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Jack Stilgoe

@jackstilgoe.bsky.social
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Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-…. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)

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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
(yep, another excuse to post this pic)
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I imagine the horror on Pinker's face is the realisation that someone's mistaken him for Thomas Kuhn and he doesn't know the answer
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Just got myself a ticket to see the new Musk documentary
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And if you want a distraction for AI's existential risk, try spending some time with mirror life
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
That'll be the "rouge AI" we've heard so much about
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Frenemies
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Please watch the play, not whatever this is...
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
First day of term, and my t-shirt is raising questions not answered by my t-shirt
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Also, for @stsucl.bsky.social, it's nice to see Gordon Square play its part. Keynes's house - one of the main sets - is opposite our office
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Hiya!
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
On campus
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Stopped in a pedestrian crossing. Oops.
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
did i do this right
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
It's also a science problem. Oh.
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sam Altman: We shouldn't treat AI Safety only as an engineering problem... Go on...
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
AI safety debate update. "Safety is an engineering problem"
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
An oddly retro-futurist week, seeing Public Service Broadcasting, then the New Scientist birthday party
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Apparently they stopped selling swordsticks in the 80s. Boo.
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
On my way to the government’s expert advisory panel on self-driving vehicles. Passed this guy, stopped in a pedestrian crossing. Oops.
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
He had written earlier, in a playful book (The Scientist Speculates), about the "social implications of artificial intelligence" (1962). Superintelligence by 1978, costing about 500 million dollars (with a margin of error, of course). gwern.net/doc/ai/1962-...
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Jack Good's (1965) Speculations Concerning the First Ultraintelligent Machine birthed a few stubborn ideas - the technological singularity, AI as "the last invention that man need ever make" and the "intelligence explosion". He was a Bletchley man, Turing colleague and adviser to Kubrick's 2001.
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Today is the 50th birthday of my favourite album. I even like the bonkers one about living past 200 on Saturn.
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
And if you ask an advanced reasoning model to do it, it pretty much just can (Luxembourg a bit weird...)
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Still getting things wrong (Bbulgaria), but not in a funny way
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
I miss the time when AI was funny
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Banger
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Particle physicists couldn't have anticipated when they named quarks that it would eventually lead to this ridiculous standfirst
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
In the beginning was the Word, and...
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Altman raises the NTSB here. They are constituted to learn, rather than to blame. They have a motto: "anybody’s accident is everybody’s accident". It works for well-regulated industries, including medicine. For unregulated ones, it could be seen as letting everyone off the hook
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The "culture" of accident reporting came about through regulation, in the face of massive opposition from airlines. The companies are forced to share their data and have their failures investigated independently.
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
This one includes an Uber driver asking me if it’s driverless
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Maybe I'm Latour-brained, but I think it's a mistake to read graphs like this as data. It's an illustration, no?
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's why I went for this cover pic
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The setting for @easst.bsky.social is replete with autonomous vehicles, divorced from their infrastructures. Bit sad.
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Erm. Paula Abdul (and physics) would beg to differ @christianwolmar.bsky.social
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
They’re still at it. More staying power than those racists
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
… a lot of questions already answered by my t-shirt etc etc
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I’ve gone in search of that group of cosplaying men with a perverse idea of national pride who are holding up traffic. I think I’ve found them
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
What are we supposed to make of their failures? Their designers have made them so they can run, but not so they can stop. It's not long before some people will start talking about robot cruelty in the way they talk about animal cruelty.
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It's lazy anthropomorphism, expecting us to care because we're used to seeing humans doing these things. It draws attention to an imagined innovation 'race'. But, if we're expected to care about and humanise these things and their successes...
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
There's an argument that humanoid robots will be general purpose and therefore useful. I don't buy it. This is pure theatre. These olympian robots aren't being asked to do useful things.
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The Humanoid Olympics. I have THOUGHTS. On robotic performance, the performance of robotics and collective narratives
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