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Exploring how the arms race for our collective attention is harming democracy and society.
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The political perils of being ‘extremely online’ (opens the original)
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I’m in the Toronto Star today with a piece looking at the various schism(s) in the Canadian Conservative movement and what I think is driving them. In short, I worry the Conservative Party of Canada’s leadership is ‘extremely online’ and drawing from an unrepresentative sample when formulating their responses to issues - whether that’s of Conservatives or Canadi
Two years on from ‘Al-Fayed: Predator at Harrods’ (opens the original)
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(Forgive me a brief diversion from this corner’s regular subject matter. For the past two+ years, I’ve been privileged to support some marvellous women - and men - who have been seeking truth and accountability in the world’s worst-ever corporate sexual abuse scandal, and I wanted to provide some reflections here as they continue that journey towards the truth and accountability.)<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2e3Q!,f_auto,q_auto:good,f
Where is government on AI? (opens the original)
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AI is a hero / going to kill everyone and everything (opens the original)
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Sometimes life’s juxtapositions just pound you in the face.Last night, I was lucky to be in the audience at the Royal Society for Arts in London as Sir Demis Hassabis - the former CEO of DeepMind Technologies - was awarded the Albert Medal to honour his outstanding and impactful innovation that is “enabling people, places and humanity to flourish in harmony”. This morning, I wake up to an internet on fire following the resignation of Jacob Coxon from Anthropic. Coxon has spent the past three yea
Meta cops a plea / OpenAI sh*ts the bed (opens the original)
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Go away on holiday and then spend a few days breaking your brain against a book proposal and some really important things happen. Could be a law of some sort.Anyway, apologies for the silence and welcome to a slightly very different world. I went to Dorset excited at the prospect of Meta being raked over the coals in its trial versus the various United States’ Attorneys General and worried about the major AI companies and came back to a scalp (of some sorts) and another reason to pump the brakes
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