Bronwyn Jones

Banner: Responsible Innovation Centre for Public Media Futures, with BBC & Partners

📚 The Responsible Innovation Centre for Public Media Future's six-part scoping report series is out now! 📚

We've drawn on insights of over 100 experts to set out some of the biggest challenges & opportunities for public media in digital technology and innovation, including...

We're hiring at BRAID UK!

Exciting opportunity for a Research Associate to lead work around the social return on AI investment, working closely with @ewaluger.bsky.social and @shannonvallor.bsky.social

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPA010/r...

Applications open. Closes 7 Nov, Interviews 9 Dec.

gijn.org Guide to Investigating Social Media Algorithms 

In this new reporting guide, GIJN offers tips and techniques for covering the algorithms used by tech giants’ social media platforms – and their corresponding impacts.

https://twp.ai/9PUBv3

📢 Job opportunity! 📢

Opportunity to join our Edinburgh-based team as BRAID Project Administrator. Full time, til Nov 2028. Find out more:

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A pivotal role, helping ensure smooth running of BRAID.
Come help us make a difference.

#Edinburgh #Jobs

One week on from the BRAID Community Gathering, and we’re still feeling the energy from a day filled with insight, authenticity and connection.

Heartfelt thanks to our speakers, attendees; Our Community - your being there made it what it was.

The Responsible AI Ecosystem: Seven Lessons from the BRAID Landscape Study

Published today: The Responsible AI Ecosystem: A BRAID Landscape Study.
@ftollon.bsky.social & @shannonvallor.bsky.social introduce us to the report in the latest BRAID blog braiduk.org/the-responsi...

Coinciding with our gathering, today we announce that the wonderful BRAID fellowships cohort is expanding. An exciting new partnership with the British Academy marks a significant step in our shared commitment to promote Responsible AI in the UK. #AcademicSky #AHRC @ukri.org

And the #CHI2025 News Futures workshop is off to a running start! First up: a panel led by @sachnishal.bsky.social, ft Lydia Chilton, @hheuer.bsky.social , Kazuhiro Kida, and @bronwynjo.bsky.social.

cc @amandahorzyk.bsky.social @bridainep.bsky.social @agstrait.bsky.social

🗞️ News publishers are facing stark new challenges as AI companies use their journalism as data to train & ground generative AI models.
💡 BRAID UK & the @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social held a workshop asking: What are the core concerns, issues & potential solutions?
📌 Report: doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

BRAID partner @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social along with the Alan Turing Institute have published a new national survey exploring public attitudes to AI. BRAID was pleased to be able to support the work of colleagues at Ada on this project. Read more here: attitudestoai.uk

The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.

NEW: LibGen contains millions of pirated books and research papers, built over nearly two decades. From court documents, we know that Meta torrented a version of it to build its AI. Today, @theatlantic.com presents an analysis of the data set by @alexreisner.bsky.social. Search through it yourself:

Join us this Thursday 13th Feb - we'll be hosting Ananda Rutherford in an online seminar ''Do ‘Words Matter’ in Machine Learning?''. Make sure to grab your ticket now! 👇

@anandarutherford.bsky.social @designinf.bsky.social

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/braid-x-id...

Last week, a group of our BRAID researchers led by Dr Paula Westenberger & Dr Anna-Maria Sichani submitted a response to the UK govt #copyright & #AI consultation, advocating for the rights of creatives & transparency in AI development. Read the response: zenodo.org/records/1494... Well done team!

⏰ Still time to submit to our workshop on the future of News and HCI at #CHI2025
Join us in Japan!

Responsible AI projects to boost creative and environment sectors Three BRAID Responsible AI Demonstrator projects will explore the uses of AI in live music and the arts as well as the environmental governance of AI.

Thrilled to announce our new BRAID demonstrators. Two projects exploring responsible/equitable use of AI in the #CreativeSector. A third exploring AI’s #EnvironmentalImpact. Groundbreaking projects embedding Arts & Humanities alongside AI expertise. #ResponsibleAI edin.ac/3WNBzZY

Can AI civic technologies invigorate democracy in Scotland?
Feb 7, 3pm - 5.30pm

With Dr Stuart Lynn and Iñaki Goñi.

