“The future of AI agents is not just a question of what they can do, but of what kind of human experience we want to preserve." My thoughts on AI agents and the finite nature of agency for @BBCRD — https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2025-05-ai-agents-challenges-summary

Just had two articles about Orbit published on the @BBCRD blog.

The first one about the technical details of how we organised the music so it could be discovered organically: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2025-03-orbit-music-discovery-organise-analysis/

And the second one about the philosophy behind the UI and UX design to give users agency in their discovery process: https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2025-03-orbit-music-discovery-design/

Orbit is our pilot for a music discovery service that lets you find your next favourite song by exploring recently played tracks from BBC Introducing!

Find out how machine learning helped us to organise thousands of tracks to let you find your next favourite song:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2025-03-orbit-music-discovery-organise-analysis/

Then read about the design challenges of creating a way to explore music genres and styles... our experiment is called Orbit - and you can read about it and try it out below:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/rd/articles/2025-03-orbit-music-discovery-design/