Back in 2013, Google developed a controversial piece of gear that has long lived in infamy, Google Glass. This was an interesting proto-AR wearable device that contained a camera, earphones, a touchpad, and a small display that was heralded as the start of the augmented reality revolution. The device had Read more
There’s a small indie game from 2013 that I think about often. In Lucas Pope’s Papers, Please you play an immigration inspector at the border of the gloriously miserable communist republic of Arstotzka, and your entire job is to scrutinise documents. Passport here, entry permit there. Does the photo match Read more
Even by the standards of AI development, where each month often feels like a year, this has been quite the week. Back in April, Anthropic unveiled Claude Mythos, a frontier model that was supposed to be exceptionally capable of finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities, which led the company to delay Read more
I haven’t really written about machine consciousness, super-intelligence, or artificial general intelligence (AGI) before; I never felt the need, and some of the questions on AI consciousness are entirely outside of my area of expertise. I have always assumed that some sort of AI consciousness would be achieved in the Read more
If you asked me to name the topic I’d class as my core academic specialisation, you’d probably guess artificial intelligence, and you’d be wrong, or at least premature, that one came later. The real answer is openness: open access, open source, open content, the Commons, non-proprietary licensing. This was the Read more
If you were paying attention to music news last month, you may have come across a curious story, unnerving even depending on your priors. An AI-generated artist called IngaRose climbed to the top of the iTunes music charts after becoming viral in TikTok videos. Having listened to it, I’m perhaps Read more
Regular readers will know that I have been interested in the pastiche exception for a while now, mostly because it has always struck me as the most underused exceptions under modern copyright law in Europe and the UK. Perhaps it is not surprising that parody gets all the attention, caricature Read more
The last few weeks I have witnessed a number of interesting discussions breaking out on social media. A couple of weeks ago a US-based academic admitted using AI in some of his writing, which prompted a response from a prominent AI researcher. I’m not interested in commenting on the particulars Read more
I’ve been following the CJEU case C-250/25 Like Company v Google hearing with interest (my initial thoughts on the case here). I won’t attempt to cover the entirety of the proceedings, I’ve already accumulated plenty of notes for that, but I want to focus on one specific aspect that jumped Read more
If you have been online recently you may have seen a variation of a story that reads something like this: “The US Supreme Court declares that AI generated works aren’t copyrightable.” I won’t name and shame all of the places that have written variations of this headline, some which should Read more