Matt Davies

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 👇🏻

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 ⬇️ adalovelaceinstitute.org/blog/the-role-…

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!

📣 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: nature.com/articles/s4158…

We prefer the original @lea_ypi

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: eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-polit…

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") youtube.com/watch?v=-Xk5KT…

Excellent analysis of the likely path of Trump's second administration by the notoriously clever Ash Merton. newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/…

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 yalelawjournal.org/feature/a-rela…

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)

Briefing link here: adalovelaceinstitute.org/policy-briefin… We'll be publishing more from this research very soon, so stay posted!

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.

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

first world: conflict of interest third world: corruption

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.

Always positioned exactly here

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

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

@davidthewid Brilliant news, congrats!

Pleased to be named a ✨Global AI & Market Power Fellow ✨ by the European AI & Society Fund, with $68k to support my work on corporate capture in AI, alongside a fantastically brilliant cohort of other fellows: europeanaifund.org/newspublicatio…

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. adalovelaceinstitute.org/policy-briefin…

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 lse.ac.uk/government/eve…