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Bill Ackman exemplifies a common phenomenon, especially amongst the rich: someone who is very smart in one domain, far less smart in other domains, and apparently not wise enough to know the difference.

#incommon ve Hisar School düzenlediği Kolektif Akıl ile Eğitimi Yeniden Tasarlamak konferansı oldukça verimli geçti. Geoff Mulgan ilham verici konuşması Ayşe Alan harika atölyesi sonunda yeni sorular ile günü bitirdik. Emekleri için Suat Kardaş ve bütün ekibe teşekkürler.

I'll be doing a talk at UCL next week on the strange institutional conservatism of UK public science and technology; lessons from around the world; and the possible shape of new institutions in the future - with responses from Anjana Ahuja from the FT, William Cullerne Brown and

We've a few places left for a hopefully lively session tomorrow at UCL on the strange institutional conservatism of UK public science and technology and what better answers look like. I'll be talking about lessons from around the world and possible design principles for new

Fixing public procurement in the age of AI - join us for a session 1600-1700 CET on 20th May exploring some of the answers: tial.org/event/fixing-p…

How we "guessed" the Pope using network science: inside the cardinal network. A study by me, Beppe Soda and Alessandro Iorio. Article: unibocconi.it/en/news/networ… Università Bocconi

The strengths & weaknesses of Labour's science and technology policies in the UK; the outside influence of key elites; and suggestions on how the many gaps could be filled. Science evolves through data, evidence and argument: the same is true of science policy!

My piece on 'DOGE done better' out today - I realise it may be sidelined by the X algorithms as it's not wholly positive about Elon M: rather it says some of the questions DOGE asked were good ones, even though the answers were poor. demos.co.uk/research/doge-…

A lovely conversation between Scott Page and Philip Ball on collective intelligence, biology, evolution and life. Recommended! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/26…

Interesting piece on how China's AI experts have created their own safety institute - an attempt to be intelligent about AI. It's a contrast with the US that is contemplating banning AI regulation in states for 10 years (!) and the UK which has largely decided to postpone AI

I enjoyed speaking at TETZ in Istanbul on Sunday (though sadly I missed Erdogan who spoke the day before, and he missed me) on how to link AI in schools to the bigger purposes of education, & how to get the right balance of enthusiasm and intelligent scepticism.

The Government has published its Technology Adoption Review. I’m glad this has happened, but you can tell how far this is from DSIT’s comfort zone: it’s remarkably thin in terms of both diagnosis and prescription. I suspect a much more energetic version will be needed before

Sometimes governments make decisions that are just obviously wrong and ill-considered. This is an example.

Why, when wise, experienced leaders make collective decisions, do they often make really bad decisions? In his new paper “A theory of collective stupidity in organisations - and possible remedies,” Geoff Mulgan challenges conventional wisdom about leadership failure. He says

UCL's Parashkev Nachev at Metascience 2025 on medical science: ever more papers & ever worsening productivity (note this a log scale). These are never discussed in policy documents as they raise difficult questions for the incumbents.

I've done a v short piece 'in praise of plumbing' - arguing that one of the reasons many in the UK feel that things don't work well at the moment is that the political and media elites simply aren't very interested in how things work. geoffmulgan.substack.com/p/in-praise-of…

20 years ago today the gates at my station (pictured this morning) became infamous for the last picture of the suicide bombers passing through. For a time it seemed that fear, threat and murder would be the new normal, and there were attempted bombings just a few weeks later. But

Prompted by a (not very good) documentary on US university encampments, I've written a short piece on the 'maths of protest': how the methods of protest either mobilise more to support you or more to oppose you, and the risks of movements that confuse ends and means:

My book on imagination comes out in paperback in October - Waterstones is offering a nice discount for the next 3 days!