More immediate concerns include the potential for AI to automate disinformation, generate deepfake video and audio, replace workers en masse, and exacerbate societal algorithmic bias on an industrial scale

More here:

https://www.wired.com/story/united-nations-artificial-intelligence-report/

A United Nations report released today proposes having the international body oversee the first truly global effort for monitoring and governing artificial intelligence.

#AI

report, produced by the UN secretary general’s High Level Advisory Body on AI, recommends the creation of a body similar to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to gather up-to-date information on AI and its risks.

https://www.un.org/techenvoy/ai-advisory-body

You'll have to opt out if you don't like it – EU and a few others excepted

#SocialMedia

#LinkedIn started harvesting people's posts for training AI without asking for opt-in

https://theregister.com/2024/09/19/linkedin_ai_data_access/

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@MrGoat and that's just the declared stuff 😆

There's always undeclared stuff there and more

willingness to accept hospitality to go to football matches could amount to a conflict of interest given plans to overhaul the sport's regulator which many clubs oppose

Its more than #WardrobeGate

next highest in the league table is the Commons leader Lucy Powell on £40,289, while the prime minister received gifts roughly equivalent to the next five MPs combined.

table does not account for those who received help with legal fees.

The Premier League is one of the biggest donors of hospitality, and Sir Keir - a renowned Arsenal fan - has received almost £40,000 in tickets overall since December 2019 -

#Politics

Westminster Accounts project reveals the prime minister has declared more gifts and freebies than any other MP, with his total in gifts, benefits, and hospitality topping £100,000 since December 2019.

according to a league table compiled as part of Sky News' Westminster Accounts project - which traces how money flows through our political system.

https://news.sky.com/story/westminster-accounts-search-for-your-mp-or-enter-your-full-postcode-12771627

Input any postcode to find out your local MPs willingness to take "gifts"

Wish i could sleep for more than 2 pesky fuckin hours at a dam time

Anyhooooo..... I guess

More coffee vicar

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Have to say these new walkers limited edition crisps are outstanding

Roast Chicken sandwich flavour(with heinz mayo)

Sausage sarnie flavour(heinz tomato sauce)

Cheese toastie & Heinz beans flavour

All three are scrumptious - my local doing two big bags for £2 or one bag £1.25 - iceland is doing the multipacks 5 smaller bags for £2

A little-noticed report by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released this month reveals why, for most Americans, the economy is broken.

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60341

People may have jobs. But, for many, those jobs are not helping them get ahead. Meanwhile, people watch the fruits of their labor flow to the already wealthy.

https://open.substack.com/pub/popularinformation/p/a-new-government-report-reveals-the

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@MLClark i knew where you were going with that as soon as i seen "pages" which jumped out at me

😂😂😂

I think 👇 😆

@MLClark 😂😂

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recent investigation by the Substacker Tracing Woodgrains into one Wikipedia admin called David Gerard. It shows just how much influence the biases and grudges of one man can have over the sources Wikipedia deems reliable and unreliable. Deep in the weeds of Wikipedia, Gerard discredits publications that offend his worldview—designating them “unreliable” so they can’t be used for citations

https://open.substack.com/pub/tracingwoodgrains/p/reliable-sources-how-wikipedia-admin

And signs of the rot are everywhere.

@MLClark 😂😂 indeed

Under the pure moon light knob goblin strikes again

@MLClark yeah knob goblin is a old classic 😂😂

Underused these days though lol