Merve Hickok

The EU AI Act for Developers and Technical Teams Online Class | LinkedIn Learning, formerly Lynda.com Learn how the EU AI Act impacts AI development, deployment, and governance. Learn how to comply with requirements, protect rights, and ensure AI systems are trustworthy.

🔥Just LAUNCHED my new LinkedIn course - to support the developers, governance and other technical teams to prepare for the requirements of the EU AI Act.
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The image is a screenshot of a tweet from Brandon Bradford (@BrandonLBradfor ). The tweet reads: "Deporting Americans without due process then saying they no longer get due process because they aren’t in America means no one has rights, FYI. Nightmare scenario."

If you think this can’t happen, remember that of the 125,000 Japanese Americans who were interned during WWII for years without charge or trial, two-thirds were U.S. citizens. Including me.

Honor for me to first testify on AI policy in the US Congress in March 2023 🇺🇸, and now at the Turkish Grand National Assembly in March 2025 🇹🇷 Our commitment to advance human rights, democratic values and rule of law is stronger than ever.

This will be like Dutch Syri or Michigan’s MIDAS scandal but on an epic scale. Many people do not have the means to sustain while they try to correct government’s errors.

2024 CAIDP AI Policy Leader Awardees
🏅 Anu Bradford
🏅Gabriela Ramos
🏅 AI Now Institute
🏅 Linda Bonyo

2023 Awardees
🏅 Stuart Russell
🏅 Jan Kleijssen
🏅 Tawana Petty
🏅 Beena Ammanath

CAIDP Seeking Nominations for Global AI Policy Leaders in Academia, Business, Civil Society &Government www.caidp.org/awards
Deadline for nominations: Jan 20th

Individuals who have made outstanding contributions to for AI policies that advance fundamental rights, democratic values & rule of law

So, there's evidence that a few thousand mobile apps shared location data with the data broker Gravy Analytics (Unacast), whose subsidiary Venntel sold to ICE, CBP, FBI, DEA and other US govt agencies, probably via intermediaries and RTB, including data on Europeans:
www.wired.com/story/gravy-...

Did OpenAI Just Solve Abstract Reasoning? OpenAI’s o3 model aces the "Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus" — but what does it mean?

Some of my thoughts on OpenAI's o3 and the ARC-AGI benchmark

aiguide.substack.com/p/did-openai...

Towards intellectual freedom in an AI Ethics Global Community - AI and Ethics The recent incidents involving Dr. Timnit Gebru, Dr. Margaret Mitchell, and Google have triggered an important discussion emblematic of issues arising from the practice of AI Ethics research. We offer...

And this: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Webb Telescope's First Anniversary Image Reveals Unprecedented Details of Star Birth in the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex. Chaos and Beauty Collide as Jets of Young Stars Illuminate Interstellar Gas in Vibrant Red. Clues to Future Planetary Systems Emerge with Telltale Shadows of Circumstellar Disks.

The James Webb Telescope just gave us the most detailed view EVER of the Rho Ophiuchi Cloud Complex, where stars are born. Inspired to explore the cosmos with a telescope? Start your journey today and get your own telescope here 👉 amzn.to/49g9lvS #SpaceInspiration #AmazonAffiliate

Palantir and Anduril join forces with tech groups to bid for Pentagon contracts Consortium likely to include Elon Musk’s SpaceX in move to grab a bigger slice of $850bn US defence budget

The ultimate goal is always money, power and military contracts: www.ft.com/content/6cfd...

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Thank you @mtschaefer.bsky.social . I look forward to hearing your feedback. This intersection is so crucial yet so understudied.

Reproducibility is clearly overrated! 🤦🏽‍♀️

We're Concerned: Billionaire Peter Thiel Backs Controversial Magazine's Cycle-Tracking App Peter Thiel, billionaire entrepreneur and top campaign donor has decided to back a "femtech" app called 28, created by the divisive Evie Magazine.

Probably a good reminder for this, and in whose hands this data will land: futurism.com/neoscope/pet...

Sweden’s Suspicion Machine Behind a veil of secrecy, the social security agency deploys discriminatory algorithms searching for fraud epidemic it has invented

Hot off the presses! New investigation from @lhreports.bsky.social reveals that "secretive algorithms deployed in Sweden's vaunted welfare system cast suspicion on innocent women & migrants while ignoring men & the affluent." www.lighthousereports.com/investigatio...

This is very exciting. Congratulations!! 🙌🏽 And we look forward to collaborations.

This thread is what I have in my book too…and these systems are not questioned again once they become part of infrastructure.

Do you procure AI? Do you know how to conduct procurement due diligence on AI systems? Do you know the risks, challenges, and emerging good practices? Join us on the first book talk.
We will also share a 20% discount code on the book. umich.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Referenced this at Color of Surveillance. Still think it’s one of the most compelling ways to think about this particular set of technologies.

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist”

- James Baldwin

Applications open for Spring 2025 CAIDP AI Policy Clinics. Clinics are intensive, interdisciplinary, semester-long courses to train future AI policy leaders. Deadline: Nov 29.
Over the years we trained 1,000+ professionals in 100+ countries.
www.caidp.org/global-academic-network/ai-policy-clinic/

Procuring AI? Now there is a handbook on the how and why. Built on 20+ interviews with practitioners in US, UK, Canada, Belgium, Norway, Chile and Japan… Incorporating EO, OMB, NIST, OECD, UNESCO and EU AI Act guidance.
www.aiethicist.org/public-procu...

We believe everyone should have a voice in how to shape AI systems & that these systems should benefit all of us. We hope Trustworthy AI Cards™ help you avoid unintended consequences across the lifecycle of AI, or contest these systems if necessary. Www.aiethicist.org/trustworthy-ai…

In Jul’23, both NYT and WSJ reported that the FTC had undertaken the investigation CAIDP requested, but a year later there is still no outcome and no guardrails.

Today CAIDP released a major report "ChatGPT and FTC - Still No Guardrails" report. www.caidp.org/app/download...
This was released ahead of the Congressional hearing on the FTC. We call attention to the FTC’s failure to act on the complaint CAIDP filed with the FTC about OpenAI in March 2023.

CAIDP Announces the Winners of the 2024 AI Policy Leader Awards, recognizing exceptional individuals who have made significant contributions to shaping AI policies that prioritize human rights, democratic values, and the rule of law.

Time for An International Treaty on Artificial Intelligence | TechPolicy.Press Hopes remain high in the Council of Europe, but difficulties have emerged as negotiations approach the final stages, write Merve Hickok and John Shattuck.

Hopes remain high on the prospects of an international treaty on AI in the Council of Europe, but difficulties have emerged as negotiations approach the final stages, write @hickokmerve.bsky.social and John Shattuck.

www.techpolicy.press/time-for-an-...

We started a petition campaign to fight against possible exclusion of private sector from the first international treaty on AI: Its mandate is supposed to be protecting human rights, democracy & rule of law!
www.caidp.org/statements/

Abeba Birhane and her co-authors’ work should be mandatory reading before Stanford’s report