Category: Politics
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Undercut/Destroy/Extract… as predicted – true AI costs are coming
If you came to my recent CLAUDE HAVE MERCY event you’ll have heard there that what firms (and individuals) are currently paying for AI just isn’t reflective of the true cost… and that is about to change, as reported in Wired. The route to profit for these huge AI firms is dodgy at best. They…
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Giving Evidence to the Education Select Committee
A real privilege to have been able to give evidence in Parliament to the Education Select Committee yesterday for their inquiry on #EdTech and #AI. It is fundamentally important that before we talk about #AI literacy, we get #literacy right – for all young people, regardless of background. We are all large language models, and…
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On keeping hope alive: living symbolically in a many-bodied world
Shared by a colleague a few days ago, and been on my mind since. Not sure if I fully buy the first part… but the Right definitely do, and – given that – it feels important that the rest of us make sure that the ground of ideas is kept fertile and well-sown with good…
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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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14 hallmarks of fascism
Excellent piece from back in 1996 in the New York Review of Books that came across my timeline this week – Umberto Eco on 14 hallmarks of fascism. Highly recommended read. They really are extraordinarily prescient. In summary: The question I’ve been asking myself is this: how does fascism end? Is war required? Or does…