The quality of cycling on display in central London this morning is absolutely awful!

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How can the UK strengthen the role of people and communities in “Sovereign AI”? In recent months the UK government has agreed Memorandums of Understanding (MoU) with a range of large, US-based AI companies. The latest is with OpenAI. It says that: “this partnership will support ...

How can the UK strengthen the role of people and communities in “Sovereign AI”?

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Is it just me or is this INCREDIBLY STUPID? | Jonathan Tanner Is it just me or is this INCREDIBLY STUPID? Apparently,(according to this Spectator piece), Morgan Mc Sweeney is using synthetic focus groups to inform UK Government policy.  This is quite literall...

5 reasons why Morgan McSweeney using AI to focus group made up voters is really stupid…any you would add? www.linkedin.com/posts/jonath...

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I feel like this sums up a fair bit of why the UK isn’t quite firing on all cylinders.

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, The TikTok vicar: ‘I thought: ‘If I still can’t see someone who looks like me in the Church, why don’t I give it a go?’’ Rev Pippa White on why she's posting about her life as a vicar in the Church of England.

Surely, surely, this should be called Vic-Tok? www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p...

Fast track passport control can do one!

Can someone who follows the migration conversation fact check this? My assumption is ‘crossed’ includes ferries etc or some other dodgy framing so this is wildly misleading… would like to know…

I’ve just eaten a Twiglet out of nostalgia and I urge you not to do the same. Ever.

Some people have kept asking 'bout these questions about AI use in UK government so they've been put on a website to make them easier to find & share

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Very painful encounter with midjourneys autotagging today.

I wish Keir Starmer would put a punitive tariff on the import of techno-authoritarian politics from the US.

Coffee is very expensive.

Just reading about the awful Luton school shooting plan. Went to close the tab and look what Google was promoting me to search…🤢😡

This is a very sensible set of questions that any sensible person should be asking before signing away our taxes to AI companies…

How so?

This is superb and a fact-based elucidation of a real problem when it comes to building greater consensus around U.K’s future to nullify extremism.

I get a lot of AI marketing/lead Gen spam. Was quite impressed by one today that had clearly read the Rootcause website and then tailored 3 ideas for me that they wanted to discuss. Shows people getting their heads around potential, even if I didn’t and won’t reply!

I see Nigel Farage as a bigger political challenge to the values I hold than Ed Davey so do sometimes overlook him! My other point is that people might vote for Reform despite not actually liking Farage. It’s not a guaranteed predictor of voting behaviour.

Pick your poll though.

Isn’t it the case that lots of people voted for Trump who don’t like him? Holding their noses for the perceived greater good? Not sure this assumption has been tested enough. Isn’t Farage the most popular leader?

My 4 y/o just told me that earlier he ‘found a chicken’s bone to make a wish with’ & made a wish but then told me he ‘can’t tell anyone what it was otherwise it won’t come true’ and now I want to know what it was more than I’ve ever wanted to know anything, because maybe I can make it come true.

Asking for a friend but erm, who’s the leader of the free world these days?

Social media for children ‘like cancer risk of smoking’ The UK head of counterterrorism is calling for an online age restriction, banning under-16s from using platforms

Banning teenagers from social media is an exceptionally stupid idea. Maybe let’s try holding social media companies to higher safety standards!!?? www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

Really useful examples of 10 stories that were stopped because of Meta’s factchecking: edmo.eu/publications...

Video#3 - Misinformation & Disinformation: Red Herrings? www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-...

Counting down the hours until I see something about US Govt data now being used to train Grok.

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In 2016 I wrote a piece for Devex about how US institutions would be tested under Trump. They passed that test. They don’t look like passing it again. The piece seems to have been deleted…