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Writer, academic: social & cultural AI/HCI. Also archaeology and mental health. BOOK: "Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots"

London, England
Joined November 2011

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    18 Oct 2018

    OUT NOW! "Turned On: Science, Sex and Robots" by Kate Devlin (Bloomsbury ). Buy in bookshops or at or . Audio book available:

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    Or in the case of Brexit or climate change BBC R4 PM (or Today) “hello expert. Are you concerned?” Expert: “hell yes!” BBC: “let’s ask a non expert” Non-expert: “Project fear. These experts don’t know what they’re talking about.” BBC: “so there we have it. Nothing to fear!”

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  3. Hahaa, yeah. BBC R4 PM this evening: “hello, expert. Are you concerned?” Expert: “no” BBC: “let’s ask a non-expert” Non-expert: “yes” BBC: “yes, it does seem worrying, doesn’t it? We should worry.”

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  4. Finishing off the last of my decluttering this evening, serenaded by Scottish folk musicians singing in my earphones: Paddie Bell, Iain Mackintosh and Hamish Imlach. (Paddie and Iain both had Norn Ireland blood in them too, yeowww.)

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  5. We’re not supposed to be sympathise with him, are we? He’s manipulative and a complete dick (and an unreliable narrator), and there’re no actual nice characters in the whole show, except maybe Karen, but she watches shit TV so we’ll judge her too.

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  6. Jan 4

    The kid is back with me this weekend. I am three quarters of the way through tidying her room. Yeah, she should do it herself. But if I do it I get to play with the Playmobil.

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    Jan 3

    And sought out Toby Young for his opinion on this statement. Are they fucking trolling universities?

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  8. Jan 4

    Hello, I’m a female academic in a movie. I wear glasses which I push up the bridge of my nose while blinking a lot, and am endearingly klutzy. My desk is stacked high with old, dusty books.

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    Jan 3

    To save us from a Kafkaesque future, we must democratise AI - the talk I gave at the launch of the is published in the today

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  10. Retweeted
    Jan 4

    Research I did for showed substantially fewer than half of Conservative supporters fantasised about BDSM and figure was not significantly different to supporters of other parties. The result is unlikely to be different for Conservative members. Buy you never know.

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  11. Jan 3
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  12. Retweeted
    Jan 2

    Alexa, show me an absolutely perfect example of Betteridge's Law of Headlines

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  13. Jan 3

    Me: “Day 3 of the year. I have eaten super healthily for three days, I’m on the third day of a yoga challenge, I have been for a run, and I have had no alcohol.” Also me: “why am I not thin and fit already?” Also, also me: “this is never going to work. I’m opening the wine.”

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    Jan 3

    In a totally unsurprising turn of events, privileged white man manages to get another cushy job, despite being all over the news for unprofessional behaviour in his previous job.

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    "She [Carpenter] thinks politeness requirements like that just work to further encourage us to think of Alexa as a human when she is really an algorithm." & I talked about AI assistants and personas, gender, & stereotypes for :

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  16. Jan 3

    Ahhhh, the difference a bit of tape makes. The physio taped up my dodgy impinged shoulder and I feel cured. Unfortunately, when this comes off in a couple of days, I can’t actually re-tape it up myself, one-armed... ☹️

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  17. Jan 2

    Taking the rest of this week off work so I can sort out my life, as is optimistically customary in early January every year. Normal chaos will resume shortly.

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  18. Jan 1

    Her name was Ela Friedman Aytes. She was 3 years old. Her mother did everything she could to save her daughter in a system that gave their abuser power. Write about that. She is loved and she is missed. Write about that. She is not some horror story to sell your news, .

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  19. Jan 1

    Shame on you, . Shame on you. A violent and murderous act of horrific domestic violence and you sensationalise it in an article that is both opportunistic and unethical. Here are the guidelines for reporting on suicide. Learn from them:

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  20. Retweeted
    29 Dec 2018

    On an average day in the UK: 3,700 are forced to visit a food bank. 5,400 suffer domestic violence. 4,750 sleep rough on the streets. 4 migrants arrive in boats across the Channel. Guess which one the government is calling a “crisis”?

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  21. Jan 1

    *opens curtains* *looks out window* Yeah, looks pretty similar to 2018, really. *goes back to bed*

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