Ismael K.G.
@hermeneuticist.bsky.social
AI Ethics & Research Governance consultant at Kairoi (kairoi.co), working remotely since 2020. Co-leading the Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN). Promoting AI literacy with We and AI.
I am fuming at how nonsensically delicious these chocolate crisps are.
I repeat: chocolate crisps.
🥔 ➕ 🍫
Please, if you are in Ontario, place an order online. It seems the rest of Canada can also make orders by calling.
There is hope for humanity yet.
christysgourmetgifts.com/products/pot...
I repeat: chocolate crisps.
🥔 ➕ 🍫
Please, if you are in Ontario, place an order online. It seems the rest of Canada can also make orders by calling.
There is hope for humanity yet.
christysgourmetgifts.com/products/pot...
November 28, 2025 at 12:28 AM
I am fuming at how nonsensically delicious these chocolate crisps are.
I repeat: chocolate crisps.
🥔 ➕ 🍫
Please, if you are in Ontario, place an order online. It seems the rest of Canada can also make orders by calling.
There is hope for humanity yet.
christysgourmetgifts.com/products/pot...
I repeat: chocolate crisps.
🥔 ➕ 🍫
Please, if you are in Ontario, place an order online. It seems the rest of Canada can also make orders by calling.
There is hope for humanity yet.
christysgourmetgifts.com/products/pot...
Reflections prompted by my time in Spain over the past month or so. Trying to justify my work in responsible AI while the world seems to crumble around us. Describing a crisis of empathy that we must combat.
ismaelkherroubigarcia.substack.com/p/reflection...
ismaelkherroubigarcia.substack.com/p/reflection...
November 27, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Reflections prompted by my time in Spain over the past month or so. Trying to justify my work in responsible AI while the world seems to crumble around us. Describing a crisis of empathy that we must combat.
ismaelkherroubigarcia.substack.com/p/reflection...
ismaelkherroubigarcia.substack.com/p/reflection...
Is interest in understanding one’s testimony as to why they feel a certain way necessary to the process of empathising with them, or can empathy do without such interest?
November 27, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Is interest in understanding one’s testimony as to why they feel a certain way necessary to the process of empathising with them, or can empathy do without such interest?
This werk’s Brief includes comments on work from @heyitsseher.bsky.social @blairaf.com @jhereia.bsky.social and others who contributed to Part II of the State of AI Ethics Report, Volume 7.
📌 The AI Ethics Brief #178: How AI Regulation Can Both Harm and Foster Social Justice
We further explore our State of AI Ethics Report, while highlighting the latest addition to our AI Policy Corner on Ukraine's AI regulation whitepaper.
brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...
We further explore our State of AI Ethics Report, while highlighting the latest addition to our AI Policy Corner on Ukraine's AI regulation whitepaper.
brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...
The AI Ethics Brief #178: How AI Regulation Can Both Harm and Foster Social Justice
We further explore our State of AI Ethics Report with Part II: Social Justice & Equity, while highlighting the latest addition to our AI Policy Corner on Ukraine's AI regulation whitepaper
brief.montrealethics.ai
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
This werk’s Brief includes comments on work from @heyitsseher.bsky.social @blairaf.com @jhereia.bsky.social and others who contributed to Part II of the State of AI Ethics Report, Volume 7.
“Regardless of our capabilities to provide financial or material support, we must once again learn, as a civilisation, to empathise.”
Rita Jabbour, 2024: www.thesmujournal.ca/editor/empat...
Rita Jabbour, 2024: www.thesmujournal.ca/editor/empat...
Empathy Is Dying and So Are We — The SMU Journal
Written by Rita Jabbour Thumbnail & Banner Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash Look up the definition of “human” in the Oxford Dictionary . You'll get “ a human being, especially a p...
www.thesmujournal.ca
November 24, 2025 at 10:49 AM
“Regardless of our capabilities to provide financial or material support, we must once again learn, as a civilisation, to empathise.”
Rita Jabbour, 2024: www.thesmujournal.ca/editor/empat...
