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Our choice of infrastructure is a choice about our independence. We apply the principle of independence to where our money comes from. We rarely apply it to the bank that moves the money, the company that holds our records or the satellite that connects our field teams.
When we delegate work to generative AI, we can also delegate judgements we have not realised are part of the task.
Welfare AI, human sign-off, and the judgement we hand over with it.
The EU funding debate is one version of a problem every donor, UN agency and INGO now faces.
This is my pre-read for "AI on the Ground: Realistic Use Cases for Market Systems in Fragile Contexts", the fireside chat this Wednesday 19 August, 15:00 to 16:00 CET, which is 14:00 in…
More than half of employees hide their use of AI and present AI-generated work as their own. That figure comes from a global study led by the University of Melbourne with KPMG, covering…
The short version
I have spent the past month with my eyes where everyone else's are. The tanker fires. The US$100 oil settlement on 23 July. The insurance circulars redrawing the map of the Gulf. It is…
One participant in our June cohort is the case that keeps me up at night. Not a sceptic. Not a beginner. A capable user who, by their own account, had been trusting AI output more than…
AI disclosure: AI tools assisted with public-source research, source cross-referencing, adversarial review, and drafting and editing options for this piece and the linked working paper,…
AI disclosure: This piece predates MarketImpact's per-article disclosure standard, introduced June 2026. During this period AI tools assisted with research synthesis, multilingual data…
AI disclosure: This analysis was produced through MarketImpact's AI-assisted pipeline: automated data collection across multiple sources and languages, with agent-assisted synthesis. All…
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