Near-future satire about a government innovation programme where citizens below the median are invited to participate directly in progress. #fiction

“Democracy’s merit is that it institutionalizes losing.” — @hennyge.bsky.social #ai #politics #elections

UK ‘invention agency’ grants £50m of public money to US tech and venture capital firms

Also in tomorrow's newsletter, a really fascinating item in Noema Magazine @noemamag.com on mechanism design in creating policies that have positive outcomes for those who participate. Transfer of development rights, one of my favorites, is discussed in detail - link.theoverheadwire.com/u9yxb

“Our hardest problems — from housing shortages to climate retreat to democratic trust & technology — won’t be solved by better attitudes or more flexible positions. They will be solved by better architectures.” — @hennyge.bsky.social #design #housing #gametheory

As AI makes authoritative text cheap, verification becomes the bottleneck. A police report failure shows why institutions are adding friction. #aigovernance

Possibly the most beautiful white tree I've ever met 🤍

Technology usually exists or it doesn't. Quantum computers occupy a third state. My latest on HackerNoon is a brief look at why today’s quantum machines run but don’t yet compute. hackernoon.com/quantum-comp...

With the No Kings protest today, I pulled together a clear explainer of the policy and power shifts since WWII leading to this moment - it’s been a long time coming. #NoKings www.bellwether.works/have-we-brok...

My latest article is featured on HackerNoon's front page - check it out 👇 #AI #AIEthics hackernoon.com/ai-chatbots-...

The Turing Trap: why pursuing human-like AI is misguided - bellwether works https://www.bellwether.works/the-turing-trap-why-pursuing-human-like-ai-is-misguided/ #AI #future

🤖 The latest AI developments turn empathy into just another product for sale, raising questions about ethics and regulation. Read the story 👇 www.bellwether.works/what-happens...

🤖 The more robots act like us, the less they feel like tools. So how should we treat them? And what does that say about us? www.bellwether.works/empathy-exe-...

💡Holograms can store data and slash energy consumption! Holographic storage might just be the breakthrough solution we need for a sustainable data-heavy future🌍 Read the full article 👇 www.bellwether.works/memory-in-3d...

“Moore’s law made us lazy” during the 1980s and 90s. Developers could rely on the adage ‘if it doesn’t work now, just wait until next year’. Money flowed to shrinking transistors to keep pace with Moore’s prediction, not to researching alternative approaches. www.bellwether.works/beyond-moore...

Ising machines are pretty cool! Like rocket boosters for optimisation - whether logistics, finance, life sciences or any other hard problem. www.bellwether.works/quantum-insp...

Fixating on AI that automates and imitates people stifles true progress. But we can change the rules and do better. Erik Brynjolfsson explains how in his Ten Theses of the Turing Trap at Stanford HAI's New Horizons in Generative AI conference. www.bellwether.works/the-turing-t...

AI could consume as much electricity as The Netherlands by 2027 👇