Kieran McMillan

Product Design leader and multimedia artist

[Kieran McMillan @iconscious]

@Birmingham_81 Kraftwerk was a big influence for me as a kid. My parents had man machine on vinyl. Listening to it used to transport me into an imaginary sci-fi world. It was so much fun when I later got my hands on synthesisers and drum machines.

[Mustafa Suleyman @mustafasuleyman]

My book The Coming Wave is out today:
https://t.co/sOQfjYkV5M

It's about technology, AI, society and the future. Getting to this point has been the culmination of more than a decade of building AI and thinking about its impact.

I’ve tried to confront the extraordinary moment of change before us by taking an honest look at the enormous risks, but also the immense benefits, of the new technological revolutions that are underway.

We’re drowning in headlines about AI. It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking only about the short term—the next product release, the next headline etc. But in doing so I feel like sometimes we fail to confront the bigger picture of technological waves unfolding over many decades and what this means for the future of the nation state and for humanity itself. This book is my attempt to change that.

I genuinely appreciate anyone who takes the time to read it, and hope you find a useful and stimulating book. Look forward to discussing it with you all!

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We're inviting domain experts from a variety of fields to join the OpenAI Red Teaming Network. Apply to collaborate with us to improve the safety of our models: https://t.co/YiwgsNEXYA

[Kieran McMillan @iconscious]

I am mentoring on ADPList 🚀! You can book a 1:1 session with me on topics of product design, UX, and design thinking https://t.co/l9UX5yQwNT

[Kieran McMillan @iconscious]

@instagram I don't know what you've done to your algorithm. I never once followed or liked cute animal posts. Now my feed is flooded with them and I can't see things I'm genuinely interested in. If this continues its game over.

[Kieran McMillan @iconscious]

@KellySprat @ak13121312 @greenTetra_ @gavinmuellerphd Must be opinion if there's no credible source

[Kieran McMillan @iconscious]

Check out the #platformstrategy library by @sanguit here: https://t.co/v6txZpG3Ow

[Kieran McMillan @iconscious]

A UK school used the @HERE WeGo Deliver app to distribute free school meals to pupils who need them in Northumberland, UK. The app is free throughout 2020, as a gesture to support businesses and other organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic. https://t.co/GGfLtZxfNX

[Kieran McMillan @iconscious]

@isaach I quit about 2 years. Zero regrets. I spend so much more time actually speaking with people and proactively choosing the content that I want engage with

[Kieran McMillan @iconscious]

@Hagenburger Maker

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@jmspool Yeah. Especially if you include password reset.

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@reggiewatts Just dashed from Berlin to London to be with my family, in case the borders closed at short notice.

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@mulegirl My take on this is: we should be shifting more towards systems design with heavy focus on social, ethical and environmental impact.

[Kieran McMillan @iconscious]

@MarcusCVance My name is Irish, pronounced Key-er-ran. Most people get after a few attempts. But for some reason every single French person I meet instantly calls me Keh-rey-an, no matter how many times I correct them. I lived in France for 4 years and learned to embrace it as my French name.

[Kieran McMillan @iconscious]

@here welcomes Mitsubishi Corporation and NTT as new investors

https://t.co/AYLIKBYXK6

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@lauraklein Initiatives rolled out to introduce company wide governance for Agile ways of working that assume sufficient ratios of design and user research resources exist, with no discussion about what do to if this is not the case.

[Kieran McMillan @iconscious]

@johncutlefish Newsletters mostly don't get read. The majority of people don't check Twitter or LinkedIn every day. Many of us have information overload. If it's important, keep repeating it, stimulate discussion on the topic, write some articles.

[Kieran McMillan @iconscious]

Definitely want to see this in Berlin

[Refik Anadol @refikanadol]

Dear friends in Berlin, tonight our recent synesthetic architecture project Latent Being will be unveiled at Kraftwerk! We will be tranforming this amazing power plant with more than 10 million photographic memories of Berlin by machine intelligence!

[Kieran McMillan @iconscious]

HERE’s design studio invites you to an OPEN STUDIO NIGHT this Thursday, part of BERLIN DESIGN WEEK. Explore with HERE how maps, user-oriented products and generative art can be created from data. I will be there to showcase The Open Location Platform.

https://t.co/ubaEHOF0Ut

[Kieran McMillan @iconscious]

@MrLowdon @DanaRoseMartens @VitoMaps Nice! I dont recall that one @MrLowdon