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Scott Timcke retweeted
21 May 2025
OPINION | Can #AI be ‘democratic’?
This article for @csmonitor discusses how AI is being shaped by developments such as @OpenAI For Countries.
RIA's @ScottTimcke contributes, “Who’s controlling it? And do they have anyone overseeing them?”
Read it 🖇️ bit.ly/4mp04rn
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Scott Timcke retweeted
15 Apr 2025
READ | Senior Research Associate @ScottTimcke shares his perspective & analysis on AI, inequality and democracy as part of the @techpolicypress article series 'The Coming Age of Tech Trillionaires and the Challenge to Democracy'.
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Scott Timcke retweeted
2 May 2025
READ | 'AI’s Next Frontier Could Supercharge Tax Havens. Here’s Why That Matters' by RIA Senior Research Associate, Dr @ScottTimcke for the African Legal Studies Blog.
#JustAI
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Scott Timcke retweeted
25 Apr 2025
Invitation | T20 Africa High-Level Policy Dialogue, featuring a keynote address by South Africa's Deputy President @PMashatile
Register to join us virtually: t20southafrica.org/events/t2…
🤝Hosted by @NEPAD_Agency @IGD_SA @SAIIA_info @ujipatc
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Scott Timcke retweeted
17 Apr 2025
New fellowship opportunity @UniofOxford for African and Indian faculty working on applications of AI in science (@OxIndiaCentre and @Africa_Oxford)
Application close on 28 April (12noon BST). For more info and to submit your application:
shorturl.at/SEeFO
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Scott Timcke retweeted
2 Apr 2025
Today Senior Research Associate at RIA, Dr @ScottTimcke made an oral submission on the UN's Zero Draft of the Terms of Reference & Modalities for the Establishment and Functioning of the Independent International Scientific Panel on #AI & the Global Dialogue on #AIGovernance.
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Scott Timcke retweeted
In CNTI’s latest Newsletter, @ScottTimcke reflects on how South Africans embrace AI in journalism and what it means for news access, trust, and innovation. A compelling look at the intersection of technology and media in a changing landscape.
Read more: mailchi.mp/innovating.news/c…
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Scott Timcke retweeted
27 Mar 2025
A Digital Transformation of Government Roadmap for South Africa has been approved by the cabinet. It addresses issues of interdepartmental coordination, outdated systems, overlapping mandates, and limited skills or capacity, which affect public service delivery, efficiency.
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Scott Timcke retweeted
🔔 OUT NOW: March Newsletter! 🔔
Including:
-3 new reports on journalism in the age of AI & public expectations
-@ScottTimcke on South Africa’s openness to AI in news
-A a look ahead to the next few months
Read: mailchi.mp/innovating.news/c…
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Scott Timcke retweeted
🗣️ LISTEN NOW: Audio version of CNTI’s March newsletter powered by @Google NotebookLM!
Tune in here: drive.google.com/file/d/1X6w…
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Scott Timcke retweeted
21 Mar 2025
The hasty deployment of AI in government demands caution. "It is essential prudence when the mechanisms of democracy itself are at stake", cautions @ScottTimcke in his latest @AfrikaTechnoPol blog. 1/2
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Scott Timcke retweeted
21 Mar 2025
@ScottTimcke: "Without sufficient evidence-building and careful implementation, we risk creating a ‘chatbot democracy", that simulates responsiveness while fundamentally altering the citizen-government relationship in ways we scarcely understand." 2/2
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Scott Timcke retweeted
17 Mar 2025
Are you a #SocialSciences researcher?
Contribute to our #TransformingSociety blog to showcase your research and insights.
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Scott Timcke retweeted
6 Mar 2025
"One of the most difficult challenges posed by agentic #AI is how to assign responsibility when something goes wrong." @ScottTimcke
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Scott Timcke retweeted
4 Mar 2025
.@ScottTimcke, author of 'Algorithms and the End of Politics', explores how agentic #AI, with its autonomous decision-making, threatens democratic principles by undermining transparency, accountability and human control.
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Scott Timcke retweeted
25 Feb 2025
AI's next frontier could supercharge tax havens - and the implications could be acute suggests @ScottTimcke.
His latest @AfrikaTechnoPol commentary outlines three elements to a coordinated global response to the emerging reality of "agentic AI". 1/2
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Scott Timcke retweeted
18 Feb 2025
This is true
18 Feb 2025
Elon Musk has 19 year olds running the country. There are zoomers using US power to lean on Romania to drop Andrew Tate’s charges. The median Democrat with influence is in hospice. The youth are going right partly because there are opportunities for power and advancement there
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Scott Timcke retweeted
13 Feb 2025
DISCOURSE | Platform decay 📳
@ScottTimcke and @Andrew_Rens respond to Meta's removal of fact-checking, citing #enshittification and platform decay as a serious cause for concern.
Read their policy brief on this issue here 👉bit.ly/3BmPxKI
#InformationIntegrity
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Scott Timcke retweeted
12 Feb 2025
(New ATP blog] The Democratic Republic of Congo’s digital ID project illustrates the need for caution on the emerging “digital industrial complex" in Africa, argues @Nelson_LawKE. Do comment once you've pondered his post!
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