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A dithered portrait of Liam Wilkinson

AI, institutions
& the rest of life.

I build AI with governments around the world. Here, I write about technology, law, history and whatever I can’t stop thinking about.

For the Love of Law

The law is the source code of the state, and it's overdue a refactor.

From Justinian’s codex to machine-readable legislation: why making the law legible is the work I keep coming back to.

Read the essay

I’m putting these ideas into practice with Codify.

More from the notebook

All writing

Your Country Needs Builders

What my Innovation Fellowship taught me about learned helplessness, building teams and leaving government more capable than you found it.

You Can't Shame a Fork

Accountability has always assumed a persistent identity. What happens when AI ends that?

Things I’ve helped build

All work