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How Google (almost) squandered generative AI
Loonshots, tech leviathans and risk aversion
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What happens to I when AI arrives?
Human agency in the age of algorithms
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A quick guide to differential privacy
One method for privacy-preserving machine learning
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Mahdi Assan

September 2024

3 thoughts on o1
The implications of OpenAI’s new LLM
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General-purpose models under the EU AI Act
A quick summary of the obligations that apply to OpenAI and other genAI developers
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Intelligence sharing under the IPA 2016 explained
The rules that apply to intelligence partnerships between the UK and foreign authorities
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Once it is there, it is there forever
When techno-solutionism and function creep combine
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Mahdi Assan

August 2024

What does trustworthy AI look like?
A quick overview of NIST's AI Risk Management Framework
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🗃️ From the Archive: In Data We Trust!
Big Data and algorithms are gradually decimating the concepts of individualism and free will
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Interception warrants under the IPA 2016 explained
An overview of the rules on the interception of communications by state agencies in the UK
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🗃️ From the Archive: From East to West
How a 16th Century Firm Can Explain Today’s Digitised Society
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Is big always bad?
The merits of compute thresholds as a governance mechanism for AI
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