I was pleased to be invited back to talk on Rick Torseth’s ‘10,000 Swamp Leaders‘ podcast to discuss AI and some of its implications, especially from a leadership perspective. Rick’s intro notes: Mick Yates makes a return visit to the swamp.…
On time, memory, and what large language models cannot do with either It started, as these things often do, with a podcast. I was listening to Orit Halpern on the BBC’s ‘In Our Time‘. She is an historian and self-declared cyberneticist, sharp on…
On April 2nd, Andrej Karpathy posted on GitHub and X about building a Persistent LLM Wiki – a structured knowledge base that compounds over time, where every paper you read, every idea you encounter, gets added into an interconnected graph of notes. The tool…
A Substack post moved markets. What the Citrini report got right, what it got wrong, and what the market missed entirely. Citrini’s “2028 Global Intelligence Crisis” – a 22-page account written as a retrospective from the future – described how…
If you spend even a small amount of time reading about artificial intelligence, you will know that everyone says they want “Ethical AI”. Governments want it. Tech companies want it. Universities want it. Consultants definitely want it. In my opinion,…
Key ideas in this paper were shared at the Biennial Conference of IDEA, ‘The Future of Practical Ethics’, Ethics of AI Panel. University of Leeds, 9 September 2025. INTRODUCTION This work emerged from a practical question: if AI systems can engage in sophisticated textual analysis and argumentation, what does this mean for philosophical practice? Rather…