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A dithered portrait of Liam Wilkinson

AI, institutions
& the rest of life.

I build AI with governments around the world. Here, I write about technology, law, history and whatever I can’t stop thinking about.

Neo-Technocracy: Same Dream, Bigger Budget

Engineers have spent a century trying to run society like a machine. The machines were never the hard part.

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More from the notebook

All writing

Somewhere Worth Living

Some thoughts on the Britain we might grow into, and what we owe the places we inherit.

Your Country Needs Builders

What my Innovation Fellowship taught me about learned helplessness, building teams and leaving government more capable than you found it.

For the Love of Law

The law is the source code of the state, and it's overdue a refactor.

Things I’ve helped build

All work