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Tony Robinson

I'm a Research Software Engineer at Ulster University and cofounder of TechEthics Limited Interested in data science, Machine learning and AI.

Location Derry, Northern Ireland Joined Joined on  github website

Education

Ulster University, BENG/PhD

Pronouns

He/Him

Work

Research Software Engineer at Ulster University + Cofounder/CTO of Techethics Ltd

Autonomous Weapons and the Erosion of Meaningful Human Control
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Autonomous Weapons and the Erosion of Meaningful Human Control

#advancements #potential #autonomous #legal
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16 min read
From Battlefield to Newsfeed: How Generative AI Is Rewriting the Fog of War
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From Battlefield to Newsfeed: How Generative AI Is Rewriting the Fog of War

#fog #military #applications #generative
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14 min read
Governing the Ungovernable: Lessons from Arms Control for Frontier AI
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Governing the Ungovernable: Lessons from Arms Control for Frontier AI

#control #experts #nuclear #frontier
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14 min read
Listening at Scale: AI, Early Warning, and the Future of Atrocity Prevention
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Listening at Scale: AI, Early Warning, and the Future of Atrocity Prevention

#ai #earlywarning #atrocityprevention #privacy
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13 min read
Narrative Warfare in the Age of Agents: Mapping the New Influence Pipeline
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Narrative Warfare in the Age of Agents: Mapping the New Influence Pipeline

#pipeline #narrative #creation #strategy
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14 min read
Peace by Pattern: Can Machine Learning Predict Conflict Before It Ignites?
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Peace by Pattern: Can Machine Learning Predict Conflict Before It Ignites?

#unrest #prediction #conflict #learning
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14 min read
PeaceTech's Awkward Question: Whose Values Get Coded Into Reconciliation Tools?
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PeaceTech's Awkward Question: Whose Values Get Coded Into Reconciliation Tools?

#tools #values #ethics #peacetech
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13 min read
Synthetic Witnesses: Deepfakes, Evidence, and the Collapse of Visual Trust
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Synthetic Witnesses: Deepfakes, Evidence, and the Collapse of Visual Trust

#implications #technology #advancements #intelligence
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12 min read
The Disinformation Dividend: Why Hostile Actors Love Large Language Models
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The Disinformation Dividend: Why Hostile Actors Love Large Language Models

#disinformation #gpt3 #models #openai
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13 min read
When Algorithms Take Sides: The Quiet Politics of AI in Conflict Zones
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When Algorithms Take Sides: The Quiet Politics of AI in Conflict Zones

#transparency #responsible #zones #realworld
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12 min read
Seeing Is No Longer Believing: Deepfakes and the Death of Visual Evidence
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Seeing Is No Longer Believing: Deepfakes and the Death of Visual Evidence

#news #artificial #evidence #intelligence
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11 min read
Platform Liability in the Age of Synthetic Media: Who Is Responsible?
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Platform Liability in the Age of Synthetic Media: Who Is Responsible?

#liability #deepfakes #media #platform
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11 min read
Journalists in the Crosshairs: Deepfakes as a Tool of Authoritarian Suppression
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Journalists in the Crosshairs: Deepfakes as a Tool of Authoritarian Suppression

#suppression #authoritarian #journalism #propaganda
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11 min read
From Satire to Sabotage: Where Does Deepfake Creativity Cross the Line?
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From Satire to Sabotage: Where Does Deepfake Creativity Cross the Line?

#social #limits #aspects #media
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9 min read
Children, Schools, and Synthetic Harm: The Safeguarding Crisis No One Is Talking About
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Children, Schools, and Synthetic Harm: The Safeguarding Crisis No One Is Talking About

#harm #internet #social #media
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11 min read
Democracy in the Age of Manufactured Truth: Deepfakes and Electoral Integrity
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Democracy in the Age of Manufactured Truth: Deepfakes and Electoral Integrity

#news #deepfakes #democracy #integrity
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9 min read
Regulating the Unregulatable: Why Existing Frameworks Fail Against Synthetic Media
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Regulating the Unregulatable: Why Existing Frameworks Fail Against Synthetic Media

#ccpa #media #gdpr #fcc
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7 min read
Synthetic Faces, Real Harm: The Psychological Impact of Non-Consensual Deepfake Imagery
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Synthetic Faces, Real Harm: The Psychological Impact of Non-Consensual Deepfake Imagery

#nonconsensual #psychological #technology #impact
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10 min read
Deepfakes and Domestic Abuse: A New Weapon in the Coercive Control Arsenal
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Deepfakes and Domestic Abuse: A New Weapon in the Coercive Control Arsenal

