Kate Devlin

Wondering what to get the person who has everything for Christmas? Might I suggest my book: a pop-sci foray into love, sex, history, psychology, philosophy, AI, and robots? Still timely, still relevant. Described by one reviewer as “not enough tentacle porn”. www.bloomsbury.com/uk/turned-on...

Norwich! Waterstones! Me! @drkatedevlin.bsky.social ! Tonight! 7pm!

I now intend to turn up to interview Jonn with a series of placards and a megaphone.

For 33 years I was living in pain every month. I finally had a hysterectomy (for fibroids) and they found endometriosis when they did it. Up til then I'd been told "most women find periods uncomfortable." I'd been unable to walk due to the pain for 1-2 days per month. I was on prescription codeine.

If you are in the Fine City of Norwich this Tuesday, so is @jonnelledge.bsky.social and you can come to hear me ask him questions about his latest book, 31 Inventions that Built Our World: norwichbookfestival.co.uk/whats-on/jon...

A non-AI tool for making gig posters (via webcurios) www.desloppify.diy

A video with the soundtrack of Billie Eilish's my strange addiction and it's just me slowly working my way through a bag of MAOAM chews, those goddamn moreish little feckers

Today's post returns to my favourite topic: #metaphor, with a bit of history of #linguistics and a sprinkle of #AI makingsciencepublic.com/2026/10/23/m...

wrote about "Black October," the PHP vulnerability, and the AI-fueled dread and panic I'm seeing among almost all of the cybersecurity experts I've ever known. I think people w/ LLMs are brute forcing software the same way they brute forced social media w/ slop www.404media.co/php2shell-bl...

web developer: oh hey you guys are back early infra: four's haunted web developer: what? infra: *loading a pistol and getting back on the computer* four's haunted

It is when I watch the day begin from the train and the clouds are gone and the sun is bright and my mood lifts, my mind is bright, and my entire body reacts with physical relief that I realise I'm about as sophisticated as a plant.

NEXT WEEK ⏰ Join us for the launch of our new report, 'Automated Discrimination: Unpacking the Digital Hostile Environment' by @fabiochiusi.bsky.social. We'll be uncovering how AI is being used in the UK immigration system. 🗓️ Wed 28 October 🕠️ 5:30–7:30pm 📍 King's College London Reserve a spot ⬇️

This is such a good read — although I fully 'fess up to my likely confirmation bias.

frozen peas --> small green spheres. A HuffPost one for @secondmentions.com

The Super AGI: I'm sorry. I disassembled the entire human race molecule by molecule to make paperclips. That's on me. Me: what are you talking about, that's not true Super: you're right. That was a failure of alignment and I'm really sorry Me: you haven't made any paper clips at all have you

AI notetakers are in the news at the moment - those transcribers that pop up in online meetings. We @carefultrouble.bsky.social did some work with GMCA earlier this year to write a playbook on best practice and have published it, with 11 guidance principles www.careful.industries/ai-voice-tra...

Five days in post is three days more than Michelle Donelan as Education Secretary.

I saw this live and it was so resonant it had me clenching my jaw in anger and recognition.

I have done the thinking and most of the writing and now I need to do the slides but I don't want to so instead I've done laundry, sorted building insurance, posted my Da's birthday present, not done my slides, walked the dog, claimed expenses, sent many emails, organised events, not done slides. ☹️

Ahhh, when I was a little kid nothing was more exciting than dreaming of the day when I could maximise my campaign's impact using objective-based advertising to achieve my B2B marketing goals with LinkedIn Ads.

“The monster is so hungry it might attack, unless you sacrifice one of your villagers” is a classic fairytale

it’s just great marketing

This morning my brain is playing the opening line on repeat from that Meredith Brooks' song because look at everything. Look at it all. Its relentless. I hate the world today. No, your email does not find me well.

14 years ago I wrote a lament to the search of the elusive impact particle....I never found it.... makingsciencepublic.com/2012/05/08/t...

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

Software engineering could and should be done with the same care as any other type of engineering. This is a post in honor of Margaret Hamilton (and also a subtweet of all vibe-coders everywhere).

This is the political economic trade-off in our space: politics (time devoted to critiquing AI, developing policies for handling it) vs. pleasure (reading and teaching literature). And that’s what AI, along with every other bureaucratic incursion, ends up taking away from us. eve.gd/2026/10/05/m...

the tech industry is about to invent books

I'm looking for a strong PhD student candidate for applying to EPSRC DLA (Doctoral Landscape Award) studentships (starting Oct 2027) topic: studying software developers' practices with "AI tools" (i.e. LLM-based assistance) and mapping out its implications stuartreeves.mataroa.blog/blog/phd-adv...

📣📣The News is Dead: Why the Media is Broken & What You Can do About it📣📣 📣📣Free Public Lecture, Cardiff JOMEC, with @brokenbottleboy.bsky.social 📣📣 When: Wed 14th October, 5:30pm Where: Cardiff Uni Journalism School, rm 1.06. More info & book your free tix 👇📰 events.cardiff.ac.uk/view/the-new...

🔒 "This serves as a reminder that it’s still the tech companies, rather than regulatory bodies, who get to decide what is safe and what is trustworthy." Professor @drkatedevlin.bsky.social spoke to @theguardian.com about the release of GPT-6.1 Astra 🔽

We need to rephrase the whole discussion in terms of hazardous products, instead of "minds". And then we need to make sure that there's liability. A model hacks someone? Put a C-suite guy in jail. A model produces sexual harassment material? Put a C-suite guy in jail. Watch how fast things get safe

This does indeed smell desperate, but that's not why I'm sharing it. No, the bit that leapt out to me was the @financialtimes.com use of the phrase "Seattle-based cloud giant" to describe Amazon, which sounds beautifully fairytale and captures the nature of this whole industry: magic beans.

Absolutely not, thanks. No.

The 4.5hr flight delay aside, what an absolute treat to get to do an AI panel in Zurich with @eryk.bsky.social and @bvlsingler.bsky.social, both of whom are consistently excellent in their AI takes. Also I saw a goat robot.

OMG IMAGINE LIVING IN OCTOBER 2022 🙄

“Tap, tap, tap at the window. Bloody AI Greta Garbo, trying to sell me ball bearings.”