Thoughts brewing in a cloudy mind.
If AI is becoming humanity’s most important technology, why are we building it like a smartphone app? When I suggested that the world should stop building competing frontier AI models and instead create One AI – a single open-weight, open-source foundation model developed for humanity – I received the response I expected. “It’s a nice … Read more
Throughout history there have been moments when humanity realised that competition alone wasn’t enough. Sometimes the stakes become so high that cooperation becomes the only rational strategy. Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming one of those moments. Today, the world’s most valuable companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars trying to build increasingly capable AI … Read more
Over the past year, a new acronym has become the latest buzzword in digital marketing: Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO). The promise sounds compelling. Optimise your content for AI systems like ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Perplexity, and your business will become more visible in the age of conversational search. For some agencies, GEO is being presented … Read more
Most people understand why Britain imports food, energy, and manufactured goods. We cannot produce everything ourselves. But there is another form of dependence that receives far less attention. Increasingly, the technologies that power our economy, our communications, our defence, our scientific research, and even our government services are owned and controlled by companies based in … Read more
We are building many artificial intelligences. But are we, in effect, building variations of the same one? Today’s leading systems, ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Llama, & Grok, are often framed as competitors: different companies, different architectures, different philosophies. The surface story is one of diversity. Look closer, and a quieter pattern emerges: convergence. Not total convergence, … Read more
History has never been entirely neutral. It has always been shaped by those who recorded it, those who funded the recording, and those who decided what was worth preserving. We know this. Scholars have debated it for centuries. But something is shifting, and it is shifting quickly. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is giving us extraordinary new … Read more
A persistent issue in the AI discourse is the quiet assumption that organisations must adopt AI. It’s rarely stated outright, but it sits underneath strategy decks, boardroom conversations, and vendor pitches. “AI” becomes an inevitability rather than a choice. The problem is that, in many cases, this assumption arrives before a clear understanding of what … Read more
There is a moment in every technology shift where the question stops being “Is this possible?” and becomes “Why aren’t we doing this already?” Education is arriving at that moment. For decades, the gold standard of learning has been the one-to-one tutor: a patient expert who adapts explanations to the student, notices confusion instantly, and … Read more