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Ben Sauer

@bensauer.net

Author of https://deathbyscreens.co / Speaker / Product+Design Leader / ex-Clearleft, Babylon Health. Current mission: helping designers tell better stories about their work. https://bensauer.net

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Jason Kitcat@jasonkitcat.bsky.social · 6mo ago

More pondering on AI as I wrangle with what it means for public servants... Here's where I've got to so far: There is a useful path to take between hype and doom. It's time to keep experimenting and learning as nobody knows what the future will bring. jasonkitcat.com/2026/03/02/s...

Some thoughts on AI

“Anyone who tries to tell us they know the future is simply trying to own it.” — Margaret Heffernan in her introduction to Uncharted Take a deep breath. Nobody knows what is going to happen with AI…

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Ben Sauer@bensauer.net · 11mo ago

WTF is the point of supplier portals like SAP Ariba, if you have to enter the same information every time for each client? Anyone know?

Ben Sauer@bensauer.net · 12mo ago

Putting an idea out there that just occurred to me while chatting about 'The Thick of It' with @tomdkerwin.bsky.social - I think the UK needs a 'Silicon Valley' type satire. A British startup trying to be ambitious, but hampered by insecurities and class differences.

Gavin Freeguard@gavinfreeguard.com · 12mo ago

There's still time to sign up for tomorrow's @transformgovtalks.bsky.social (MoJ/online) with: - @moiranics.bsky.social/Holly Marquez (Cab Office) on Why Planning for AI Disasters Unlocks Breakthrough Innovation ​- @bensauer.net on Always Be Creating Clarity: Daily habits for strategic storytelling

TransformGov Talks : September 2025 · Luma

Dr Moira Nicolson, Lead Behavioural Scientist (Cabinet Office) and Honorary Research Fellow (UCL) plus Holly Marquez, Senior Behavioural Scientist, (Cabinet…

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Akbar Shahid Ahmed@akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW— "A lot of children have passed the point of no return...The gut lining has started to auto-digest & will no longer [absorb] water or nutrition. Death is imminent for 1000s" An American doctor who just returned from Gaza on where US-Israeli policy is taking us: www.huffpost.com/entry/gaza-s...

‘Past The Point Of No Return’: Doctor Describes How Starvation In Gaza Is Driving Mass Death

"In August and September, there are probably still going to be ... large numbers of deaths because children have already passed the tipping point," Mark Brauner, who volunteered in Gaza last month, to...

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Ben Sauer@bensauer.net · last yr.

hey GDS/UK GOV folks. I just verified my ID for companies house. That process... was not fun. Got lost multiple times, ended up on help pages that didn't link me to the right place.

Ben Sauer@bensauer.net · last yr.

OK folks, help needed. Search engines and AI are coming up blank. Who said something like... "great works are great not because they are free of flaws, but because they have mastered their own perspective" ? I thought this was Virginia Woolf but can't find it....

Ben Sauer@bensauer.net · last yr.

I've been running my 'Practical Strategic Storytelling' workshop at conferences and for orgs like Monzo for a while now, and the response has been unexpected...

Maggie Appleton@maggieappleton.com · 2y ago

Finally got this prototype to work after 1000 years of debugging. Sweet release 🥲 The idea is I dump a bunch of unstructured notes on a topic in, feed that into gpt-4o-mini, ask it to label sections with a set of types – claim, evidence, assumption, etc. – and display them as coloured highlights

A text editor with sentences highlighted in different colors. Below the text editor is a set of buttons that allows you to label the text as claims, evidence, assumptions, and other types of argument structures. Below that is a debugging info section where you can see some visible JSON.
Ben Sauer@bensauer.net · 2y ago

Realising that ChatGPT's appeal is not just intelligence. It's providing a cleaned-up version of the web that's been missing for years. No crappy search results. No guessing which one's right. No cookie / mailing list popups or distracting ads. It's a return to what the web used to be.

Ben Sauer@bensauer.net · 2y ago

I just wrote "forgetababble" instead of "forgettable", and I think that's a much better description of what I was trying to describe. Forgetababble: When someone goes into so much detail, you don't remember a thing they've said.

Ben Sauer@bensauer.net · 2y ago

This is very good - subtle distinction between interacting with "AI as person" and "AI as computer." I've been arguing in recent talks that there's also a serious confusion generally between AI as mode of interaction (voice and chat), and AI as material (the intelligent plumbing behind the scenes)

Will Whitney@wfwhitney.bsky.social · 2y ago

The future of AI is models that generate graphical interfaces. Instead of the linear, low-bandwidth metaphor of conversation, models will represent themselves to us as computers: rich visuals, direct manipulation, and instant feedback. willwhitney.com/computing-in...

Ben Sauer@bensauer.net · 2y ago

Folks, I'm trying really hard to take the train instead of flying to Berlin next week. Don't mind working on a train for a whole day. But the booking process is a shitshow, the changovers are risky, the middlemen are slow + unhelpful, and the rail operators unreliable, then inflexible. 😱