Quoting from the email I received today inviting me to participate in this survey (which you should too if you work in research of any kind in the UK): The UK National AI in Research Survey is being administered by RAND Europe on behalf of UKRI and the UK Metascience Unit. This survey is a key component of the UK Government’s AIContinue reading “UK National AI in Research Survey “
Category Archives: That Slops
This Week In Slop, Week of 12 July 2026
This week: Meta uses AI to make pregnant employees redundant; Elon’s data center gasses Black communities in Tennessee; OpenAI and Jony Ive think their upcoming portable smart speaker will kill the iPhone; and the creator of Jar Jar Binks declares that AI is the future of film making, so deal with it. To me, myContinue reading “This Week In Slop, Week of 12 July 2026”
Anne-Marie Imafidon on AI as a ‘magic trick’
Dr Anne-Marie Imafidon is a trustee at the Institute for the Future of Work, the CEO of Stemettes, and one of the UK’s most highly regarded figures in technology. The Oxford computer scientist and entrepreneur appears here on Dr Myriam Francois’s The Tea podcast to discuss why AI needs to be more critiqued than feared.
This Week In Slop, Week of 5 July 2026
This week: Meta lets you deepfake anybody, then pulls the plug; Microsoft thinks Claude and ChatGPT are a bit pricey; OpenAI’s GPT-Live is here to listen; Anthropic signs 20 year crypto data center lease; and Meta’s deepfake detector can’t detect MetaAI’s own watermarked deepfakes. Slop me! Tilly Norwood, AI ‘actor’ denounced by actors union, toContinue reading “This Week In Slop, Week of 5 July 2026”
Signal’s President Meredith Whittaker: “You Have Plenty to Hide”
Meredith Whittaker is the president of the nonprofit organisation responsible for developing the Signal messaging app. In this episode of the Futurology podcast, she discusses the ways AI is being used as a tool of surveillance capitalism.
Book Review: Empire of AI (2025) by Karen Hao
Impeccably researched page-turner essential reading for those most unlikely to read it Empire of AI: Inside the Reckless Race for Total Domination by Karen HaoAllen Lane, London, 2025; 482 pages.Reviewed by Dr John Kannenberg Almost a decade ago, the online museum world made collective pledges to decolonise their collections and curatorial practices, to dedicate themselvesContinue reading “Book Review: Empire of AI (2025) by Karen Hao”
Carissa Véliz on the Myth of AI’s Inevitability
Dr Carissa Véliz is a leading AI ethicist and a professor at the Institute for Ethics in AI at the University of Oxford. In this episode of The Tea with Myriam Francois, Dr Véliz argues against the prevailing attitude that AI is inevitable.