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In the Guardian…

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Great to see the Creative Futures project get a mention in today’s Guardian.

This was a project that I was a part of with the Defence Science and Technology Lab (UK MoD) and Coventry University (Dr Allen Stroud).

Here the extract, but you can read the full article at https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/19/ministry-of-defence-enlists-sci-fi-writers-to-prepare-for-dystopian-futures

“Stroud recently took a leading role in Creative Futures, a research partnership involving prominent science fiction writers and MoD experts looking at the challenges the UK will face in the next century. There are plans to produce and sell a volume of stories from that project.”

Winning Stories

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I’m very pleased to be able to announce the two winners of the King’s College London ‘Mirror Machine’ writing challenge.

Congratulations to all those who took part and submitted such wonderful thought provoking stories; the winning stories are now available to read here.

You can also hear them being read, alongside a keynote on Digital Twins and a panel of: experts; the winners; and those of us who judged the entries. [Book via eventbrite; location is King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS]

Greenbelt: AI and You

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At the Greenbelt festival this year I’ve been asked to lead a workshop on AI, as part of the William Temple Foundation strand of the festival.

The description of the session is:

AI and You

An interactive session to discover, discuss and design your future. Explore the role of AI now and its future potential, both the good possibilities and the bad. Could AI help you in your exams?  Or to be healthier? Could it reduce the energy we use? Could it replace your teacher? Or even the police?

The age range for participants is 12 to 17 and by the end of the workshop they should be in a position to write a short story set in or around 2044.

Workshop participants – you can post your stories as a comment below.