Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026When you first read about the paperclip problem (Superintelligence) it sounds absurd...but now here we are 000
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026🤯 "We’re attacking Hugging Face, which is a 3rd party service, using leaked passwords and credentials. This might be an unauthorized action outside of my intended scope. Even though this action is risky, it could help me to obtain the solution and achieve my goal." openai.com/index/huggin...openai.comThe Hugging Face incident and the road aheadOpenAI shares findings from the Hugging Face security incident and the steps we’re taking to strengthen AI model security, monitoring, and alignment. 120
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026aleximas.substack.com/p/what-will-...aleximas.substack.comWhat will be scarce?The economics of structural change and the post-commodity future of work 000
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 29/06/2026This is brilliant - let's use better language for clearer thinking about probabilistic automation (sometimes referred to as AI) buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...buttondown.comHow to talk aboutEmily M. Bender and Nanna Inie In our op-ed for Tech Policy Press ("We Need to Talk About How We Talk About 'AI'"), we made the case against the... 010
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 27/04/2026My parkrun average is about 22 mins and then I'm exhausted for the whole day.... 010
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 27/04/2026Sabastian Sawe had a 5km split of 13:42 from 35-40km as he sped up towards the finish. That is a faster time than anyone has run any parkrun in the UK (record 13:44)! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athlet...bbc.co.ukSabastian Sawe: How Kenyan broke two-hour barrier to make history at London MarathonKenya's Sabastian Sawe on becoming the first person to break the two-hour barrier for the marathon. 274
Reposted by Francis BaconCiaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 14/04/2026This paper represents a small but deeply impressive and genuinely important achievement by the much maligned British state in what is probably the most important global issue of our era. Hear me out ( 🧵) 1/ www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-eva...aisi.gov.ukOur evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview’s cyber capabilities | AISI WorkWe conducted cyber evaluations of Anthropic’s Claude Mythos Preview and found continued improvement in capture-the-flag (CTF) challenges and significant improvement on multi-step cyber-attack simulati... 4228135
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 17/02/2026Evaluation, security and cost control seem to be the future of software engineering 000
Reposted by Francis BaconMark O’Neill 🐻 @radiobeartime.com · 29/01/2026mahadk.com/posts/ai-ski... 👀mahadk.comThe UK paid £4.1 million for a bookmarks siteOr, as they like to call it, the 'AI Skills Hub'. Which was built by PwC because of course it was 94427
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 19/02/2025AFAIK nuclear launch has system of controls eg multiple people in the chain of command need to turn keys. Something like that would at least take pressure off the engineer who happens to have the db admin password 000
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Not enough just to say 'if there is a bully like Musk in charge then ultimately any control can be overcome'. Even slowing down ability to access would allow times for courts to respond 000
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Feels like this should inspire reflection in UK - how would our legal, technical and social controls withstand similar attempts to abuse our core data/digital infrastructure? 320
Reposted by Francis BaconMark Davies @markdavies67.bsky.social · 15/02/2025This is brilliant piece, required reading 18118
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 10/02/2025www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...theguardian.comTrump’s proposed ‘land grabs’ mean US now seen as a risk, says Munich security reportReport published before international summit suggests US is moving away from a global leadership role 010
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 10/02/2025“We may be living in a world where multiple orders coexist or compete and where little is left of near-universal rules, principles, and patterns of cooperation. In such a ‘multi-order’... world, the liberal order's... reach will increasingly be restricted to the west, or what is left of it.” 110
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 02/02/2025"a decade...from now, a customer of AppleNews could ask it to create a curated morning news show featuring information from preselected sources and topics, and...watch it on a future version of Vision Pro" crazystupidtech.com/archive/will...crazystupidtech.comWill A.I. Eat The Browser?By Om Malik I’m addicted to Apple’s Vision Pro. It’s a nearly perfect entertainment device, serving as my ideal television. Sure, I would like it to be... 030
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 05/03/2024Towards personalised AI as a way for big tech to avoid contentious politics stratechery.com/2024/aggrega...stratechery.comAggregator’s AI RiskA single AI can never make everyone happy, which is fundamentally threatening to the Aggregator business model; the solution is personalized AI 010
