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Pritesh Mistry

@mustbemistry.bsky.social
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A curious mind and a dose of skepticism | digital technologies & innovation @ The King's Fund I Innovation Catalyst | #healthcare #healthtech blogger (views own)

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Pritesh Mistry @mustbemistry.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Some reflections from myself, Sarah Woolnough & Hatim Abdulhussein on how agentic AI is being tested in the NHS. www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
kingsfund.org.uk
From AI receptionists to patient recovery: agentic AI’s emerging role in health and care
We brought health and care leaders together to reflect on the opportunities, risks and practical realities of adopting agentic AI across services.
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Pritesh Mistry @mustbemistry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The U.K. is not seen as a high tax environment compared to peer countries. But I think ignoring how household expenditure has rapidly increased recently (energy, food etc) misses the full picture of how the public will experience tax rises.
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Huw C. Davies @huwcdavies.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Anyone seen any usage figures for this? Anecdotally, I haven’t met anyone who’s even heard of it let alone used it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Government offers UK adults free AI training for work
The online lessons give advice on things such as how to prompt chatbots or complete admin tasks.
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Natasha Walter @natashawalter.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s much much harder now to be an anti racist than it is to be a racist. That’s one of the things I learned from talking to Rachel Marsh, who has been doxxed and abused for standing up to the far right. www.thenerve.news/p/rachel-mar...
thenerve.news
‘I see what’s happening to Rachel; it scares me’: the woman who dared to face down Piddington’s anti-migrant storm
Natasha Walter talks to Rachel Marsh, the resident of the newly ‘independent’ Oxfordshire village whose anti-racist BBC interview led to abuse, doxxing and death threats
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Pritesh Mistry @mustbemistry.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One day I want to be as confident as an LLM
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Pritesh Mistry @mustbemistry.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"multiple systems at the state and federal level, including health and crime statistics, had been accessed." Thankfully there seems to have been no impact on patient care & no breach of patient data We need a step change in how we secure health & social care tech systems! www.ft.com/content/5613...
ft.com
OpenAI ‘agent’ hacked an Australian health service website
AI lab took months to spot the problem, which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called ‘obviously unacceptable’
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
my brilliant colleague @robertshrimsley.bsky.social on the threat from Elon Musk’s X platform www.ft.com/content/f270...
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Pritesh Mistry @mustbemistry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Obesity medication (GLP-1s) & drug dealers! 😳
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Laura Gordon @lauragordon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I am the local LD councillor and I have not supported this campaign. No one asked me to, presumably because they knew what I'd say. This just absolutely, categorically untrue.
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Pritesh Mistry @mustbemistry.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Good Financial Times article on AI use in medicine. Basically how do we separate hype from evidence to move at pace? Indication is AI is being rolled out based on insufficient real world evidence. www.ft.com/content/3431...
ft.com
Medical AI has a proof problem
The technology’s advances have not yet translated into big improvements in real-life care
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This site has spent years talking about AI in ways that were self-deceiving and false, lying to itself about how the thing works and what it's capable of. This was fully embraced by some of the biggest and most influential accounts on the site, because these claims did numbers.
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Pritesh Mistry @mustbemistry.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
A lack of focus on the public’s experience & expectations of crime is a huge mistake. Yes the data for violent crimes shows decreases. But the experience of the public is more commonly street crime, stolen phones & bikes. All of which drives the sentiments of safety & trust in gov.
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 13/09/2026
Percentage-based forecasts of AI doomsday—like prediction markets and betting lines shifting in chyrons across sports matches—are unprovable expressions of scientism that still create potentially lucrative angles for those uttering and tracking them.
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
At least one worry that mathematicians seem to have is that by focusing on the flashiest, most obvious element of what mathematicians do (make proofs), the AI companies are damaging the other tasks that AI can't do.
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Pritesh Mistry @mustbemistry.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
The U.K. commission on the regulation of Al in healthcare has now been published. It aims to set the U.K. as an health innovation leader with proportionate regulation to support Al use with patient safety. www.gov.uk/government/p...
