Chief Scientific Adviser, @DCMS; Professor of Digital Society and Policy, @BristolUni. All views my own, etc.
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Prof. Tom Crick retweeted
Personal view: prompted by the recent JCHR report, a human in the loop is not enough. Three tests: controllability, authority and contestability — and what makes human oversight meaningful.
What remains non-delegable?
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Prof. Tom Crick retweeted
What was your first computer? Whatever it was you’re sure to find it - or something similar - in our galleries & trigger some memories. Here’s a few of our favourites. Let us know yours and share your stories in the comments #TechNostalgia #RetroComputing #VintagePC
Prof. Tom Crick retweeted
Happy 60th birthday today to @computerweekly - the world's first weekly technology newspaper, launched on this day in 1966. Here's a look back at that first ever issue...
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Prof. Tom Crick retweeted
#OTD in #ComputingHistory in 1954, the first successful FORTRAN program was executed.
Developed at IBM by a team led by ACM A.M. Turing Award laureate John Backus, FORTRAN was designed to make programming scientific and engineering problems easier by allowing programmers to use mathematical formulas instead of writing everything in machine or assembly language.
FORTRAN went on to become a foundational language for scientific and engineering computing, and it is still used today, including in high-performance computing.
More #OTD here: buff.ly/yg2MIlN
Prof. Tom Crick retweeted
Voting closes on Monday 21st for this year's most influential woman in UK technology - this is your last weekend to submit your vote...!
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Prof. Tom Crick retweeted
Can you trust the numbers?
New post + full @royalstatsoc William Guy Lecture on statistics, misinformation and the information ecosystem.
Trustworthy information is infrastructure. Maintaining it is stewardship:
proftomcrick.com/2026/09/13/…
Prof. Tom Crick retweeted
Our latest research reveals shifts in how people discover and consume news.
🔹 1 in 5 UK adults now use AI tools for news
🔹 73% access news through online intermediaries such as social media
🔹 Broadcasters remain a key source of online news.
🔗 ofcom.org.uk/media-use-and-a…
ALT Webpage with a question on news sources and a note about research on changing UK news habits.
Prof. Tom Crick retweeted
Happy Birthday, ACM! Today, our organization turns 79 years old.
#OTD in #ComputingHistory in 1947, a group of computing pioneers came together to establish the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Led by Edmund C. Berkeley, the group set out to support a new world shaped by computers.
ACM was created to foster the development of computing and support the professionals and academics advancing this emerging field. Today, it has grown into a global community helping shape the future of computing.
What would our founders think of today’s advances?
Discover more #OTD in #ComputingHistory: buff.ly/yg2MIlN
Prof. Tom Crick retweeted
24 Fields Medal winners have written a letter of objection economist.com/science-and-te…
Prof. Tom Crick retweeted
New post: WarGames (1983) as a way into questions about AI, automation, human oversight and the limits of delegation.
The issue is not only what systems can do, but what authority we give them:
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Prof. Tom Crick retweeted
My @RoyalStatSoc William Guy Lecture 26/27:
"Can you trust the numbers? Statistics, misinformation and the information ecosystem"
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Prof. Tom Crick retweeted
Over 70 years ago today, the term “artificial intelligence” was coined in a conference proposal: stanford.io/2WJJJGN
Prof. Tom Crick retweeted
🧵 BBC Verify spent this week investigating the floods that devastated the Nepal-Tibet border.
We verified more than 30 videos, used satellite imagery and CCTV to trace the path of the floodwaters, and investigated what caused it
Here’s some of our work from the past few days:
Prof. Tom Crick retweeted
til that nearly half of Anguilla's government revenue now comes from .ai domain registrations ($85M in 2025), which has been enough to fund road development, better healthcare, and a sales tax cut from 13% to 9%. every founder with a failed startup is doing foreign aid.
Prof. Tom Crick retweeted
"I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu)..."
On August 25, 1991, a 21-year-old student sent a message to a Usenet newsgroup. He thought he was just building something fun for himself.
35 years later, that "hobby" is the backbone of global technology:
🚀 Powering helicopters in space with NASA
☁️ Running the global cloud and 100% of the world’s supercomputers
📱 Connecting billions of people
🎮 Redefining the future of handheld gaming
What started as one student's side project became the greatest collaborative technology movement in history. Thank you to every maintainer, contributor, and advocate who made it possible.
Happy 35th Birthday, Linux. Here’s to the power of open source and the next 35 years of building together.
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#Linux35
Prof. Tom Crick retweeted
Nostalgic news if you're old enough to have watched CBBC in the '90s: Australian children’s series Round the Twist - the tale of a family who moved into a haunted lighthouse - will be coming to @ITVX from 17 September.
Prof. Tom Crick retweeted
Today, the NCSC has published a new blog post on managing the cyber risk from agentic AI. From safeguards to sandboxing, the advice supports system designers and operators to make informed decisions as AI cyber security continues to evolve.
Read it now:
ncsc.gov.uk/blogs/managing-t…
ALT A quote from NCSC CTO Ollie Whitehouse which reads: Appropriate human oversight is paramount when granting any level of autonomy to agentic AI systems so that cyber risk can be effectively managed. From the instructions agents receive to the systems they can access, operators must carefully define the red lines around how AI systems function and be prepared to detect unintended activity and respond accordingly.