Category: Theology
-
‘No god in the machine’
Really good edition of The Guardian’s ‘long read’ released as an audio piece last week: ‘No god in the machine,’ written by Navneet Alang and read by Narinder Samra, based on an article published in August. It’s a very well crafted overview of the AI space, and the ‘tech solutionism’ that I’ve been talking about…
-
‘Good’ Grief?
An interesting piece of video journalism here, taking a look at ‘Grief Tech’ and the hope that some bros in Silicon Valley are holding out that they can ‘solve’ the problem of grief and loss. It’s interesting for many reasons, not least because it presents AI (again) as a god-like force that we should turn…
-
From Sapiens to God-Like…
Not surprising, given the arc of his recent books, that Harari’s next focuses on AI. There’s a review in The Economist: Many may wonder why, for a book about information that promises new perspectives on AI, he spends so much time on religious history, and in particular the history of the Bible. The reason is…
-
Greenbelt
Very much looking forward to being back at Greenbelt Festival this year. I’m giving a talk about the new book in the main talks venue on Friday morning at 11am, followed by a book-signing in the bookshop tent. Details here. 4g mobile coverage may well be very patchy, but I’ve put together a series of…
-
AI-Cadabra: say it’s AI and make it so | Talking AI with Caputo
In the last post I set out how we see a sense of ‘magic’ being ascribed to AI systems – especially Generative AI – and this is no more clear than in the icons that tend to get used for them. I’ve been in New Mexico this week for a family wedding, so have been…
-
There’s nothing we can do to stop AI stealing all our jobs! Except… urrm…
Atlantic magazine unearthed an extraordinarily candid video interview a couple of weeks ago, in which Brian Wu – a senior engineer at OpenAI responded to a question about AI’s impact on work: ‘I guess it’s kind of deeply unfair that, like, a group of people can build AI and just take everyone’s jobs away, and,…