Matt Davies

AI policy @AdaLovelaceInst, political philosophy @LSEGovernment. Views my own 🔮✨

[Matt Davies @halcyene]

Are we seeing the start of a distinctively "Labour" approach to managing tech and cultivating the UK's industrial strengths — or is this government simply more of the same when it comes to AI?

I'll be discussing this and more with three fantastic panellists on Monday 11th 👇🏻

[Ada Lovelace Institute @AdaLovelaceInst]

📣Register now for our online panel on the way forward for the UK's industrial approach to AI.

- @halcyene, @AdaLovelaceInst
- @ambaonadventure, @AINowInstitute
- @HaydnBelfield, @CSERCambridge
- @MaryMay_ling, @The_TUC

🗓️11 November
🕔17:00 UK time

https://t.co/QYZguYu3wc

[Common Wealth @Cmmonwealth]

The AI Action Plan's pledge to increase public sector compute by a factor of 20 by 2030 is promising, but it'll need effective procurement to be a worthy investment

@halcyene Eleanor Shearer & @DantonsHead set out a strategy for expanded public compute ⬇️
https://t.co/olG6oQOzxs

[LSE Political Theory @LSE_poty]

Our awesome PhD students are organising a graduate political theory conference on 22-23 May. Keynotes by Rufaida al Hashmi (Reading) and John O'Neill (Manchester). Submit your abstracts by 20 Feb!

[Mostly here now: @davidthewid.bsky.social @davidthewid]

📣 New paper: AI depends on immense resources, mostly controlled by large companies.

This means "open" AI… isn't very open.

📄 From me, @mer__edith and @sarahbmyers in Nature:

https://t.co/askjAcz47C

[LSE Political Theory @LSE_poty]

We prefer the original
@lea_ypi

[Shuk Ying Chan @shukyingchan]

Political theorists working/living in London! The London Political Theory Network is hosting a holiday reception at KCL next Friday. All are welcome. Details & registration here:
https://t.co/J3RnME7afy

[Robert Lucas Scott @_rob_scott]

This is such a moving interview recording with Gillian Rose, covering topics from taking LSD, medical discourse, Camille Paglia, Judaism, the perceived demise of Marxism, and eternity ("the only thing I believe in") https://t.co/NzC9YDLP5X

[Aaron Benanav @abenanav]

Excellent analysis of the likely path of Trump's second administration by the notoriously clever Ash Merton.

https://t.co/McB0mqYgo0

[Noah Rosenblum @narosenblum]

Today in American Legal Thought: @corinneblalock on Neoliberalism and the Crisis of Legal Theory, and @salome_viljoen_’s Relational Theory of Data Governance. Two remarkable essays, that diagnose our crisis and think our way forward

https://t.co/iWnsGu9fLB

[Haydn Belfield @HaydnBelfield]

Real pleasure to be part of this discussion on the UK's industrial strategy on AI -- hearing insights on union wins on AI from @MaryMay_ling & different approaches around the world from @ambaonadventure

If you've got some time, give it a listen!

(link, as ever, in 2nd tweet)

[Matt Davies @halcyene]

Briefing link here: https://t.co/whsSxAmP9F

We'll be publishing more from this research very soon, so stay posted!

[Matt Davies @halcyene]

ICYMI: last week @AdaLovelaceInst published initial findings from my research w @JaaiVipra into "public compute".

Our briefing maps public compute strategies across the world (see snippet below) + sets out a provisional typology for understanding them.

[LSE Political Theory @LSE_poty]

Yesterday we were fortunate to welcome @maxkrahe in conversation with @BrunoLeipold to talk to our political theory masters & PhD students about his own experiences on the masters, the link between theory and public policy, and how political change happens @LSEGovernment

[Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzh]

first world: conflict of interest
third world: corruption

[Anton Jäger @AntonJaegermm]

Please stop saying that the peasants voted for Bonaparte due to ‘economic anxiety’ - grain prices have in fact risen consistently since the 1847-1848 crisis. It’s about something else: misinformation.

[Alex Colston @enoughformethx]

Always positioned exactly here

[Thea Riofrancos @triofrancos]

Any analysis that conceives of “public opinion” as a hard, static constraint or, worse, a force *exogenous* to the constant swirl of discourse of politicians, pundits, and operatives of all sorts is fundamentally unserious and has zero understanding of the very basics of hegemony

[Federico Italiano @FedeItaliano76]

Buckminster Fuller's Montréal Biosphère in flames. Photograph by Doug Lehman (1976)

[Matt Davies @halcyene]

@davidthewid Brilliant news, congrats!

[Ada Lovelace Institute @AdaLovelaceInst]

Compute (the processing power to train/run AI models) has gained prominence as AI has become an industrial priority for countries or trading blocs globally.

Our policy briefing maps existing and planned strategies for public provision of compute.

https://t.co/8L5ZAz6kxl

[LSE Political Theory @LSE_poty]

Registration is now open for this year's Brian Barry Memorial Lecture delivered by Pratap Bhanu Mehta on Wednesday 20 November 2024 at 6.30pm https://t.co/sDkQPmJDfk