I am Professor of Ethics at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.
I've been busy over the past almost thirty years exploring the ethical implications of technological change, and the ways in which genetic and cybernetic technologies may alter us.
What can we learn from Karl Popper about being a human glitch and disrupting the technologies coming to automate you out of existence?
If you want to protect your job from automation, don't mimic the machines.
A piece for the ABC on what to make of the wild speculations of the tech elite about the future AI could bring. Will it end capitalism but not in a way we want?
A piece for the ABC on the now apparent costs of believing in the vision of the internet as a place to share. We welcomed the AI wolf into the digital commons.
A piece for Newsroom that probes our schadenfreude about the occasional miseries of the super-rich
A piece for ABC Ethics and Religion that speculates about the money that could soon flow into technologies of human enhancement
A piece for ABC Ethics and Religion that suggests that the easy fakery of rationality by generative AI should lead us to rethink what makes humans special. Is the imagination and not reason humanity's true superpower?
A piece for Project Syndicate on how recent advances in AI suggest an urgent need to rethink how humanities academics write. It's too easy to automate!
Achieving herd immunity against COVID-19 requires more than vaccines. It requires cognitive herd immunity.
A follow up to this piece on the vice of philosophical shit-stirring. And a bit of a mea culpa for past shit-stirring.
A piece in the Los Angeles Review of Books written with Stuart Whatley that challenges popular beliefs about exponential improvement as the solution to pretty much everything.
A piece in the Los Angeles Review of Books written with Stuart Whatley that deflates some of the hype that turns tech visionaries into multibillionaires.
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