Measurement" at #AIES2026 in Poster Session 3 (today @ 3:15PM CEST)! ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AI...

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I appreciated this conversation between @melhogan.bsky.social and @eryk.bsky.social and Eryk's analysis of power and language, human-built AI systems, and why we should attend to the "system from nowhere" frame used by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta to wash their hands of accountability.

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