AI Summit London: Beyond the hype, into the hard questions
Two days at AI Summit London revealed an industry in transition—moving from experimental enthusiasm to the messier realities of implementation. Across the stages and sessions, the conversations kept circling back to the same fundamental challenges: how do we move beyond proof-of-concept projects to meaningful organisational change and human engagement?
The question before the tools: What 20 years of research leadership reveals about AI strategy
In 2015, I found myself in a room with a pathologist, a disability historian, medical students and theatre artists, all staring at the same problem from completely different angles. We were exploring the case of Tarrare, an 18th-century French medical anomaly (he couldn’t stop eating) who died convinced that a golden fork lodged in his stomach was killing him. When his doctor performed the autopsy, no golden fork was ever found.