Author: KB
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AI-Cadabra: say it’s AI and make it so | Talking AI with Caputo
In the last post I set out how we see a sense of ‘magic’ being ascribed to AI systems – especially Generative AI – and this is no more clear than in the icons that tend to get used for them. I’ve been in New Mexico this week for a family wedding, so have been…
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AI has the gift of magic, and that magic is us
There’s a fascinating episode of This American Life just released last week that focuses on “people tethered to one particular other person, whether they want to be or not.” The second act of the show concerns a comedy writer who meets an old friend at a wedding, an old friend who happens to now work…
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Living with the Algorithm – an expert interview with Lord Tim Clement-Jones
It was both a great privilege and great fun to interview Lord Tim Clement-Jones as part of the expert AI conversations that I am putting together. Tim is one of the leading voices in the House of Lords around AI regulation and online safety, and brings great wisdom and passion – and wit – to…
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There’s nothing we can do to stop AI stealing all our jobs! Except… urrm…
Atlantic magazine unearthed an extraordinarily candid video interview a couple of weeks ago, in which Brian Wu – a senior engineer at OpenAI responded to a question about AI’s impact on work: ‘I guess it’s kind of deeply unfair that, like, a group of people can build AI and just take everyone’s jobs away, and,…
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Process This: Artificial Intelligence
Absolutely delighted to announce that, through the next few weeks, I’ll be curating a series of conversations around the book with the very excellent Tripp Fuller. This will begin this Wednesday with a live-stream conversation at 6pm UK time which you will be able to watch on YouTube here – or via the embed below:…
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Discussing AI / God-like on BBC Radio
Great to be invited onto William Crawley’s TalkBack show on BBC Radio Ulster this lunchtime to discuss the book, and AI impacts in general. Listen to the segment here: William is a fantastic broadcaster, and a very sharp thinker around politics, social issues and theology. Have so enjoyed talking with him in the past, and…