Author: KB
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Interview with Professor John Caputo
As part of the series I did with Tripp Fuller about the book, I interviewed some leading thinkers across tech, governance, and philosophy about how they saw AI, and the issues I talk about in God-Like. It was a huge delight and honour to interview Professor John Caputo. He remains one of the sharpest thinkers…
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God-Like in Frome
Brilliant time down in Somerset on Friday presenting on the book to a packed church in Whatley, just outside Frome. The event was the first in a series using the space to consider challenging contemporary questions. The regular congregation is quite small I was told, but village life is thriving, and they are using the…
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Future Narratives Lab
On Tuesday next week (Tues 26th) I’ll be presenting at this event in London hosted by Future Narratives Lab, focusing on how we understand ‘work’ and what this means in a coming age of intelligent machines. FNL are a brilliant outfit who help craft narrative workshops to explore topics in depth in a guided way.…
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Advent – invitation to a journey
Every year for the past few years I’ve hosted a series of Advent reflections through the rather quotidian medium of WhatsApp. The idea is simple: a short reflection is posted to the group each morning during Advent… but with the added feature that there’s no responses allowed. All signal, no noise. Read, digest. That’s it.…
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The Day Job
I don’t say a huge amount about the work I do day to day, but I thought it’d be worth flagging some of what I’ve been up to. I’m an Associate Director at the Institute for the Future of Work, a reseach charity exploring how AI and automation are changing work and working lives in…
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BlueSky (ex-X)
Hardly some great act of activism, but I do not think that Elon Musk is a good person to be wielding power like he does with ownership of X / Twitter. So, I’m out. You can find me on BlueSky here: https://bsky.app/profile/kesterbrewin.bsky.social Fortunate to have gathered an audience there already of over 1000 people. I…