Pete Wadsworth

    Pete Wadsworth
    Pete is design thinking lead at Container Solutions. Trained at the Hasso Platner Institute D-School in Potsdam and with a background in Connected Home at a large German home appliances manufacturer, Pete is responsible for bringing design-lead thinking to technological transformations.
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    What Can AI Safety Teach Us about Strategic Planning? Part 4: Building the House

    Through parts 1, 2 and 3 we have established an understanding of the foundational thinking that supports the idea of CEV as an effective way of thinking about strategic planning in business.

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    What Can AI Safety Teach Us about Strategic Planning? Part 3: The Business as an Entity

    In Part 2 with dived into Eliezer Yudkowski’s theory of Coherent Extrapolated Volition and examined the component parts of the idea that, “our coherent extrapolated volition is our wish if we knew mor...

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    What Can AI Safety Teach Us about Strategic Planning? Part 2: Coherent Extrapolated Volition

    In Part 1 we reviewed two key foundational theories of AI safety and how they relate to strategic planning in business. Instrumental convergence tells us that there will be potentially unforeseen and ...

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    The Five As of Consciousness (And Workshop Planning)

    The science and art of workshop design, in my admittedly biassed opinion, is something that is rarely given enough attention and thought. More often than not, a room is booked for a day, Post-its are ...

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    What Can AI Safety Teach Us about Strategic Planning? Part 1: Foundations

    We publish this series of blogs as Microsoft has just launched its combination of ChatGPT and Bing, generating considerable excitement in almost every industry. Dall-E and ChatGPT (and, most recently,...

    WTF is Value Stream Mapping?

    On the first episode of our “Hacking the Org” podcast, VP Engineering and Chief Architect at eBay Randy Shoup talked about how he used Value Stream Mapping to understand the bottlenecks in eBay’s deve...