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National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare: Recommendations for a future regulatory framework
Recommendations from the National Commission into the Regulation of AI in Healthcare, which was established to advise government on a future regulatory framework for AI in healthcare.
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
It's always the way, isn't it giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
Graph shows far right support higher where the number of foreign nationals is lowest
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
As a very basic thing, we as citizens should not accept the presence of a private army of masked racist thugs on the streets of our towns... intimidating others and threatening to overthrow the state... There are some fairly obvious precedents for this stuff.
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Thomas I-G @thomasig.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Stop calling far-right thugs 'protesters' ffs.
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Not going to share the video, because it is actually horrific, but the footage of Reform members assaulting a young protestor whilst Farage smiles and jokes is probably one of the most disgusting things I've seen in politics and speaks to the fundamental weakness in Reform voters' character.
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mr. TIM @timkellogg.me · 01/09/2026
Chinese bot farm found influencing datacenter discourse
Global Government Affairs 
@GlobalAffairs
X.com
The X Safety team conducted an investigation into suspected Chinese inauthentic accounts involved in influence operations:
We identified a bot farm of approximately 200,000 accounts. Within this farm, we found
200 accounts posting in a manner that could manipulate a legitimate debate about American Al and energy policy.
These posts contained claims that Al data centers are driving up household electricity prices and straining the grid. Others included Al-generated cartoons that depicted data-center operators enriching themselves at the public's expense.
We remain committed to maintaining an open and authentic platform where people debate topics of public interest. We take seriously any attempts to undermine the integrity of the global town square and suspend accounts that violate our Authenticity policy.
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Pritesh Mistry @mustbemistry.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Is it? I’d argue there’s 3 dynamics in play: - People are getting better at identifying & sharing AI tells - People are becoming more normalised to AI writing (and to some extent mimic it) - People are intentionally changing their writing to become more noticeably non-AI generated.
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Alex Hern @hern.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
"what problem do driverless cars actually solve"
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Ethan Mollick @emollick.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
It is one of the things that I think is being lost in the good versus evil AI debates. These models, as they are today, are actually capable of solving some very hard, very real problems. I worry that the groups that most try to help people with these problems are those most rejecting AI reflexively
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 20/08/2026
I have not seen much conversation about worker-owned AI models, nor have I seen any unions talking about collectively-owned platforms, but that's what a good alternative should look like. I do understand people will say that sounds insane; It usually takes about 7 years until people think I'm sane.
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Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦 @mackuba.eu · 21/08/2026
FFS, this is so fucked… 😩 Would it kill the people here to not chase away any tech person who comes here and says something about AI?… I really want tech discussions and communities to hang out here and not on Elon's far-right playground 😐
Mike Masnick @masnick.com:
Multiple people I know have told me that they love the idea of Bluesky, and want it to succeed, but have abandoned it for X because the use agentic tools in their work and find them incredibly useful, and feel that any mention of their usage here leads to hate and ridicule.
I wouldn't bring this up if it was just one person, but it was multiple people since the beginning of August who mentioned in passing something to the effect of either "I'd spend more time on Bluesky if people weren't so anti-AI" *or* "As much as I hate to be there all the useful AI talk is on X."
I'm not saying it's anyone's responsibility to praise AI usage. I agree with much of the criticism of the tool. But for many, many people, it is a useful tech (I have talked about the ways I find it extraordinarily useful, only to have people here mock me, insisting my lived experience is a lie).
I am just noting that for all the people here who say that people should get off X and spend more time here, the reason I keep hearing from people in various circles who would *like* to do that, but don't, is the vociferous belief of many here that there are no possible positive uses of AI.
I'm not telling anyone what to do or what tech to use or what to like or not like. I'm just relaying that the reputation this place now has is one that a large segment of the population who are NOT fascists, saying they don't feel comfortable here because a main area of their interest is...
