Helen King - Innovation Ideas
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Innovation Ideas helps organisations and individuals make informed decisions about AI and new technology. Strategy, commissioned research, training and independent testing are grounded in evidence rather than marketing claims.
The ScholarOne Future of Peer Review 2026 report is out. I'm one of the interviewees, which gives me a vested interest in flagging it, but it does contain some interesting data. www.silverchair.com/news/future-...
REPORT: 2026 Future of Peer Review - Silverchair
The second annual report on trends and transformation brings a comprehensive analysis to what's working and what isn't in peer review.
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My notes from TAIS 2026 at Oxford, covering sessions on reasoning, scheming evaluations, autonomous systems, verification and governance: www.linkedin.com/pulse/tais-2...
TAIS 2026: From model behaviour to system safety
TAIS 2026 was a one-day conference held at Oxford's Examination Schools on 14 May 2026, organised by the Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative and Noeon Research. It brought together researchers work...
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New post about Xenoreproduction or the art of deliberately making things strange within GenAI outputs: open.substack.com/pub/generati...
Xenoreproduction
Xenoreproduction is the art of deliberately making things strange.
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BCS and BCSWomen have responded to the DSIT Women in Tech Taskforce call for evidence, Building a Future Tech Sector that Works for Everyone, highlighting changing job roles, barriers to upskilling for underrepresented groups, and the uneven impact of AI: substack.com/home/post/p-...
BCS responds to the DSIT Women in Tech Taskforce
BCS has responded to the DSIT Women in Tech Taskforce call for evidence, Building a Future Tech Sector that Works for Everyone. BCSWomen played a central role in shaping the submission.
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A 52m student block is planned beside Bethnal Green Gardens. 11 storeys. 520 student rooms. Right by the gardens. We’ve put together a simple guide explaining what’s proposed and how to object: bethnal-green.london Please share.
📖 New book entry: Grammarly sold AI writing tips under the names of hundreds of real journalists and authors. None of them had agreed. One of them had been dead for two months: open.substack.com/pub/generati...
Algorithmic Allonymy: The Grammarly Expert Review Scandal
Grammarly built a feature that generated fake writing advice and signed it with real people's names.
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Please fill out my AI usage survey if you work in publishing. Which models are you using? How often? What's delivering value? Takes under 5 minutes. Contributors get early access to results before I share them more widely towards the end of the month: ai-and-me.innovationideas.co.uk
Sol Rashidi on "intellectual atrophy”: businessofcreativity.beehiiv.com/p/issue-98-a... Business wants "pace and profusion, quickness over quality, speed over substance - we are looking for shortcuts everywhere, and all in search of 'more'."
Issue 98: A Bulletin for Big Ideas and Better Business
Sol Rashidi on AI: avoid “intellectual atrophy” by using it to amplify creativity, not outsource your brain.
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Thinking it might be time to dump #ChatGPT 5.1. I am having so many problems with the model. I oost a small table of preferred date/time mtg response data, I get back incomprehensible/inaccurate results after much thought. Switch back to 5, and I get an immediate and correct response.
New GenAI for Curious people post about AI's original sin - copyright theft: generativeaiforcuriouspeople.substack.com/p/ais-origin...
AI's original sin
When Michael Barbaro interviewed reporter Cade Metz about tech companies training AI models on copyrighted books, he called it “AI’s original sin.”
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A new report from Scholastica and Maverick Publishing surveyed 83 small and medium journal publishers from 21 countries about their tech challenges: lp.scholasticahq.com/technology-n... Some stats: * Current AI adoption is limited. Only 8% of publishers are using AI tools extensively.
2025 Report: Technology Needs of Small and Medium Journal Publishers
Insights into smaller-sized publishers' technical priorities, from research integrity to AI adoption.
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Why did Monday do this to us? youtu.be/5Hkcw_j8js0?... 🎵 AI had the time of my life, AI never felt this way before...🎵 Sometimes AI should stay in the corner!
Meet monday sidekick - AI you’ll love to use
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New interview in the newsletter: Jonathan Woahn on how his startup Cashmere gives publishers control over their content in AI systems. As Jonathan puts it, they provide tools to manage entitlement, security, access, reporting, and turn-key RAG infrastructure. open.substack.com/pub/pubtechr...
Big Ideas in Publishing: Jonathan Woahn on AI Licensing Infrastructure
New interview: Jonathan Woahn on how his startup Cashmere gives publishers control over their content in AI systems. As Jonathan puts it, they provide tools to manage entitlement, security, access, re...
