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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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Professor Tom Crick @proftomcrick.com · 2h
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 13h
I didn't realise until this that David Robinson (the whisteblower who blew an actual whistle) was the founder of @upturn.org, which I've been appreciating for a while
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What This OpenAI Insider Saw That Made Him Quit | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 19h
Mirror life is not as fun as it sounds www.economist.com/leaders/2026...
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Mirror life is dangerous. Regulators must act before it becomes real
Playing catch-up with the technology is not an option
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 19h
And if you want a distraction for AI's existential risk, try spending some time with mirror life
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captain bleach @blainecapatch.bsky.social · 19/09/2023
okay okay OKAY i’ll list Rolling Stone’s 500 Worst Albums 500. Moondance -- Van Morrison  499. Young Sheldon -- Radiohead 498. Turd Smokin’ -- The Turd Smoker Band 497. Well Whaddya Know 99 More Luftballoons How About That -- Nena 496. Songs to Fuck To -- Leonard Cohen
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 21h
That'll be the "rouge AI" we've heard so much about
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 22h
Frenemies
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And he did Bergerac, which is a banger. As though he asked ‘what’s Jersey like?’ And someone said ‘Bit French. But also like the Jamaica of Britain. Maybe some accordion reggae?’
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 06/10/2026
It's arrived!! I gave this book everything I had and I hope there's something in here for you. It's not officially out until 10/20, but @yalepress.bsky.social seems to be shipping orders now. yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
A white woman with dark hair holds a book called Seeing Like a Supply Chain: The Hidden Life of Logistics, by Miriam Posner
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🫣 stuart reeves 🫣 @5tuartreeves.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I'm looking for a strong PhD student candidate for applying to EPSRC DLA (Doctoral Landscape Award) studentships (starting Oct 2027) topic: studying software developers' practices with "AI tools" (i.e. LLM-based assistance) and mapping out its implications stuartreeves.mataroa.blog/blog/phd-adv...
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PhD advert: Candidate search for EPSRC Doctoral Landscape Award studentship on AI-assisted software development — notes on research
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Kashmir Hill @kashhill.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Terraforming America for compute, as seen from the sky: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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What the Data Center Boom Looks Like From the Sky (Gift Article)
In the race for A.I. computing power, hundreds of new projects are coming online across the country — and they’re getting bigger.
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Nathaniel Comfort @nccomfort.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Exciting new historical work on Rosalind Franklin continues to appear. This is a neat bit of sleuthing by historian @alistairsponsel.bsky.social and crystallographer Brian Sutton. Here's the DOI to the actual article (it's OA): 10.1007/s10739-026-09866-7 The main finding is an x-ray image of exactly
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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“The fact that it was a demonstration image, for publication, should put to rest claims that photo 51 held the magic data unknown, unseen, undreamed-of before,” Comfort says.
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqRg...
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We Recreated a Dead Economist With A.I. Here Is His Warning.
YouTube video by New York Times Opinion
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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
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Dodger Artful Dodger
ALT: Dodger Artful Dodger
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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 · 05/10/2026
I'm trying to work out what to think about the 1% of 5-year olds allowed to go anywhere
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This was a really useful corrective
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Really enjoyed seeing the Croatia pre-teen football crowd, there because the country's adult supporters were banned for being racist thugs
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Dogs with jobs is one of my favourite genres, but they've named this one after the wrong Paw Patrol pooch
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London Fire Brigade trains 'inquisitive' puppy as latest recruit
Five-month-old cocker spaniel Chase joins London Fire Brigade's fire investigation team.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
In the Biden administration, l led the team that developed what was arguably the first White House “AI safety” framework, the AI Bill of Rights. David Robinson, author of this forthright and sobering essay about risk culture at OpenAI and in Silicon Valley was on that team.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
'He asked good questions in bad times.' The Standard of Living at the Theatre Royal Haymarket until 12 December.
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John Maynard Keynes and the search for the good life
Playwright James Graham on an economist who asked the right questions in bad times — and why he matters so much today
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Annette Gordon-Reed @agordonreed.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Dan Thomas @itsdanthomas.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The most disappointing video you’ll see today.
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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
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The Standard of Living | Theatre Royal Haymarket 2026
James Graham’s world-premiere play The Standard of Living comes to the West End for a strictly limited season from 21 September to 12 December 2026. Book now.
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Loved James Graham's new play, The Standard of Living, with Maynard Keynes as the central character. Played by a very hard-working Rory Kinnear. Not as desperate to communicate its cleverness as Stoppard would have been. The conversations with Hayek are oddly touching and, AFAICT, actually happened.
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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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Brigitte Nerlich @bnerlich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In this post I study 'going rogue' as a dominant/hegemonic metaphor and some counter- or polemic metaphors - contains blenders, Glocks, robot dogs and some serious metaphor debunking #AI #linguistics #metaphor makingsciencepublic.com/2026/10/02/r...
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Resisting rogue metaphors
Readers of this blog will know that from antiquity onwards, philosophers, rhetoricians and cognitive scientists have examined the use and abuse of metaphors. More recently, they have also begun to …
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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
AI safety debate update. "Safety is an engineering problem"
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I love how straightforward, tight and self-explanatory it is. imagine if it was Oprah...
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This is how to do TV
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Esther Rantzen surprises Nicholas Winton with children he saved
One of her most memorable career moments came during one particular episode in 1988 - the footage of which has gone viral several times over in recent years.
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sad. A moment of accidental honesty, naming it after a famous scam, launched with the slogan "artificial artificial intelligence"
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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
I’d like to understand the politics of this. If it was straightforward gerontocracy, wouldn’t the Tories’ older demographic think ‘well we’ve already got our nest eggs’? Or is this about vibes that just feel anti-old, even if they’re anti-future old people?
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Jack Stilgoe @jackstilgoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
That's the badger
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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
Londoners may recognise the shop as the excellent James Smith & Son, still advertising swordsticks, should you need to protect yourself against blackguards and cutpurses.
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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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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Oh I have been waiting for someone to dig into this issue. 👏 "The spectre of population collapse serves highly concrete economic purposes...world-building and market domination go hand in hand in the current fertility obsession manifested by tech elites." www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Tech oligarchs’ obsession with pronatalism and fertility markets
Published in Science as Culture (Vol. 35, No. 3, 2026)
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