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How to test AI agents before deployment
How to test AI agents before deployment To test an AI agent before deployment, place it in a sandboxed simulation that mirrors its real operating environment, then evaluate its behaviour against predefined success…
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What is the difference between AI governance and AI verification?
Broadly speaking, governance is about policies and oversight, while verification is about testing. Verification of AI agents involves finding out whether…
Conscium comments on the UK’s £500m Sovereign AI fund
UKTN's Oscar Hornstein asked me for a reaction when the UK government launched its £500m Sovereign AI Fund, a state-backed venture vehicle for UK AI…
AI Agents in Travel: Ensuring Consumer Control and Trust
The Financial Times ran a piece this year that began, as these things do, with a ruined holiday. A columnist got stranded in New Zealand when their flight…
Calum on The Business of Thinking podcast
In this episode of The Business of Thinking, Richard Reid is joined by AI expert, author, and futurist Calum Chace for a wide-ranging conversation on…
Exploring Consciousness in AI: The Role of Micro-Emotions
Popular Mechanics ran a feature on the research question at the centre of Conscium's work: whether a superintelligent AI needs something like emotion to…
Conscium on the Bryan Dennstedt podcast
Calum Chace, co-founder of Conscium, joined Bryan Dennstedt on the AI with Bry podcast to talk through the two ideas he now considers most urgent in AI…
The future of jobs. Interview on Times Radio
Calum Chace, co-founder of Conscium, joined Times Radio presenter Carol Walker alongside Mantas Mazeika, a research scientist at the Center for AI Safety, to…
The Road to Superintelligence
First published in Forbes on 13 November 2025 About a decade ago, Geoff Hinton declared that human radiologists were like Wily E. Coyote in the Roadrunner…
AI Jobpocalypse: Separating Hype from Reality and Identifying Real Impacts
I went on Times Radio this week to talk about Amazon's latest round of job cuts, and whether it marks the start of the AI jobpocalypse everyone keeps asking…