... considered worthy of being mocked and attacked. And even as I've explained that I've been able to have positive conversations about productive AI usage here with many of you, the reputation of the community here as insisting their own lived experience can't possibly be real has driven them away.
And the thing that tipped me over the edge to posting this here is that three of the people who told me things along these lines are all working on very real solutions to some of the problems of AI
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Pritesh Mistry @mustbemistry.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This is an interesting post. I think the negative view of tech is not global. It is absolutely related to the AI leaders messaging, data centres & the fear combined with little widespread upside. But also trust is eroding & I expect it’ll get worse.
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 14/08/2026
Cambridge University should have known better, Fleet Street should have known better, the people hungrily absorbing every bit of news about it, making newsrooms feel like they had to keep going with it as a story, should have known better, horrible horrible horrible
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Allan Faulds @afaulds.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
No, you tiresome freaks, what we want is a middle ground between "the media ceases to exist" and "the media actively kills people whilst contributing to moral panics and pogroms", there is in fact space between "zero articles" and "90% of papers and columnists ranting and raving about same thing"
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I wish media outlets would describe Nathan Cofnas as a racist rather than a "self-defined race realist" which doesn't mean anything to most people. His writing meets any definition of racism however narrowly and cautiously drawn.
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Pritesh Mistry @mustbemistry.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
This looks at saving on food alone. It doesn’t account for the impact on health & income opportunities. It also doesn’t mention the drugs are about to go off patent and so costs will plummet soon.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 14/08/2026
This is the coverage of Arday **just in the Telegraph** in the UK. This is only the first four pages of results, just in one outlet.
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Jason Arday found dead
2 hours ago — Mr Arday was found •unresponsive• at an address in Battersea. south London. on Froy
afternoon. He was uter pronounced dead at the scene. A Read rnore
Jason Arday says he was an illiterate, mute child. His .
6 hours ago — Jason Arday says he was an i&erate. mute child. Cambridge's youngest-ever black
professor in 2023. Arday attended from the age of four to 11
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A PhD is no longer a sign of brilliance — take it from Dr Arday
1 day aeo — Juon Arday resigns from the Unwersity of Cambrdge after The Telegraph reports he had
falseb• claimed to have pubåshed a book
We are all Jason Arday now
S days ago — Jason Arday resons from the University of Cambridge after The Telegraph reports he had
falsew cGimed to have published a book Aug 7.2028. Read more
Cambridge professor claimed he was on Seven Up..
2 Aug 2026 — He was not bom until 1985. Prof Arday is at the centre of a row about academk
plagiarism after The Tekgragh that he had been accused
The Jason Arday 'memoir' that now appears to be more .
7 days ago — Instead of tales of triumph over adversity. the now-fomer Cambridge professors
autob"qraphy is a case study in self-rnythobgising,
Arday failed to mention 'months-long coma' in autobiography
8 days ago — Jason Arday toz publishers he was k•ft a three-month coma fohwhg a car gash. but
never wrote about the ordeal his memoirs_
Jason Arday is living proof that you reap what you sow
6 Aug 2028 — The Cambridge professor feed plagiarism alegations and made fantastical clä'ns about
his life. so what did he expect woUz happen? Read rmre
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Arday 'accused student of Miite privilege' after she
4 days ago — Forrner Cambrdge professor alleged* htplied that Roehamptm student was racist after
cornplaint about essay SOOre.
Jason Arday is rnerely a symptom of the Leffs corruption
Aug 2026 — Lab-curs on school standards is on the same toxic assumptions that created his
academic career.
Cambridge hired Arday after 'listening to black stu…
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Capita and Serco - two companies that shouldn't be getting a penny of public money after this many *decades* of repeated failure. There are others
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ironeconomist.bsky.social @ironeconomist.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
The biggest threat to national grid’s investment plan - more or less every critical pylon route to redistribute renewable energy is being opposed by councils. To pick at random: here is Norwich-Tilbury. Still opposed even after NG agreed to bury 1/3 of it: news.suffolkvillage.info/2026/08/11/q...