Part of CONTROVERSIES in the DATA SOCIETY Seminar Series
Hybrid seminar
Info and Booking:
https://bit.ly/CDS-Democracy

@datacontroversies.bsky.social

Interested in the future of news? Got ideas about how HCI can support trustworthy public interest journalism? Join our workshop at #CHI2025 We want to hear from you! @braiduk.bsky.social @designinf.bsky.social

UK Research and Innovation UKRI convenes, catalyses and invests in close collaboration with others to build a thriving, inclusive research and innovation system.

With the global push for AI innovation there's never been a better time for international collaboration on responsible AI. We start the new year with a #BRAID call for collaboration between UK and US institutions: www.ukri.org/opportunity/... #responsibleAI #funding

📣 We are hiring two new Assistant Professors, one in the Social Science of AI and the other in AI and Ethical Design. 
We're excited to build our teaching team, so please share them far and wide! Closing 2nd Feb.
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49543/ and www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49542/

Calling all AI researchers in my network: if you want to earn some pre-Christmas elf points, please tell me what you think about journalists‘ coverage of AI topics in this short and sweet survey👇

“We highlight 3 main affordances of ‘open’ AI, namely transparency, reusability, and extensibility, and we observe that maximally ‘open’ AI allows some forms of oversight and experimentation on top of existing models. We find that openness alone does not perturb the concentration of power in AI.”

SAFE - Supporting 
At-risk researchers 
with Fellowships in Europe As a pilot fellowship scheme, the SAFE project offers 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers of any non-EU nationality to work at a research institutio...

Support for at-risk researchers: 60 fully-funded fellowships (up to 24 months) for doctoral and postdoctoral researchers of any non-EU nationality to work at a research institution in the EU.

How ChatGPT (Mis)represents Publisher Content ChatGPT search — which is positioned as a competitor to search engines like Google and Bing — launched with a press release from OpenAI touting claims that the company had “collaborated extensively wi...

Tow Center analysis finds that publishers face the risk of their content being misattributed or misrepresented regardless of whether or not they allow OpenAI’s crawlers.
@klaudia.bsky.social @aisvarya17.bsky.social @columjournreview.bsky.social

www.cjr.org/tow_center/h...

📢 The 𝗝𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹𝗶𝘀𝗺 𝗩𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 has been published!

The report - made by @netzwerkrecherche.org - provides a comprehensive look at 🇪🇺 i͟n͟d͟e͟p͟e͟n͟d͟e͟n͟t͟ ͟p͟u͟b͟l͟i͟c͟ ͟i͟n͟t͟e͟r͟e͟s͟t͟ ͟m͟e͟d͟i͟a͟ ͟s͟e͟c͟t͟o͟r͟, highlighting funding models and i͟n͟v͟e͟s͟t͟i͟g͟a͟t͟i͟v͟e͟ ͟r͟e͟p͟o͟r͟t͟i͟n͟g͟’s role.

🗺️ Explore the 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 and 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗽 here: t.ly/zTGpL

A person with braids looks to the right. The background is blue. The braids have been shaped above the head into stark triangles with spheres at the points where the triangles meet. A text circle next to the model reads, 'BRAID artist commissions open call'.

We are thrilled to announce the BRAID Artist Commissions Open Call, encouraging new ways to think about today’s AI.

Artists will receive a £10,000 budget to develop their work & will be showcased during the Edinburgh Art Festival 2025 at @inspacegallery.bsky.social 🎨

braiduk.org/artist-commi...

@rhianne-j.bsky.social

Research Lead in personalisation in the public interest, Responsible Innovation Centre, BBC R&D Research Lead in personalisation in the public interest, Responsible Innovation Centre, BBC R&D

🚨 UK Research jobs: Responsible Innovation Centre for Public Media Futures. Apply by 17 Nov
📌 Personalisation & public interest
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📌 Civic participation & digital inclusion
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📌 Measuring social impact careers.bbc.co.uk/job/Salford-...

Here's a Critical AI starter pack. I didn't see one so I made it! Likely to be missing people so please suggest folks, yourself included! go.bsky.app/UPULf1S