Generative Futures
Phil BellBuilding progressive technologies
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AI and the end of the medium term
‘In the long run we are all dead
John Maynard Keynes
Roland Barthes described wrestling as an ‘immediate pantomime’. There was no hidden meaning, backstory or long ambiguous plot. It was pure moral certainty. Jonathan White argues in hi...
David Edgerton on Historical Analogies, Technology, and AI
David Edgerton is Professor of History at Kings College London. His book Shock of the Old challenged the way we think about innovation, arguing that we systematically overvalue the new and ignore the old (including maintenance). He has also...
The radicalism of Positive Alignment
Last week researchers from DeepMind, OpenAI, Anthropic, Oxford and other organisations co-wrote a paper on Positive Alignment - building AI where ‘human flourishing is a technical target’.
Raphael, School of Athens
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Why LLMs can't count
LLMs sometimes see the world through a glass, darkly.1 Like a human mind, they have multiple processing registers, according to Yoshua Bengio, who, borrowing from Daniel Kahneman, described these as System 1 and System 2. System 1 processin...
Who is building the agent economy?
On February 6, 2026, Alibaba invested 3 billion yuan giving away free boba tea. They wanted to get hundreds of millions of consumers to delegate their purchasing decisions to AI agents. 10 million orders were placed in 9 hours. 1.56 million...
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