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The Tech Bros are Coming for Our Wind

Should AI Data Centre Roll-Out be Phased and Linked to Renewable Installation? In the dreamy and often overlooked backwater of Dumfries and Galloway, on the site of the former Chapelcross Nuclear Power Station near Annan, an AI Data Centre is … Continue reading →

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This is the Way the World Ends

Reflections on AI, Agency, and Human Responsibility. I was ten years old at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis and, to be honest, the drama of those events largely passed me by, eclipsed in memory by the assassination of … Continue reading →

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Finding a Way Through

Basic Income, Artificial Intelligence and Reimagining Immigration Universal Basic Income (UBI) – that is to say provision of a living allowance for all citizens regardless of their employment status – is an idea that has interested me for many years. … Continue reading →

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