philwoodfordFacing the music: our love affair with AI is about to be severely testedFirst things first. I don’t have any doubt that AI is set to transform our lives. In fact, it’s clearly one of the dominant issues of the…5 min read·6 days ago----
philwoodfordWhat would Harry Houdini do?There is now only one conceivable way in which the general election might become competitive. It involves a further groundbreaking…4 min read·Mar 25, 2024----
philwoodfordWar, climate and AI: the tides that threaten to swamp Starmer’s agendaThere’s plenty of debate in the UK over whether Labour, under Sir Keir Starmer, has the vision and boldness it needs. While polls seem to…5 min read·Jan 9, 2024----
philwoodfordHow does a world without jobs add up?When the super-rich Rishi Sunak interviewed the impossibly rich Elon Musk about artificial intelligence, one particular moment grabbed the…5 min read·Nov 9, 2023----
philwoodfordWe’re all ex-directory nowI had a phone book delivered last week. The final one that will ever grace the shelves of Woodford Towers. A cut-out-and-keep memento that…2 min read·Nov 4, 2023----
philwoodfordWhen government speaks, who’s doing the talking?Much of the coverage of ChatGPT and other types of ‘generative AI’, which create text or images from prompts, has centred around its use by…6 min read·Jul 11, 2023----
philwoodfordThe end of history and the last botThe end of the 1980s might have been the ‘end of history’.6 min read·Jun 12, 2023----
philwoodfordWho knows the future of the knowledge worker?When my wife’s dad was a kid, growing up in a village on the outskirts of Sunderland in the North-East of England, the boys in his class…5 min read·Jun 7, 2023----
philwoodfordBeware the Bot WhisperersHistorically, one of the key roles of the Catholic priest was to act as a mediator, linking the human with the divine. It’s hard, after…3 min read·May 6, 2023----