This is brilliant - let's use better language for clearer thinking about probabilistic automation (sometimes referred to as AI) buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

Sabastian Sawe had a 5km split of 13:42 from 35-40km as he sped up towards the finish. That is a faster time than anyone has run any parkrun in the UK (record 13:44)! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...

This paper represents a small but deeply impressive and genuinely important achievement by the much maligned British state in what is probably the most important global issue of our era. Hear me out ( 🧵) 1/ www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-eva...

Evaluation, security and cost control seem to be the future of software engineering

mahadk.com/posts/ai-ski... 👀

Feels like this should inspire reflection in UK - how would our legal, technical and social controls withstand similar attempts to abuse our core data/digital infrastructure?

This is brilliant piece, required reading

“We may be living in a world where multiple orders coexist or compete and where little is left of near-universal rules, principles, and patterns of cooperation. In such a ‘multi-order’... world, the liberal order's... reach will increasingly be restricted to the west, or what is left of it.”

"a decade...from now, a customer of AppleNews could ask it to create a curated morning news show featuring information from preselected sources and topics, and...watch it on a future version of Vision Pro" crazystupidtech.com/archive/will...

Towards personalised AI as a way for big tech to avoid contentious politics stratechery.com/2024/aggrega...

Doing user research is about looking for clues. And while user research can’t provide certainty, it will inform the bets you place in your organisational strategy. Doing user research to inform strategy: public.digital/2024/02/21/d...

Hero www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

New ruling further exposes organisations claiming copyright on public domain images

No more Big IT. "We have to redesign government so it that it can redesign government services." article by Mike Bracken in the FT this morning, free to read link here: www.ft.com/content/6b1f...

My cousin's email address recently hacked and I just received a very convincing spear phishing attack from the address. I'm wondering if they're using LLMs to hone the sender's writing style 😱

Geoff Mulgan provides useful framework for decision-making in complex environments: patterns, proven, promising, possible. (personally the idea of a physical room doesn't add anything for me) apolitical.co/solution-art...

My reflections from UK Charity Camp - thanks @harryharrold.bsky.social and team for organising public.digital/2023/12/15/r...

On my way for the first ever UKCharityCamp, sketching up a session on the train. Thank you for organising @dxw.bsky.social, this event has been missing for too long

NEW: our verdict on the Maude Review into government accountability & the civil service After the drama yesterday, will this report have a longer term impact on the way we are governed? Lots to welcome, some things that would damage - take a look www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/rish...

To identify user research findings, you need to distill lots of information into meaningful patterns. Do it with your team, and do it iteratively. And you'll rapidly synthesise your way to clear findings that the entire team has helped shape. www.katherinewastell.com/blog/2023/co...

Delighted to announce that we're back and bigger than ever! Our annual in-person event will be 20th January 2024. We want to accommodate even more folks this time, so we've expanded to 500 tickets. Sign up for yours as soon as you can. www.ukgovcamp.com/2023/10/11/u... #ukgcXL

Interesting article - marketing attribution (huge industry) could shift from deterministic to probabilistic models. mobiledevmemo.com/flying-blind/

AI, big data and robotics create a further centralising force in government (from local->central gov). Academic paper from Dunleavy and Margetts: eprints.lse.ac.uk/120352/