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The Robot Redundancy Roulette: A Hopeful & Proactive Betting Guide
The world of work is changing at a pace never experienced by previous generations, requiring the need to fundamentally adapt and evolve...

Laura Thomson-Staveley
Nov 19, 20172 min read


Journalism in the Age of AI: replacing wordsmiths with Wordsmith?“Twenty-six letters, when combined correctly, can create magic.” - John Grogan
“ Journalism is literature in a hurry ” - Matthew Arnold Content. Updates. Feeds. Stories. Reports. News. Read me. Click here....

Laura Thomson-Staveley
Jul 4, 20175 min read


Work: The Movie – Are you a CGI or a Real Character?
Did you watch any movies over this Christmas and New Year? The new first film in the Star Wars anthology Rogue One was released to...

Laura Thomson-Staveley
Apr 17, 20174 min read


Setting Our Children Up for Success in 2030
The World Federation for Robotics predicts that by 2018, 38 million service robots will be sold annually (current is 1.5 million). The...

Laura Thomson-Staveley
Jan 14, 20172 min read


Gigs, Bosses and the Leadership Revolution
A study predicting that 40% of the US workforce will be self employed by the year 2020, indicates just how much the gig economy will...

Laura Thomson-Staveley
Dec 19, 20163 min read


All I Want For Xmas is a Learning Mindset
As I helped my 4 year old write her letter to Father Christmas this afternoon (“that’s right, Chanel with one N”, as I sneaked in a few...

Laura Thomson-Staveley
Dec 6, 20164 min read


The 4C's and The Alexa Effect
The next big cash opportunity in the world of robots and Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be the range of home technology devices that...

Laura Thomson-Staveley
Dec 1, 20163 min read


Robots and Redundancy Roulette
My 4-year old daughter said to me this weekend "Mummy I want to work in a hospital when I grow up, just like Grandad." My immediate...

Laura Thomson-Staveley
Nov 24, 20163 min read


Human system crash
I’ve called this week’s post ‘Human System Crash’ inspired by an update I received this week with the sad news that employee burnout is...

Laura Thomson-Staveley
Oct 28, 20162 min read


Outside in: Inside Out
Felt thoroughly inspired by the speakers and awards at the WISE (women in science and engineering) conference last Thursday 10th Nov. For...

Laura Thomson-Staveley
Oct 20, 20162 min read


Food, Emotions, Recipes & AI
‘Why did I just eat that biscuit when I am on a mission this week to lose a bit of weight? Sod it, seeing as I’ve slipped I might as well...

Laura Thomson-Staveley
Oct 8, 20163 min read


An Eye for an I
During a sunny weekend in September, University of Oxford surgeons at Oxford's John Radcliffe Hospital have pe rformed the world's first...

Laura Thomson-Staveley
Sep 29, 20162 min read


How Deep Is Your Mind?
Had a mind-blowing day at the New Scientist Live expo at Excel in September. Irena Higgins from Google’s DeepMind AI business delivered...

Laura Thomson-Staveley
Sep 23, 20162 min read


Sex and Robots
In a shift from the boardroom to the bedroom, this weeks robot thoughts take on a cheeky vibe as I begin my final quarter before turning...

Laura Thomson-Staveley
Aug 24, 20163 min read


Robots, Relationships and the Sunk Cost Fallacy: The power of hope- would an AI flog a dead horse? “Choose to be optimistic, it feels better.” ― Dalai Lama XIV
“He’s cheated on me, again. But we’ve been together 15 years, so if I leave him now I’m just throwing all that time away…” “The car’s...

Laura Thomson-Staveley
Aug 6, 20163 min read


Purposeful employee engagement
What do we mean by purposeful employee engagement? What are the benefits of this as we start to think about what’s important in being...

Laura Thomson-Staveley
Jul 11, 20163 min read


Death, Taxes and AI
“Every year I have put that Rudolph Reindeer decoration on my wife’s grave and for six Decembers now, that same AAA battery has kept the...

Laura Thomson-Staveley
Jun 1, 20163 min read


RoboBoss is coming; it’s time to become a Phenomenal Leader! “Leadership is like beauty; it’s hard to define but you know it when you see it
In the Age of AI we accept that robots, superintelligent machines and algorithms will become a standard part of the workplace. When...

Laura Thomson-Staveley
May 6, 20164 min read


Robots, Moral Agency and Value Setting: building distance from the bottom line“ Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.” ― Mark Twain
Can robots ever be trusted to “Do the right thing”? For that matter, can humans? Moral Machines is a website from MIT that is...

Laura Thomson-Staveley
Mar 24, 20163 min read


What’s Your Job’s DNA?
I enjoyed a rare late night kitchen table chat with a good fun friend of mine this weekend. She is a commercially successful fashion...

Laura Thomson-Staveley
Feb 1, 20163 min read
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