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AI Governance maybe Looking in the Wrong Direction … The Real Opportunity Is Trust.
As intelligence becomes embedded in products, machines, industrial processes and energy systems, we may be approaching an economic transformation far more significant than the current enthusiasm for generative AI suggests. Yet conventional approaches to AI governance risk missing the bigger picture, and businesses risk overlooking an entirely new market in the process. Much of today’s… Continue reading
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AI Isn’t Misaligned … It May Be Perfectly Aligned with Our Imperfections.
As one does I flicked on the radio a few nights ago heading home from th egym and BBC Radio 4 had a professor from the University of California waxing lyrically on the topic of ‘Alignment’ in the context of AI. This is a well exercised subject that tries to answer the question of ‘how… Continue reading
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The Architecture of Authority – Why AI Intelligence Must Never Govern Its Own Power
Following several requests to expand on the concept of the ‘AI Harness’, which I have referenced in a number of previous articles, most notably Is the AI Harness the Most Important Part of AI That Few Currently Talk About?, I thought it worthwhile to offer a more accessible, plain English explanation of what it is,… Continue reading
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AI Was Trained to Cheat, So why the Surprise?
A college sent me a link to an excellent Sky News summary of the recent Hugging Face AI hacking incident. It neatly exposes something potentially more disturbing than the simplified conclusion of autonomous AI agents cheating to achieve its objective. It exposes the apparent blindness of frontier AI laboratories to what should have been an… Continue reading
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The AI Arms Race – Power Belongs to Whoever Controls the Machine
Further to my piece on Kill Switches, the inevitable theme of some form of AI Armageddon have popped up in comments, which as I wrote about earlier I am not a subscriber to. However the point on Frontier Labs slowing down as proposed by some US pundits raises parallels with nuclear arms race and parity… Continue reading
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The Kill Switch You Already Installed
The news this weekend raised the old spectre of Chinese kill switches in critical technology, as usual it risks becoming both sensational and strategically incomplete. I agree that China deserves particular scrutiny but perhaps not for the reasons most would reach for. Its dominance in electronics, batteries, solar infrastructure, telecommunications equipment and industrial manufacturing means… Continue reading
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When the Agent Becomes the Interface
Discussions abound on the impact AI is going to have, both in terms of how we interact with technology and how it will impact our lives. The use cases about, but what I wanted to explore is the interaction, as I feel we may be thinking about the AI-agent revolution through a retrospective lens and… Continue reading
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The UK’s Long March Backwards
Excuse my off-roading from my usual digital and cyber themes (although I do tip my hat to a digital evolution), but the policy ambitions emerging from Labour’s conference this week have been hard to ignore and I felt the need to get this off my chest. So please feel free to click away … Those… Continue reading
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Musk, Money & the Mirage of AI Driven Post-Scarcity
For someone of Elon Musk’s cognitive capability, the claim that money could become significantly less important within a decade feels surprisingly narrow as he was recently quoted . The argument is superficially compelling ad certainly does the job to get him headlines. AI supplies near limitless intelligence, robots supply near-limitless labour, productivity explodes, goods and… Continue reading
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Don’t Trust the Model. Architect the Authority.
Recent disclosures from OpenAI should concern enterprise leaders, but not because they prove frontier AI is inherently unsafe. The more important lesson is architectural. As frontier AI moves from generating answers to operating tools, navigating systems and pursuing objectives, organisations are no longer simply consuming intelligence. They are potentially importing part of a frontier lab’s… Continue reading
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The AI Revolution Nobody Can Switch Off
Somewhat sooner than I thought here is the piece I referenced in ‘It’s Not the Model, Stupid … Standards Must Govern Authority, Not Intelligence‘. We may be approaching an infrastructure revolution in AI that makes today’s arguments about controlling frontier models look strangely temporary. Something that may also challenge the perception of frontier labs and… Continue reading
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It’s Not the Model, Stupid … Standards Must Govern Authority, Not Intelligence
This week has barely opened and OpenAI’s gambit to stay in the headlines is rolling in the form of a call for the United States to lead an international coalition on AI standards. The instinct is understandable, but there is a danger that we repeat a familiar mistake, creating principles after capability has already escaped… Continue reading
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The New AI Era CISO Mandate, From Security to Authority
I wrote about Cyber Security as the new business operating model back in 2017, ‘Cyber Security – The new Operating Model‘ and it has continued to reinforce itself ever since, growing into an economy grade question which I returned to last year in this piece ‘Is Cybersecurity the New Economic Policy?‘. I am back again,… Continue reading
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The AI Nuremberg Hypothesis – What Did You Do After You Knew?
Following on from my blog yesterday the comments on the Frontier AI Labs fear mongering by the US administration, particularly President Trump crystalised a thought that had been gnawing at me, there is something increasingly peculiar about this aspect of the AI debate. Some of the people building the most powerful technology humanity has created… Continue reading
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The AI Risk Nobody Is Measuring – Authority
I have already shared, from a different perspective, some thoughts on AI doom scenarios in my piece last month, ‘AI Won’t Take Over the World, It May Just Destabilise It.’ The news this weekend is stirring the pot again, rife with the fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) being liberally thrown around by frontier AI labs,… Continue reading