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      • Generative AI
      • Generative AI
      • Future of Work
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      • COVID-19 in 2022 and 2023
      • COVID-19 in 2021
      • COVID-19 in 2020
    • Technological Change
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  • Home
  • Books
  • Opinion Pieces
    • Generative AI
    • Generative AI
    • Future of Work
    • Future of the Humanities
    • Issues of the Day
    • COVID-19 in 2022 and 2023
    • COVID-19 in 2021
    • COVID-19 in 2020
  • Technological Change
  • Enhancement Capitalism!

Generative AI, humans, and the humanities

The big opportunity Aotearoa should seize around AI - 4 Jan 2024

The big opportunity Aotearoa should seize around AI - 4 Jan 2024

The big opportunity Aotearoa should seize around AI - 4 Jan 2024

A piece co-written with Albert Bifet for New Zealand's Stuff on Aotearoa's unique opportunity to lead in AI.

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The endless journey of AI-powered e-commerce - 27 Nov 2023

The big opportunity Aotearoa should seize around AI - 4 Jan 2024

The big opportunity Aotearoa should seize around AI - 4 Jan 2024

A complaint published with New Zealand's Stuff on the ways in which the dominant e-commerce business model victimises New Zealanders. By dominant e-commerce business model I mean Amazon.com, Inc

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Move over Wayne Barnes, it's time for the Robo-Ref - 2 Nov 2023

The big opportunity Aotearoa should seize around AI - 4 Jan 2024

A coming Cyber-Renaissance: The role of human scientists in an AI-dominated future - 18 Oct 2023

People in New Zealand were somewhat angered by the refereeing of the rugby world cup final. And I don't think it was an fun experience for English referee Wayne Barnes either. Is is time to automate the referee?

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A coming Cyber-Renaissance: The role of human scientists in an AI-dominated future - 18 Oct 2023

A coming Cyber-Renaissance: The role of human scientists in an AI-dominated future - 18 Oct 2023

A coming Cyber-Renaissance: The role of human scientists in an AI-dominated future - 18 Oct 2023

What should scientists make of the promise of an AI Cyber-Renaissance? My answer - find a way to double down on the human aspects of doing science. 

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How we welcomed the AI wolf into the digital commons - 12 Jun 2023

A coming Cyber-Renaissance: The role of human scientists in an AI-dominated future - 18 Oct 2023

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

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. 

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

A coming Cyber-Renaissance: The role of human scientists in an AI-dominated future - 18 Oct 2023

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

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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The AIs are coming: Will ChatGPT create a future of bullsh*t (jobs)? - 13 Jan 2023

The AIs are coming: Will ChatGPT create a future of bullsh*t (jobs)? - 13 Jan 2023

The AIs are coming: Will ChatGPT create a future of bullsh*t (jobs)? - 13 Jan 2023

Will AI bring a future of bullshit jobs?

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

The AIs are coming: Will ChatGPT create a future of bullsh*t (jobs)? - 13 Jan 2023

The AIs are coming: Will ChatGPT create a future of bullsh*t (jobs)? - 13 Jan 2023

A piece for the ABC that argues that creative workers should be creatively worried about generative AI..

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

The AIs are coming: Will ChatGPT create a future of bullsh*t (jobs)? - 13 Jan 2023

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 humanities professors be automated? - 22 September 2022

Should humanities professors be automated? - 22 September 2022

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

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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