The Visionary
The future, and what is barely possible, reads round the next corner.
Sinead Bovell earns The Visionary designation through the scale of her wager: that AI literacy is a democratic right, not a credential to be gatekept. She reframes AI as electricity rather than a chatbot, warns that disengagement means forfeiting a voice in the technology's direction, and runs WAYE across venues from the UN to underrepresented communities.
“I mean, actually, the UK is doing okay in this space a few years ago. The government created the Alan Turing Institute in London to focus research around. And the work they've been doing is very, so I think we're okay. I don't mind the fact that we have some constraints, and actually you have constraints as well, that America doesn't.”
“And the number of people deployed in the German car industry hasn't been going down. It's the other way around because you use robots, you're more productive because you're more productive. You sell better, cheaper, more cars, because you sell better, cheaper, more cars, you need more mechanics and salespeople and admin and whatever.”
“In a lot of places, like the immediate short-term opportunity there is fantastic. On the regulatory side, I'd flag up. And until quite recently, I was the fintech ambassador for Jersey, the Channel Island in the UK. They have very well-developed trust law. Trusts are an area where they're very strong.”
“And it was already used in a lot of, and then you have this other kind of the large language model stuff, which is in the hands of everybody, not just for text, but for images and everything as well. So that's kind of where we are at the moment.”
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