Tom Rachman
@TomRachman
GovAI summer fellow (from June '25). Past: intl NY Times; AP; novels (“The Imperfectionists” & others); ghostwrote “We Are Bellingcat”
My essay on AI shaping human behavior…aipolicyperspectives.com/p/ai-and-behav…
What IS a healthy public sphere in the technological age…? Excellent piece as always from @nicklaslundblad, with @FredrikErixon this time open.substack.com/pub/unpredicta…
Very excited about this chapter on UK AI regulation: what's happened already, what should govt do next? Writing it with @Manderljung and @TomRachman was a blast, I learned a huge amount from both of them. Here's to getting AI regulation right in the UK! arxiv.org/abs/2507.03050
There are times when it feels like we've been doing thousands of years of philosophy just to prepare for the current moment.
Insightful piece by @hlntnr, framing AI safety debate as dynamist/stasist open.substack.com/pub/helentoner…
When people talk about social adaptation to fast technological change, there's an implicit belief that slow means better. I think that's true in many cases but it's not necessarily always true. Eg if you had condensed social media developments in a year rather than ten, I think…
Excellent piece by @DarioAmodei on the race between creating advanced AI systems and figuring out the mysteries of how they work👇 darioamodei.com/post/the-urgen…
Superb piece by @nicklaslundblad on how technology has impacted our experience of time, and how AI may help us manage...Nicklas keeps writing the most insightful pieces on AI anywhere; strongly recommended⬇️ unpredictablepatterns.substack.com/p/unpredictabl…
Book scanning robot preparing food for his LLM brethren
Have we passed peak intelligence? In international tests, student scores for reading and maths sunk to a new low. US teens are struggling to concentrate & evaluate information. The excellent @jburnmurdoch Warning: this thread is dark 🧵
i cant believe ChatGPT lost its job to AI
Very moving
Nicholas Winton helped 669 Jewish children escape the Nazis. His efforts went unrecognized for 50 years. Then in 1988, while sitting as a member of a TV audience, he suddenly found himself surrounded by the kids he’d rescued, now adults. I like to remember this every Jan 27th.