@ScottTimcke

Senior Research Associate, @RIAnetwork. 'Algorithms and The End of Politics' out wt @BrisUniPress.

 South Africa
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OPINION | Can #AI be ‘democratic’? This article for @csmonitor discusses how AI is being shaped by developments such as @OpenAI For Countries. RIA's @ScottTimcke contributes, “Who’s controlling it? And do they have anyone overseeing them?” Read it 🖇️ bit.ly/4mp04rn

Can AI be ‘democratic’? Race is on for who will define the technology’s future.

An American AI company is working to promote “democratic” artificial intelligence. It’s not yet clear what that means or how it might influence how the em…

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READ | Senior Research Associate @ScottTimcke shares his perspective & analysis on AI, inequality and democracy as part of the @techpolicypress article series 'The Coming Age of Tech Trillionaires and the Challenge to Democracy'. techpolicy.press/ai-inequali…

AI, Inequality, and Democratic Backsliding

Investor-driven AI development is anathema to the material conditions that enable democracy, writes Scott Timcke.

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READ | 'AI’s Next Frontier Could Supercharge Tax Havens. Here’s Why That Matters' by RIA Senior Research Associate, Dr @ScottTimcke for the African Legal Studies Blog. #JustAI
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Scott Timcke retweeted
T20 South Africa@T20org25 Apr 2025
Invitation | T20 Africa High-Level Policy Dialogue, featuring a keynote address by South Africa's Deputy President @PMashatile Register to join us virtually: t20southafrica.org/events/t2… 🤝Hosted by @NEPAD_Agency @IGD_SA @SAIIA_info @ujipatc
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David Kerr@DavidKerr_117 Apr 2025
New fellowship opportunity @UniofOxford for African and Indian faculty working on applications of AI in science (@OxIndiaCentre and @Africa_Oxford) Application close on 28 April (12noon BST). For more info and to submit your application: shorturl.at/SEeFO
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Today Senior Research Associate at RIA, Dr @ScottTimcke made an oral submission on the UN's Zero Draft of the Terms of Reference & Modalities for the Establishment and Functioning of the Independent International Scientific Panel on #AI & the Global Dialogue on #AIGovernance.
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In CNTI’s latest Newsletter, @ScottTimcke reflects on how South Africans embrace AI in journalism and what it means for news access, trust, and innovation. A compelling look at the intersection of technology and media in a changing landscape. Read more: mailchi.mp/innovating.news/c…
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A Digital Transformation of Government Roadmap for South Africa has been approved by the cabinet. It addresses issues of interdepartmental coordination, outdated systems, overlapping mandates, and limited skills or capacity, which affect public service delivery, efficiency.
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🔔 OUT NOW: March Newsletter! 🔔 Including: -3 new reports on journalism in the age of AI & public expectations -@ScottTimcke on South Africa’s openness to AI in news -A a look ahead to the next few months Read: mailchi.mp/innovating.news/c…
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Replying to @CNTI_global @ScottTimcke
🗣️ LISTEN NOW: Audio version of CNTI’s March newsletter powered by @Google NotebookLM! Tune in here: drive.google.com/file/d/1X6w…

CNTI March 2025_ AI, Journalism, and Global Perspectives.wav

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The hasty deployment of AI in government demands caution. "It is essential prudence when the mechanisms of democracy itself are at stake", cautions @ScottTimcke in his latest @AfrikaTechnoPol blog. 1/2 afrikatechnopolicy.blogspot.…
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@ScottTimcke: "Without sufficient evidence-building and careful implementation, we risk creating a ‘chatbot democracy", that simulates responsiveness while fundamentally altering the citizen-government relationship in ways we scarcely understand." 2/2
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Are you a #SocialSciences researcher? Contribute to our #TransformingSociety blog to showcase your research and insights. ow.ly/7mqz50V2YiB

Write for us - Transforming Society

  One of the key aims of Transforming Society is to make academic research findings available and useful to the interested general reader, in the hope that this will help make steps towards positive...

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"One of the most difficult challenges posed by agentic #AI is how to assign responsibility when something goes wrong." @ScottTimcke ow.ly/GTFT50Vaa1v

How agentic AI challenges democracy - Transforming Society

Scott Timcke, author of 'Algorithms and the End of Politics', explores how agentic AI, with its autonomous decision-making, threatens democratic principles by undermining transparency, accountabili...

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.@ScottTimcke, author of 'Algorithms and the End of Politics', explores how agentic #AI, with its autonomous decision-making, threatens democratic principles by undermining transparency, accountability and human control. ow.ly/1mWH50Va9XZ

How agentic AI challenges democracy - Transforming Society

Scott Timcke, author of 'Algorithms and the End of Politics', explores how agentic AI, with its autonomous decision-making, threatens democratic principles by undermining transparency, accountabili...

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AI's next frontier could supercharge tax havens - and the implications could be acute suggests @ScottTimcke. His latest @AfrikaTechnoPol commentary outlines three elements to a coordinated global response to the emerging reality of "agentic AI". 1/2 afrikatechnopolicy.blogspot.…
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This is true
Sean Padraig McCarthy
@SeanMcCarthyCom18 Feb 2025
Elon Musk has 19 year olds running the country. There are zoomers using US power to lean on Romania to drop Andrew Tate’s charges. The median Democrat with influence is in hospice. The youth are going right partly because there are opportunities for power and advancement there
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DISCOURSE | Platform decay 📳 @ScottTimcke and @Andrew_Rens respond to Meta's removal of fact-checking, citing #enshittification and platform decay as a serious cause for concern. Read their policy brief on this issue here 👉bit.ly/3BmPxKI #InformationIntegrity – at Cape Town, South Africa
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(New ATP blog] The Democratic Republic of Congo’s digital ID project illustrates the need for caution on the emerging “digital industrial complex" in Africa, argues @Nelson_LawKE. Do comment once you've pondered his post! afrikatechnopolicy.blogspot.…
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