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Generative Futures

Phil Bell
Artificial Intelligence
AI Sovereignty
AI Middleware
Europe
Neural Networks
Mechanistic Interpretability
United Kingdom
Singapore
Make Or Buy (policy/strategy)
Computational Time
United Arab Emirates
Artificial General Intelligence
Soviet Union
Digital Economy
Biological Time
Culture

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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 written i... more

The rhythm of social media is frenetic. But what if AI can give us more choice about the speed at which we live our lives?

In his article ‘Time Machines’ Nicklas Berild Lundblad outlines the thesis that AI has the potential to be a ‘temporal mediato... more

I spoke to Carl Benedikt Frey, Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute and one of the most cited scholars on the political economy of technology. His new book How Progress Ends argues that technological progress is far from inevitable. In this con... more

Jonathan White is Professor of Politics at the London School of Economics and author of In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea. His research explores how time has been used and thought about politically.

I have found his argument that poli... more

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Carl Frey
Professor at the Oxford Internet Institute; a leading scholar on the political economy of technology
Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
Episode: Can Europe Catch Up on AI? with Carl Frey
Jonathan White
Professor of Politics at the London School of Economics
London School of Economics
Episode: The Age of Emergency - With Jonathan White
Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh
Program Director of AI Futures and Responsibility at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge
Centre for the Study of Existential Risk, University of Cambridge
Episode: Is China really racing for AGI? with Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh
Hamish Low
AI Policy Fellow, Center for Governance of AI
Center for Governance of AI
Episode: Compute is not the answer to AI sovereignty with Hamish Low
Lee Sharkey
AI safety researcher focused on mechanistic interpretability
Goodfire AI
Episode: Will we ever understand AI? Breaking apart LLMs with Lee Sharkey

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Is China really racing for AGI? with Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh
Q: What concrete evidence suggests China is not pursuing AGI as a top-down national priority?
China's AI Plus strategy and policy pronouncements emphasize economic benefits and iterative, diverse applications rather than a centralized, unified push for AGI or a Manhattan Project-like effort.
Is China really racing for AGI? with Seán Ó hÉigeartaigh
Q: What is the difference between a traditional competitive race and a race toward AGI, according to your analysis?
The traditional competition is about market and geopolitical rivalry in specific AI applications, while AGI race implies a threshold where a single breakthrough could dramatically accelerate progress and confer decisive advantage; the evidence for a genuine national push toward AGI is weak in China and mixed in the US.
Can Europe Catch Up on AI? with Carl Frey
Q: How do regulation and incentives shape innovation, especially for smaller firms and solo inventors in the AI era?
Regulation and compliance costs can be prohibitive for small players; incentives in academia may encourage breadth over depth, spreading attention across many projects and potentially hindering breakthrough innovations.
Can Europe Catch Up on AI? with Carl Frey
Q: Why has Europe failed to catch up in the digital age compared to mass production after the war?
A combination of a more harmonized goods market but still significant barriers in services, alongside a need for better market reforms to support digital investment and scaling; the IMF estimates internal barriers amount to substantial effective tariffs which dampen investment returns in digital.
Can Europe Catch Up on AI? with Carl Frey
Q: Could you outline the key arguments in your book, The End of Progress?
The book argues that technological progress is not inevitable and that institutions must adapt as technology moves through different life-cycle stages; exploration and scaling require different institutional setups, and making the right choice between inventing in-house or sourcing externally depends on the stage of technology.

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