Dr Mahlet (Milly) Zimeta | now bsky & mstdn.social
@TechMilly
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Head of Digital Policy @whichuk | advising @CMAgovUK @ChathamHouse | own views | x-@techUK x-@ODIHQ x-@royalsociety x-@TuringInst | literary interests @mgzimeta
Joined July 2020
I'm delighted to join @WhichUK heading up their Digital Policy team, covering fair and safe internet access, data, online markets, AI & consumer tech. We're also recruiting for Principal to join my team 12-month FTC (FT/PT) - deadline for apps 14th Sept:
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(5) "Citizen: An American Lyric" by Claudia Rankine, prize-winning lyric essay/prose poem My "way in" was this interview with systems engineer Professor @whkchun: "What does it mean to understand race as techne—as something that makes things possible?" https://t.co/enoSdEEsDx
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(4) "Voices from Chernobyl" by Svetlana Alexievich It broke me. Here's her 2015 @NobelPrize lecture describing the necessity of creating new artistic forms and new artistic languages to explore our new political, technological and cultural jeopardy: https://t.co/LY5wAiiyy4
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The Nobel Prize in Literature 2015 was awarded to Svetlana Alexievich "for her polyphonic writings, a monument to suffering and courage in our time"
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(3) "How Does Government Listen to Scientists?" - essential book on science policy by my former boss Claire Craig (now Provost @QueensCollegeOx) Grapples with the political realities of uncertainty & failure. I read it with this @JonParryHis/@LRB essay
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(2) "The Birth of Tragedy From The Spirit of Music" by Friedrich Nietzsche. Combines philosophy of science with philosophy of art - what's not to love? It was also widely denounced at the time, ending Nietzsche's academic career as soon as it began, which set him free...
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(1) "Archaeologies of the Future" by Fredric Jameson On "utopia" as a form of science fiction, and science fiction as the genre that discloses our political hopes and fears We had a lot of fun with this at @ODIHQ with @JeniT @halcyene @enficcion @adjoa_a
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Data and digital technologies are changing the world. How can we adapt? Learn more about our major international policy project ‘Experimentalism and the Fourth Industrial Revolution’ Project partners
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I'm thrilled that this is now out in the world! @five_books is one of my favourite websites, my go-to for learning new things, so it was a delight to be interviewed by @UriBram on "The 5 Best Books On Tech Utopias and Dystopias" Here's my 5, what would yours be, and why? 🧵
"It’s worth remembering that utopia is an impossibility, and yet we still feel compelled to think about it a lot." Tech policy expert Mahlet Zimeta (@TechMilly) recommends the best books on tech utopias and dystopias: https://t.co/hThXetAfmP
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Every university in the world should be condemning this. Staying silent now, and waxing lyrical about 'decolonising the curriculum' later, is all-round moral cowardice.
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Don't forget to check out this handy Explainer on AI that I've been working on with @nesta_uk which also explores how bias in AI happens https://t.co/Q6lGdMWNs0
NEW: What is AI exactly? What are the building blocks? We’ve put together an explainer to try and reduce the barriers to participation in discussions about how best to harness digital tech, including AI🧵👇 #AIFringe
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I've just found out that some more tickets for attending in person have been released! - Tickets are free:
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The AI Fringe will return to mark the Paris AI Action Summit with a two day live event at the British Library Knowledge Centre in London.
Today @AISummitFringe 1.30pm GMT I'll be on a panel on AI, Bias and Law with the brilliant @sarahchander/@edri (TIME AI 100) & Prof @SandraWachter5/ @OxGovTech, chaired by Herbert Swaniker/ @Clifford_Chance Tickets have run out but the livestream is here:
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Today @AISummitFringe 1.30pm GMT I'll be on a panel on AI, Bias and Law with the brilliant @sarahchander/@edri (TIME AI 100) & Prof @SandraWachter5/ @OxGovTech, chaired by Herbert Swaniker/ @Clifford_Chance Tickets have run out but the livestream is here:
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Bringing together a broad and diverse range of voices for the most important conversations happening in AI today.
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#TheStandardPodcast Musk at AI Safety Summit as Biden regulates tech Plus! Race to control self-learning tech How AI’s used daily China AI development race Expert analysis with @ConnectedByData’s Dr @JeniT 🎧 https://t.co/0I6Y6AGT7U
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This piece is work is part of @nesta_uk's 2040 Options project on some of the defining issues facing the UK, identifying priorities any government will need to tackle and their options for doing so. More here: https://t.co/qFZefLCsL9 11/11
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And the best part is, this Explainer is published as an open document so you can Comment. We’d love your reactions! What does it do well? What would make it more helpful? Is anything missing? Where do you disagree with us? Let us know by 9th Nov 10/11 https://t.co/ShGGCGUrdv
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[DRAFT] Explainer: how AI is built _______________________________________________________________________________ About this explainer AI is considered a potential “general purpose technology” like...
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“Make it real, make it relevant” We’ve done a case study on health data and health tech, and one on generative AI - two high priority digital tech use-cases that show how all of this works in practice 9/11 https://t.co/1EeixiTi0h
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How do these building blocks of AI come together around the digital economy? What are the network effects, and how is this impacting society and economy? The million-dollar questions, maybe even literally. 8/11 https://t.co/476xkM7hPq
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What is coding? What is software? And is there even a general definition of AI? You’re asking the right questions, and we try to answer them 7/11 https://t.co/hogWoGPUwK
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What’s the difference between data analysis and data science? What’s an algorithm? How does bias get into data analysis? All is revealed here 6/11 https://t.co/jS5p2Zkfgu
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