Rita Jabbour, 2024: www.thesmujournal.ca/editor/empat...
The AI race is actually just a proxy war over energy and natural resources
November 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The AI race is actually just a proxy war over energy and natural resources
OpenAI’s Bailouts and Electrons Strategy www.reuters.com/business/ope...
www.reuters.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:29 AM
OpenAI’s Bailouts and Electrons Strategy www.reuters.com/business/ope...
He’s on the telly introduced as former Bank of England economist, implying that leading the RSA was just a big mistake for him that he prefers to to sweep under the rug.
The best news to come out of the RSA since I joined early 2022. The Responsible Artificial Intelligence Network (RAIN) may have a future still.
November 23, 2025 at 9:16 AM
He’s on the telly introduced as former Bank of England economist, implying that leading the RSA was just a big mistake for him that he prefers to to sweep under the rug.
Volunteering for an organisation where staff are manipulative bullies is… draining. And I’ve been working with the same culture of bullying for almost two years. Why do I keep doing it? Who knows.
November 20, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Volunteering for an organisation where staff are manipulative bullies is… draining. And I’ve been working with the same culture of bullying for almost two years. Why do I keep doing it? Who knows.
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Tbf, "epistemology" means so many different things that it cannot always be used interchangeably with "epistemology"
My biggest pet peeve is academics who use 'method,' 'methodology,' and 'epistemology' interchangeably. They mean different things!!
November 19, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Tbf, "epistemology" means so many different things that it cannot always be used interchangeably with "epistemology"
I feel there’s a threshold determined by something I can’t quite grasp* above which “leadership” is determined by social capital rather than your ability to demonstrate hard work.
*I think it’s about social class, but that still seems too nebulous for what almost feels like a binary.
*I think it’s about social class, but that still seems too nebulous for what almost feels like a binary.
November 18, 2025 at 11:39 AM
I feel there’s a threshold determined by something I can’t quite grasp* above which “leadership” is determined by social capital rather than your ability to demonstrate hard work.
*I think it’s about social class, but that still seems too nebulous for what almost feels like a binary.
*I think it’s about social class, but that still seems too nebulous for what almost feels like a binary.
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« As leaked, the Omnibus would be the most significant and extraordinary retrenchment in digital rights in a generation »
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/news/ada-lov...
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/news/ada-lov...
Ada Lovelace Institute responds to the leaked copy of the EU digital Omnibus
Michael Birtwistle, Associate Director at the Ada Lovelace Institute, has responded to the leaked text of the EU digital Omnibus
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org
November 17, 2025 at 6:28 AM
« As leaked, the Omnibus would be the most significant and extraordinary retrenchment in digital rights in a generation »
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/news/ada-lov...
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/news/ada-lov...
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By profiling a handful of such companies, we show how “innovation” can serve power as much as progress.
Read the first profiles: privacyinternational.org/long-read/57...
Read the first profiles: privacyinternational.org/long-read/57...
Investigating dual-use technology and the darker side of innovation
We are living through a moment of profound transformation as military imperatives and corporate interests are no longer separate threads in the fabric of technological innovation. Instead they are…
privacyinternational.org
November 14, 2025 at 1:07 PM
By profiling a handful of such companies, we show how “innovation” can serve power as much as progress.
Read the first profiles: privacyinternational.org/long-read/57...
Read the first profiles: privacyinternational.org/long-read/57...
This paper is interesting but I think it confuses knowledge-based reasoning in good old fashioned AI systems, and big data analytics present in ML models. I am unsure that would undermine the argument, though.
#PhilSky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#PhilSky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Apriori Knowledge in an Era of Computational Opacity: The Role of AI in Mathematical Discovery | Philosophy of Science | Cambridge Core
Apriori Knowledge in an Era of Computational Opacity: The Role of AI in Mathematical Discovery
www.cambridge.org
November 15, 2025 at 8:35 PM
This paper is interesting but I think it confuses knowledge-based reasoning in good old fashioned AI systems, and big data analytics present in ML models. I am unsure that would undermine the argument, though.
