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Jack Stilgoe
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Professor @stsucl; @responsibleAIUK; Book: Who's Driving Innovation?
Aug 10, 2023 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
The Turing test has taken AI in the wrong direction. We need new targets and new measures. In @ScienceMagazine I make the case for a Weizenbaum test. 🧵science.org/doi/full/10.11… Turing's 'imitation game' was his attempt to escape a debate about the nature of intelligence. One history concluded that Turing’s 1950 paper “set the entire field of artificial intelligence (AI) in motion”. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Nov 18, 2021 • 18 tweets • 10 min read
New paper! 📯 Code, Culture, and Concrete: Self-Driving Vehicles and the Rules of the Road. Open Access here. Thread below... frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… In this one, we explore the relationship between new mobility technologies and road rules. Should we rewrite the rules to suit self-driving cars?
Nov 15, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Inspired by today's discussions on AI and work, I want to collecting examples of the Merman fallacy (anything you can do, AI can do better). I'll start. Reply with your own 👇 First up, @AndrewYNg Image
Aug 16, 2021 • 20 tweets • 8 min read
New paper 📯! The attachments of 'autonomous' vehicles, by Chris Tennant and me, just published in Social Studies of Science. Open access right here journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…. Thread! 👇 Image It's about why and how we should challenge the narrative of autonomy that currently defines self-driving car innovation. It's a narrative that flows from the DARPA Grand Challenge, through Elon Musk, to Waymo
Mar 23, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
You know that feeling when you stall at the lights and hold up traffic? This is a bit like that. A big boat is stuck in the Suez Canal and the queue is quite something. ImageImageImageImage And it’s a big unit Image
Jun 27, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
UK misadventures with the contact tracing app and the procurement of pointless satellites point to a bigger problem: a failure of technology assessment. Here's what I wrote in my book. Thread... First, the idea of disruptive innovation is toxic. It sees government as the problem
Apr 28, 2020 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
Politics of scientific advice thread:

I would not want to be a member of SAGE right now. Politicians have done the usual thing of hiding behind “the science” while knowing there is no one scientific view. theguardian.com/world/2020/apr… 1/ Scientific disciplines are pulling in different directions. The evidence is uncertain and moving quickly. The normal scientific dirty laundry - disagreements about model assumptions etc - is being aired in public. And the stakes are high. 2/
Mar 13, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
One of my research areas is the practice of scientific advice to governments. And I am troubled by how the PM is making use of his @uksciencechief. 1/ @uksciencechief is right not to offer false reassurance. A lot of people are concerned that he is experimenting with the population. But we can't hide from the uncertainties. It will always be an experiment. Publishing the modelling and its assumptions is an important step. 2/
Aug 6, 2019 • 8 tweets • 5 min read
Today, I am worried about Dominic Cummings idolising scientists. (Thread) This has been prompted by his appearance in a #SciFoo T-Shirt. (Entering Downing St for the first time, he was wearing an @OpenAI T-shirt). I was at SciFoo this year, as was my colleague Matthew Todd