Click here for the Friday Reading Search, a searchable archive of reading and knowledge resources

Since March 2020, Airmic has been issuing Friday Reading, a curated series of readings and knowledge resources sent by email to Airmic members. The objective of Airmic Friday Reading was initially to keep members informed during the Covid-19 pandemic. Today, Airmic Friday Reading has evolved in scope to include content on a wide range of subjects with each email edition following a theme. This page is a searchable archive of all the readings and knowledge resources that have been shared.

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International SOS
Friday Reading Edition 197 (19th April 2024)
International SOS Security Director James Robertson provides insights into the Iranian actions against Israel over the weekend, the latest developments, and the broader context of the Greater Middle East. Also discusses the various scenarios organisations should be planning for, including the triggers they should monitor.
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Health and Safety Executive
Friday Reading Edition 197 (12th April 2024)
Employers have a legal duty to protect workers from stress at work by doing a risk assessment and acting on it. You should assess the risk of stress, and its impact on mental and physical ill-health, in the same way as you assess other work-related health and safety risks.
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Mind
Friday Reading Edition 197 (12th April 2024)
Explains what stress is, what might cause it and how it can affect you. Includes information about ways you can help yourself and how to get support.
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Guardian, 4th April 2024
A contrary view, from Kenneth Rogoff, the former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, 26th March 2024
For the UK and other economies, generating shared prosperity requires a new approach to industrial strategy that will accelerate the innovation, adoption and diffusion of AI.
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BBC, 4th February 2024
The UK and US have signed a landmark deal to work together on testing advanced AI.
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Business Insider, 4th January 2024
The funding bonanza over AI could add lots of hype and "maybe some grifting," says Demis Hassabis.
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Forbes, 3rd January 2024
Is there a generative AI bubble? Is the bubble poised to pop? A generative AI bubble is certainly expanding. Here are three reasons that bubble is not poised to pop.
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Oliver Wyman
Banks depend on accurate and definitive models and outputs for decision-making, risk management and, ultimately, customer satisfaction. AI is designed in part to provide those reliable outputs — but the results so far have sometimes included mistakes.
The Independent, 29th March 2024
Friday Reading Edition 195 (28th March 2024)
Bridges usually have protections to keep them safe from collisions, experts say – but the huge force of the ‘Dali’ might have overwhelmed them.
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