Assoc Prof & Dep Co-Director at @IIPP_UCL. Digital gov, Digital Public Infra, OpenData, Father, Negotiator & Learner. Trying out Bluesky: @eaves.ca

London, England
Joined June 2008
I'm thrilled to announce the launch of the @IIPP_UCL's Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) Map this 11 June. This new tool provides valuable resources for researchers, policy-makers, DPI builders, and advocates. forms.gle/Ub3ZQadCvEB23irQ6
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now also featuring land/property value!
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now also featuring land/property value!
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I’m old enough to remember when everyone thought Al Qaeda was barbaric because they showed videos of executions.
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This… While CIOs in every government and university tell their staff they don’t need anthropic cause they have copilot.
Imagine being at Microsoft and seeing this stuff while your competitors are smashing you to pieces. Using AI to add an event in an email to my calendar should have been fixed on day one of Outlook adding Copilot.
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This is absolutely amazing. An heiress to Tom Lehrer.
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It’s amazing how terrible podcasting apps are. I’d love to listen to more podcasts. But wow, no one seems to want us to. Definitely not Apple! Simple things. Like it is almost impossible to arrange podcast in reverse chronological order. Since that is how you’d want to listen to ANY narrative driven podcast!
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It’s a great window into the problematic economics of the App Store itself. Maybe of the podcasting ecosystem.
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And: Americans are more likely to have placed a bet at least once a week than having read a book in the past year, studies have shown.
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The world needs an international agreement to report cross-border AI incidents, even if the tumultuous state of geopolitics may make implementing such a mechanism difficult, write @saroshnagar and @daeaves. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/23…
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Whoa. This nuts. Just published a piece a few hours ago with @saroshnagar on @ForeignPolicy about the risks of inadvertent AI attacks and how we should mitigate them. The story URL sums up our arguement : AI-rogue-hugging-face-chernobyl foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/23…
Australia has been hacked. 'And today, I spoke with the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman, to express Australia's extreme concern about this incident. And I also expressed my disappointment that it took the company way too long to inform the government what had occurred, and the nature of the way that that notification occurred as well was unacceptable.'
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New piece with @saroshnagar on AI. Let’s not wait for a Chernobyl-like event to act. We have patterns for addressing problems like rogue AI. Important this week. The World Needs to Know When AI Goes Wrong - Global reporting standards are a key step. foreignpolicy.com/2026/09/23…
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Whoa. That earlier tweet got walked back pretty quickly.
Replying to @jfberke
This is presently more of a negotiating threat than a credible wholesale substitution strategy. But Belarus can sell some potash to the U.S., despite what anti-American bots are writing as community notes.
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I see some of my Conservative friends are trying to make this empty potash threat about Canada’s industrial carbon tax, rather than about the President trolling Canada.🤦‍♂️ It’s just embarrassing. I’m not a fan of that tax, but it is perfectly irrelevant to what’s going on here. 85% of US potash imports come from Canada *despite* the industrial carbon tax, because Canada is the lowest cost, most proximate, and most reliable supplier! US buyers would rather deal with our great producers, some of whom are vertically integrated through the whole US ag supply chain, than a distant tin pot dictatorship which has no potash available for sale! Skill testing question: would a farmer from North Dakota rather buy potash / fertilizer coming off a one hour rail shipment from friendly, reliable Saskatchewan right next door; or would he rather pay to transport it to Russian Baltic ports, then across the Atlantic, and then inland across North America? And that assumes Belorus has available supply, which it doesn’t! Even the dictator Lukashenko has called out the absurdity of today’s latest threat from the President. So why can’t the @CPC_HQ? To fellow Conservatives: why is it so difficult for you to call this for what it is? A ridiculous, empty threat by the President to continue his well established strategy of trying to divide and demoralize Canadians in the context of trade negotiations.
1) Saskatchewan has the world’s largest potash deposits, producing twice as much potash as Belarus. 85% of US potash imports come from Saskatchewan, efficiently and reliably shipped by rail. 2) Belarus is a brutal dictatorship and puppet state for Vladimir Putin under international (including American) sanctions for gross human rights abuses. 3) Belarusian potash production has been fully contracted to Asian buyers (eg China and India) since the imposition of western sanctions. Belarusian dictator Lukashenko has already said "Even if we wanted to supply somewhere else, Western markets, we just don't have those volumes, everything has been contracted." 4) The US Government does not buy potash. US fertilizer companies and ag producers do. Those private sector buyers have consistently demonstrated their preference for Canadian potash. 5) President Trump tariffed Canadian potash early in 2025, then backed off days later following loud protests from American ag producers and their Congressional representatives.
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Fun fun fun night with @Metric, @bssmusic and @starstheband. First half was like hanging out in their rec room and they hung and played great music. Then Metric just did bangers.
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This is maybe the most terrifying and crazy thing I've read on this platform. Or ever.
Jacob is correct here—we really do earnestly believe AI could kill all humans! I personally think it is >10% within the next decade. I believe Anthropic is trying its best, but we do not yet have a plan to solve alignment for superintelligence and are not clearly on track to.
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Met a German founder this week and asked him if all the stories one reads about the challenges of startups in Germany are exaggerated. "No, they're understated." Proceeded to describe spending a full day having a 90-page investment contract read to him (mandatory under German law; § 13 BeurkG) by a notary that then charged €30,000. That was for his first company. His second company, needless to say, was not incorporated in Germany.
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You can bully some people some of the time. But turns out you can’t bully everyone all of the time. The real realists get that.
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It’s gonna take longer to clear customs in Berlin than it took to fly here from London.
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