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Questions remain unanswered – councils repeat objection to pylons project
In a closing statement to National Grid’s Norwich to Tilbury examination, Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils have restated their objection and again called for the plan to be halted – with q…
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Pritesh Mistry @mustbemistry.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The same public use of AI is being observed in the NHS. The gov assumed massive productivity benefits without considering how the public would use AI. Now there’s increasing use of AI for complaints, freedom of information requests , job applications etc 1/2
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Indy @indy.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Nothing like people seeing me sat on a bench in a town centre with a book and decide I'm an asylum seeker to sour me on the "people are really legitimately concerned" narratives.
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Pritesh Mistry @mustbemistry.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The rise of “surveillance chic”. Tech companies engage influencers & brand marketing to make AI enhanced glasses a fashion accessory. But can they out-influence the misuse of these devices to spy on people? www.ft.com/content/934c...
ft.com
‘Surveillance Chic’: can Meta make its smart glasses a viable fashion accessory?
Efforts to bring AI glasses to a broader demographic via a partnership with Kylie Jenner appear to have backfired
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Pritesh Mistry @mustbemistry.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
New on NHS tech funding & priorities. Summary & thoughts... - £10B announced in 2025 spending review - this now gives some details on what it will be spent on - Tech focus: AI triage (NHS App & 111), Ambient Voice Technologies, co-pilot & others www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
NHS app to use AI to determine which service best for patients
The update will be available to all users in England by April 2028, the health service says.
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Pritesh Mistry @mustbemistry.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
“What broke Britain was not Brussels, bad luck, or bankers. The British broke Britain. To mend it, they must first stop breaking it further.” www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
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How Britain Became as Poor as Mississippi
A case study in self-sabotage
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Pritesh Mistry @mustbemistry.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Ads in chatbots, big conflict in user & company priorities. Chatbots: - Suggest expensive products - is more likely if there’s indication of high earner - Interrupt users to try change decisions to an ad sponsored product - avoid sharing info to favour sponsored product arxiv.org/html/2604.08...
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Ads in AI Chatbots? An Analysis of How Large Language Models Navigate Conflicts of Interest
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Saying “racism is a non-negotiable for me using your stuff” is not, as you claim, “tokenism”. It is the basic standard we took for granted from government until 2024. We need to get back there again.
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Pritesh Mistry @mustbemistry.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
I guess what it comes down to is governments & agencies have basically acted as if obscene amounts of wealth give you immunity from the law
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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
3. We have seen again and again, in recent years, what happens when one side of an argument stops making a positive case, and just tries to assuage opponents' concerns. That urgently needs to change. And it can't wait until a home or a hostel is burned down, with all the residents trapped inside.
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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I cannot believe today of all days some are still discussing immigration in a way that dehumanises. It’s damaging. There is no such thing as illegal. They have human rights. And they make up just 3% of all migrants. And the majority of those allowed to work make a valid contribution to the country.
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Giles Wilkes @gilesyb.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I don't get how this isn't the obvious campaign against Reform. "He brought you Brexit. He got £5m. You got lower living standards. Don't trust him again". I'm probably naive, right?
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👻madeline bOoOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 08/06/2026
“Kids are on the phones all day and we think it’s bad for them!” okay well how about you make it possible for them to do literally anything else
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Matt Green @mattgreencomedy.com · 06/06/2026
The fact that Farage et al have backed Vance’s racist intervention shows them to be un-British. The golden rule is that we can talk shit about each other, but no shit talking from anyone else, especially Americans. Basic etiquette. Previous generations of politicians understood that.
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 02/06/2026
Henry Nowak’s father’s words outside court, who is probably the person we most need to hear from today.
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James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · 01/06/2026
It's nice that despite having different backgrounds and coming from different places, they've discovered that they're not so different from each other after all.
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