Category: Technology
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‘The most compelling radical theological text I have read’
Enormous fun recording with an old friend Tripp Fuller on his excellently zesty podcast, Homebrewed Christianity. Also love that he’s majorly trolling me with that image above. Which, as host, is entirely his prerogative! Follow the link, or watch/listen direct here: More seriously, Tripp is an outstanding thinker, and it’s a huge honour to have…
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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…
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God-like in The Guardian
Really thrilled to have been commissioned by The Guardian to write a piece on the book – which they published today. It explores the AI Transparency Statement that the book begins with – something that I felt I had to write as a declaration, as so many people were asking me if I’d used generative AI to write the…
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Which AI type are you? (and would you mind writing a review?)
I was delivering some training for business leaders wanting to be leaders on responsible AI adoption a week or two back, and my excellent colleague began with a discussion question on AI personality types. Consider the ice well and truly broken: The Optimist The optimist looks to the future with AI and thinks: yeah, things…
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Good Friday: the death of gods and living with AI
As you’ll perhaps have picked up from reading the book (grab a signed copy here), or hearing me speak about it at recent launch events, the title ‘God-like’ comes from an article written by the UK government’s AI safety lead who urged for ‘a pause in the race to god-like AI’ in an article for…
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In memory: Peter Stedman
For those who have picked up a copy of the new book, you may have seen that it is dedicated to my cousin Peter Stedman, whose funeral I am going to on Monday. The dedication reads: In memory of my cousin Peter,a truly kind and remarkable soul,a very real intelligence who, in 1981,with a Commodore…