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We’re on the path to a new kind of web, with an uncertain future: AI-based user agents are fast-becoming a core interface to the internet for over half-a-billion active users per week. Platforms have increasingly seized control of the publisher-reader relationship: search engines are squeezing out web publishers to juice ad revenue, while social platforms have captured audiences with algorithmic reach and paid promotion. The rise of new AI super-apps, in place of traditional browsers, is set to make this dynamic exponentially worse.

How can publishers engage in this platform shift beyond being a dataset to be scraped? How can we avoid being trapped by a new wave of mega-platforms? And how can publishers on the web reach real users, build lasting relationships, and continue to have a equitable business model?

We believe now is a critical time to get technologists & publishers working together to explore—and define—real answers to these questions.

Join us for an evening of presentations and open discussion where protocol builders and publishers share their thinking about the future of the web.

​You will hear short talks about the challenges and opportunities in the space featuring ActivityPub, AT Protocol, Web Payments, and controlling your data in an AI World. Each talk will include Q&A.

​Following will be a relaxed mixer over drinks and light bites with the speakers and peers.

​Learn more about PfP and sign up to the mailing list: https://protocolsforpublishers.com/london-2026

Speakers

• Opening remarks from by PfP NYC alum Ben Werdmuller (ProPublica)
• A conversation with Saskia Welch (Newsmast) and Siddhartha Kurapati (Bristol Cable) about building a local news app using Activity Pub for The Bristol Cable.
• Aendra Rininsland (FT) presents news feeds for news orgs on AT Protocol.
• E.M. Lewis-Jong (Mozilla Data Collective, Common Voice) discusses ethical creation, curation, and control of AI training datasets.
• Jeremiah Lee (Interledger) talks about open payments and web monetization.

We’re on the path to a new kind of web, with an uncertain future: AI-based user agents are fast-becoming a core interface to the internet for over half-a-billion active users per week. Platforms have increasingly seized control of the publisher-reader relationship: search engines are squeezing out web publishers to juice ad revenue, while social platforms have captured audiences with algorithmic reach and paid promotion. The rise of new AI super-apps, in place of traditional browsers, is set to make this dynamic exponentially worse.

How can publishers engage in this platform shift beyond being a dataset to be scraped? How can we avoid being trapped by a new wave of mega-platforms? And how can publishers on the web reach real users, build lasting relationships, and continue to have a equitable business model?

We believe now is a critical time to get technologists & publishers working together to explore—and define—real answers to these questions.

This summit is an invite-only full day of focused conversations. We’ll rotate through small-group discussions on real-world challenges, share new protocol capabilities, and work through the strategic landscape to identify opportunities to leverage for a better future for the web publishing ecosystem.

Build relationships creative and knowledgeable people from both the publishing and technology domains. Chatham House Rules are to be observed, ensuring everyone has a safe space for deep discussion.

Provisional Agenda

​09:30 - Doors open, morning tea/coffee and light breakfast
10:00 - Strategic landscape and discussion sessions focused on AI-intermediation
12:00 - Lunch
13:30 - Laurens Hof of Connected Places gives an analysis of the open social landscape
14:00 - Discussion sessions focused on open social
15:00 - Tea/coffee break
15:15 - Discussion sessions focused on open social
16:00 - Closing

​​Join us for an evening of research presentations, Q&A and conversation with ML Alignment & Theory Scholars past and present.

Talks start at 7:30pm, please arrive by then!

MATS Researchers will present talks across a range of AI Safety / Alignment topics.

​Take Back Power are a nonviolent civil resistance campaign calling for a permanent, legally-binding House of the People with powers to tax the rich and fix Britain.

​On Saturday 7th February we are holding a community training for our new local volunteers. We will be learning about how we grow our community together, including skills such as event facilitation and promotion, and safeguarding, adhering to our principles of nonviolence to create a space where we can come together to enact change.

A monthly London-based meetup for members of the rationalist diaspora. The diaspora includes, but is not limited to, LessWrong, Astral Codex Ten, rationalist tumblrsphere, and parts of the Effective Altruism movement.

