Patrick Grady

The tech jobs panic won’t go away, no matter how much evidence emerges. The sky is *really* falling this time, promise 🤦‍♂️

Two framed portraits hang side by side; one depicts a saintly figure with a halo, the other shows a modern man in monk attire.

Mario Draghi and Enrico Letta will be at the Competitiveness Summit in Belgium tomorrow.

Praise be.

NEW: Excited to be launching a new substack🔥

We believe Europe’s glass is half full. DG Progress is here show all the ways we are already a global tech leader, and what more our innovators need to succeed.

The success of Big Farm needs to be studied. These immense, regressive subsidies should go to greener, more ethical farms and to other sectors in need (e.g., tech, defence).

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Labour’s progressive case for AI:

🧑‍⚕️ Re-professionalise public sector jobs in social care and healthcare
🏢 Speed up state bureaucracy
📚 Accessible information disproportionately benefits working class voters

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Important that any new deadline is contingent on standards, rather than shooting in the dark at another date. Otherwise, it'll be Groundhog Day all over again

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"It's more of a comment than a question"

“Can we get sel-driving cars in Europe? Can we facilitate the regulatory environment for this?” - glad to hear this is on the mind of the AI Office’s @LucillaSioli

On the AI Act, the EU Need Not Move Fast and Break Things: - Chamber of Progress Policymakers should slow down the rollout of the AI Act, not to water it down, but to ensure its proper enforcement

6/ The solution is common sense: only start enforcing the Act's strictest requirements AFTER compliance guidance is available. Read more here: progresschamber.org/insights/ai...

5/ 🇪🇺 Move Fast and Break Things is Silicon Valley. Europe should move carefully and build things that last. Otherwise, AI compliance becomes an impossible choice for European entrepreneurs.

4/ 🎲 Instead, the Commission has rolled the dice. Its 15-month enforcement pause may or may not pass, may not pass in time, and may be withdrawn at any moment.

3/ ⏰ 110+ major EU companies, including Airbus, ASML, and Mistral, are demanding more time.

2/ 📋 This is no ordinary bill. The AI Act is nearly twice the length of GDPR—with more articles, recitals, and 13 annexes. Companies need adequate time to adjust.

1/ ⚖️ It's not just the enforcement guidelines. The technical standard to help companies comply? Two years overdue. Yet enforcement looms THIS AUGUST. This won’t end well.

Inevitably, the Commission has missed another deadline, giving AI companies time to prepare for the #AIAct. The EU should end this chaos 🧵

Chamber of Progress | Technology's Progressive Future Chamber of Progress is a center-left tech industry policy coalition promoting technology’s progressive future.

🎯 UK automated ridehailing isn’t speculative. It’s grounded in real-world trials, safety data, legislation, and economic modelling. Check out the full report: progresschamber.org

🌍 108m kg CO2e avoided annually by 2035 through AV efficiency gains (better routing, consistent speeds, optimised braking).

🛡️ Human error causes 88% of all road collisions. AVs eliminate that entirely—no drunk driving, no fatigue, no distractions.

📊 Automated ridehailing in the UK could add £2.1bn to GDP while slashing emissions and creating 52,000 high-skilled jobs.

NEW: We commissioned research on the impact of AVs on the UK. Here's what we found 🧵

Gutted so many new podcasts are default Spotify-only. I would happily download a separate Spotify Podcasts app rather than have to navigate its ALL IN ONE PLACE mess

Well, that didn't take long 🤦‍♂️`

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London Gears Up For Self-Driving Future: - Chamber of Progress Autonomous vehicles will bring productivity, safer roads, and greener routes.

London's calling driverless cars this year!

We lay out the opportunity for the UK of self-driving cars:

🚀 boost to strategic sectors
🌱 greener journeys
🚗 greater mobility
⚠️ safer cars

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On the AI Act, the EU Need Not Move Fast and Break Things: - Chamber of Progress Policymakers should slow down the rollout of the AI Act, not to water it down, but to ensure its proper enforcement

Policymakers should give companies the same breathing room they have afforded themselves and delay enforcing certain “high-risk” AI Act rules until the right guidance and standards are in place👇 progresschamber.org/insights/ai...

You wait ages for a cafe in Midi and two come along at once 😍

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Dario Amodei — The Adolescence of Technology Confronting and Overcoming the Risks of Powerful AI

AI intentions and job displacement still don't check out, for me, but Dario Amodei is surely the most sober thinker on AI risks

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Us former em-dash fans are the real victims of AI uptake

Even us optimists are blushing at this one: the UN’s prediction for S. Korea’s population recovery

The EU “sometimes feels like a farming-subsidy club with a flag and a parliament.” 🎯
#Mercosur