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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


Falling in Love with AI: how to compete with a fantasy? “I love it! It’s perfect! It’s…. not enough”
Robot fantasies and fetishization! That got your attention didn’t it? Sadly this wont be a titillating discussion about sexbots and AI...

Laura Thomson-Staveley
Jan 5, 20164 min read
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