Kicking off the next @InstituteGC Labour Party Conference panel on public trust in AI, starring @GordonMcKeeMP@KellyIpsosUK and Daisy McGregor (Anthropic) 🚀
@jakobmokander first walks us through the findings of the latest TBI/Ipsos research on public attitudes to AI 🧵
What does the UK think about AI? And how can we build public trust to accelerate adoption? New research from TBI and Ipsos 📊👉bit.ly/4ndnu3d
In January 2025, PM Keir Starmer announced the AI Opportunities Action Plan, setting out a vision to make the UK a global AI…
I'm #hiring! The Tony Blair Institute's Science & Tech team is looking for a Senior Advisor to lead our work on AI Policy and governance
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New metascience tool to play with! 🌍
At @InstituteGC, our team has attempted to turn fragmented data on national research systems & capacity into a policy-relevant (and hopefully interesting) tool. We map 129 countries using 84 different indicators...🧵
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New pre-print! Embodied AI is the next wave of technological disruption. But what risks do EAI systems pose and how should policymakers respond?
arxiv.org/abs/2509.00117
Coupled with excitement and opportunity, Embodied AI pose distinct risks – from physical harm to societal…
🚨 NEW PAPER 🚨: Embodied AI (EAI, such as self-driving cars, AI-powered drones, humanoid robots, etc.) is here, but our policies are dangerously behind. We analyzed the risks from these EAI systems and found massive gaps in governance. 🧵
What should the UK's AI infrastructure strategy be?
A new report by @InstituteGC argues that the UK needs to quickly build diverse and resilient AI infrastructure for safe and competitive deployment across the economy
Succeeding in this quest for sovereignty, security and scale…
Excited to share our paper: "Chain-of-Thought Is Not Explainability"!
We unpack a critical misconception in AI: models explaining their Chain-of-Thought (CoT) steps aren't necessarily revealing their true reasoning. Spoiler: transparency of CoT can be an illusion. (1/9) 🧵
🚨Excited to announce that the Sovereign AI Unit is investing £8m in OpenBind: building the world's largest protein-ligand dataset.
Backed by a top UK consortium, inc. Isomorphic Labs and Nobel Laureate David Baker, this will help the UK become the home for AI drug design 1/6🧵
The UK has what it takes to lead in the tech industries of the future — but right now, too few startups scale.
Our new paper sets out what’s holding them back, and how to fix it — from spinouts to pension reform and public investment.
Read more ➡️ bit.ly/3FHUMa4
How can the UK turn more innovative startups into global tech giants? New report by @InstituteGC 🧵
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The UK’s scaleup ladder is broken – fixing it will help boost growth and security #LondonTechWeek
Scaleups make up just 0.5% of UK SMEs, yet generate…
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