Eimear Farrell🦋
@eimearfarrell
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All things #AI 'The world is endlessly fertile in its yield of sobering wrenching clarifying contexts for thinking about the idea of human rights'
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Joined June 2009
Privileged to have worked on the development of Ireland's #NationalAIStrategy, with a great team of colleagues @DeptEnterprise, as well as across Government. The Strategy sets out how Ireland can be an international leader in using #AI to benefit our economy and society.
Taoiseach @MichealMartinTD & Minister @RobertTroyTD are launching Ireland’s National AI Strategy: AI – Here for Good. This serves as a roadmap for how Ireland can leverage AI's potential for unlocking productivity, addressing societal challenges & delivering public services.
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Irish lawyer, Michael Farrell, quits Council of Europe rights body over silence on Gaza | Irish Legal News
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Ireland's long-standing representative on a Council of Europe human rights body has resigned over its failure to speak out on Gaza. Human rights lawyer Michael Farrell has been a member of the...
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From the @jackclarkSF @tylercowen discussion today: >> What technology should people be paying attention to that isn't AI? >> Institutions.
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Important @IIPP_UCL report by @francesca_bria and @FaustoGernone on why Europe must move beyond incrementalism in digital sovereignty. EuroStack isn't about replicating existing models—it's about building public digital infrastructure and governance structures that enable
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Sovereign AI, open-source ecosystems, green supercomputing, data commons, and sovereign cloud: Building homegrown alternatives to empower Europe to reclaim control of its digital future—layer by layer, innovation by innovation. #EuroStack #digitalsovereignty
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Nella mia intervista con @rsta parlo di #EuroStack, il piano per l’indipendenza tecnologica europea: dalle materie critiche all’Intelligenza Artificiale. Dopo la moneta unica e il mercato comune, l’Europa ha bisogno di una infrastruttura digitale comune, una alternativa ai
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Buen informe 👌de @francesca_bria : “Si no actuamos ya, imperios digitales en la sombra dictarán nuestras leyes”
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En la última década, Francesca Bria ha sido una de las voces más críticas con la dependencia tecnológica de Europa respecto a EE.UU. y Asia. Esta economista de la
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Everything machines may be broadly and evenly distributed, but the curiosity to use them effectively is not. An essay for Import AI 397 - coming tomorrow.
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Trump and his new tech allies are ready to test the EU’s resolve as a superregulator of tech harms. Strategic autonomy is the name of the game. There is no point in nostalgia for an alliance that will change unrecognisably with Trump’s inauguration ↘️
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A Shared Standard for Valid Measurement of Generative AI Systems' Capabilities, Risks, and Impacts: https://t.co/lU5hM0Z252 TL;DR: We introduce a framework that draws on the social sciences and statistics to place disparate-seeming GenAI evaluation practices on a common footing.
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🚨 We are proud to let you know that the white paper "Generative AI and Data Spaces" produced by the Strategic Stakeholder Forum has just been published❗ Read the blog post & download your copy of the white paper 👉 https://t.co/EXj7R7QggW
#DSSC
#AI
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#GenerativeAI
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On a day of differences, here's a little miracle of a poem by a child, sent to me by her teacher: "I am still a child made of love."
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Canguilhem, 1952 (!). It comes with no surprise, then, that life, that is "mattering", will always remain (in) the blind spot of "AI", capable only to metabolize digital facticities (effects).
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Power, people & politics - central forces behind OpenAI’s news from this week. My @ftweekend lunch w/Signal’s mer__edith addresses these exact themes: the economic forces that shape AI’s impact, power of workers & the need for alternative models of tech.
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The head of the encrypted messaging service on why she’s a privacy absolutist — and breaking Big Tech’s hold over AI
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Many AI experts, including Mila’s @Yoshua_Bengio and @alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor at the @the_IAS, put forward the Manhattan Declaration after a High-level meeting at the @UN General Assembly. Read the Declaration: https://t.co/P5EbNrM3Ag
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What is public AI? It builds on a tradition of public alternatives — such as public transportation and public broadcasting — so that AI works for everyone. Learn more about our vision for #publicAI ⬇️ https://t.co/xrK3KmmRgI
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Mozilla is releasing a vision for Public AI, a robust ecosystem of initiatives that promote public goods, public orientation and public use throughout ever
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NEW PAPER! 1. Small AI models often perform better than big in context. 2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to surveillance, to research capture. This & what to do c/o @GaelVaroquaux, @SashaMTL and me ♥️👇 https://t.co/dCOcOwVqd2
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With the growing attention and investment in recent AI approaches such as large language models, the narrative that the larger the AI system the more valuable, powerful and interesting it is is...
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🚨Contribution importante de @SandraWachter5: limites et failles de la législation européenne de l'IA ou comment, sous la pression des lobbies, les exceptions nombreuses et les mécanismes d'autorégulation menacent l'efficacité du modèle au-delà de l'UE 🇪🇺 https://t.co/SrxCw2j2iD
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🚨 [AI REGULATION] @UNESCO published its "Consultation Paper on AI Regulation - Emerging Approaches Across the World," and it's a MUST-READ for everyone in AI governance. Important information: ➵ Among other topics, the consultation paper describes 9 regulatory approaches (with
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