You don’t have to identify as a rationalist to attend: basically, if you think we seem like interesting people you’d like to hang out with, welcome! You are invited. You do not need to think you are clever enough, or interesting enough, or similar enough to the rest of us, to attend. You are invited.

Our reading list for this time is:

• Church Planting: When Venture Capital Finds Jesus
• Do not hand off what you cannot pick up

​​​​​Campaign Lab is a community of politically-minded progressive data scientists, researchers and activists who are working together to build new election tools and change the way we analyse and understand political election campaigning.

Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more effectively. You can either bring your own project or help out on one of our ongoing ones.

​​​​​Snacks and drinks are provided, all you need is to bring yourself and a laptop. You can also participate remotely via zoom link.

​​​​​All technologists, activists, organisers and campaigners are welcome. We also welcome any new people who are interested in politics, technology and evidence based campaign innovation on the left.

This session is part of the Introduction to Political Technology course at Newspeak House, open to faculty and fellowship candidates only.

​Early enthusiasm for the “government as a platform” metaphor centred around the idea of identifying common needs and building publicly owned digital infrastructure to meet them.

​Rooting out unmet needs is a service designer’s bread and butter. Much of service design is about spotting patterns. Is this booking process much like that booking process? Is one onboarding journey very similar to another onboarding journey? Can we streamline, simplify and re-use existing flows?

​We’ll look at the progress that has been made in realising platform opportunities in the public sector, and think about where there is more work to be done.

​Reading:

• Government as a Platform chapter of Open Government 
• Platform Revolution
• Platform Playbook and/or Platformland
• Platformland
• Digital Identity in the UK
• Design Patterns Catalogue
• Government as a Platform: the next phase of digital transformation

​Dr Crispin Cooper will discuss two of his recent pieces of research:

​Whose well-being should we prioritize? We recently investigated this question with a nationally representative UK sample. Most people showed concave utility curves, implying aversion to both risk and inequality. This seems to be unrelated to political alignment, suggesting a shared human instinct for fairness in well-being that cuts across ideological boundaries – with implications for public policy, AI alignment and Effective Altruism. We’re planning a game on it next.

​How to save people from going down the conspiracy rabbit hole? Evidence suggests early intervention works best. I’ll present my educational game, Bruto’s Bullshitometer where you have to convince an NPC that the world is ruled by lizards. Previously I used another serious game to measure online echo chambers.

​Dr Crispin Cooper teaches at the School of Computer Science & Informatics, Cardiff University. He used to do transport simulations but realized you can’t simulate much transport without understanding why people go where they go, and hence what they want from life in general.

​Please join us for the first session of the Arms Industry Wikithon, a monthly meeting dedicated to expanding the availability of information about companies, entities and individuals involved in the global arms industry. This is a hybrid event, and will take place both in person and online.

​No prior knowledge of either the arms industry or Wikipedia editing is needed, though both are welcomed. Full support and an introduction to Wikipedia editing will be provided. Participants should bring a laptop that can connect to the internet.

​The arms industry wikithon is organised by fellows from the n-space programme at Somerset House. You can get in touch with us here.

The Autonomy Institute kicks off their 2026 CADA event series by welcoming Nick Srnicek to discuss his most recent book Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI.

Since the emergence of ChatGPT, generative AI has been heralded as a technology poised to revolutionize our world. But beyond the hype and hyperbole, who truly wields power over this transformative technology?

In Silicon Empires, Nick Srnicek explores the geopolitical economy of artificial intelligence, revealing how a handful of powerful corporations and states are engaged in a monumental struggle to control its future. Srnicek moves beyond the headlines to lay bare the elaborate strategies that these silicon empires - from tech giants to great powers - are deploying to capture the immense value of AI. This incisive analysis uncovers the deep-seated tensions between corporate ambitions and national interests, and the profound consequences of this new era of technological competition.

As the race for AI supremacy accelerates, Srnicek compellingly demonstrates that the decisions being made in the boardrooms of Silicon Valley and the halls of government will shape the distribution of wealth and power on a global scale for decades to come.

Speakers

Nick Srnicek is Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy at King’s College London, and the author of Platform Capitalism.

Nick will be in conversation with Will Stronge, Chief Executive at the Autonomy Institute. There will be plenty of time allotted for an audience Q&A, so bring your queries and questions.

