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Laurence D

@laurencediver.net

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AI strategy at the FCA. Views mine and only mine. Recovering academic (Legal {tech, philosophy}, hci, compsci, regulation, responsible innovation). Diver rhymes with river (it's an anglicisation of the Gaelic Duibhir). tbh I'd rather be in Assynt

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Laurence D @laurencediver.net · 08/10/2026

See also this from Private Eye

Picture of a column in Private Eye reading 'A-EYE: Who or what is behind the direction of the government's AI policy? According to Minister for Artificial Intelligence, Kanishka Narayan, it's, er, AI! Talking to Politico at the Labour party conference, Narayan said he had used "AI-generated synthetic focus groups provided by a private company... to test public opinion on AI and other issues". You may not relish the tech being forced into every element of your life - but don't worry, the made-up voters advising government think it's a great idea!

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Laurence D @laurencediver.net · 01/09/2026

Bank of England Governor sounding the alarm on the AI finance bubble in a letter to the G20 (28 Aug): www.fsb.org/uploads/P310...

Screengrab of part of Andrew Bailey's letter to the G20: "The issue is not simply that investors are borrowing more, but that leverage is interacting with high valuations and market concentration, in particular the increasing cross-investment between artificial intelligence (AI) companies and hyper scalers, in a way that could amplify a future market correction. I remain concerned therefore that a large shock or combination of shocks could concurrently trigger multiple vulnerabilities."

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Laurence D @laurencediver.net · 28/08/2026

An actual Chinese Room moment I was testing Claude just now and these two Chinese characters appeared in the middle of its (English) output. They translate as 'recommend', which is the 'right' word for this point in the sentence ("I'd actually recommend keeping...")

A screengrab of a Claude output in English, showing two Chinese characters for 'recommend' in place of the equivalent English word.

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Laurence D @laurencediver.net · 27/07/2026

My photo from the Glencoe Lochan looking towards Sgorr Dhearg was included in the BBC's Pictures of Scotland this week 🤠 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

A photo of the Glencoe Lochan reflecting a blue sky, with the mountain Sgorr Dhearg in the distance

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Laurence D @laurencediver.net · 28/04/2026

But this, about Anthropic's 'resident philosopher', Claude 'constitution' scribbler and arch-EA Amanda Askell 'teaching Claude to be good', is incredible: