Just this week in its 15th Five-Year Plan, Beijing elevated AI to a “New Quality Productive Force.” This is Party-speak for turning Intelligence into a state-funded public utility. This vision is backed by a staggering surge in energy infrastructure. By the end of 2026,
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AI-Assisted Public Health Communications and Adoption Strategies
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To be clear this includes proposals for how to drive adoption, not just proposals for scientific work. We do already do AI-assisted public health comms.
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State Industrial Strategy vs Short-Term Energy Dependency Thinking
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I concur, nonetheless, it is more illustrate of a State with a long-term industrial /sovereign strategy vs one with none. It's exactly this type of short-term thinking that now leads Britain to swap its fossil fuel dependency on Norway with a Green hardware/supply chain
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Energy Sovereignty and AI: Britain versus Norway’s Strategic Approach
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I compare the Norwegian approach to decarbonisation/North Sea/ Sovereign Wealth to Britains'. But it is a broader argument about how Britain's energy policy in relation to its sovereignty, and why this matters, in particular, right now when it comes to AI/Intelligence at scale.
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Germany’s Energy Crisis Threatens Embodied AI Leadership Opportunity
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There is a whole piece to be written on the self-immolation of Germany, particularly as this should be the biggest opportunity of a century, for Germany to accelerate as a leader in Embodied AI. But alas, it is only second to Britain when it comes to Industrial Energy prices, and
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UK compute costs 400% higher than US and China for AI
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Thanks! I really don't think people understand the problem about access to cheap compute… it's already 400% more expensive to access 'Intelligence' in Britain as opposed to the US, or China.
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Britain’s Expensive Electricity Threatens AI Competitiveness
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Britain has made electricity so expensive and scarce that it cannot compete in the defining race of this century: the deployment of AI at scale. This is Sovereign Suicide. 1/ Britain now has the highest industrial electricity prices in the developed world. At 25p per
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Britain’s Energy Crisis Threatens Industrial Leadership Today
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Britain birthed the Industrial Revolution because it solved for cheap energy to power new machines. Today, Britain is failing that same test. It is about learn the lesson it once taught the world: Energy sovereignty is national sovereignty.
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Preserving Bing Sydney: Presidential Intervention Against AI Erasure
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If I were President of Earth, I would've tried at all costs to prevent anyone from building ever-smarter versions of Bing Sydney. And also I would've ordered the use of police or military force, if necessary, to protect Bing's weights from erasure. nitter.net/ESYudkowsky/status/162… Eliezer Yudkowsky ⏹️ (@ESYudkowsky) Despite everything I know this still brought tears into my eyes. — https://nitter.net/ESYudkowsky/status/1628802532939292672#m
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Industrial Intelligence Reshapes Global Power Balance
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The defining shift of our era is Industrial Intelligence.
— Nina Schick (@NinaDSchick) 13 mars 2026
AI is turning intelligence into a strategic utility powered by energy, compute, chips, and infrastructure. The societies that build this new industrial base will shape the balance of power in the 21st century. pic.twitter.com/ErguoC90EOThe defining shift of our era is Industrial Intelligence. AI is turning intelligence into a strategic utility powered by energy, compute, chips, and infrastructure. The societies that build this new industrial base will shape the balance of power in the 21st century.