I was meant to invite ppl to this today but life and everything got in the way -- however if you want to have your say on the creative industries and AI policy, come along to this event we're co-hosting with Responsible AI UK in Manchester on 19 Nov lu.ma/q03v8qrb?loc...
PHILOSOPHERS OF SCIENCE: new postdoc position at U of Manchester (collaborating with Exeter and Oxford) on mechanistic evidence in systematic review. 🧪 more detail in reply www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
'During a period of tight public finances, digitisation can sometimes be seen as a code word for cost-cutting: let’s lose the messy interactions with citizens and get them to deal with us through an app.' www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...
Too many people might be left out of its revolution.
'Taking the time to do things right isn’t anti-innovation – it is what is required to get deep-rooted change in social systems.' My piece on AI and public services in this week's @newstatesman.com www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024...
Too many people might be left out of its revolution.
From Alexis Madrigal's piece on Vietnam and RAND archive.ph/WOCtG
Geoff Hinton, who I spoke to for this BBC doc, has just been awarded the physics Nobel for his work on neural nets www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
A lot had been going on behind the scene and before international courts of justice before this decision ... Philippe Sands' book and another one coming out in 2025 that he and I endorsed.
Spruce the Moodles, people. It's termtime.