Category: Economics
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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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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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The Future of Work and Wellbeing
It’s been quiet around here, mostly because my energies have almost exclusively been focused delivering a conference and 180 page report for the closing of the Pissarides Review into the Future of Work and Wellbeing. This is a major, 3-year research project completed with multi-million funding from the Nuffield Foundation exploring how AI and automation…
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God-Like on BBC Talkback
Lovely to be invited onto William Crawley’s Talkback show on BBC Radio today. William has a PhD in philosophy, and was ordained too, and is an excellent presenter. The show was digging into the issues presented by the government’s announcement yesterday of the AI Action Plan. What I’ve been concerned about is that this plan…
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Motivation – intrinsic or extrinsic?
Follow my interview on BBC Radio last week, i’ve been thinking more about job quality, and our motivations for work. There’s a really good piece I came across here which outlines some principles around extrinsic motivation (an external driver such as financial reward) and intrinsic motivation. What’s interesting – as set out in the RSA…
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Overqualified?
I ended up on PM – the BBC’s flagship 5pm news show last week, chatting to Evan Davis about a report that showed that British workers are more likely than most to be overqualified for the job they do. There’s important questions here about the quality of jobs that are being created as we go…