Digitisation, politicisation and the civil service by Martha Lane Fox:
Today’s reality is clear: digital skills are no longer optional extras. Data analysis, digital service design, agile project management, let alone the nuance needed in understanding new AI tools, have become as essential to governance as policy writing and stakeholder management. This shift creates real tensions within our supposedly neutral institutions.
AI product management in high stakes domains – Alan Wright shares a bunch of approaches that have worked well for him.
Our positions on generative AI – Steve Messer details a sensible set of stances on the ethical and effective use of LLMs and so forth.
AI is more of a concept, but generative AI as a general purpose technology has come to the fore due to recent developments in cloud-based computation and machine learning. Plus, technology is more widespread and available to more people, so more people are talking about generative AI – compared to something even more ubiquitous like HTML.
Lloyd has written up how he is using Micro.blog and a custom script to deliver a daily summary of his micro-posting to his WordPress blog.
There’s more than one way to skin this cat!
