Category: AI
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Empathy is Over and “Silicon Valley’s New Religion is… Religion”
Fascinating feature in Vanity Fair this month about the rise of conservative Christianity among Tech Bros. Getting High and God-Like, anyone?! Honestly, someone should pay me to be a prophet 😀 One dimension of this is that people are claiming to be wanting to move beyond ‘the atheist liberal world’ that is repainted as ‘just…
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Absolutely nothing dystopian to see here…
Just the UK government “creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill”. Researchers are alleged to be using algorithms to analyse the information of thousands of people, including victims of crime, as they try to identify those at greatest risk of committing serious violent offences. The scheme was originally called the “homicide…
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Anthropy | Motivation
I was fortunate enough to spend a few days last week down at the Anthopy UK event in Cornwall. As their description goes: Anthropy brings together responsible leaders and organisations to look at how to make the UK a better place. Working with a cross-sector network welcoming business and non-profits alike, Anthropy facilitates changing practices,…
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Supporting creative futures in arts, culture and AI…
Was great to chair this panel at the British Library as part of the official AI Fringe a couple of weeks ago. The panel featured ex-Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, Thangham Debbonaire, who will shortly be joining the House of Lords, alongside: Victoria Ivanova, R&D Strategic Lead, Serpentine GalleriesSuhair Khan, Founder…
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The Portrait of the Artist as… a Canary in a Coal Mine
A privilege today to chair a fantastic panel at the AI Fringe event at the British Library in London, mirroring the AI Action Summit going on in Paris. I was there both in my work role – helping lead the CREAATIF project along with the Turing Institute and Queen Mary University that’s been investigating how…
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Yes, the audiobook for God-like is coming…
Thanks to everyone who’s requested this. Obviously, I’ve taken the pirate approach… taking control of the means of production… 🏴☠️ … but I’m fortunate to have some good audio production resources built up with various work projects and band stuff over the years. It’s actually quite enjoyable to do… but will require some honing, so…