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Lilian Edwards
@lilianedwards.bsky.social

Director of Pangloss Consulting for all your AI and GDPR needs! Emerita Prof Newcastle Law School: Hon Prof, @CREATe Glasgow Uni. Formerly @ATI, @SCRIPT: Trying not to be a grey skies thinker & use this place more , [email protected] .. more

Lilian Edwards is a Scottish UK-based academic and frequent speaker on issues of Internet law, intellectual property and artificial intelligence. She is on the Advisory Board of the Open Rights Group and the Foundation for Information Policy Research and is the Professor of Law, Innovation and Society at Newcastle Law School at Newcastle University. .. more

Political science 30%
Law 24%
Pinned
Since approximately gazillion people have joined lately, I’ve updated my extremely random starter pack of UK and Europe tech, AI, law & policy folk
go.bsky.app/TJ2xTce

Yes!

Dear god. The opposite of longtermism

Splutter

That's...Glassian

You're around? In Ed?

Phew. Yup.

Hahahaha no weep

Is it just me or is BSky getting more interesting & useful again? There seemed a long patch when frankly it was more useful to be on LinkedIn 🤮

( not a discord person soz)

So the restricted version simply contains no age inappropriate content so noone needs to ID ? Is that right? Who checks the filtering to create that?

LLMs, like seriously method actors, seem to turn into bad actors if asked to do bad things for too long. It seems a bit like socialising small boys. Are they using educational psychologists anytime??
A very good article on the weirdness of the AI alignment problem, including one of my favorite images describing AI training

www.understandingai.org/p/the-many-m...

That's superb - first thing I've read that's made me interested in misalignment

Moderately terrifying. I would guess straight off this feature isn't legal in EU but possibly they don't care & market it anyway? See CJEU Rynes.

Get a room you guys

Brutal

www.techpolicy.press/the-real-cos...
"While the European Union is starting to distance itself from US Big Tech monopolies with countries moving towards tech sovereignty, the AI Skills Hub is one example of how, conversely, the UK is moving away from sovereignty to greater dependency."
The Real Cost of the UK’s ‘Free AI Training for All’ is Democracy
Researchers argue the UK's 'AI Skills Hub' should be re-thought with input from civil society groups and public interest organizations.
www.techpolicy.press

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A very good article on the weirdness of the AI alignment problem, including one of my favorite images describing AI training

www.understandingai.org/p/the-many-m...

Told today about women in a mall being arrested by ICE cos no passports & them being "suspicious immigrants", kept in jail overnight.
"Were they suspiciously non-white?" I said.
A. "No. They were Canadian though. That was suspicious enough."

My god is he the King of Thailand now?

Curious if / how this interacts with xAI, more later..
Worth skimming through and reading the bottom, if you wonder what's happening in software engineering these days.
I built two new tools to help coding agents demonstrate their work beyond just running automated tests: Showboat and Rodney https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/10/showboat-and-rodney/

Reposted by Lilian Edwards

Worth skimming through and reading the bottom, if you wonder what's happening in software engineering these days.

Quote by me on the EU Comm finding TikToks addictive design illegal under DSA. What @stokel.bsky.social didn't use was my musings that TikTok might prefer to cave than fight on this, even apply it globally beyond EU to divert he pressure for total under 16 social media bans heating up..?

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CJEU, EU data protection law

New judgment: European Data Protection Board decision obliging national data protection authorities to penalise WhatsApp for GDPR breaches can be challenged by WhatsApp - curia.europa.eu/site/upload/...
The merits of the challenge will now be decided by EU General Court
curia.europa.eu

ec.europa.eu/commission/p... The EU seems to have mandated agentic AI without thinking very hard about the security, scraping and other risks. Hard anti-competition makes bad law.
Press corner
Highlights, press releases and speeches
ec.europa.eu

Who would you bring into government now if you were Starmer? Real question.

Theres a difference between between formula extruded romance that is literally bought by the yard - they get it on Kindle Unltd not book by book - and “real” romance which i read! @jennycolgan.bsky.social ❤️
But i literally know cos this friend reads it, honest. Its extruded product