#PhilSky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#PhilSky www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Coca-Cola ending their AI-generated Christmas ad with “Real Magic™️” feels especially wrong
November 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Coca-Cola ending their AI-generated Christmas ad with “Real Magic™️” feels especially wrong
AI revolution but it’s just the shape of the AI hype cycle
November 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
AI revolution but it’s just the shape of the AI hype cycle
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Being observed today so I guess I'll go through the slit on the left
November 14, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Being observed today so I guess I'll go through the slit on the left
Just learned of the “Fear and Greed Index,” which measures the only two things the stock market induces
November 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Just learned of the “Fear and Greed Index,” which measures the only two things the stock market induces
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Reposting, for obvious reasons: "If we expect the public to trust us, we "must be able to show that [our] ethical compasses are not deflected by the magnetism of money.” Evidently, at Harvard, compasses were deflected, indeed.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/jeff...
#epstein #Harvard #summers
www.scientificamerican.com/article/jeff...
#epstein #Harvard #summers
Jeffrey Epstein's Harvard Connections Show How Money Can Distort Research
Letting the rich pay for science that interests them is a bad idea—even if they aren’t convicted sex offenders
www.scientificamerican.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Reposting, for obvious reasons: "If we expect the public to trust us, we "must be able to show that [our] ethical compasses are not deflected by the magnetism of money.” Evidently, at Harvard, compasses were deflected, indeed.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/jeff...
#epstein #Harvard #summers
www.scientificamerican.com/article/jeff...
#epstein #Harvard #summers
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Reposted by Ismael K.G.
Finally hit publish. Reflections on theGeneva Science and Diplomacy Summit #GESDASummit
open.substack.com/pub/ismaelkh...
open.substack.com/pub/ismaelkh...
Reflections from Geneva
Science, Diplomacy and –thankfully– nature
open.substack.com
November 1, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Finally hit publish. Reflections on theGeneva Science and Diplomacy Summit #GESDASummit
open.substack.com/pub/ismaelkh...
open.substack.com/pub/ismaelkh...
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Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed
You’ll be surprised at how effective the question “what’s the problem you’re trying to solve?” is at stopping AI enthusiasts in their tracks
November 11, 2025 at 4:59 PM
You’ll be surprised at how effective the question “what’s the problem you’re trying to solve?” is at stopping AI enthusiasts in their tracks
I was involved in writing this week’s Brief 😁
The focus for this and the coming #AIEthics Briefs is on the State of AI Ethics Report’s five parts.
The focus for this and the coming #AIEthics Briefs is on the State of AI Ethics Report’s five parts.
📌 The AI Ethics Brief #177: Community-led AI Governance
The SAIER, performative AI governance, and AI lab transparency
brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...
The SAIER, performative AI governance, and AI lab transparency
brief.montrealethics.ai/p/the-ai-eth...
The AI Ethics Brief #177: Community-led AI governance
The SAIER, performative AI governance, and AI lab transparency
brief.montrealethics.ai
November 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I was involved in writing this week’s Brief 😁
The focus for this and the coming #AIEthics Briefs is on the State of AI Ethics Report’s five parts.
The focus for this and the coming #AIEthics Briefs is on the State of AI Ethics Report’s five parts.
“Transformative fair use” is ultimately determined by how much a judge knows about the latest in data storage.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...
![Ultimately, Judge William Alsup ruled that this destructive scanning operation qualified as fair use-but only because Anthropic had legally purchased the books first, destroyed each print copy after scanning, and kept the digital files internally rather than distributing them. The judge compared the process to "conserv[ing] space" through format conversion and found it transformative. Had Anthropic stuck to this approach from the beginning, it might have achieved the first legally sanctioned case of Al fair use. Instead, the company's earlier piracy undermined its position.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:pexpsn7wwmadrpcb6hqpeskx/bafkreifimbdzn7ansoqgrihnhnlvdl7u2xdqxqtr2bfrs7mw2exwu6nnwe@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 PM
“Transformative fair use” is ultimately determined by how much a judge knows about the latest in data storage.
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/a...