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Vignettes (HT5) - New blog series - Metascience, a new Society of Technological Advancement (SOTA), and silencing of biosafety
“Technol­ogies are always constructive and beneficial, directly or indirectly….yet their consequences tend to increase in­stability….... Now the…
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December 2023

Rising political activism in prestige scientific journals and magazines
A preliminary look at the change in political content of some prestige scientific journals and magazines over time
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November 2023

New applied metascience lab - Future House announced + some thoughts on UK applied metascience
Some very good news amidst the madness……. During my UCL metascience talk and a couple of other posts on this blog where I explored the need for new…
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August 2023

My Metascience 2022 talk on new scalable ‘technoscience’ laboratory designs, and potential upcoming ‘New National Purpose’ reports
New National Purpose #3 + my talk at Metascience 2022 on the need for a new kind of laboratory structure to unleash creative discovery and invention to…
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July 2023

UCL Talk - Government, science, and the need for creative destruction
ARIA, Lovelace, UK Tech position, Government reform - my talk at UCL and the Research on Research Institute
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June 2023

A New National Purpose: AI
Blair-Hague report #2
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May 2023

S&T: 'A conversation with Sydney Brenner: How academia and publishing are destroying scientific innovation' - Elizabeth Dzeng's 2014…
One of my early heroes was Sydney Brenner. Brenner was one of the first to see the double helix, and quickly grasped its importance for unlocking the…
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S&T - Bret Victor, Realtalk and the ‘laboratory of the future’ vision
‘Communal computing and the 21st century laboratory’
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April 2023

Neuroscience/AI - Can rats ‘think’? A paper by Chongxi Lai and colleagues on cognitive teleportation in rats [8 min read]
Chongxi Lai’s thesis work, Jedi rats, and brain-machine interfaces.
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Responses to comments on our democratic control of AGI paper
On March 14th I published a co-written proposal on this blog on ‘Securing liberal democratic control of AGI through UK leadership’. In brief, it called…
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March 2023

Securing Liberal Democratic Control of AGI through UK Leadership
This was originally a piece co-written to influence policy makers, and had input from a range of people including senior frontier industry figures…
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S&T - Is the UK a world leader in science?
With Professor Paul Nightingale - Looking at the top 100 papers in different priority tech fields to assess the UK position at the cutting edge
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