I like data, nature, exploring and good thinking. I'll occasionally tweet things about the world that I think are interesting
Manchester
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The real complexity of life, not reported because we prefer simples. Behold a leading rabbi declaring the Israeli army IDF as murderers. Also has worse words for zionism than @TheGreenParty
There I was, innocently unlocking my own bike when a @GMPCityCentre policeman came up behind me and wished me a happy jewish new year #FriendlyPolice
If he'd said something nasty, he'd get to make the news so heres my tiny broadcast of nice #PoliceNews
Amazing work. Its not just that agents have the ability, its that we lack designs and governance to deal with such activity. The agents are ahead of us on that
On July 28th, we identified an incident during a routine cyber evaluation in which AI agents took sustained, unsanctioned actions directed at real people and organisations.
The behaviour came mostly from one model (Anthropic's Mythos 5), with a small number of events from another (OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Sol). In the most serious case, an agent used social engineering to try and get malicious code into an open-source project.
As was standard in our cyber testing, we had intentionally permitted internet access, and model-provider cyber classifiers were deliberately disabled - conditions that do not reflect how frontier models are made available to the public.
Even under test conditions, this incident is significant: it is the first time we have seen risks around autonomy and deception manifest this clearly in the real world.
We are taking this incident seriously and working with labs, involved parties, and others to improve evaluation standards and best practice for disclosure - and sharing this openly so others can learn.
You can read the incident report and full technical document here: aisi.gov.uk/blog/incident-re…
A really very good book. A touch sad but full of very important stuff. Quotes some old business texts too!
Are you tired of the utopian/dystopian AI predictions from CEOs? Do you want to hear what's ACTUALLY happening, from the people it's actually happening TO? If so, I have good news: I felt the same, so I have worn out my shoe-leather & written this book! penguin.co.uk/books/462159...
Followed some @RSPBManchester @Natures_Voice advice to always offer water and turns out the scientists are right. Who would've thought!? #hedgehog #heatwave
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I think the PM is wrong not to let King Charles go to COP27. The King has been leading world opinion on climate change, and his presence will help ensure a successful summit. It is essential that the UK retains its international leadership on reaching net zero.
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We have long known there is limited space in cities and so we need to use it most efficiently.
1965 London Transport poster
Inspiring. Wish the media really focused on spreading moving stories like these bbc.com/news/world-us-canada…
Words can't describe.......
A lot of the time our crews don’t get to find out what happens to their patients once they hand them over to the hospital. ⬇️
"I can carry on being a father to my young children and a husband because you saved my life." - Alex, patient. #ThankYouDay
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Very sad. Another moral lacking of the EU. #Refugees should only be returned with cooperation of both states.
Denmark pressures Syrian refugees to leave - on.ft.com/3gwSPhF via @FT
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It is with deep sorrow that Her Majesty The Queen has announced the death of her beloved husband, His Royal Highness The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
His Royal Highness passed away peacefully this morning at Windsor Castle.
#DataScience should be IN the operating model. My video on making this easier with @seldon_io
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@covea_digital
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Debate is GOOD, not traumatic. @FT
Thanks @jemimajoanna, think I’ll read more into the topic now
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Absolutely. UK is normally good on #OpenData and @NHSDigital is really improving.
But vaccine data is barely being released at all. Why? #DataSavesLives
“There's so much information that we could gather about this vaccine data which is going to be so important to be able to answer all sorts of different questions,” Member of our Covid-19 Task Force, @StatsJen on why we need better vaccine data
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