Sebastian recently graduated from the University of St Andrews where, in quiet moments between surf trips, he studied the philosophy of technology.
Sebastian Hervas-Jones
ThinkIn Executive and Researcher

“By the sounds of it, it’s quite rare to truly enjoy going to work every day… I’m doing my best to really savour every moment here at Tortoise.”
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Wednesday 20 April 2022
Battle in Staten Island
Amazon is trying to stop its workers unionising. Why?
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Wednesday 13 April 2022
Banning big money
In the US, politicians are big on investing in big tech. That might be about to change
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Wednesday 6 April 2022
Meta “astroturfed” TikTok
Is Meta’s campaign to disparage TikTok a legitimate public affairs strategy? Or an unethical smear campaign, typical of Meta’s playbook for dealing with rivals?
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Tuesday 8 February 2022
10 minute readSensemaker: Billion-dollar bet
What just happened
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Thursday 22 July 2021
Colombia’s AI Strategy
Alexandra Mousavizadeh and Sebastian Hervas-Jones spoke to Victor Munoz, Director of the Administrative Department of the Presidency of Colombia, and Armando Guio, IADB consultant in AI policy. Here is a summary of what was discussed
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Wednesday 23 February 2022
Nearly bitcoin billionaires
The case of a couple accused of attempting to launder $4.5 billion worth of bitcoin teaches us a lot about cryptocurrency and its place in the economy.