My longstanding prejudice that most (all?) British “internet institutes” comprise civil society grifters seeking political influence, social control or business opportunity without technical innovation aimed towards abundance, is somewhat more refinedly put in:

How not to build an AI Institute – by Alex Chalmers

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https://www.chalmermagne.com/p/how-not-to-build-an-ai-institute

Via:

new from me: what went wrong with the Alan Turing Institute?

I dive into the failures in institutional design, focus, and leadership that led the UK's national AI institute to become irrelevant. It's a story of drift, stakeholderism, and wasted potential. ? pic.twitter.com/aMxMDi5BPF

— Alex Chalmers (@chalmermagne) March 27, 2025