#manipulation #abuse #countermeasures #legal
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10 min read
Beyond the Uncanny Valley: Why Detection Is Losing the Arms Race
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Beyond the Uncanny Valley: Why Detection Is Losing the Arms Race

#uncanny #technology #valley #computer
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12 min read
The Consent Crisis: How Deepfakes Are Rewriting the Rules of Personal Identity
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The Consent Crisis: How Deepfakes Are Rewriting the Rules of Personal Identity

#personal #deepfake #consent #crisis
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12 min read
The Geopolitics of Deepfakes: State Actors, Information Warfare, and Manufactured Crises
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The Geopolitics of Deepfakes: State Actors, Information Warfare, and Manufactured Crises

#geopolitics #manufactured #warfare #information
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10 min read
The Trust Tax: Quantifying the Economic Cost of Synthetic Media
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The Trust Tax: Quantifying the Economic Cost of Synthetic Media

#trust #tax #ethics #intelligence
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13 min read
The Liar's Dividend: How Deepfakes Let the Guilty Claim Innocence
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The Liar's Dividend: How Deepfakes Let the Guilty Claim Innocence

#justice #deepfake #system #ethical
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12 min read
Synthetic Grief: Deepfake Resurrections and the Ethics of Digital Afterlives
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Synthetic Grief: Deepfake Resurrections and the Ethics of Digital Afterlives

#ethical #considerations #deepfakes #afterlife
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14 min read
When the Algorithm Eulogises You: AI-Generated Memorial Content and Digital Grief
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When the Algorithm Eulogises You: AI-Generated Memorial Content and Digital Grief

#memorials #privacy #intelligence #artificial
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10 min read
Consent in the Training Set: The Ethics of Building AI on Human Creativity
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Consent in the Training Set: The Ethics of Building AI on Human Creativity

#data #trust #training #center
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10 min read
Astroturfing at Scale: Synthetic Voices and the Collapse of Online Public Opinion
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Astroturfing at Scale: Synthetic Voices and the Collapse of Online Public Opinion

#public #voices #fake #synthetic
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9 min read
Creative Destruction: What Generative AI Really Means for Artists, Writers, and Musicians
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Creative Destruction: What Generative AI Really Means for Artists, Writers, and Musicians

#artists #creative #generative #implications
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10 min read
AI-Generated Science and the question of accelerating discovery or manufacturing credibility
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AI-Generated Science and the question of accelerating discovery or manufacturing credibility

#credibility #acceleration #science
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7 min read
Deepfakes in the Courtroom: Evidentiary Standards for a Post-Truth Era
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Deepfakes in the Courtroom: Evidentiary Standards for a Post-Truth Era

#evidentiary #standards #courtroom #technology
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10 min read
Educational Integrity Under Siege: AI Content Generation and the Future of Assessment
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Educational Integrity Under Siege: AI Content Generation and the Future of Assessment

#assessment #educational #skills #detection
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11 min read
Flooding the Zone: How AI-Generated Content Is Overwhelming the Information Ecosystem
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Flooding the Zone: How AI-Generated Content Is Overwhelming the Information Ecosystem

#journalism #media #information #artificial
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10 min read
From Prompt to Policy: The Risks of AI-Drafted Legislation and Regulation
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From Prompt to Policy: The Risks of AI-Drafted Legislation and Regulation

#regulation #practices #limitations #strategies
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5 min read
Synthetic Journalism: When AI Reports the News, Who Is Accountable?
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Synthetic Journalism: When AI Reports the News, Who Is Accountable?

#accountability #synthetic #aigenerated #ethics
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12 min read
Synthetic Propaganda: How State Actors Are Weaponising Generative AI
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Synthetic Propaganda: How State Actors Are Weaponising Generative AI

#tech #ethics #ai
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11 min read
The Authenticity Premium: Why Human-Made Content Is Becoming a Luxury Good
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The Authenticity Premium: Why Human-Made Content Is Becoming a Luxury Good

#cons #implications #aigenerated #recommendations
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5 min read
The Ghost in the Machine: Who Is the Author When AI Writes the Story?
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The Ghost in the Machine: Who Is the Author When AI Writes the Story?

#copyright #creative #writing #authorship
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13 min read
The Hollow Influencer: Brand Trust in an Age of AI-Generated Personas
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The Hollow Influencer: Brand Trust in an Age of AI-Generated Personas

#tech #ethics #ai
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11 min read
The Homogenisation Threat: Is Generative AI Quietly Flattening Human Culture?
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The Homogenisation Threat: Is Generative AI Quietly Flattening Human Culture?

