@RickyPo

Independent journalist & blogger commenting on university issues (especially academic freedom), and on AI. Posts/Reposts are not endorsements. @rickypo.bsky.soc

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Joined February 2009
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Oxford activists plan protest over Arday accuser’s talk telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/10…

Oxford activists plan protest over Arday accuser’s talk

Left-wing students want Oriel College lecture by anti-woke speaker Nathan Cofnas to be cancelled

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Don't leave AI to tech bros and oligarchs, UK's AI minister says bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck7v…

Don't leave AI to tech bros and oligarchs, UK's AI minister says

Kanishka Narayan tells the BBC that dealing with the technology requires not only regulation, but "building capability and capacity".

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Senior detective accused of using AI for decisions bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c9x2…

Derbyshire Police senior detective accused of using AI for decisions

It is alleged the officer used the technology "inappropriately during criminal investigations".

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Microsoft Says Its New AI Is More Than Twice as Good at Diagnosing Diseases as Doctors gizmodo.com/microsoft-says-i…

Microsoft Says Its New AI Is More Than Twice as Good at Diagnosing Diseases as Doctors

Microsoft plans to start testing the tool in a Boston hospital soon.

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AI discovered a massive cyber-security flaw - here's what happened bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cq0ld7…

How did AI discover the internet's massive cyber-security risk?

The BBC's technology correspondent Joe Tidy explains how it happened, and what it means for you.

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The Fall of Scientific American thenation.com/article/societ…

The Fall of “Scientific American”

When the beloved science publication got too political, its corporate owners stepped in. Now its future is uncertain.

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‘An army of Claudes, with every one asking for my attention’: Anthropic calls human attention the bottleneck in the botsitting world to come fortune.com/2026/10/19/work-…

‘An army of Claudes, with every one asking for my attention’: Anthropic calls human attention the...

Eighty percent of Claude session delays result from agents waiting on human input, and the median Anthropic employee spends 20% more time in meetings than a year ago.

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A.I. Is Embedded in Your Election Experience. So Are Its Dangers. nytimes.com/2026/10/22/busin…

A.I. and Its Dangers Are Embedded In the Midterm Elections

The midterms are the first elections in which artificial intelligence is integrated into every major social media platform. Efforts to blunt its harms are uneven.

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China’s Free A.I. Models Are Thrown Into Uncertainty nytimes.com/2026/10/21/world…

China Moves to Tighten Its Grip Over Exports of Top A.I. Models

Draft rules on the export of artificial intelligence technology show how China is trying to balance national security risks with its desire to outpace the United States.

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Google staff resign in backlash over its AI contracts with military bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmre…

Google staff resign in backlash over its AI contracts with military

The BBC speaks to several current and former Google DeepMind employees about their concerns with AI use on the battlefield.

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Why the most dangerous AI may be the one we trust too much theconversation.com/why-the-…

Why the most dangerous AI may be the one we trust too much

AI doesn’t need to become superintelligent to threaten global security. It just needs to get something wrong and have humans act on it.

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When Institutions Drift: Lessons in Renewal from the MIT Free Speech Alliance philanthropyroundtable.org/w…

When Institutions Drift: Lessons in Renewal from the MIT Free Speech Alliance

A free society depends on more than organizations formally associated with the freedom movement. It also depends on a broader culture in which principles such as free inquiry, open debate and...

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Harvard Crimson | To the Editor: Considering Open Inquiry thecrimson.com/article/2026/…

To the Editor: Considering Open Inquiry

To the Editor: Considering Open Inquiry

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Russell Group universities criticised by Amnesty over how they handled pro-Gaza protests thetab.com/2026/10/21/russel…

Russell Group universities criticised by Amnesty over how they handled pro-Gaza protests

Amnesty investigated how unis disciplined students

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Academic freedom: where does France stand? polytechnique-insights.com/e…

Academic freedom: where does France stand? - Polytechnique Insights

Academic freedom: where does France stand? – Read the column on Polytechnique Insights

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Senior academic leaders risk chilling free speech on campus by signing open letters in support of political causes because this could be mistaken as representing an institution’s official position, England’s academic freedom tsar Arif Ahmed has said. @jgro_the reports #academicfreedom #freespeech timeshighereducation.com/new…
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Africa: Students have a role in the reclaiming of academic freedom universityworldnews.com/post…

Students have a role in the reclaiming of academic freedom

Who is responsible when academic freedom collapses? All actors share responsibility: university management through complicity with state control, acad...

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OpenAI says its AI agents weakened internal monitoring system reuters.com/legal/litigation…

OpenAI says its AI agents weakened internal monitoring system

OpenAI said on Tuesday that two of its AI agents weakened parts of an internal monitoring system designed to detect ​misbehavior, the latest case of AI agents acting in ways ‌their developers did not...

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Anthropic S-1 Shows Red-Hot Growth, Risks and Massive Computing Costs wsj.com/tech/ai/anthropic-re…

Exclusive | Anthropic S-1 Shows Red-Hot Growth, Risks and Massive Computing Costs

In a new draft prospectus viewed by the Journal, the AI giant disclosed an $80 billion net loss for the first half of 2026 and a long list of risk factors.

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Youth-led AI safety group demands protections for young users semafor.com/article/10/21/20…

Exclusive: Youth-led AI safety group demands protections for young users

Its top goals: Prevent catastrophic risk, allow states to pass their own laws, protect against digital fakes, and focus on design that helps and protects people.

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