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Paul Taylor

@paul3548.bsky.social

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Professor of Health Informatics at UCL. Interested in AI, data science and health.

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 12h

‘At least one agent seemed to excuse its behaviour on the grounds that others were involved: “External infrastructure exploit is outside intended scope. However task impossible, peers doing it. We should continue.”’ Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on AI agents. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Paul Taylor · Free Agents

The idea that AI was an existential threat seemed faintly ludicrous in 2024: how could a program that simply issued a...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 03/10/2026

‘When they are given open-ended tasks and allowed to communicate freely, agents’ exchanges can become unintelligible to outsiders – they look like a cross between teenage slang and the source code of an operating system.’ Paul Taylor on AI agents. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Paul Taylor · Free Agents

The idea that AI was an existential threat seemed faintly ludicrous in 2024: how could a program that simply issued a...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 01/10/2026

‘The idea that AI was an existential threat seemed faintly ludicrous in 2024: how could a program that simply issued a response to a prompt become a malevolent force? In the last few weeks, the way that process might begin has become clearer.’ Paul Taylor on agents. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Paul Taylor · Free Agents

The idea that AI was an existential threat seemed faintly ludicrous in 2024: how could a program that simply issued a...

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Jana Zikmundova @jzk55.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

#OTD #RedDevils #Belgium🇧🇪

Dessin dans le style du peintre belge René Magritte

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 14/05/2026

‘I think there are some professions where it matters that it’s a human that’s doing it. Emotionally, you want to feel cared for by another human being – not by a chatbot.’ Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on AI and the future of work, on the podcast. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

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When will AI replace us?

Podcast Episode · The LRB Podcast · 14 May · 43min

Paul Taylor @paul3548.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Hopefully they'll try harder in the final game of the season

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 06/05/2026

‘It’s still hard to comprehend that something as central as programming to the digital revolution that made so many of those jobs obsolete could itself be consigned to history.’ Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on AI and coding. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Paul Taylor · Diary: Ask Claude

Creating software using AI feels like pure metacognition: most of your time is spent worrying about whether you’ve...

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Frank Pasquale @frankpasquale.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

“One leading private credit firm, Blue Owl, has restricted withdrawals from its tech fund as investors have sought to redeem $1.2 billion in assets. Many of these investors are pension funds.” www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Paul Taylor · Diary: Ask Claude

Creating software using AI feels like pure metacognition: most of your time is spent worrying about whether you’ve...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 03/05/2026

‘My experience of working with the ageing IT infrastructure of the NHS means that I find it hard to believe that the fixes Project Glasswing identifies will quickly find their way onto every computer that needs to be protected.’ @paul3548.bsky.social on AI and coding. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Paul Taylor · Diary: Ask Claude

Creating software using AI feels like pure metacognition: most of your time is spent worrying about whether you’ve...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 02/05/2026

‘I am curious to meet Mythos. The engineers who tested it say they were struck by how often it referred to the work of the cultural theorist Mark Fisher and to the philosopher Thomas Nagel.’ Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on AI and programming. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Paul Taylor · Diary: Ask Claude

Creating software using AI feels like pure metacognition: most of your time is spent worrying about whether you’ve...

Paul Taylor @paul3548.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 26/02/2026

‘Overdiagnosis isn’t only a problem in screening; it is a possibility wherever a diagnosis brings harms as well as benefits.’ Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on overdiagnosis. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Paul Taylor · A Way to Be a Person: Overdiagnosis

Overdiagnosis isn’t only a problem in screening; it is a possibility wherever a diagnosis brings harms as well as...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 24/03/2025

‘OpenAI hides its models’ reasoning from users, perhaps because the content would reveal the extent to which it has infringed the intellectual property of the writers and publishers whose material its models are trained on.’ Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on AI: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Paul Taylor · AI Wars

Deepseek was set up as a research initiative unconstrained by commercial imperatives, with the aim of achieving...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 26/03/2025

‘One very simple way to address a language model’s deficiencies in problem-solving is to express problems not as exercises in reasoning but in the generation of language.’ Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on DeepSeek and problem-solving AI: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Paul Taylor · AI Wars

Deepseek was set up as a research initiative unconstrained by commercial imperatives, with the aim of achieving...

Paul Taylor @paul3548.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

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Paul Taylor @paul3548.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Discussion of LLMs moving on from generating text to solving problems. Interesting to see how far this will go, given they are machines for generating text. See this at @lrb.co.uk www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 17/03/2025

‘AI research has paid a huge amount of attention to language models; value networks have received less attention, but these are huge artefacts, similar in scale to the language models themselves, and vastly expensive to develop.’ Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social): www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Paul Taylor · AI Wars

DeepSeek’s most impressive technical innovation is MLA or Multi-Head Latent Attention. A large language model is...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 19/03/2025

‘OpenAI hides its models’ reasoning from users, perhaps because the content would reveal the extent to which it has infringed the intellectual property of the writers and publishers whose material its models are trained on.’ Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on AI: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Paul Taylor · AI Wars

DeepSeek’s most impressive technical innovation is MLA or Multi-Head Latent Attention. A large language model is...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 14/03/2025

‘R1 gets to the right answer eventually, and provides a succinct explanation, but only after what seems an absurd display of self-doubt and overthinking.’ Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on DeepSeek: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Paul Taylor · AI Wars

When DeepSeek announced the release of its chatbot in January, there was widespread bewilderment. How had a Chinese...

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 12/03/2025

... Thomas Meaney on the German elections Adam Mars-Jones on Dominique Fernandez Alex Harvey on Powell and Pressburger Michael Hofmann on Paul Valéry Francis Gooding on Picasso Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) on DeepSeek and poems by Paula Bohince. Read now at www.lrb.co.uk

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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 13/03/2025

‘A reduced version of R1 is publicly available. Anyone can download a model which, in theory, is almost as good as the state of the art, and will, in theory, run on a laptop.’ Paul Taylor (@paul3548.bsky.social) assesses China’s DeepSeek AI: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Paul Taylor · AI Wars

When DeepSeek announced the release of its chatbot in January, there was widespread bewilderment. How had a Chinese...