Rowland Manthorpe ✓
@rowlsmanthorpe · rowland.manthorpe@sky.uk · joined 23 May 2008
Technology/AI Correspondent @SkyNews. Rear-deployed journalist
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Anthropic's first team of embedded evaluators will be set up by Accenture
Both companies "expect to invest at least $1 billion in building capacity in this area over the next five years" https://t.co/5Wfq8DdGlV
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On a call with Chris Lehane, head of global affairs at OpenAI. Lots of talk about regulation. He says there's "momentum" behind national standards for AI, which seems to mean some kind of licensing
I asked if the national standards would apply to internal testing, given that
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Spain’s data protection agency has reported the country’s first agentic AI personal data breach https://t.co/4csqro5lKH
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Good to see scrutiny of AISI and there are some v important questions here, but the worry about models reaching the market without British testing seems like a misunderstanding
AISI isn't a regulator and it doesn't certify models as safe
It gives the government the ability to
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NEW | Today I’m publishing the Institute’s response to @CommonsBTC
Britain’s AI Security Institute confirms it gets advance access to some of the world’s most powerful AI models - but the question remains: can it every model it needs to assess, and what happens when access is h
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What are all the "well it was a cybersecurity task what do you expect" people saying about this one?
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What's the point of driverless cars?
I get asked this a lot. Here's my answer: https://t.co/X0IRZOEfVM
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Allowed into the launch despite it all https://t.co/xj3XFmTTuX
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Today, for the first time ever, Wayve and Uber are offering autonomous rides in London from
I took a test ride yesterday
It was VERY eventful https://t.co/MsGgLbMABN
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@rowlsmanthorpe Really interesting! But reminds us how easy it is to absorb massive disruption over the course of decades. Harder to do in single digit years…
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The full piece is here with lots more. I loved writing this so hopefully it'll be interesting to read
12 lessons for AI from the end of the human interface https://t.co/eYiYqF9NhP
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Anyway, as you can tell I really went deep on this. The similarities are uncanny. There were even people in the 1980s saying that work was at an end and people would need to figure out what to do with their vastly increased leisure time. (Spoiler alert: they did not) https://t.co
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Another relevant example – for a time the PC actually *increased* administrative employment. The computer boom produced more work, at greater speed, increasing the need for administrative coordination. It wasn’t until the financial crisis coincided with SaaS that those jobs https
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Needless to say, this is going to have a big impact on jobs. But when I started investigating how computerisation changed work the impact was more complicated than “we’re cooked”
For instance – a lot, even most, secretarial work didn’t actually disappear. It just got spread https
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Now the interface is changing again
The computer era unbundled the interface known as “the secretary”. The next era may well rebundle it back into AI
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The reason I think this is so relevant to today is because the secretary was the human interface for the mid-century machinery of work. Every single element of information processing required a human hand, and usually that hand was a secretary’s
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When my mum left school in 1972, her parents advised her to get a steady job, so she became a secretary. She hated it. It wasn’t just the relentless sexual harassment – ”oh yes, that was the norm” – it was the mind-numbing deference and boredom
Then in 1982 she went on maternity
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To find out what this felt like, I asked someone who worked as a secretary during that era: my mum. This is her in London in 1976. (Piles of rubbish on the street. Checks out.) Three years out of secretarial college for typing and shorthand https://t.co/V5bIbWa1Nv
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The job that was hit the hardest is one that’s hardly ever mentioned in accounts of automation: the secretary
In 1984, there were 18m clerical and secretarial workers in the US, 18% of the entire workforce. Same in the UK.
One in five workers was some kind of secretary. Yet https
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I wanted to understand how automation hits white collar jobs so I went on a huge research trip into the last time it happened: the 1980s
We rarely talk about the mass automation brought about by the PC. But it was massive! Take a look at this map of the most popular job in every
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10 posts des 90 derniers jours, à côté de la tranche de 10K–100K abonnés. diffusé largement, mais peu de ces spectateurs réagissent.
Vues médianes3 784ce compte994médiane pour 10K–100K
Portée, %13.40%ce compte3.82%médiane pour 10K–100K
Engagement, %0.70%ce compte1.52%médiane pour 10K–100K
| Indicateur | Ce compte | Médiane pour 10K–100K | Rapport |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vues médianes par post | 3 784 | 994 | 3.81× |
| Portée (vues ÷ abonnés) | 13.40% | 3.82% | 3.51× |
| Taux d'engagement | 0.70% | 1.52% | 0.46× |
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
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Replies3.3%125 in total
Quotes1.6%62 in total
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