I use an AI tool in the NHS every day, and wrote about regulatory sandboxes for the @britishprogress.org R&D policy toolkit.

On my Substack, I look at how AI Growth Labs could best accelerate AI adoption and increase productivity, with a focus on healthcare. Key points:🧵

I think it’s likely that some sort of government-endorsed third party privacy certification system for AI tools would accelerate adoption.

As the Labour government applies its interventionist industrial strategy to R&D, policymakers must carefully pick the right policy tools for the right problem.

Yesterday, @britishprogress.bsky.social launched our interactive “R&D Policy Toolkit” to help policymakers do just that.

"Repair" won't work - Starmerism needs to "Rebuild".

Britain's stagnation is in part, down to the accumulation of decisions where Conservative governments ducked transition costs.

But the political costs of inaction now exceed the political costs of transition.

What do we need to *build* for metascience and open science?

I’ve written a “Request for Products” that I think could be particularly valuable to improve science.

open.substack.com/pub/whitehea...

The "for-profit company owned by a non-profit" model seems to have been extraordinarily successful for science (OpenAI, Novo Nordisk).

This paper by @namratanarain.bsky.social shows VCs are short-termist - perhaps non-profits are better placed to support "patient science".

Lee Kuan Yew claimed air conditioning was "key to public efficiency".

Yet we only have a few, low-quality studies on the productivity effects of office working environments (temperature, air filtration, noise etc).

Potential big wins here, for both workers and businesses.

Sign up for Scientists for Labour's (www.scientistsforlabour.org.uk) monthly "Science Policy Drinks" events in Westminster: forms.gle/vcNZYmh9ziuz...

We're often joined by MPs. Anyone interested in science and tech policy is welcome, even if you aren't a scientist or Labour member!