School of Global Affairs, Lancaster University.
Joined October 2011
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Jun 14
I learned a lot from this - rethinking the university before it's too late. 👇🏽
Jun 13
For the handful of sane people still on this platform, a piece about the past, present and future of universities, suggesting analogies with the position of monasteries 500 years ago. The piece looks at the threats (from AI, politics, student scepticism) and potential responses, from challenge-based working to lifelong learning, place-making to metacognition. The default in much writing about universities is a mix of complaint that they aren't loved or funded enough, and nostalgia. I doubt that's an adequate response to the current predicament. geoffmulgan.substack.com/p/r…
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Jun 11
This is the key paragraph of @AlistairCarns resignation letter: it's a different issue but one that everyone close to HMG knows - the processes of government are too slow for this conflict-engulfed world...
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Jun 11
I found this project pretty chilling, if fascinating: a scenario depicting what will happen to Europe if it doesn't step up on AI. (In short, economic collapse and gutting for parts by China and the US.) europe2031.ai/ a long read/listen, but I hope worth it
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Jun 10
Today I'm publishing a new essay, Policy on the AI Exponential. AI is progressing extremely fast—much faster than the policy process was built to handle. The essay lays out where I think the technology is now, and the action needed to close the gap: darioamodei.com/post/policy-…
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Jun 5
“Extreme conditions are fueling the search for a new way of seeing & organizing the world. It is in the nature of an axial shift that it arises in opposition to the present order.”
—Nathan Gardels
noemamag.com/what-might-the-…
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Jun 5
Why Defence research and careers are vital to UK higher education, going back to the foundation of the modern university... and why it matters for the self-defence of our democracy .... htsf.substack.com/p/kicking-…
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Jun 4
My new report on the systemic learning disorder in western military organisations - and their inability to learn from other people’s wars and adapt quickly - is now available at the @LowyInstitute. lowyinstitute.org/publicatio…
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Jun 4
“The notions of borders, nations, alliances & war that helped sustain ‘the long peace’ of the late 20th century are crumbling. In their place, something far less stable has emerged: a world in which the gray zone is no longer the exception, but the rule.”
—@johnwlast
noemamag.com/why-conflict-fe…
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You really have to read Ted Chiang on consciousness and AI—just published in The Atlantic:
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May 31
Every generation believes new technology will finally remove uncertainty from war.
Machine guns. Airpower. Precision missiles. AI.
Leaders still chase the fantasy that technology can deliver a clean, decisive victory. Reality keeps proving otherwise. 9X
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The Ukrainian decision to double down on drone warfare, from the battlefield, to mid range and long range strike, and not to draft all of its young men to make infantry, will be seen by historians as one of the most important decisions in 19th-21st century warfare.
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