Category: Current Affairs
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God-Like on BBC Talkback
Lovely to be invited onto William Crawley’s Talkback show on BBC Radio today. William has a PhD in philosophy, and was ordained too, and is an excellent presenter. The show was digging into the issues presented by the government’s announcement yesterday of the AI Action Plan. What I’ve been concerned about is that this plan…
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Apple Intelligence? Not so much…
Anger has been growing around Apple’s AI-generated notifications on people’s iPhones that have – multiple times – been incorrectly summarising new stories. For example, before he’d even played the match, Apple’s AI was claiming that the BBC were reporting that Luke Littler had won the PDA Darts World Championship: The same system was also happily…
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Meta goes… meta
Welcome to 2025, the year where AI really does its best to embed itself in our lives, for which you can read: get under our skin and up our noses. Meta – the owners of Facebook / Insta etc – already came out of the blocks with the launch of a bunch of AI profiles…
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Overqualified?
I ended up on PM – the BBC’s flagship 5pm news show last week, chatting to Evan Davis about a report that showed that British workers are more likely than most to be overqualified for the job they do. There’s important questions here about the quality of jobs that are being created as we go…
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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…