Jeegar Kakkad
@jeegarkakkad
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Economics, politics, boxing. Deep generalist. @ TBI. ex-ADS, JLR, MakeUK, SMF, Brookings. Views my own.
Joined August 2010
I wrote this piece on the impact of AI on the economy and growth 100 days before chatGPT dropped. Still think this holds.
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RT @ArchieHall: 9/ What about the climate and net zero? Aviation is a sector that's vital economically, and for peoples' lives, and with e…
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RT @thomasforth: I have a particular positivity about local electricity pricing because the legacy of deindustrialisation and population st…
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RT @a_iosad: Welcome to the 21st century, Britain. Proactive services, “tell us once”, a mandate for government dataset APIs. I’m not sure…
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RT @AntBreach: At the heart of the UK's geographic divides are 'exporting' industries like software or manufacturing. Their performance dri…
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Growth idea for the UK government: Accelerate the Planning & Infrastructure Bill and delay the Employment Rights Bill.
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RT @LukeTryl: Rather be a traitor or faithful? How you vote might tell us which... Today's @restisents discuss our @Moreincommon_ finding…
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RT @ChrisGiles_: I’ve been a bit absent. And have returned to nothing short of panic about the UK’s fiscal rules and speculation whether th…
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RT @InstituteGC: #AI offers the opportunity to completely reimagine public services, enabling governments to go further, faster and deliver…
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RT @matthewclifford: 1/ Today the Prime Minister published my AI Opportunities Action Plan for the UK and committed to implement all its re…
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RT @benedictcooney: Not to be missed among all the other announcements. Great appointment and critical for the concerted action we need to…
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The AI Opportunities Review has a lot of great ideas in it to transform the country. @matthewclifford staying on to advise the PM makes me optimistic they’ll get delivered.
2/ Highlights include: 🏗️ AI Growth Zones with faster planning permission and grid connections 🔌 Accelerating SMRs to power AI infra 📈 20x UK public compute capacity ✂️ Procurement, visas and reg reform to boost UK AI startups 🚀 Removing barriers to scaling AI pilots in gov
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RT @carlbfrey: The greatest expense in developing frontier AI models isn't NVIDIA chips—it's talent.
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RT @Gilesyb: A rise in NICs, to fund public services, isn't everything. A very underinvested economy with depleted public services and the…
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RT @jo3hill: How cool is this?! The Government's Incubator for AI have released an open-source list of publicly available government data…
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RT @AdamJSchwarz: Starmer: "The Leader of the Opposition has been an MP for eight years... I can't recall her once raising this issue [chil…
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