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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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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.
The only paths ahead for anyone but China and the USA in the AI Age: Be a choke point. Find some leverage. Do some theft.
"The major advances in civilization are processes which all but wreck the societies in which they occur." A. N. Whitehead
Every country that isn't the US or China now has two ways to stay in the AI race: leverage or theft. Expect a lot more of the second. My piece for @unherd 👇🏻.
‘Frontier AI now carries the same strategic weight as the atomic bomb once did.’
@ElliotLeavy on the OpenAI espionage case 👇 buff.ly/GvkYpxE
