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The AI Leadership Code
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Professor of AI, Behavioral Economics & Data Science. Writing on AI, China, Critical Thinking, intelligence.
Recent essays
30 of 43What I Have Been Reading
A walk with humility
The Challenge of AI is Social
A technological revolution is never only a technical event.
The Courage to Be Wrong About the Future
Arthur C. Clarke: the future will be “utterly fantastic”
Curiosity, Adaptability and Kindness
No one is future-proof, the better ambition is to become future-capable
Anthropic: Claude Should Be A Brilliant Friend
Anthropic want Claude to be able to use its judgment
Pope Leo: The Wall and the Machine
Magnifica Humanitas, an encyclical on the human person in the time of artificial intelligence
Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future - A Review
Algorithms resemble their creators the way dogs resemble their owners.
AI And The Merchants of Doubt
The risk is not being denied. It is being routed.
NATO's Cognitive Warfare
How NATO's Cognitive Warfare Doctrine Reclassifies the Civilian Mind
The Hinge of History: Reclaiming Human Agency from the Attention Economy
Lessons from the abolitionists on reclaiming our attention and agency
The Polish Code Breakers
How Three Mathematicians Changed the Way the World Fights in the Dark
Skills, Friction, And The Vanishing Entry Point
How AI Consumes the Prologue of a Career
Dire Straits Predicted AI And Work Disruption
The Invisible Closure of the American Mind
Intelligence Augmentation
Beyond the Fantasy of Technical Sovereignty
The Machine Answers, The Human Is Blamed
Cognitive Surrender and the Moral Crumple Zone
Dynamite and Conscience
Bertha von Suttner and the radical realism of "Lay Down Your Arms!"
A Rational Optimist View Of Preventing Agency Decay
Becoming Aware Of The Silent Migration Of Cognition
What Do We Bequeath?
Beyond the Vapor Trail of Clicks
Demis Hassabis and The Infinity Machine
The Sweetness of Discovery and the Price of Power
AI Is A Medium And It Will Change Us
Lessons from AI Labs on the Slow Erosion of Human Autonomy
William James And The Psychology of Habit
Why Freedom Requires a Nervous System of Habit
Ray Bradbury and the Practice of Human Agency
Lessons on Attention and Thought
The Death of Expertise
The Dunning–Kruger Effect
The Case for Being Human
Character, Clarity, and Connection in a Century of Curated Selves
Mind-boggling. Inside an AI
Emulating social, multi-agent-like dialogue
Creative Tension
The necessary friction of making things that matter
Shaping AI’s Impact on Billions of Lives
Demystifying the Potential Impact of AI
On Reading and Writing
On Reading The Chief
Giving Back
In March this year I will run an Ultramarathon.