Category: Technology
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Motivation – intrinsic or extrinsic?
Follow my interview on BBC Radio last week, i’ve been thinking more about job quality, and our motivations for work. There’s a really good piece I came across here which outlines some principles around extrinsic motivation (an external driver such as financial reward) and intrinsic motivation. What’s interesting – as set out in the RSA…
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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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‘People want the human story’ – Björn Ulvaeus on new AI ‘artist’
Interesting piece on the Today programme this morning about a new ‘artist’… who is totally AI generated: Ben Gaya It’s… not what I’d call a ‘hit’ – though they do. But it raises interesting questions about the purpose of art, of music… and of ‘soul’. Because, whatever the new sunny uplands of AI, soul is…
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Data on our minds… emotion-tracking technologies at work
Great to have been involved in the writing and production of this new report. ‘Affective computing’ is about digital tools to track emotions – if you’re smiling enough on a Zoom call, or if your eyeballs are on your screen like a good worker’s should be. Linked with other data – biometrics, sickness etc –…
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Living with Algorithm – Servant or Master? | Interview with Lord Clement-Jones
You may have seen my previous post about an interview I conducted with Professor John Caputo about my book God-like, and his thoughts around AI springing from his excellent Spectres of God – which bounces off Derrida. As part of the same series, I was also thrilled to chat to Lord Tim Clement-Jones, a major…
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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…