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Nicholas Agar

Nicholas AgarNicholas AgarNicholas Agar
  • Home
  • Books
  • Opinion Pieces
    • Generative AI
    • COVID-19 in 2022
    • COVID-19 in 2021
    • COVID-19 in 2020
    • Future of Work
    • Future of the Humanities
    • Technological Change
    • Issues of the Day

Generative AI, humans, and the humanities

How creative workers might fight back against generative AI - 7 April 2023

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.

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Should Artificial Intelligence make us reconceive what it means to be human? - 21 February 2023

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. 

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Why creative workers should go with our guts about ChatGPT - 31 January 2023

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)? - 13 January 2023

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

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Should humanities professors be automated? - 22 September 2022

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

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