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Your friendly reminder that well over half of UK’s creative industries sector is software and advertising.

🧵 The UK is planning to strengthen the copyright regime by exposing text-and-data mining to mandatory licensing. This could be lose-lose: moderately slower AI adoption would cost between £1300-2300 per year from reduced productivity growth. Creators would in turn get pennies.

Pedro Serôdio POV you're reading a Centre for British Progress thread

Another snappy thread on the dubious benefits of licensing requirements on AI, from the Centre for British Progress study's co-author:

in which i get to play my version of 'overrated or underrated' with tyler cowen listen to tyler's full talk below

A very fair challenge. When even experts in the field puzzle over questions of the measurement of productivity and the adoption of technology, we can't blame the public for thinking this is much ado over nothing. A further 1pp growth seems like very little indeed.

🇬🇧 should use this to our advantage. Actively encourage all these world leading scientists to do their research here.

this is such a cool concept