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A relief! (And further down in the piece you'll see some of your stuff on this topic influencing my thinking)
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Archie Hall retweeted
Would you push yourself to read all the way through an essay or book if you thought AI had written it?
@ArchieHall on how AI writing frays the contract between writer and reader.
(Archie, I read your piece to the end)
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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For sure. Suppose one can see that sort of market outcome as emerging from both what producers are willing to offer and what consumers want. Can normatively opine on both, while living with the fact that markets often land elsewhere. (And that being entirely OK—akin to the liberal position of mourning the prevalence of smoking, gambling etc while being yet warier of the impulse to ban.)
But yes, maybe more stand athwart history than we usually are. But also a moment where expectations and norms re AI writing are still being thrashed out…
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And my own look at AI writing in politics economist.com/britain/2026/0…
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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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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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Yes, differential there surprised me… perhaps also far lower turnover than House. (At least in Britain where I had the biggest sample, a lot of this is driven by less-experienced politicians)
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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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Based on @econcallum analysis here:
House prices survived the last rise in interest rates. Will they this time?
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from The Economist
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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
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Archie Hall retweeted
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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Unspeakable amounts! (This relied on a very kind grant of a lot of research credits from pangram.) I have a bunch of country-by-country stuff I ran with pangram’s older / cheaper model though which I may try to stick on Substack this weekend
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Past time for someone more lobby-focused than me to do a proper “state of the 2024 intake”— I fret they really are particularly bad for this
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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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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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2/ Among British parties, the Liberal Democrats seem to give the most AI speeches. Labour's number is flattered a bit to the downside, since ministers rarely do. Among backbenchers, it is in second place.
The 2024 intake are particularly enthusiastic AI-speechwriting-adopters.
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