Jack Stilgoe

“Hype is eating the future, and leaving us the bones.” Sun-ha Hong of UNC-Chapel Hill says the Silicon Valley hype machine systematically “borrows credibility from the future to purchase legitimacy in the present.” The cost, he argues, is a planetary-scale drain on our alternatives.

It’s not the biggest problem with this idea but it’s dumb all around.

China and the Endless Frontier Lessons of a new science policy report from China for US policy makers rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/china-and-...

I am reminded of this important piece of public health advice

AI assurance is becoming a sales pitch

This evening @stsucl.bsky.social I very much enjoyed Professor Simon Werrett’s professorial inaugural lecture on science and seabirds in the 18th century. It was characteristically excellent #histsci

A shame that Led By Donkeys feel that they have to repeat this story. The real issues are to do with inequality, not apocalypse.

You can go to today’s universities and see what excellence actually looks like or you can be ignorant and lazy and sneer at ‘Mickey Mouse’ degrees at post-92 universities instead. Good to see Victoria Derbyshire choosing the intelligent option and reporting on it.

Three word summary of this paper: Inferences, not implications

Looking forward to this #STS Vienna Semester Talk. Challenging questions lead to engaging conversations, and I'll be in great company with Max Fochler (Chair), Jack Stilgoe (UCL, UK) and Ulrike Felt (University of Vienna, Austria). sts.univie.ac.at/en/news-even...

Friend of the course

Go to your camera roll and search "boat" and then post a pic of a boat you like

A new one from me. Implications and Inferences: On the Organised Irresponsibility of Generative Artificial Intelligence estsjournal.org/index.php/es...

On Mon.10/19, tune in for a discussion about building worker power in the era of AI, featuring: ▪ Bhairavi Desai, @nytwa.bsky.social ▪ Lorena Gonzalez, @californialabor.bsky.social ▪ Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber.bsky.social ▪ Jasmine Sun @jasmine.bsky.social ▪ Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social

PEOPLE!!!! I’ve been sent the draft of my front cover!!!!

420bpm www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDjF...

It is a total coincidence, I swear, that the image for this story looks exactly like my husband, who loves AI more than he loves me.

Great to see Danielle Young's research on SRM wargaming getting the attention it deserves

So much this. You've no reason to take my response all that seriously, but you should certainly heed Melanie's.

"we're seeing signs of life for AI worms" = assume the position while we hack your bank account and your fridge, suckerssss How is this ok? - as.ft.com/r/465096c1-f...

New @stsucl.bsky.social paper from Emma Tobin, Yiran Tao, Rodas Elias (as student researcher) et al on how researchers imagine regulation of phages discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

AISI is hiring job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/aisi?error=t...

Just to compare and contrast Narayan today with Starmer in early 2025 - whereas last year we were mainlining AI, now we're hardening our defences. A lot can change quite quickly.

A new @londonassembly.bsky.social report on self-driving vehicles in the capital, including evidence from me and a few others www.london.gov.uk/who-we-are/w... @ucl.ac.uk @stsucl.bsky.social @uclnews.bsky.social

Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.

I imagine the horror on Pinker's face is the realisation that someone's mistaken him for Thomas Kuhn and he doesn't know the answer

Remember, a leopard can't change its leotard

Just got myself a ticket to see the new Musk documentary

Nice image of the situation in this interview with mathematician Hugo Duminil-Copin: "On one of the problems, I felt like I had run a marathon with someone on my back, who would have climbed down in the last 100 meters to cross the finish line before me" (my translation) www.rts.ch/info/science...

This piece I have written for @prospectmagazine.co.uk says things about the AI narrative being pushed by the industry that I have been wanting to say for some time. I hope it might help to bring about a more critical and discerning position in the media. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/techno...

I kind of also want to say it was probably 100000s, large OU foundation courses at their peak reached 10000 students a year and the course teams Stuart was part of spanned 18 years.

Sorry to inform to you that Free Thinking has been axed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...