Category: Technology
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Drunk ex-Pastors
I sent them a free book.I’m not even sure they read it.They got the title wrong a bunch of times.They admitted that they doubted anyone in their audience would know who I was.The podcast description fails to mention anything about it.This was some serious professional operation! But, honestly, it was a blast to chat about…
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Algorithm as mirror
An interesting study out today has found that teens “prefer a social media completely customized for them, depicting what they agree with, what they want to see and, thus, who they are.” “In our qualitative interview study of teens 13-17, we found that personalized algorithmic content does seem to present what teens interpret as a…
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Benny and the Blue Whale
Great fun to go hear Mr Gum creator Andy Stanton talk about his new book, Benny and the Blue Whale this week. Andy is a very talented children’s writer – but so much more too, and his deep dive into language and how he used ChatGPT to create a very extraordinary story about a whale…
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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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‘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…