Tom Loosemore

[Edit 5th Aug 2026: A friend kindly pointed out that modern LLMs are now getting very good at using your PC for you, exactly as you would have done.

Earlier this year I blogged about the idea for a Creative Commons-style legal framework to help services respond to requests from AI Agents claiming to act on behalf of a person.

The FT and Guardian report that the new PM will disband the Department of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSIT), splitting its functions between a beefed-up Department for Business and Trade (DBT) and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS).

If you’re making an AI-powered thing for real, then start by creating a comprehensive suite of evaluation test cases (aka an ‘eval suite’) with which you can continually evaluate the quality of your LLMs’ outputs.

I’ve written recently about how citizens’ adoption of AI is putting stress on public services that rely on friction to reduce demand.

I just read an excellent article by James O’Malley looking under the bonnet of the UK Government’s recent work using AI to improve the planning process.

Checking back in on the state of open weight LLMs after a couple of months away and the best are much better than in Jan – notably gemma4 and qwen3.5.

I got the Eurostar back from Paris yesterday.

I’m beaten.

Anyone responsible for a public service needs to start modelling how to adapt their policies and processes for the scenario when AI Agents reduce the cost to citizens of appeals, challenges, recalculations etc to near-zero.