Some excellent reflections here. Across all advocacy, aid, animal welfare and especially AI, I often see errors in understanding the actual incentives and interests of those with power in Government.
A lot of time is also spent advocating to people who have little to no tangible influence. Which leads to organisations claiming they’ve delivered a lot of “direct advocacy” but actually they’ve just spoken to a lot of people, very few of which have the autonomy or power to enact any change.
As someone who worked at the very centre of the U.K. government for c.5 years on international development and finance policy, and time on AI policy (including roles as Head of Development Policy and Senior Policy Advisor for ODA Strategy and Spending at HM Treasury, and Head of Strategy at the CDEI), I’m always happy to share my thoughts directly if ever helpful.
Some excellent reflections here. Across all advocacy, aid, animal welfare and especially AI, I often see errors in understanding the actual incentives and interests of those with power in Government.
A lot of time is also spent advocating to people who have little to no tangible influence. Which leads to organisations claiming they’ve delivered a lot of “direct advocacy” but actually they’ve just spoken to a lot of people, very few of which have the autonomy or power to enact any change.
As someone who worked at the very centre of the U.K. government for c.5 years on international development and finance policy, and time on AI policy (including roles as Head of Development Policy and Senior Policy Advisor for ODA Strategy and Spending at HM Treasury, and Head of Strategy at the CDEI), I’m always happy to share my thoughts directly if ever helpful.