Convention on Artificial Intelligence #AI from Council of Europe, which UK signed, came out yesterday rm.coe.int/1680afae3c. My personal observations here: linkedin.com/pulse/observat… Could affect professional practice, so of relevance for BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.

EVENT: How can the new government’s industrial strategy help boost productivity? 🗓️Wednesday 18 September, 17:30 Join us as we explore the relationship between growth and industrial strategy with The Productivity Institute Greg Clark Giles Wilkes instituteforgovernment.org.uk/event/new-gove…

linkedin.com/pulse/google-g… Google Gemini outputs “I apologize deeply for the offensive example I provided” after answering simple questions on essentialism, see above link for LinkedIn article.

Short LinkedIn article on why we need public policy focus on embedding #AI engineering practice that's being developed by organisations like BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT (and lots of others) into the mainstream economy linkedin.com/pulse/public-p…

Short article about Department for Science, Innovation and Technology launch of Regulatory Innovation Office today. Chance to create a virtuous cycle of higher standards driven by professional practice linkedin.com/pulse/regulato…

Just wow!

So only 6 handshakes distance between any two people on Earth. Well I'm now only two away from a Nobel Laureate thanks to Julia Adamson MBE. Nice to think @BCS were ahead of the curve giving Sir Demis Hassabis CBE the Lovelace Medal linkedin.com/posts/it-bcs_n…

'An industrial strategy that galvanises responsible AI innovation?' drawing on work of @BCS, Competition & Markets Authority and OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives linkedin.com/pulse/industri… via LinkedIn

New article: Will #AI analysis of evidence submitted to the UK Strategic Defence Review add value? linkedin.com/pulse/ai-analy… Premise: AI will need prior knowledge of lobbying to assess impartiality and validity of evidence.

Wonder if Peter Kyle asked them if folding £1B Horizon funding into R&D budget is a good idea?

You may be interested in Microsoft #Copilot's assessment of Palantir's evidence to the House of Commons Defence Sub-Committee’s inquiry into developing artificial intelligence capacity and expertise in UK defence. You can look at it here linkedin.com/posts/wprmitch…

But how do we report incorrect overviews and what happens to the overviews after they are created? Do you use them in future model training? I worry so much about all the garbage that genAI is polluting our information ecosystem with Sundar Pichai Demis Hassabis Prabhakar Raghavan

Excellent read:

New article from me: Professionalisation of AI Assurance important says Department for Science, Innovation and Technology linkedin.com/pulse/professi… via LinkedIn

Latest article: 'Generative AI productivity puzzle' linkedin.com/pulse/generati… Really wanted the bunny to be on a bike with square wheels. Ho hum. You'll just have to imagine it.

New article: An AI Opportunities Action Plan to achieve responsible AI adoption linkedin.com/pulse/ai-oppor… via LinkedIn

Nerds' overview of #DeepSeekR1 here linkedin.com/pulse/overview… It's generated by Google NotebookLM. Based on DeepSeek paper from GitHub here github.com/deepseek-ai/De…

Made me laugh from the The Guardian, especially the final punch line: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

New LinkedIn blog: Deregulating AI to enhance US dominance linkedin.com/pulse/deregula… Disclaimer: the guineapig does not in any way represent any prominent political figure from the US, at all

Just published blog on LinkedIn 'Agentic AI is mostly useless, but might still take your job anyway'. It really does mean 'your' job by the way, not some random other person you've never met! linkedin.com/pulse/agentic-…