Category: Theology
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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,…
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Goldsmiths | The importance of design in a GenAI world
Had an amazing time at Goldsmiths presenting on the book for the Expanded Practice Design MA course! So good to throw the material in the book up against a new context, and see what interesting resonances come out. Most importantly, I wanted to highlight how all technologies emerge into a theological and socio-cultural context… and…
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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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‘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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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…