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1What are we really delegating to AI?
When we delegate work to generative AI, we can also delegate judgements we have not realised are part of the task.
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1Are we ready for this system?
Welfare AI, human sign-off, and the judgement we hand over with it.
Thomas Byrnes •
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1The proposal is free now. The trust is not.
The EU funding debate is one version of a problem every donor, UN agency and INGO now faces.
Thomas Byrnes •
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1We Let AI Draft a Full Market Assessment. This Is What It Took to Trust It.
This is my pre-read for "AI on the Ground: Realistic Use Cases for Market Systems in Fragile Contexts", the fireside chat this Wednesday 19 August, 15:00 to 16:00 CET, which is 14:00 in…
Thomas Byrnes •
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1Make AI Disclosure Boring
More than half of employees hide their use of AI and present AI-generated work as their own. That figure comes from a global study led by the University of Melbourne with KPMG, covering…
Thomas Byrnes •
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1The Model Was Never the Whole Story
The short version
Thomas Byrnes •
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12027 Is Already Locked In
I have spent the past month with my eyes where everyone else's are. The tanker fires. The US$100 oil settlement on 23 July. The insurance circulars redrawing the map of the Gulf. It is…
Thomas Byrnes •
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1No AI Framework Sits at the Keyboard: What AidGPT's First Measured Open Cohort Showed
One participant in our June cohort is the case that keeps me up at night. Not a sceptic. Not a beginner. A capable user who, by their own account, had been trusting AI output more than…
Thomas Byrnes •
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1Your AI Has a Passport Problem : Three sovereignty risks the humanitarian sector has not confronted
AI disclosure: AI tools assisted with public-source research, source cross-referencing, adversarial review, and drafting and editing options for this piece and the linked working paper,…
Thomas Byrnes •
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1Beneficiary Data Is Nuclear Fuel: What the WFP Gaza breach reveals about the protocol the sector never wrote
AI disclosure: This piece predates MarketImpact's per-article disclosure standard, introduced June 2026. During this period AI tools assisted with research synthesis, multilingual data…
Thomas Byrnes •
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1The damage is already in the ground
AI disclosure: This analysis was produced through MarketImpact's AI-assisted pipeline: automated data collection across multiple sources and languages, with agent-assisted synthesis. All…
Thomas Byrnes •
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1SAFE AI is live. Here are its core ideas, and the part no framework can do for you
AI disclosure: This piece predates MarketImpact's per-article disclosure standard, introduced June 2026. During this period AI tools assisted with research synthesis, multilingual data…
Thomas Byrnes •
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