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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 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

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)?

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.

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 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.

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.