The AI Pulse

Issue #28 — 14th April 2025

Editor: Alan Brown

Welcome to the latest edition of The AI Pulse for Digital Leaders. An expertly curated collection of essential articles, commentaries, and news stories from reputable sources. Do you know anyone who might be interested in AI Pulse. Have some news or looking to partner? Just get in touch at: [email protected]

Highlights in this edition include:

Why your data's probably not ready for AI .

How organizations build a culture of AI ethics .

What’s the best way to harness AI for economic growth ?

The latest data on how people are really using GenAI in 2025 .

The direction for AI innovation in the UK

AI for Good

An article in Science magazine considers why AI advances are outpacing scientific assessment of its impacts, and how to fix the science of digital technology harms.

A major study in Nature considers the use of Large Language Models (LLMs) in medical diagnosis to see if they are better used to generate a differential diagnosis alone or as an aid to clinicians .

The UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) organization’s Technology and Innovation Report 2025 calls for AI that puts people first and is shaped through global cooperation in which all countries have a say.

From mining to steelmaking, The Economist looks at how heavy industries are cleaning up with the help of AI .

Bias and Ethics

A substantial study from the Brookings Institute looks at what the public thinks about AI and the implications for governance.

A report from MIT Sloan examines how organizations build a culture of AI ethics.

Cyber Security

An article from CSO Online declares that AI programming copilots are worsening code security and leaking more secrets.

TechRadar describes why defensive AI alone is not enough to stop AI threats and highlights the crucial role of a strong security culture.

Data & Decision Making

An article in ZDNET describes why your data's probably not ready for AI and how to make it trustworthy.

Think Digital Partners have written an article describing why they believe synthetic data is the key to transforming the public sector through AI .

CIO magazine looks at why poor quality cripples AI and growth .

Innovation & Collaboration

Based on a first-of-its-kind database of 3,256 AI firms in the UK, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) looks at the direction for AI innovation in the UK and how they could have transformative effects on the economy.

TechRepublic reports on the data from Stanford’s 2025 AI Index report and believes it shows the AI industry at a crossroads.

Productivity & Efficiency

HBR look at what the latest data shows about how people are really using GenAI in 2025.

IBM have published a new book via O’Reilly on AI value creation looking at how to adopt AI to accelerate business. For a limited time you can download it for free !

The Bookings Institute explores insights from the electricity, finance, health care, and information sectors to determine how to harness AI for economic growth.

Academics at LSE have published an article looking at how AI can reinforce inefficiency if it is used to optimise poorly designed, ineffective tasks.

An article in CIO magazine declares that digital transformation is dead and the future is AI-first transformation.

Regulation and Compliance

An article from Google provides their guidance on practical steps to ensure AI governance.

Politico reports that after introducing laws to regulate AI, Europe now wants to reduce the burden by reworking the AI rulebook.

Sustainability

The Register reports on the UK government's first meeting of its AI Energy Council where it will align the UK’s AI ambitions with the state of the country's power infrastructure.

Computer Weekly examines the goals of the UK’s AI Energy Council and the challenges it will face .

The Guardian describes a new report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) that says energy demands from AI datacentres are likely to quadruple by 2030 .

An article in The Economist looks at how energy and utility companies are seeing environmental benefits by using AI .

User Experience

MIT Technology Review reviews 3 new books that explore how AI is interacting with our creative human processes.

The Verge reports on two new studies from the Pew Research Trust and Gallup showing that the public is anxious about AI and that most Americans don’t trust AI — or the people in charge of it.

How can AI supercharge creativity? An MIT Technology Review reviews the issues.

Workforce & Skills

ZDNET reports on the tasks college students are using Claude AI for most, according to new data published by Anthropic.

An HBR article looks at how AI is transforming market research.

A CSO Online article worries that overreliance on AI-generated code could erode developers’ critical skills and create blind spots for organizations.

InfoWorld has published an opinion piece arguing that AI will require more software developers, not fewer.

ZDNET describe 5 ways to manage your team more effectively in the AI-enabled enterprise.

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