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If you missed my remarks on the case for Sovereign AI, here’s my talk from Coordinating British Progress on Friday.
Thanks again both @aeronlaffere and @lilygeidelberg for organising and to @WalkerMarcus for generously hosting us in the extraordinary setting of St Bartholomew the Great.
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This post has opened up a wide range of philosophical interpretations. Theories spanning from the existential (that we are already living inside a massive data centre), to the borderline perverse (users proudly celebrating their AI waifus).
Powell's Fridges of Blood speech warns of this.
JUST IN: French blood bank hit by cyber attack with blood samples being heated to 110 degrees Celsius from their maintained -30, per Le Canard Enchaîné.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The 110 °C figure was the value hacked equipment was reprogrammed to reach, which does not mean the cold rooms or plasma bags actually reached 110 °C. France's health ministry said the anomalies were spotted in time, with no operational consequences. cyberattaque.org/cyberattaque-c…
Democrats took Congress on Tuesday, and 56% of voters told an exit poll that AI and data centres were a crucial or major factor in their vote.
But the bigger change for American AI isn’t in Washington. The industry has just lost much of its political cover. 🧵
Trump also wants a federal law overriding state AI rules, such as New York’s safety law.
That now looks far harder to pass, so those state rules are more likely to survive.
I put together a pub-first manifesto a year back and every AI tool suggested this provision. Makes you think 🤔.
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BREAKING: China orders government agencies to develop plans to combat mass job displacement from AI.
Starting on my 2027 trends report, so I went back to last year’s to see what landed. Nine of the twelve calls have held so far and the other three were partly right, which I’ll take. Thanks to everyone who read it first time round.
Read the full redux (receipts included), below.
On next year's report, plan is to eat some of Evan's lunch. Stay tuned.
