Category: Blog Posts
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Tech Bros as ‘Benefit Queens’
Very interesting piece here that’s resurfaced from 2022. In short – Elon and his super-wealthy tech bros are very often critical of federal government giving too many handouts – and employing too many in government roles – but are actually the biggest ‘benefit queens’ going, benefiting to the tune of billions support for their companies:…
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Is the net closing for GenAI developers?
A new report published by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office – the ICO – a few weeks back saw some pretty stark reading for AI companies: We found a serious lack of transparency, especially in relation to training data within the industry, which our consultation responses show is negatively impacting the public’s trust in AI……
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Poetry Reading
This Thursday, 24th Nov, I’m going to be giving a poetry reading in London. This is a rare thing. I have written quite a bit of poetry, and had some pieces published, but not often given a public airing! So… if you’d like to come and see if I should make it even more rare…
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Mutiny against Mutiny – overcoming a Supreme (in)Justice in an atomised world
Are you worried yet? I am. Genuinely. But what to do? When to act? The past few days have been some of the most politically concerning since I can’t remember. The RN making major gains in voter share in France. The way that the Supreme Court in the US ruled on the powers of Federal…
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AI has the gift of magic, and that magic is us
There’s a fascinating episode of This American Life just released last week that focuses on “people tethered to one particular other person, whether they want to be or not.” The second act of the show concerns a comedy writer who meets an old friend at a wedding, an old friend who happens to now work…
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War Machine + the (very) narrow path to good AI
Last week I had the pleasure of chatting to Matt Baker, of the War Machine podcast, about the book. It was a pretty rich conversation – and Matt edits up a very decent intro too! Hope you enjoy listening. I also went up to Oxford on Thursday to go to a lecture being given by…