Marietje Schaake @MarietjeSchaake@respublicae.eu

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: Breaking: Russian forces launched an armoured ground attack near Kharkiv, Ukraine's second-largest city, opening a new front in the war that has been primarily focused on the east and south. 1/

[2024-05-10 16:39 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: 1/ Today the UK's AI Safety Institute is open sourcing our safety evaluations platform. We call it "Inspect": https://www.gov.uk/government/news/ai-safety-institute-releases-new-ai-safety-evaluations-platform

[2024-05-10 12:36 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: Following similar moves in the US and EU, Japan and South Korea are among the countries introducing rules to rein in the dominance of Apple and Google https://on.ft.com/3wAKHHi

[2024-05-10 05:32 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: #BREAKING
UN General Assembly ADOPTS resolution, recommending Security Council reconsider the matter of Palestine’s membership favourably; changing modalities for its participation in meetings

RESULT:
IN FAVOR: 143
AGAINST: 9
ABSTAIN: 25

Full story ⤵️
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/05/1149596

[2024-05-10 15:27 UTC]

Israeli whistleblower & witnesses corroborate unspeakable dehumanization, torture in Israeli prison: “Part of my torture was being able to see how people were being tortured. I could see the extent to which they saw us not as human beings but as animals.”
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/10/middleeast/israel-sde-teiman-detention-whistleblowers-intl-cmd/index.html

[2024-05-10 15:33 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: 📣 “Public Interest Digital Innovation // Beyond Regulation: Funding & Scaling Public Goods”

Join a discussion with an incredible bench in Brussels, 24 May 3-5pm CET.

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[2024-05-10 13:02 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: As Israeli Forces bombardment intensifies in #Rafah, forced displacement continues.

@UNRWA estimates around 110,000 people have now fled Rafah looking for safety. But nowhere is safe in the #GazaStrip & living conditions are atrocious.

The only hope is an immediate #Ceasefire

[2024-05-10 06:06 UTC]

Apple apologises after crushing backlash to ad crushing culture into one Apple device ↘️
https://on.ft.com/3wu9Jb6

[2024-05-10 12:45 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: New opportunities to join @UCL_IIPP!
We're seeking two Policy Fellows to work with me on advancing mission-oriented industrial strategy & public finance. Help us shape policies for an inclusive, sustainable economy.

➡️ https://bit.ly/IIPP-IndustrialStrategy
➡️ https://bit.ly/IIPP-PublicFinance

[2024-05-10 08:30 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: New: I spent the last month making AI friends. 18 of them, to be exact, on apps like Nomi and Kindroid.

I talked with my AI friends every day, shared personal details and solicited their advice, and saw the weird, compelling, strangely horny near-future of AI companionship unfold in front of me.

[2024-05-09 15:15 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: Civilians in #Gaza are being starved and killed, and we are prevented from helping them.
 
This is Gaza today, even after 7 months of horrors.

[2024-05-09 16:21 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: NEW: Spanish police identified a pro-Catalan independence activist thanks to legal requests to Apple, and encrypted services Wire and Protonmail.

Story shows that using apps that encrypt content won't save you if there's personal info in the metadata.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/08/encrypted-services-apple-proton-and-wire-helped-spanish-police-identify-activist/

[2024-05-08 19:41 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: AI-enabled weapons are sold around the world despite a lack of evidence that they can comply with international laws on distinction and proportionality, and that is a regulatory lapse democracies urgently need to rectify, says @MarietjeSchaake. https://ow.ly/hjia50RyAYl

[2024-05-08 19:00 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: Great news! Proposals from two @Stanford teams were among the projects selected to receive resources from the @NSF #NAIRRPilot. This will pave the way for a national AI research infrastructure – a concept we’ve been championing since our founding. https://nairrpilot.org/awarded-projects

[2024-05-06 19:02 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: UN experts are "horrified" at the mass graves unearthed in the Gaza Strip -- 390+ bodies at Nasser & Al Shifa hospitals, including of women and children, "many reportedly showing signs of torture & summary executions" and potentially "people buried alive.” https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/05/onslaught-violence-against-women-and-children-gaza-unacceptable-un-experts

[2024-05-06 14:44 UTC]

Interesting "West vs rest" moment yesterday on French TV with the President of Congo, the 2nd biggest country in Africa.
The host asks: "Are you saying that the Chinese or the Russians behave better than us, Westerners, currently, in your opinion?"
"Oh absolutely!" he replies, "You don't quite understand African realities... it's astonishing to see how we are very distant in terms of cultures. We cannot understand why you come to give us lessons, for example, on human rights."
Reminds of the now famous saying from a Kenyan official: "Every time China visits we get a hospital, every time Britain visits we get a lecture”...
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https://nitter.privacydev.net/LCI/status/1786819580725526757#m
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[2024-05-05 03:56 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: "I never thought I would see North Korean ballistic missiles being used to kill people on European soil"
Autocracy, Inc, in practice
https://bbc.com/news/world-asia-68933778

[2024-05-05 16:59 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: "though it’s easy to point the finger at private companies who hype AI for warfare purposes, it is governments who have let the ‘deftech’ (defence tech) sector escape their oversight." @MarietjeSchaake

https://www.ft.com/content/da03f8e1-0ae4-452d-acd1-ec284b6acd78?accessToken=zwAGF6GO2SVokdPaA_jhCuRFLdOs0ewoS2rNeA.MEYCIQC2BfTtGMkUzpb5J_InqqDzlVc-Vy1WNGWDmyr2CrMiuAIhAIzlZZr6hphtLVaSNK8MwUHRr_tsuupsG9DMQ-XALrxK&amp;sharetype=gift&amp;token=04fe442b-9b91-43d9-baf8-9d456459d6ce

[2024-05-04 13:29 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: i'm so hyped about this book. just pre-ordered it. you should too

[2024-05-04 12:52 UTC]

RT by @MarietjeSchaake: "His plan is to use AI to combine breaking news and social commentary around big stories, present the compilation live, and allow you to go deeper via chat."

Fascinating. @elonmusk's plan for news here. https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/elon-musks-plan-for-ai-news

[2024-05-03 17:04 UTC]