Anna Dent

Social card - 89% of of the UK public believe Al products and services should not be rolled out until they are proven safe, even if this slows things down Source: A nationally representative online poll with 1,928 UK adults aged 18+ between 8-24 September 2025

91% of the public think it is important that Al systems are developed and used in ways that treat people fairly Source: A nationally representative online poll with 1,928 UK adults aged 18+ between 18-24 September 2025

89% of the UK public believe government and regulators should have the authority to halt the use or sale of any Al system found to cause harm Souurce: A nationally representative online poll with 1,928 UK adults aged 18+ between 8-24 September 2025

84% of the UK public are concerned about the government putting technology sector needs ahead of the public when regulating Al Source: A nationally representative online poll with 1,928 UK adults aged 18+ between 8-24 September 2025

📝 The UK public do not trust private companies to self-regulate

⚖️ They prioritise fairness, + social impacts and safety OVER eco gains, innovation & competition

💀The public feel disenfranchised - 84% fear govt will prioritise big tech over the public interest.

👩‍⚖️ The public expect clear rules

Today in 'headlines that feel like they should be by The Onion but are in fact horrifically real'

ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work a...

New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work

www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...

Is there a review or some kind of summary of this event? 👀

I've always wanted a coat bath. My coats, they must bathe

It's the most wonderful time of the year

Make it into a fancy trifle. Honestly, it's the best

This thread is 😱

What is the fckn point of a labour govt😥

On the train from Bristol to Birmingham. Been to Wales. This was not the advertised route.

😱

#lifegoals

They did it again! NYC subway Thanksgiving 2025, via @scootercaster.com!

Infographic with AI slop published in Nature Scientific Reports

"Runctitiononal features"? "Medical fymblal"? "1 Tol Line storee"? This gets worse the longer you look at it. But it's got to be good, because it was published in Nature Scientific Reports last week: www.nature.com/articles/s41... h/t @asa.tsbalans.se

Unbelievable that this was accepted! From everything I hear about journals it's an arduous process to get a paper published, but this seems to have had no scrutiny at all

Chatty chatty jeep jeeps

This is such a lovely thread

We are all the neolithic ceramic hedgehog

No, welfare spending is not 'out of control'.

(There is an underlying rise in health-related benfits, but this needs sensible reform - not knee jerk cuts.)

Deloitte is at it again.

To write one report with made-up references may be regarded as misfortune. To write two looks like carelessness.

a close up of patrick star 's face with his eyes closed ALT: a close up of patrick star 's face with his eyes closed

Ugh that combined with aircon is the worst

Torn between thinking this is genius and thinking it's symptomatic of the collapse of civilization

Although that sounds quite nice too

Assuming this means 🐟 and 🍟 not a restaurant that serves fries with a side of cassoulet and a croque monsieur perched on top

Our cognition improves because of language — but it’s not created or defined by it. Take away our ability to speak, and we can still think, reason, form beliefs, fall in love, and move about the world; our range of what we can experience and think about remains vast. But take away language from a large language model, and you are left with literally nothing at all.

Large language mistake

Cutting-edge research shows language is not the same as intelligence. The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring it.

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... great read from @benjaminjriley.bsky.social

The timeline cleanse you need

Reeves to launch crackdown on benefit fraud alongside lifting two-child limit Move aims to bring in extra £1.2bn of savings as government seeks to head off criticism over welfare spending

More 'cracking down' on welfare fraud.

Is tackling genuine fraud a good thing? Of course.

Is this crackdown likely to usher in some new opaque and possibly shonky AI? Probably.

Sigh.

I’m not offering Black Friday discounts this year because I’m a tiny one woman business and I can’t compete with the likes of Amazon.

What I can offer - unique designs, high quality UK made products, customer service from a real person, a warm and fuzzy feeling because you are buying from a tiny independent business.

I’m not doing Black Friday this year.
I’d rather be honest with you than try to compete with big brands.
Every purchase genuinely makes a difference to my tiny business.
Shop independent this Christmas.

www.gailmyerscough.co.uk

Chatbots = mansplainers