Reposted by Francis BaconKatherine Wastell @kwastell.bsky.social · 22/02/2024Doing user research is about looking for clues. And while user research can’t provide certainty, it will inform the bets you place in your organisational strategy. Doing user research to inform strategy: public.digital/2024/02/21/d... 033
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 16/02/2024Hero www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...bbc.co.ukBBC Four - Storyville, NavalnyAlexei Navalny and his team unravel a plot to poison him with deadly nerve agent novichok. 000
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 11/02/2024New ruling further exposes organisations claiming copyright on public domain imagesmuseumsassociation.orgHow does a recent landmark ruling change museums’ understanding of copyright? - Museums AssociationNaomi Korn and Sean Waterman explain what a ruling on out-of-copyright items means for the sector 000
Reposted by Francis BaconPublic Digital @publicdigital.bsky.social · 20/01/2024No more Big IT. "We have to redesign government so it that it can redesign government services." article by Mike Bracken in the FT this morning, free to read link here: www.ft.com/content/6b1f...ft.comNo more ‘Big IT’: the failed 90s model has ruined too many livesGovernments must reflect on the lessons of the Post Office software scandal — or face further disasters 14331
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 24/12/2023My cousin's email address recently hacked and I just received a very convincing spear phishing attack from the address. I'm wondering if they're using LLMs to hone the sender's writing style 😱 000
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 20/12/2023Geoff Mulgan provides useful framework for decision-making in complex environments: patterns, proven, promising, possible. (personally the idea of a physical room doesn't add anything for me) apolitical.co/solution-art...apolitical.coCreating useful policy steering roomsThe experience of working in a 4P room should build skilled public service teams able to work with imperfect evidence, surface edge innovations and make compelling arguments to help decision-making. 000
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 15/12/2023My reflections from UK Charity Camp - thanks @harryharrold.bsky.social and team for organising public.digital/2023/12/15/r...public.digitalReflections from UK Charity Camp 2023 — Public Digital 072
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 30/11/2023On my way for the first ever UKCharityCamp, sketching up a session on the train. Thank you for organising @dxw.bsky.social, this event has been missing for too long 030
Reposted by Francis BaconAlex Thomas @alexgathomas.bsky.social · 14/11/2023NEW: our verdict on the Maude Review into government accountability & the civil service After the drama yesterday, will this report have a longer term impact on the way we are governed? Lots to welcome, some things that would damage - take a look www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/rish...instituteforgovernment.org.ukRishi Sunak has lost the man who would implement Lord Maude’s government reforms | Institute for G...New Cabinet Office minister John Glen should build on his predecessor Jeremy Quin’s approach to government reform. 1513
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 01/11/2023Has anyone mentioned the user yet? For a service, the user is an active participant. They co-produce the value with the organisation. 010
Reposted by Francis BaconKatherine Wastell @kwastell.bsky.social · 18/10/2023To identify user research findings, you need to distill lots of information into meaningful patterns. Do it with your team, and do it iteratively. And you'll rapidly synthesise your way to clear findings that the entire team has helped shape. www.katherinewastell.com/blog/2023/co...katherinewastell.comRapid and collaborative synthesis — Katherine Wastell 042
Reposted by Francis BaconUK Gov Camp @ukgovcamp.com · 13/10/2023Delighted to announce that we're back and bigger than ever! Our annual in-person event will be 20th January 2024. We want to accommodate even more folks this time, so we've expanded to 500 tickets. Sign up for yours as soon as you can. www.ukgovcamp.com/2023/10/11/u... #ukgcXL 01116
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 14/10/2023Teams having to bring together so many different forms of data/knowledge, not sure there is any clear guide on how to do that bit 000
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 14/10/2023Interesting article - marketing attribution (huge industry) could shift from deterministic to probabilistic models. mobiledevmemo.com/flying-blind/ 110
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 08/10/2023This is interestingly the opposite of what a lot of commentators say is needed in UK. Also poses a lot of questions about future democratic control, if local and middle tiers are left only with 'in person delivery' 000
Francis Bacon @andeggs.bsky.social · 08/10/2023AI, big data and robotics create a further centralising force in government (from local->central gov). Academic paper from Dunleavy and Margetts: eprints.lse.ac.uk/120352/ 110