After hours of intense Zoom interviews, library visits and walking tours round the country, England, my book with Tom Baldwin, is finally published today! Available at all good places … Thanks to Nalan Cabi for the perfect photo.

I wish I had seen this - on a digital stack and open standards for research - before doing my recent paper on evidence ecosystems, since it fills a crucial gap. Another example of India leapfrogging over the West. fast-india.org/wp-content/upl… geoffmulgan.com/post/evidence-…

#australiacares

“..a commitment to co-regulatory approaches, iterative change and.. ‘sandboxes’, will balance support to new markets for rigorous and safe AI applications, and freedom to experiment with products, services or businesses under regulators’ supervision” #ai chathamhouse.org/2024/03/eus-ne…

afr.com/technology/why… “But there comes a time when too much power in a few hands is a bad thing, and that time is now.” As Australia’s best ever PM might put it: #it ’stime

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'..the idea that Australia, having spent tens of millions of public dollars on quantum research , would drop $200 million on a foreign quantum startup that has no investment in and no commitment to this country seems unhinged.' Yes, but apart from that...

“The US-UAE meetings show how the fight to dominate emerging technologies has become geopolitical, as commercial decisions have become intertwined with national strategic and security interests.” #ai
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Ahead of a launch event at the European Commission in Brussels tomorrow (part of ….research-and-innovation.ec.europa.eu/en/statistics/…) I've published a paper on 'Strategies, missions & the challenge of whole of government action' geoffmulgan.com/post/strategie…

“Nevertheless, it is striking how infrequently AI researchers question the emphasis on automation. Too few researchers are using AI to create new jobs for humans or protect individuals from the surveillance of governments and companies.” #ai #regulation bostonreview.net/forum/ais-futu…

afr.com/policy/foreign… “But we live in an era that punishes slow-moving actors and conventional thinkers. To succeed, Australia needs to better harness the collective wit and creativity of all parts of the nation, both inside and outside of government.” #bettertogether

“We will be talking to these AI assistants all the time,” LeCun said. “Our entire digital diet will be mediated by AI systems.” #ai And. It a hint of anxiety or helpful doubt.,.
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“However, evaluations are struggling to keep up with the sophistication of today’s AI models, which can execute a string of connected tasks over a long horizon. Such complex tasks are harder to evaluate in controlled settings.” #ai The policy dilemma…
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In On Liberty..Mill warned about the “assumption of infallibility” — being so sure one is right that one takes decisions “without allowing them to hear what can be said on the contrary side”. Mill could have been writing about our own self-righteous era.“
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'This is the first project ever that was..aimed at poor people that everybody wanted, which says something wonderful about how welcoming it was, how people felt it helped their lives as their lives were lived, not how we want them to live.” It can be done bbc.com/news/education…

“Trump 2.0 will not be about respect or recognition, but revenge.. not simply a characteristic of the leader. By reinventing the Republican party around the myth of a stolen election, Trump doesn’t simply seek revenge, he expects a mandate for it.” on.ft.com/3vS3vBv

Thanks to BBC Radio 5 Live for speaking to us today and recognising that change needs to happen beyond this new legislation.

We landed on the BBC Breakfast sofa this morning to talk about the scale of change needed to centre care in our economy. Watch our co-founder Ruth Hannan explain why new unpaid leave for carers coming into play today just isn't enough.

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'Movement gradually grew as individual, religiously inspired women found one another, each of them practicing their religion without actual rule and initially also without generalized vows.' Agile, emergent, networked ...

Others claimed that the president has consolidated autocracy so much he could not be defeated at the ballot box.. Sunday’s municipal vote.. shows that despite the uneven playing field, elections do matter and voters vote with their wallets — eventually.”
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“Publicly-funded, prosocial.. digital products and spaces are necessary for people to enjoy digital rights, such as privacy, self-determination, and freedom of speech..also needed for collective collaboration, creation, and sharing of resources.” #pdi pp newpublic.substack.com/p/beyond-regul…