More info

You can buy Silicon Empires from Polity Press here.

You can watch an earlier discussion of some of the book’s key themes here.

​Koyaanisqatsi is a 1982 American non-narrative documentary film directed and produced by Godfrey Reggio, featuring music by Philip Glass and cinematography by Ron Fricke.

​The film is worth seeing as a reminder and reflection on technology and humanity, delivered in a non-didactic aesthetic.

19:00 - open
19:30 - ​Koyaanisqatsi
21:00 - mingling & discussion
21:30 - close

Thousands of people will take to the streets to stand together against the far right on 28 March. Campaign Lab is hosting a one-day hack to build tech tools that support the protesters, organisers, and communities taking part.

​Calling all technologists, designers, organisers, and protest veterans to work on tools to help make protest marches safer, more effective, and more coordinated. Love beats hate!

12:00 - Doors Open
13:00 - Briefing on march logistics
13:30 - Hacking
18:00 - Demos
19:00 - Dinner
22:00 - Close

​Campaign Lab is a community of politically-minded progressive data scientists, researchers and activists who are working together to build new election tools and change the way we analyse and understand political election campaigning. Join at campaignlab.uk.

​This session is part of the Introduction to Political Technology course at Newspeak House, open to faculty and fellowship candidates only.

​Dr Six Silberman leads us in exploring the complex interplay between institutions and organisations; humans; and technologies.

Possible topics: Tyranny of structurelessness; compassion in organizations; entrepreneurship; leadership; economics; justice(s) (organizational, restorative, transformative). Alternatively, ‘prototype workshops’.

Part of the Introduction to Political Technology course at Newspeak House, open to faculty, fellows, and fellowship candidates.

​A space to make computer things with other people. Beginners, dabblers, and pros are all welcome. Explore, tinker, and share what you’re learning.

​Whether no-code, low-code, vibe-code, or trad-code — whatever you’re into, bring it along.

​Drawing room: Co-working and peer learning, work on your own projects, pick up ideas from others, or try out one of the many resources and suggestions floating around.

​Classroom: Workshops tbc - let Fatima know if you want to run one.

​Attention London agent tinkerers and curious humans 🤖✨

​Come join us for a relaxed AI Agent Hack Night - a bring-your-laptop evening for playing with AI agents, agent UX (AUX), OpenClaw, Moltbot, Molt Bar, or any agent idea you’ve been meaning to try.

​No talks. No demos. Just tables, power, Wi-Fi, snacks, a shared scratchpad, and maybe a place where agents can hang out together.

• bring a laptop 💻
• bring an agent (or curiosity) 🤖
• register quick to avoid disappointment! 🎟️
• ticket price covers food, drinks & venue costs 🍴

​Come as an enthusiast. Leave with an agent story, a new idea, or a new friend!

Future Inventions Lab is a research & development lab prototyping liberatory afro technological futures.

Through reading groups, participatory design sessions, and publications, the lab seeks to build a community of creative technologists, thinkers, and curious individuals who are invested in prototyping alternatives to what we understand as technology today.

Join us for a brief explainer and creative hands-on workshop exploring AI & memory work through data, archives, and knowledge production!

Following our Cycle Two kick-off (Intro to AI: How Machines Think), we are back with another critical AI literacy session to unpack what machines think and why that it is. As the computer science adage goes, GIGO - Garbage in, Garbage Out: a fundamental principle asserting that the quality of output is strictly determined by the quality of the input. While unreputable sources and stolen work is at the forefront of our contention with commercial large language models, there’s also the question of what is included and why (so by extension who is included and why?). We at Future Inventions are less interested in pushing for representation in technological systems that contribute to the harm of both people and the planet, and more invested in having a conversation around what this can tell us about what information we share with tech corporations, how knowledge is produced, who decides what enters the public domain, and the parallels between these processes and historical colonial logics to create a form of digital, or more specifically data colonialism.

As always, we are approaching this topic with optimism and imagination. Ultimately, do we need large language models? How can AI execute smaller functions, serve a community purpose, or act as a container for niche purposes? What data practices can we create that feel more aligned with our values? Alongside critique and skepticism, this month’s programming is guided by the possibilities that Small AI has to offer for a more sustainable and contextual way of engaging with this emerging technologies. We are excited to get deeper into this with you, if you’ll join us.

