“Like the printed books that came before it, the machine can enhance us but cannot supplant us because it lacks both the limitations that make us human as well as the evolved culture that allows us to overcome those limitations.” More soon from Neil Lawrence’s exploration of the #atomichuman #ai

Aligns with this book and other work from Shannon Vallor on the urgent need for a technomoral virtue ethics to make technology choices that enhance, not degrade our individual and collective chance of living well and human flourishing in the face of tech’s uncertain and opaque trajectory

One of the most consequential books I’ve read for a long time on technology. A book about Aristotle, Buddha and Confucius. A book about virtue ethics. It will reverberate for a long time. Tine to move onto the next one #ai global.oup.com/academic/pro...

#biig2025 about to kick off in sunny Brisbane. Innovation, insight and impact for policy and public service design and delivery. 800 of my closest friends and a day of debate and learning #innovation #publicsector

I’m reading this. Crisp, tumultuous and dispiriting. At the heart, a crisis of governance. One exploding factoid: UK has endured 24 housing Ministers in 23 years (p295). Just think of the conditions of collapse and institutional ineptitude in place for that to happen. #publicsector #failedstate

A timely read. I keep reading the words and struggle to accept we’re witnessing something like this in the US, and remain apparently unable to do anything about it. Except write books and anxious articles. Democracy voting for its own demise?