People mock Al Gore for pretending to have invented the internet, but his Act looks like a model of prescient industrial strategy: a correct vision, a smart analysis for why the government must be involved, strong principles. From Verity Harding excellent book "AI needs you"

Do read this article about my brilliant friend PrisonPhilanthropist and more importantly about the crucial work her and her team One Small Thing are doing to keep women out of prison and change lives: thetimes.com/article/d77a31…

Wonderful news!! Huge congratulations to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper! I remember so well first learning about their protein folding in 2016 when I joined DeepMind and this an incredible and richly deserved recognition for the absolute best use of AI from anyone so far.

"Influence and Cyber Operations: An Update," the new OpenAI threat intelligence report, out a few hours ago. The document is interesting for one specific reason that hasn't been mentioned in public reporting so far cdn.openai.com/threat-intelli…

This is a fantastic appointment! Poppy Gustafsson is brilliant. Both the Government and the UK are lucky to have her.

I was going to ignore this, and I’m a big fan (and have learned a lot from) Tom Blomfield, Steven Bartlett, etc., but seeing that so many in the tech industry seem to be in agreement, with 800k reads, I thought I’d share my two cents' worth in the spirit of challenging the

An honour to be reviewed in the New York Review of Books, alongside Madhu and other fantastic authors. Thank you Sue (a/k/a Dr.) Halpern for calling my book “eminently readable” - a particular compliment coming from a The New York Review of Books writer!

For The New York Review of Books, Sue (a/k/a Dr.) Halpern explores the effects of #AI on society and democracy and highlights Verity Harding’s AI Needs You, calling it “an eminently readable examination”: hubs.ly/Q02TYBfy0

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Beyond excited to receive an early copy of this today. I haven’t looked forward to the release of a book this much since The Mirror and the Light, and I don’t say that lightly. (I have also pre-ordered the hardback out next year and if you like the Beatles then so should you!)

Don’t fall victim to the trend on X to reduce all tech policy to “you’re either with us or against us”. Plenty of issues don’t have clear solutions—in some areas reform is needed, in others new creative ideas. This is not binary. You’re not an enemy if you disagree with someone.

Check out my review of Verity Harding ‘s AI Needs You and James Pethokoukis ⏩️⤴️’ The Conservative Futurist The American Spectator Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.s American Enterprise Institute How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love AI spectator.org/how-i-learned-…

"I highly recommend Verity Harding's AI Needs You.” Read Leonora Cravotta’s review of AI Needs You for The American Spectator: hubs.ly/Q02VKf5K0

Grateful to the New York Review of Books and Sue (a/k/a Dr.) Halpern for highlighting my book in this election-issue article on AI, society and democracy.

So pleased to see this. I wrote in my book about the need for politicians to use their convening power to try and direct AI to more purposeful and beneficial uses, rather than focusing only on risk and protectionism. Better late than never! axios.com/2024/10/31/bid…

Just joined too—same handle over there as well.

Anxious about the US election? Why not distract yourself by reading my latest piece for Financial Times on the lessons of Napster for the age of AI! ft.com/content/5bfa85…

My piece in the Financial Times on the lessons from Napster for AI & creativity

OK I need a break from politics on here. So, ripping off a great The Beatles Earth episode with Elliot Roberts & rob sheffield — what are your top 3 most underrated solo McCartney songs? Mine: Calico Skies, Long Tailed Winter Bird, Dear Boy Ian Leslie Chris Shaw Another Kind of Mind Podcast ?