Alys Key
@alys.bsky.social
Writer, editor & journalist covering tech, business and policy
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This week I interviewed the chief medical officer of Heidi AI about how usage of the app spread quickly through NHS clinicians.
Bottom-up adoption is often seen as a good thing in AI. Can it work in a medical setting?
Bottom-up adoption is often seen as a good thing in AI. Can it work in a medical setting?
November 11, 2025 at 12:20 PM
This week I interviewed the chief medical officer of Heidi AI about how usage of the app spread quickly through NHS clinicians.
Bottom-up adoption is often seen as a good thing in AI. Can it work in a medical setting?
Bottom-up adoption is often seen as a good thing in AI. Can it work in a medical setting?
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August 4, 2025 at 1:33 PM
The news is out: UK 2.0 is going independent. But I need your help!
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In which I implore you to please be nice to the machines digitalfrontier.com/articles/pol...
June 27, 2025 at 8:53 PM
In which I implore you to please be nice to the machines digitalfrontier.com/articles/pol...
This was pretty good. Intriguing, innovative sentence-making. The denouement felt a bit unimaginative.
June 25, 2025 at 7:05 PM
This was pretty good. Intriguing, innovative sentence-making. The denouement felt a bit unimaginative.
Thinking about the sweet dog who I used to see sitting calmly outside the stationery shop in Brussels today. The owners had a little sign saying "le chien de la papeterie" so people would know she wasn't lost.
June 17, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Thinking about the sweet dog who I used to see sitting calmly outside the stationery shop in Brussels today. The owners had a little sign saying "le chien de la papeterie" so people would know she wasn't lost.
I wrote about my favourite session at SXSW London: a solo talk from Mubi founder Efe Çakarel. He spoke about algorithms, AI dubbing and the future of cinemas digitalfrontier.com/articles/mub...
June 16, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I wrote about my favourite session at SXSW London: a solo talk from Mubi founder Efe Çakarel. He spoke about algorithms, AI dubbing and the future of cinemas digitalfrontier.com/articles/mub...
My full interview with Cory Doctorow, including why he won't join Bluesky despite trusting the team implicitly digitalfrontier.com/articles/cor...
February 12, 2025 at 7:17 PM
My full interview with Cory Doctorow, including why he won't join Bluesky despite trusting the team implicitly digitalfrontier.com/articles/cor...
Croque madame / Welsh rarebit crossover. Croque Menyw?
January 22, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Croque madame / Welsh rarebit crossover. Croque Menyw?
I spoke to Cory Doctorow yesterday (full interview coming soon) and we had an interesting chat on his thoughts about Bluesky. He goes into it at length here and it's worth taking a minute to think about. pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/c...
January 22, 2025 at 10:43 AM
I spoke to Cory Doctorow yesterday (full interview coming soon) and we had an interesting chat on his thoughts about Bluesky. He goes into it at length here and it's worth taking a minute to think about. pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/c...
This Sunday is the annual parade commemorating Charles I. It's put on by the English Civil War society and is a bizarre and brilliant thing to go and see if you want to do something different with your weekend. I went last year.
January 21, 2025 at 8:36 PM
This Sunday is the annual parade commemorating Charles I. It's put on by the English Civil War society and is a bizarre and brilliant thing to go and see if you want to do something different with your weekend. I went last year.
This was a great read from @lydmorrish.bsky.social about all the work that goes into archiving our internet digitalfrontier.com/articles/way... with a beautiful illustration by Karina Cao!
January 16, 2025 at 8:52 AM
This was a great read from @lydmorrish.bsky.social about all the work that goes into archiving our internet digitalfrontier.com/articles/way... with a beautiful illustration by Karina Cao!
Elizabeth Line has a RIBA award but no way to clean the ghostly outlines of passengers off its walls apparently
January 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Elizabeth Line has a RIBA award but no way to clean the ghostly outlines of passengers off its walls apparently
Why do we dislike art that we previously rated highly when we realise it's made by AI? @stokel.bsky.social investigates, feat. some uncanny AI-made imitations of Henry Moore sculptures digitalfrontier.com/articles/hum...
December 19, 2024 at 8:17 AM
Why do we dislike art that we previously rated highly when we realise it's made by AI? @stokel.bsky.social investigates, feat. some uncanny AI-made imitations of Henry Moore sculptures digitalfrontier.com/articles/hum...
Our attempt to make a Christmas-themed Elphaba at last night's bake-off challenge. ELFaba, if you will.
December 12, 2024 at 12:53 PM
Our attempt to make a Christmas-themed Elphaba at last night's bake-off challenge. ELFaba, if you will.
I'm bidding to host a session at the first ever SXSW London, all about how tech can play a part in finding solutions to the UK housing crisis. Please check it out and vote for it!
sxswlondon.awardsplatform.com/entry/vote/l...
sxswlondon.awardsplatform.com/entry/vote/l...
December 6, 2024 at 10:16 AM
I'm bidding to host a session at the first ever SXSW London, all about how tech can play a part in finding solutions to the UK housing crisis. Please check it out and vote for it!
sxswlondon.awardsplatform.com/entry/vote/l...
sxswlondon.awardsplatform.com/entry/vote/l...
Granola, the AI note-taking app, has established a dedicated and evangelical user base in just a few months since launch. I sat down with co-founder Chris Pedregal to learn more digitalfrontier.com/articles/gra...
December 4, 2024 at 11:14 AM
Granola, the AI note-taking app, has established a dedicated and evangelical user base in just a few months since launch. I sat down with co-founder Chris Pedregal to learn more digitalfrontier.com/articles/gra...
This piece by @everydayanalysis.bsky.social expresses perfectly how little common media we have between us now.
digitalfrontier.com/articles/Exp...
What were the shows you discussed the next day at school? Mine were Scrubs, The Apprentice and Glee.
digitalfrontier.com/articles/Exp...
What were the shows you discussed the next day at school? Mine were Scrubs, The Apprentice and Glee.
December 3, 2024 at 11:04 AM
This piece by @everydayanalysis.bsky.social expresses perfectly how little common media we have between us now.
digitalfrontier.com/articles/Exp...
What were the shows you discussed the next day at school? Mine were Scrubs, The Apprentice and Glee.
digitalfrontier.com/articles/Exp...
What were the shows you discussed the next day at school? Mine were Scrubs, The Apprentice and Glee.
Beautiful buildings of Helsinki
November 26, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Beautiful buildings of Helsinki
Spooky walk in the woods over the weekend
November 22, 2023 at 10:36 AM
Spooky walk in the woods over the weekend
First attempt at making Turkish eggs at home 😋
June 18, 2023 at 10:54 AM
First attempt at making Turkish eggs at home 😋
Decided I'm just going to post food on here because idk what else to say. Here's the Kip Royale sandwich I had in Rotterdam at the weekend. Outrageously good.
June 15, 2023 at 3:40 PM
Decided I'm just going to post food on here because idk what else to say. Here's the Kip Royale sandwich I had in Rotterdam at the weekend. Outrageously good.
Blue sky in Brussels from earlier today
June 7, 2023 at 4:51 PM
Blue sky in Brussels from earlier today