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Door samen met Europese partners te investeren in AI versterken we onze economie én onze digitale soevereiniteit.

Middle powers like the UK and Canada will not win the race for ever larger AI models, but through collaboration they can win the deployment race.

Benefit-sharing across borders. Almost all dividend and ownership proposals stop at the national border. But the populations most exposed to displacement and least able to capture AI’s gains are often outside the countries where it is built. We want ...

We think it’s still good to recommend what would actually be good, even if you think that your audience is probably not going to listen.

The tech development seems ~plausible but the politics feel quite naive. Like I just can’t see Canadian voters letting China construct thousands of datacenters in 2030, no matter how good the economics are. Esp if the pitch is “we chose you since you...

It always seemed entirely plausible to me that Covid escaped from a laboratory, but that doesn’t mean that it was deliberate or the result of nefarious activity.

This acknowledgement should not lead to the dismissal of the possibility (e.g., accidental leakage from a BSL-4 or lower biosafety level laboratory) or the legitimate concerns surrounding biosecurity and biosafety in general.

The story of lab leak in Wuhan is a fiction and it is as ridiculous as the counterclaim that Sars-CoV-2 comes from lab leaks in the US.

Bayesian reasoning serves as a bridge between quantitative and qualitative research that allows one to analyze any and all kinds of data within a single, unified inferential framework. This paper demonstrates the strength and flexibility of the Bayes...

The arguments around covid origins seem largely to fall into an inference trap Andrew has termed premature collapse of the wavefunction. Rather than maintaining multiple hypotheses with different levels of credibility, there seems to be a desire to c...

Determining the origin of an outbreak or pandemic can be divided into four stages: detection, identification, characterization, and attribution. Understanding how a specific pathogen entered and spread in a population to cause an outbreak is a multid...