by Richard Stockley | Sep 30, 2026 | AI Ml, Governance And Strategy, Transformation
The Transformation Nobody Announced The largest change most organisations are living through right now was never announced, never scoped, and has no owner. It’s happening anyway, from the bottom up, while the people at the top work out what to say about it. A...
by Richard Stockley | Sep 29, 2026 | AI Ml, Governance And Strategy, Technology, Transformation
Somebody Has to Hold the Ruler The universities are not going to out-build the frontier labs, and they have stopped trying. What they are building instead is the measuring equipment, and that may be the more important job. In June the UK government put up to £60...
by Richard Stockley | Sep 24, 2026 | AI Ml, Governance And Strategy, Technology, Transformation
Still Queuing at the Door The story says young people will stop going to university now that the machine knows everything. The applications say otherwise. The jobs at the other end are the part that has gone. By the 30 June UCAS deadline, 695,740 people had applied to...
by Richard Stockley | Sep 20, 2026 | AI Ml, Governance And Strategy, Technology, Transformation
The Street Is the Laboratory Now Science used to take its time behind a closed door. With AI, the experiment is running on our roads, in our phones and in front of all of us, at the speed of a funding round. On 21 June 1948, at the University of Manchester, the...
by Richard Stockley | Sep 19, 2026 | AI Ml, Technology
A Brief History of AI – LLMs When I wrote about “The Next Tech Revolution Isn’t AI” a year ago, and my view on releasing us from smartphones, the point that stuck with readers was that the phone in your pocket was built on the shoulder of...
by Richard Stockley | Sep 7, 2026 | AI Ml, Governance And Strategy, Transformation
The Interface Was the Revolution Everyone is arguing about what AI can do. Almost nobody is talking about how we tell it what to do, how we interact with it. And that second thing, not raw capability, may be the real shift, because for seventy years we spoke the...