Stephen Cross

Digital public services. Background in local gov, education and health sectors. 🇧🇸🇬🇧🇪🇺

[NBC News @NBCNews]

Website traffic from AI agents and bots has eclipsed its human-generated counterpart for the first time, according to Cloudflare, an earlier-than-expected milestone that speaks to AI’s rapid advance and impact. https://t.co/9WwPNju7WV

[The Rest Is Politics @RestIsPolitics]

Watch/listen here:
📺https://t.co/oTKclgCiH1
🎙️https://t.co/T6UmVrLIoU

[Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria]

At university graduation ceremonies this spring, commencement speakers have been getting booed for championing AI, given how the technology might threaten their job prospects.

In a commencement speech at Bard College last week, I delivered a more hopeful message — that humans can do essential things that computers simply can’t. Here are some highlights from that speech:

[Stephen Cross @Stephen_Cross]

@opmthebahamas Great to see expanding focus on 'digital' 👏

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: These workers are training AI to take their own jobs.

There’s a hidden workforce powering the rise of AI — it's one of the fastest growing jobs in the U.S.

We investigated America’s AI sweatshops, and found a new gig economy that threatens to absorb all of us.

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

AI 'slop' is transforming social media - and a backlash is brewing https://t.co/8WLlxkc6oH

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Seems to have been arrested for exercising his right to free speech.

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

Bluesky aims to build a new kind of digital town square, redistributing the power that typically lies with corporations to the users themselves. https://t.co/ThZg2Jyc5v

[Stephen Cross @Stephen_Cross]

Fantastic show @orbitalband ✨ #Brixton

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Donald Trump has committed the most profound, harmful and unnecessary economic error in the modern era. Almost everything he said—on history, economics and the technicalities of trade—was utterly deluded https://t.co/AU4XjT1mpT

[Rory Stewart @RoryStewartUK]

Nobody invited you. Nobody will welcome you. Just stop.

[Stephen Cross @Stephen_Cross]

Absurd 'Gulf of America' label on international @googlemaps. Seriously, @Google?

[Stephen Cross @Stephen_Cross]

'Dodgy' dot gov https://t.co/GMDrN0OLiv

[Hadas Gold @Hadas_Gold]

How Elon Musk's Twitter takeover shows a road map for what will happen in government https://t.co/csR07U0HVj

[Stephen Cross @Stephen_Cross]

#Election2024 🍿🤞

[Stephen Cross @Stephen_Cross]

You could hear a pin drop outside in western London right now 🤫 #EURO2024

[Stephen Cross @Stephen_Cross]

#IVoted 🗳️ Good turnout at local polling station apparently 👏 #GE24

[Maddow Blog @MaddowBlog]

Given who Republicans have chosen as their nominee, it's pretty ironic that it's Democrats who are worried about their choice of candidate.

[Stephen Cross @Stephen_Cross]

#IVoted 🗳️ #LondonElections

[Stephen Cross @Stephen_Cross]

Back to the beach at Alnmouth ☀️