Nicholas Agar

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Nicholas Agar

Nicholas AgarNicholas AgarNicholas Agar
  • Home
  • Books
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    • COVID-19 in 2021
    • COVID-19 in 2020
    • Future of Work
    • Future of the Humanities
    • Technological Change
    • Issues of the Day

About Me

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. 

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Will the decline of Surveillance Capitalism herald a new era of Human Enhancement Capitalism?

Will the decline of Surveillance Capitalism herald a new era of Human Enhancement Capitalism?

Will the decline of Surveillance Capitalism herald a new era of Human Enhancement Capitalism?

A piece for ABC Ethics and Religion that speculates about the money that could soon flow into technologies of human enhancement

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Should Artificial Intelligence make us reconceive what it means to be human?

Will the decline of Surveillance Capitalism herald a new era of Human Enhancement Capitalism?

Will the decline of Surveillance Capitalism herald a new era of Human Enhancement Capitalism?

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?

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Why creative workers should go with our guts about ChatGPT

Will the decline of Surveillance Capitalism herald a new era of Human Enhancement Capitalism?

The AIs are coming: Will ChatGPT create a future of bullsh*t (jobs)?

A piece for Ethics and Religion at the ABC that argues that creative workers should be suspicious of the sweet words of people who expect to make money out of generative AI

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The AIs are coming: Will ChatGPT create a future of bullsh*t (jobs)?

The AIs are coming: Will ChatGPT create a future of bullsh*t (jobs)?

The AIs are coming: Will ChatGPT create a future of bullsh*t (jobs)?

A piece for Ethics and Religion at the ABC that responds to Žižek's celebration of deep learning AIs. Does ChatGPT threaten a future of bullshit (jobs)?

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Dear Wikipedia — instead of asking for money, why not ask for help?

The AIs are coming: Will ChatGPT create a future of bullsh*t (jobs)?

Dear Wikipedia — instead of asking for money, why not ask for help?

A piece for Ethics and Religion at the ABC on what Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales should be doing instead of incessantly asking for more money.

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Should Humanities Professors Be Automated?

The AIs are coming: Will ChatGPT create a future of bullsh*t (jobs)?

Dear Wikipedia — instead of asking for money, why not ask for help?

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!

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How automation could turn doctors into Uber drivers — and how to stop it

How automation could turn doctors into Uber drivers — and how to stop it

How automation could turn doctors into Uber drivers — and how to stop it

A piece with the ABC on how automation could turn doctors - and many others - into poorly paid digital adjunct workers. 

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We need more philosophy to create cognitive herd immunity

How automation could turn doctors into Uber drivers — and how to stop it

How automation could turn doctors into Uber drivers — and how to stop it

Achieving herd immunity against COVID-19 requires more than vaccines. It requires cognitive herd immunity.

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Finding Purpose in the Humanities

How automation could turn doctors into Uber drivers — and how to stop it

Confessions of a philosophical shit-stirrer

A piece on Project Syndicate. With policymakers intent on privileging technical “job-ready” majors, it is becoming more difficult for liberal arts departments to attract students. But these fields of study are as important as ever, and with a few modest reforms, they should be an easy sell for today’s “purpose-driven” young people.

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Confessions of a philosophical shit-stirrer

Confessions of a philosophical shit-stirrer

Confessions of a philosophical shit-stirrer

A follow up to this piece on the vice of philosophical shit-stirring. And a bit of a mea culpa for past shit-stirring.

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The Inflection Pointillists

Confessions of a philosophical shit-stirrer

The Inflection Pointillists

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.

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The Dream Economy

Confessions of a philosophical shit-stirrer

The Inflection Pointillists

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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nagar@waikato.ac.nz

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