A small dip in graduate employment and suddenly the media shouts that the robots are coming for the entry level jobs. For students approaching graduation,…
The discussion about Sovereign AI is suddenly everywhere. It appears in government strategies, policy speeches and vendor roadmaps, almost always framed as an urgent national…
This month I had the privilege of speaking at an event focused on the UN Sustainable Development Goals, organised by SEVENTEENx. The topic couldn’t have…
In the late seventeenth century, England’s King William III tried to fix his budget by taxing windows. It wasn’t completely illogical, wealthier citizens had bigger…
I have the privilege of working across Asia Pacific, which I would argue is the most exciting, dynamic and diverse set of economies in the…
Ask ChatGPT how to boil an egg or write a limerick, and it will usually do a fine job. Ask any large language model to…
Voyager 1 has ventured farther than any human-made machine, now over 25 billion kilometres from Earth, drifting through the vast emptiness of interstellar space. Since…
We are not just fascinated by artificial intelligence itself, but by the idea of AI that can adapt and evolve on its own. This self-driven…
I’ve been writing this blog since 2010. In that very first post, I quoted figures estimating the content of the Internet had reached 487 billion…
It’s time to reduce our working week, and we can achieve it by better directing our technology to benefit society. Pioneering economist, John Maynard Keynes,…