Jack Stilgoe

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Researcher with public evidence across Responsible AI, AI research, Policy & governance.

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Professor in Science and Technology Studies, UCL @stsucl.bsky.social. Science policy, responsible innovation, emerging technologies. Book https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-32320-2. Responsible AI UK (www.rai.ac.uk)

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The Pope has done a rather lovely critique of technological instrumentalism for AI www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Pope Leo XIV's 42,300-word Magnifica Humanitas, signed May 15 and published May 25, addresses AI as the central challenge to human dignity.
  • The encyclical states AI systems are 'cultivated' not 'built' and explicitly denies they possess experience, a body, or the capacity to feel pain.
  • Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah spoke at the Vatican's May 25 presentation alongside theologians and three cardinals.
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Shobita Parthasarathy @shobitap.org

I suffered through Kratsios' answer to Science: the Endless Frontier. The NYT summary is good, but there's more to it. And I should say that I welcome improvements to the scientific enterprise (which is why I'm participating in @alondra.bsky.social and Jenny Reardon's Public's…

Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities nytimes.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • The White House's July 21 report 'Science: A New Golden Age' reshapes a roughly $200 billion federal R&D budget, steering money away from universities.
  • OSTP director Michael Kratsios and OMB director Russell Vought want portable 'golden ticket' awards that follow individual scientists, not their institutions.
  • A companion Genesis Mission commitment adds more than $5 billion for AI-driven research across 15-plus agencies, from drug discovery to grid modernization.
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Nice short piece by my colleagues about that startling paper on Chinese teenagers and AI. Three quick thoughts: www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com

I hereby declare the "learn to code" era officially dead: Big declines in the number of people studying computer science in the last year or two 📉 Chart from this week’s edition of our newsletter on AI and the labour market www.ft.com/content/9183...

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e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online

regular reminder to read @wired.com's incredible piece about the 2018 Uber AV crash that killed Elaine Herzberg www.wired.com/story/uber-s...

‘I’m the Operator’: The Aftermath of a Self-Driving Tragedy wired.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • An Uber self-driving Volvo killed 49-year-old Elaine Herzberg in Tempe in March 2018, the world's first pedestrian fatality involving a self-driving car.
  • The car's system detected an object 5.6 seconds before impact and kept reclassifying it as vehicle, 'other,' and bicycle without alerting the operator.
  • Operator Rafaela Vasquez pleaded guilty to endangerment and received three years' supervised probation; prosecutors filed no criminal charges against Uber.
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Remember, if you think you have a communications problem you have an actual problem

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Good morning and welcome to your FT Weekend highlights via giftlink. First this week theologian and philosopher Carmody Grey explains why she declined to help Anthropic with Claude's moral schooling as.ft.com/r/15d7fd75-a...

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Recent commentary

Tech leaders are not 'changing their minds' about AI. They're being forced to admit things they previously didn't want to.

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I've been reviewing some of the footage from the 2023 AI Summit. We should have talked more about Monocle Man.

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It would be good if journalists could stop asking AI leaders about jobs. The AI leaders don't know about jobs, and it's the topic they want to talk about, as it's clearly not their responsibility.

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Has anyone dug into what might be an EPQ crisis for A-level students? I’ve heard a few saying that accusations of AI use led to markdowns.

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