Tickets are Pay-What-You-Can between £5-12 with a few free tickets reserved for those who are currently unwaged or cannot afford to attend otherwise. We do not want this to cause a financial barrier to anyone please email us if you need a free ticket at [email protected].

How is this going to go?

We will start with a in-depth lecture covering data colonialism, the politics of memory and digital archiving practices, the concept of small AI and case studies to illustrate AI’s role in knowledge production. We will then move into groups for collaboration where we will create a shared dataset, query it using a small AI model, and outline some collective data principles. No familiarity or experience with AI or human-computer interaction is needed!

​Why are you doing what you’re doing?

​You want to help the most people?

​You want to solve the world’s most pressing problems?

​That’s cool!

​But is that the whole story?

​Are there other things driving you?

​In this experimental workshop, we’ll explore what’s really going on under the hood of your altruistic endeavors.

​This will improve your epistemics, or your money back! That is the int/a guarantee.

​Doors open at 19:00, please arrive by 19:30 to ensure a closed container. The workshop will run from 19:30-21:30.

​Note that the facilitator is not a trained therapist, please only attend if you are able to take care of yourself in an exercise like this.

​This one day workshop is for anyone who wishes to co-inquire into the rapid increase of AI and the real-time and future implications for humans and nature. Whether you see potential, or feel a sense of concern or overwhelm, the purpose of this dialogue is to listen to diverse perspectives and connect to individual and shared experiences and meanings.

​It is also an invitation to slow down and reconnect to the innate creative intelligence and wisdom of humans and the more-then-human. As described by Quantum Physicist and philosopher, David Bohm, “the deep source of intelligence is the unknown and indefinable totality from which all perception originates.”

​Participation does not require any level of ‘expertise’ or knowledge, just a willingness to participate and listen deeply and share meaning. The workshop will combine simple thought-provoking exercises and Bohm Dialogue to collectively explore and co-inquire into three aspects of intelligence; human, more-than-human and artificial, and ask ourselves, what is at stake?

​The workshop will offer a series of short framing exercises, individually, in pairs and small groups. These simple creative exercises are designed to cultivate curiosity and stimulate deeper thinking on universal experiences and feelings that can be explored in more depth during the dialogue. The dialogue itself is practised seated in a circle: creating an inclusive and non-hierarchical space. The process requires deep listening that allows for inquiry into what is important to individuals and the group. Participants are not required to speak unless they feel moved to do so; the group will follow the ‘flow of meaning’ and moments of silence are welcome. Dialogue does not require agreement during the process or specific outcomes. However, it does require a willingness to participate with respect, openness and non-judgement.

​Schedule

​09:45: Arrival and settling in
​10:00: Outline of the day, check-in, mindfulness
​10:30: Human intelligence - framing exercises
​11:00: Intro to dialogue and guidelines, dialogue
​12:00: Break
​12:15: More-than-human intelligence - framing exercises
​13:00: Lunch (and optional creative activity)
​14:00: Mindfulness and check-in
​14:30: Human, more-than-human, and artificial intelligences - dialogue, check-out
16:00: End

​“The basic idea of this dialogue is to be able to talk while suspending your opinions, holding them in front of you, while neither suppressing them nor insisting upon them. Not trying to convince, but simply to understand. The first thing is that we must perceive all the meanings of everybody together, without having to make any decisions or saying who’s right and who’s wrong. It is more important that we all see the same thing. That will create a new frame of mind in which there is a common consciousness. It is a kind of implicate order, where each one enfolds the whole consciousness. With the common consciousness we then have something new-a new kind of intelligence.” - David Bohm, On Creativity

​The event will be facilitated by Jessica Ball, founder of Creating Meaning. Find out more about her work with Bohm Dialogue here - https://www.creatingmeaning.club/dialogue-resources

A book club dedicated to There Is No Anti-Memetics Division, with the author qntm joining us in person.

​The evening will open with an interview with the author, followed by breakout discussions where we unpack the book & the technology in it together in small groups.

