Generative AI, humans, and the humanities

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A piece for Newsroom in New Zealand on the need for a powerful imaginative response to the challenge from generative AI to the jobs of creative workers.

A piece for Ethics and Religion at the ABC. I suggest that ChatGPT's simulation of rationality should prompt us to rethink what matter most about us. If we became the imagining rather than the rational animal we may find solutions to some of out more intractable problems. 

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 Australian ABC responding to the release of ChatGPT. Should we expect a future of bullshit jobs?

A piece for Project Syndicate responding to the 2022 release of GPT-3. My warnings for humanities academics now seem quite prescient.