Massive hardware talent arbitrage in the UK. Here's my braindump on why cracked oxbridge imperial grads struggle to acc in this country. Let's build. josef.cn/blog/uk-talent

🌌 Here's what Up Wing science fiction can be at its best Also: The global AI race vs. domestic regulation: A Quick Q&A with AI researcher Keegan McBride 🤖

Similar dynamic here on SB 1047 to that at federal level around push to restrict open source, where NTIA's report concluded there's not yet clear evidence of significant risk beyond that posed by other extant technologies. Thought experiments & scary just-so stories don't cut it.

Great new report on open source AI by CSIS. I am happy to see my piece for Just Security on "Open Source AI: The Overlooked National Security Imperative" cited as well! csis.org/analysis/defen… Oxford Internet Institute

New from me for Tech Policy Press: "Regulating Artificial Intelligence Must Not Undermine NIST’s Integrity". In this opinion piece, I argue that a strong, respected, and politically neutral NIST is critical for supporting America’s leadership in technological development and

Europe is “particularly well placed” to make the most of a coming wave in open-source AI, argue the tech CEOs. Yet fragmented regulation is “hampering innovation and holding back developers” econ.st/4fWLHHU Illustration: Sam Kerr

1/ 🚨 Political campaigns worldwide are increasingly using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to gain an edge. But how does this affect our democratic processes? 🤔 In a new study Adrian Rauchfleisch, Alexander Wuttke, see: kunkakom.bsky.social, and I show what the American public thinks about AI use in elections.

Cursor engineers are coming for our jobs

I’m spending the upcoming autumn and winter in Michigan as a Knight-Wallace fellow Wallace House Center for Journalists & University of Michigan. If you are around and want to have a coffee, talk about investigative journalism & Russia stuff, find me! I’m esp keen to learn about sat imagery. 🛰️🛰️

"Recent legislative proposals and executive actions on AI risk entangling [NIST] in politically charged decisions, potentially calling the organization’s neutrality into question," writes CNAS adjunct senior fellow Keegan McBride techpolicy.press/regulating-art…

It was really great to work on this piece for MIT Technology Review together with Felix M. Simon and Sacha Altay about how AI’s impact on elections is being overblown and why this matters.

quick blog about Labour & tech, 2 months in - a call for a bit more ambition - and a nudge for tech people to find a better way of talking to Labour about it enjoyed writing this with Jeegar Kakkad (and thanks to input from lots of others!)

We're delighted to have Keegan McBride, Lecturer in AI, Government, and Policy at Oxford Internet Institute and an Adjunct Senior Fellow in National Security and Technology at CNAS, joining us as an advisor & speaker at Oxford Generative AI Summit Summit! #OxGen24 Read more - oxgensummit.org/speakers2024/d… Get your

Getting the UK’s #AI bill right is vital to strengthen the country’s position as a global leader in AI innovation, use and safety. Yet, with no consensus around which risks are most pressing, uncertainty surrounding the capabilities of future AI systems and what legally binding

A new report from the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, co-authored by leading AI figures including OII researchers Prof. Helen Margetts and Keegan McBride, has set out recommendations for government ahead of a future ‘AI Bill’. Read more: oii.ox.ac.uk/news-events/to…

Unfortunately, our plans to train our AI models to understand the EU’s rich cultural, social and historical contributions remain paused while EU regulators remain unable to agree how the law should be applied. As Mark and Daniel Ek, CEO of Spotify, recently warned, the EU risks

New from Matt Mittelsteadt and I for Just Security: "Competition, Not Control, is Key to Winning the Global AI Race" As the United States fights to maintain technological primacy, policymakers are enacting and considering new export controls to limit China’s access to the