#homogenisation #human #generative #impact
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10 min read
The Marginalised in the Crosshairs: How Deepfake Abuse Disproportionately Targets Women and Minorities
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The Marginalised in the Crosshairs: How Deepfake Abuse Disproportionately Targets Women and Minorities

#abuse #minorities #marginalised #rights
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14 min read
From Hollywood to Harm: The Democratisation of Deepfake Technology and Its Social Cost
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From Hollywood to Harm: The Democratisation of Deepfake Technology and Its Social Cost

#deepfakes #trust #digitaltechnology
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13 min read
Building Media Literacy for the Synthetic Age: What Schools Must Teach
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Building Media Literacy for the Synthetic Age: What Schools Must Teach

#synthetic #digital #thinking #critical
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6 min read
The Plagiarism Paradox: Training Data, Copyright, and the Theft Nobody Can Prosecute
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The Plagiarism Paradox: Training Data, Copyright, and the Theft Nobody Can Prosecute

#training #copyright #machinelearning #ai
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14 min read
Who owns your face? Deepfakes, Biometric Data, and the Law
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Who owns your face? Deepfakes, Biometric Data, and the Law

#deepfakes #legaldata #biometrics #ai
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11 min read
Building a Misinformation Resilience Playbook
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Building a Misinformation Resilience Playbook

#misinformation #trustandsafety #medialiteracy
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6 min read
Digital Twins for Population Modeling: Ethics, Signal Quality, and Public Good
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Digital Twins for Population Modeling: Ethics, Signal Quality, and Public Good

#digitaltwins #populationhealth #datagovernance #aiethics
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2 min read
Designing Digital Public Squares: Dialog Tools That Earn Trust
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Designing Digital Public Squares: Dialog Tools That Earn Trust

#civictech #publicdialogue #democracy #participation
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5 min read
AI, ML, and Fundamental Rights: Privacy, Equality, Fairness
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AI, ML, and Fundamental Rights: Privacy, Equality, Fairness

#humanrights #aigovernance #fairness #privacy
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5 min read
When AI Harms the Vulnerable: Lessons from Refugee, Justice, and Humanitarian Contexts
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When AI Harms the Vulnerable: Lessons from Refugee, Justice, and Humanitarian Contexts

#humanitariantech #justice #riskmanagement #casestudies
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17 min read
Responsible AI Guidelines: Principles, Frameworks, and Emerging Global Standards
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Responsible AI Guidelines: Principles, Frameworks, and Emerging Global Standards

#aigovernance #policy #standards #compliance
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2 min read
Balancing AI Innovation with Human Rights: Knowing When to Stop or Slow Down
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Balancing AI Innovation with Human Rights: Knowing When to Stop or Slow Down

#humanrights #riskmanagement #aigovernance #oversight
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5 min read
Technology in Conflict Zones: Surveillance, Evidence, and Rights Risks
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Technology in Conflict Zones: Surveillance, Evidence, and Rights Risks

#conflicttech #humanrights #surveillance #accountability
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1 min read
Humanitarian Tech Trade-offs: Privacy, Transparency, Automation, Autonomy
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Humanitarian Tech Trade-offs: Privacy, Transparency, Automation, Autonomy

#humanitariantech #ethics #privacy #governance
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2 min read
Lessons from AI in Crisis Response and Post-Conflict Recovery
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Lessons from AI in Crisis Response and Post-Conflict Recovery

#crisisresponse #supplychain #humanrights #casestudies
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2 min read
EU vs. Global AI Standards: What Builders and Policymakers Need to Know
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EU vs. Global AI Standards: What Builders and Policymakers Need to Know

#airegulation #standards #policycomparison #governance
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2 min read
Calls for Standards and Ethical Governance: Balancing Innovation, Accountability, and Rights
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Calls for Standards and Ethical Governance: Balancing Innovation, Accountability, and Rights

#aigovernance #ethics #standards #humanrights
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2 min read
Tech for Humanitarian Impact: From Rights Monitoring to Post-Conflict Rebuilding
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Tech for Humanitarian Impact: From Rights Monitoring to Post-Conflict Rebuilding

#humanitariantech #crisisresponse #humanrights #reconstruction
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2 min read
Hopeful but Honest: Balancing Humanitarian Tech with Risks and Trade-offs
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Hopeful but Honest: Balancing Humanitarian Tech with Risks and Trade-offs

#responsibleai #humanitariantech #ethics #sustainability
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2 min read
Emerging Ethical Tech Trends: Open, Private, Sustainable, Socially Aware
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Emerging Ethical Tech Trends: Open, Private, Sustainable, Socially Aware

#ethicaltech #opensource #privacy #sustainability
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