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I built this quiz for an AI Safety Collab - Summer 2025 Program project. Takes 2 mins and tells you your AI safety personality mine's pictured - try it? innovationideas.co.uk/aisafetyquiz/
I found Musk's discussion of how they’re building Grokipedia interesting in the latest All In podcast: youtu.be/j6_VfR-CyuM. Grok is teaching itself reasoning, then rewriting ~1M Wikipedia pages. The goal: a self-updating, “maximally truth-seeking” AI that fixes errors and filters bias.
Elon Musk: 3 Years of X, OpenAI Lawsuit, Bill Gates, Grokipedia & The Future of Everything
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Very interested in this and already have my ticket 🎟️. Looking forward to it 🧠🤖: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Book Launch Event - Psychology of AI - London | BCS Publishing
Join us in London next Tuesday, 28 October for the launch of The Psychology of AI Decision Making by Chris Ambler BSc (Hons) FBCS GMBPsS The event is being hosted by The British Psychological Societ...
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📢 A British start-up, Books By People, is introducing an 'Organic Literature' certification to help readers identify books written by humans rather than machines. The first certified title, Telenovela by Gonzalo C Garcia, is due out next month, published by Galley Beggar Press. 🔗 booksbypeople.org
Books By People | Defending Organic Literature in an AI world
Books by People's mission is to safeguard human creativity in modern literature by helping publishers and authors to certify their books as human-authored, with a process readers can trust.
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New #GenerativeAIforCuriousPeople post inspired by Sam Altman’s comment that OpenAI is processing 3.15 quadrillion tokens. I had to look up what a quadrillion was (15 zeros) & then I wondered what else is counted in Quadrillions… generativeaiforcuriouspeople.substack.com/p/quadrillio...
Quadrillions of tokens
Quadrillions?
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Periodic Labs: A new $300 million seed-backed startup aiming to build “AI scientists” — autonomous systems that hypothesise, run physical experiments, gather data, learn, iterate — especially in the physical sciences. They’re starting with materials/superconductors. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FoW...
Building an AI Physicist: ChatGPT Co-Creator’s Next Venture
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"The research community doesn’t necessarily want ‘peer review’ — it wants quality assurance, fraud detection, constructive feedback, ethical oversight, and credible validation." @innovationideas.bsky.social / @scholarlykitchen.bsky.social
Peer Review in Transition: Helen King and Christopher Leonard on AI and the Future of Peer Review - The Scholarly Kitchen
Today, we talk to thought leaders Helen King and Chris Leonard, who offer a nuanced look at how peer review might adapt, fracture, or reinvent itself in the AI era.
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Fascinating - both the story and the robot. Is this Marketing or Art? thenomadsalon.substack.com/p/ai-da-and-...
Ai-Da and the Art of Storytelling: Reflections on Art, AI, and the Market
When a robot sells art for over $1M, what is the collector really buying? A reflection on Ai-Da, authorship, and the art market’s blurred lines.
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From @pressgazette.co.uk: A PR agency is flogging an AI that auto-generates expert quotes with fictional bios and pre-written charm aimed at Journalists. It’s fast and it's scalable, but do we really want to live in this kind of world? 🔗 pressgazette.co.uk/news/pr-agen...
PR agency sells AI tool which sends out automated expert comment to journalists
A PR agency is selling an AI tool which automatically answers pitches from journalists on services such as ResponseSource, HARO and Qwoted.
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Interesting listen - This episode of The Inquiry discusses the trade-offs between productivity and mental acuity in the digital age: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Inquiry - Is AI eroding our critical thinking? - BBC Sounds
Are we allowing AI to make our brains lazy?
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A reminder of how pervasive gender bias can be. This study found that when given identical profiles, ChatGPT’s o3 model recommended a $280,000 target salary for a woman versus $400,000 for a man solely based on gender: thenextweb.com/news/chatgpt...
ChatGPT advises women to ask for lower salaries, study finds
A new study has found that large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT consistently advise women to ask for lower salaries than men.
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New study from the Max‑Planck Institute: ChatGPT has begun influencing human speech. Analysis of over 740,000 hours of academic podcasts and YouTube lectures shows a significant surge in ChatGPT‑preferred vocabulary such as “delve,” “comprehend” and “meticulous” since 2022. arxiv.org/pdf/2409.01754