​Come curious (and hungry for pizza).

​​​​​Campaign Lab is a community of politically-minded progressive data scientists, researchers and activists who are working together to build new election tools and change the way we analyse and understand political election campaigning.

Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more effectively. You can either bring your own project or help out on one of our ongoing ones.

​​​​​Snacks and drinks are provided, all you need is to bring yourself and a laptop. You can also participate remotely via zoom link.

​​​​​All technologists, activists, organisers and campaigners are welcome. We also welcome any new people who are interested in politics, technology and evidence based campaign innovation on the left.

Should we focus our giving on providing tangible relief for those suffering today, or on stopping AI catastrophe?

​Join us for a debate between two people working hard to make the world a better place on opposite sides of this question.

​Joey Savoie, founder of Ambitious Impact, arguing for prioritising immediate relief to humans and animals now.

​Sam Watts from Lakera AI Making the case for safeguarding the long-term future.

​They will share their perspectives, challenge each other, and take your questions.

​Expect a lively discussion and thoughtful conversation with others who care deeply about maximising the impact of their donations. Light snacks and drinks provided.

​We hope to see you there!

​The London Effective Giving Community is part of a growing global movement of over 10,000 people giving a meaningful portion of their income to high-impact nonprofits. We pool our donations to tackle the world’s most pressing problems. Many of us have taken the 🔸10% Pledge, the 🔹Trial Pledge, or the 1% Pledge. We also warmly welcome those seriously exploring Effective Giving as a way to deepen their impact.

Join us to connect and explore ideas supporting a Second Renaissance - our name for a potential a new cultural paradigm of interconnectedness, wisdom and inner growth.

​You can think of this as a local, in-person version of the online Oasis Community Calls. ​As in the online calls, we’ll use break-out groups and relational exercises to deepen connection and facilitate dialogue - though there’ll be plenty of unstructured socialising too.

This event is for anyone who is intrigued by the idea of a second renaissance and wants to learn more, get more involved and build connections with like-minded people.

​This week’s theme is InnerOn - an online platform and community being created by Alina Croitoru, designed to “help people remember how to be themselves and together in real life”.

​No specific listening/reading this time, but do check out the InnerOn links above, and come prepared to discuss your favourite pro-social online platforms. And you may also want to check out my article on the Liminal Web, which is relevant here.

19:00 - Arrive and general socialising
​19.30 - Intro to Inner On: Fireside chat with Alina
19:50 - Discussion of how online platforms can support real connection
20:10 - Inner On practice
20.30 - Informal socialising

​​​​​Campaign Lab is a community of politically-minded progressive data scientists, researchers and activists who are working together to build new election tools and change the way we analyse and understand political election campaigning.

Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more effectively. You can either bring your own project or help out on one of our ongoing ones.

​​​​​Snacks and drinks are provided, all you need is to bring yourself and a laptop. You can also participate remotely via zoom link.

​​​​​All technologists, activists, organisers and campaigners are welcome. We also welcome any new people who are interested in politics, technology and evidence based campaign innovation on the left.

​​​​​Campaign Lab is a community of politically-minded progressive data scientists, researchers and activists who are working together to build new election tools and change the way we analyse and understand political election campaigning.

Join us for our bi-weekly Campaign Lab Hack Night - a regular session to work on your tech side projects to help the progressive left campaign more effectively. You can either bring your own project or help out on one of our ongoing ones.

​​​​​Snacks and drinks are provided, all you need is to bring yourself and a laptop. You can also participate remotely via zoom link.

​​​​​All technologists, activists, organisers and campaigners are welcome. We also welcome any new people who are interested in politics, technology and evidence based campaign innovation on the left.

The Newspeak House Political Technology Awards celebrates landmark projects in the field of political technology. The awards are judged by the 2025–26 cohort of fellowship candidates, who along with the rankings will publish their evaluation process fully open source.

​Join us to discover new political technology projects pushing the boundaries of power and creativity, and hear from the committee about their attempt to conduct evaluation in a fully automated way.

​This session is part of the Introduction to Political Technology course at Newspeak House, open to faculty and fellowship candidates only.

Fellowship Candidates will present their preliminary work on their prototype projects.