Helen Margetts
@HelenMargetts
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@UniofOxford Prof @oiioxford @mansfield Programme Director @turinginst researching politics, public policy, government & digital technology. Views my own.
University of Oxford
Joined August 2009
New article on 'How to build progressive public services with data science and AI' by @HelenMargetts @CosDorobantu @jonmbright @TuringPubPol @turinginst @oiioxford 1/n
The new government faces an urgent challenge: revitalising the UK's crumbling public services without major increases in public spending @HelenMargetts @CosDorobantu @jonmbright explore in their latest article https://t.co/t34SHGVPa5
#DigitalGovernment #ArtificialIntelligence
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AI needs social science! @HelenMargetts @CosDorobantu @LSEDataScience @oiioxford explain why in a new blog post
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AI is about humans, that's why it needs to be shaped not just by computer science, but by social science.
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Very much looking forward to moderating/speaking at the @OxGenAI summit this week. Join me, @kncukier, @arusbridger, @HelenMargetts and @LukeHarries_ for our panel on AI and the information ecosystem (Thursday, 16:20-17:15) or come and say "Hi" between the sessions…
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AI needs social science! @HelenMargetts @CosDorobantu @LSEDataScience @oiioxford explain why in a new blog post
blogs.lse.ac.uk
AI is about humans, that's why it needs to be shaped not just by computer science, but by social science.
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The OII’s Professor @HelenMargetts has been appointed as a member of the @UN Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA), a technical advisory body that studies and makes recommendations to improve governance and public administration structures.
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New paper alert! ‘The levers of political persuasion with conversational AI’ lead author @KobiHackenburg co-author @HelenMargetts @oiioxford @oxsocsci @UniofOxford.
Today (w/ @UniofOxford @Stanford @MIT @LSEnews) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19 LLMs, 707 political issues. We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more 🧵
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Today (w/ @UniofOxford @Stanford @MIT @LSEnews) we’re sharing the results of the largest AI persuasion experiments to date: 76k participants, 19 LLMs, 707 political issues. We examine “levers” of AI persuasion: model scale, post-training, prompting, personalization, & more 🧵
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📈Out today in @PNASNews!📈 In a large pre-registered experiment (n=25,982), we find evidence that scaling the size of LLMs yields sharply diminishing persuasive returns for static political messages. 🧵:
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@HelenMargetts @CosDorobantu @jonmbright This episode is featured in this week's edition of the Best of Technology: https://t.co/F9q58Oha7V
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It was great fun recording this podcast with @alanjrenwick at my wonderful former department @uclspp and colleagues @CosDorobantu Jonathan Bright @turinginst @oiioxford
🎙️ UCL Uncovering Politics🎙️ New (and timely!) episode on AI and Public Services, with @HelenMargetts, Cosima Dorobantu and Jonathan Bright @turinginst. Listen on apple podcasts (or other podcast platforms!) https://t.co/cPOpZsHfLy
@UniofOxford @ucl @UCLPolicyLab @po_qu
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🎙️ UCL Uncovering Politics🎙️ New (and timely!) episode on AI and Public Services, with @HelenMargetts, Cosima Dorobantu and Jonathan Bright @turinginst. Listen on apple podcasts (or other podcast platforms!) https://t.co/cPOpZsHfLy
@UniofOxford @ucl @UCLPolicyLab @po_qu
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Today, we are publishing the first-ever International AI Safety Report, backed by 30 countries and the OECD, UN, and EU. It summarises the state of the science on AI capabilities and risks, and how to mitigate those risks. 🧵 Link to full Report: https://t.co/k9ggxL7i66 1/16
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How will the new AI Opportunities Action Plan change government (and your lives)? @HelenMargetts, professor at @oiioxford and director of the Turing’s public policy programme discussed this on The Expert Factor podcast:
instituteforgovernment.org.uk
Helen Margetts joins Hannah and Paul to discuss whether we should be worried about what the future of AI might hold.
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How could Keir Starmer's AI plan change government (and your lives)? This week's Expert Factor explains all....🎙️ @HelenMargetts joins @PJTheEconomist @TheIFS and @DrHannahWhite @instituteforgov for a fascinating discussion https://t.co/g0cWf67uYq
instituteforgovernment.org.uk
Helen Margetts joins Hannah and Paul to discuss whether we should be worried about what the future of AI might hold.
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New! Hear from @HelenMargetts @oiioxford @turinginst sharing her insights on how to rebuild public trust in credible information sources with @matthewsyed @BBCRadio4 ‘Sideways’ programme: celebrating 25 years of the 21st century. Listen via @BBCSounds: https://t.co/wZuMPpbALY
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At 11pm that night, she sent an urgent email to the head of the local council explaining all the ways they were failing in their duty to this woman and demanding to know how they would support her going forward. That’s somebody who cares about the safety of women and girls. 2/2
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McFadden got a lot of flak over his govt start up remarks today. But a recent OA paper by @HelenMargetts and me shows that getting civil servants to stop marginalizing *some* Silicon Valley approaches to online services brought many improvements to 2020s https://t.co/okcsgrpku5
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⚖️ The Turing's HUDERIA framework for AI governance has been adopted by the Council of Europe (@coe). It ensures AI systems uphold human rights, democracy & the rule of law. 📰 Find out more: https://t.co/JgjT3rgRIC
#AIethics #HumanRights #ResponsibleInnovation
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#AI & #DataScience present new opportunities for policymaking. In tonight's @LSEPublicPolicy & @LSEDataScience event, @HelenMargetts, Andrew Murray, Dorottya Sallai & @NorwichChloe will discuss the benefits & limitations of using AI. Hybrid. Info 👇 https://t.co/0KAcTlrKn1
lse.ac.uk
6.30pm Tue 5 Nov | Helen Margetts, Andrew Murray, Dorottya Sallait, Chloe Smith | Free public event at LSE
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Must have run out of space before they could mention Dyson bought 36k acres of farmland to avoid inheritance tax.
James Dyson blasts Rachel Reeves’s ‘spiteful’ budget Ignorant swipe at aspiration will kill off family businesses, entrepreneur says as backlash grows over inheritance tax reforms https://t.co/WD6gnKj0ys
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