Category: Blog Posts
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Poetry Reading
This Thursday, 24th Nov, I’m going to be giving a poetry reading in London. This is a rare thing. I have written quite a bit of poetry, and had some pieces published, but not often given a public airing! So… if you’d like to come and see if I should make it even more rare…
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Mutiny against Mutiny – overcoming a Supreme (in)Justice in an atomised world
Are you worried yet? I am. Genuinely. But what to do? When to act? The past few days have been some of the most politically concerning since I can’t remember. The RN making major gains in voter share in France. The way that the Supreme Court in the US ruled on the powers of Federal…
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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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War Machine + the (very) narrow path to good AI
Last week I had the pleasure of chatting to Matt Baker, of the War Machine podcast, about the book. It was a pretty rich conversation – and Matt edits up a very decent intro too! Hope you enjoy listening. I also went up to Oxford on Thursday to go to a lecture being given by…
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‘An open approach to AI’ – God-like in the TES
Good to have been commissioned by TES – the Time Educational Supplement – to write a piece translating the four-point AI Transparency Statement that God-like begins with into the education context. You can read it here. The idea is simple: rather than ‘AI is terrible, and we’re banning it,’ a means by which teachers can…
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AI, limiting complexity and the social contract – some emerging thoughts
Has social media led to a rise in anti-social behaviour? And, if so, does the widespread adoption of AI risk making this worse? Or is a highly-networked society one that will see community capacity deepened? Life has a habit of circling around. The first book I wrote – many, many years ago – was an…