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My latest for @TheEconomist: AI writing is taking over politics.
10% of what was is said in Parliament is now AI-drafted, per Pangram. Yet more in the House of Representatives, or in Australia and Canada.
Link: economist.com/britain/2026/0…
And a 🧵 below, w/ some main offenders
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Very leader here from Archie which perfectly captures my view on AI writing.
New @TheEconomist leader from me on the perils of AI writing—and why readers, not writers, are the victims to worry about. (Link ⬇️)
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New @TheEconomist leader from me on the perils of AI writing—and why readers, not writers, are the victims to worry about. (Link ⬇️)
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Best read alongside this great piece by Catherine Nixey, also in this week's edition economist.com/britain/2026/0…
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And my own look at AI writing in politics economist.com/britain/2026/0…
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Interesting that the U.S. senate seems mostly spared from AI speeches, something to do with larger offices, higher average staffers quality, or more media coverage of what’s said on the Senate floor?
My latest for @TheEconomist: AI writing is taking over politics.
10% of what was is said in Parliament is now AI-drafted, per Pangram. Yet more in the House of Representatives, or in Australia and Canada.
Link: economist.com/britain/2026/0…
And a 🧵 below, w/ some main offenders
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New @TheEconomist leader from me on housing markets, and the rate shock coming if bond yields stay high.
Why house prices may be in trouble
economist.com/leaders/2026/0…
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Based on @econcallum analysis here:
House prices survived the last rise in interest rates. Will they this time?
economist.com/finance-and-ec…
from The Economist
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the very very very short march through the institutions
My latest for @TheEconomist: AI writing is taking over politics.
10% of what was is said in Parliament is now AI-drafted, per Pangram. Yet more in the House of Representatives, or in Australia and Canada.
Link: economist.com/britain/2026/0…
And a 🧵 below, w/ some main offenders
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1/ This is bottom-up, not top-down, and reflects choices MPs (and their staff) are making. I spoke to several.
Reactions ran the gamut from denial to defence: "for every half hour saved on speechwriting, 'that is another 30 minutes we can put into supporting my constituents.'"
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3/ People can, I think, reasonably disagree about whether this is a problem. (I think it is.) But British voters hate it.
Public First ran some polling for us, and found that approval of AI writing on the job is lower for politicians than any other profession.
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Plenty more in the piece as ever, which you can see here: economist.com/britain/2026/0…
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My latest for @TheEconomist: AI writing is taking over politics.
10% of what was is said in Parliament is now AI-drafted, per Pangram. Yet more in the House of Representatives, or in Australia and Canada.
Link: economist.com/britain/2026/0…
And a 🧵 below, w/ some main offenders
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I understand this framing (and have probably written headlines along similar headlines in the past) but there is something wrong with it.
Low growth is only secondarily a problem for the PM - much more importantly, it is a problem for the people of Britain!!!
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Archie Hall retweeted
Agree that this is an interesting & helpful analysis. I don't think however it's dispositive that fiscal & AI are *not* factors in recent rate rises. FOMC speeches & jobs data may instead be catalyzing volume events that force investors to "catch up" on lots of new information.
A TANTALIZING ANSWER TO THE BIGGEST MACRO QUESTION SINCE COVID
In today's newsletter, I argue that @timwillems85, Paolo Cavallino, and Paul Beaudry have published an important intervention in the ongoing debate about the post-Covid surge in interest rates.
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Always happy to see my neighbourhood represented—even if only as one of Washington's most intractable rat hotspots
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As @mattholehouse would say, it is Tea Time in British politics
EXC: Sir Ed Davey backs 10p fuel duty cut in conference interview for tomorrow's ST
– Says the Lib Dems will be “increasingly talking about tax cuts” from now on
– Hints at more tax cut pledges in Tuesday's speech and says 3p fuel duty rise from January should not go ahead
– Tells restive Lib Dem MPs he shares their concerns: “I've never been as frustrated”
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Remarkable how people will just make up things like, “Europe doesn’t have data centers because they can’t securitize them.”
Lots of American data center builders are active in Europe. Fluidstack pulled out of France and OAI out of Britain because permitting and time-to-power were too slow. In places where those problems don’t exist — i.e. Scandinavia — lots of stuff is getting built.
European data center builders will complain about “financing,” but what they mean is that, under the prevailing political, permitting, and energy environment, no one wants to buy the damn things!
its still so underrated the degree to which our intelligence supercycle was as much reliant on innovations in capital formation as it was innovations in the technology itself.
europe is losing not only because they can't built it, but primarily because they can't finance it
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