Articles

First published in KOSMOS Journal — Summer 2021

Platforms like GitHub are helping non techies write software, boosting productivity at companies and at home.

Divorce, trouble peeing, and stealing hotel food: Why did a job network become everyone's favorite place for oversharing?

Despite my success with AI-generated stories, I'm not sure they are good for writers—or writing itself.

The increasing frequency of interactions we have with AI and automated technologies means it is vital to understand how those things make people feel about themselves. Why? Because how people feel about themselves affects a wide range of success factors, including sales, customer loyalty, word-of-mouth referrals, employee satisfaction, and employee performance. The authors have been studying people’s reactions to automated technology for more than seven years. In this article they focus on psychological responses to AI and automated technologies that they’ve observed in service and business-process design, product design, and communication, and offer practical guidance to help leaders and managers figure out how best to use these new technologies to serve customers, support employees, and advance the interests of their organization.

From .ai to .vc, inside the weird and lucrative marketplace of website addresses.

Training data companies are grabbing writers of fiction, drama, poetry, and also general humanities experts to improve AI creative writing.

Surprise surprise: Bard tries to Google everything.

As more creators turn to AI for their artistic expression, there's also a broader push for transparency around when AI was involved in content creation.

The New York Times and Our World in Data accused of promoting unscientific discourse around economic and population growth

The co-founder and chief scientist of OpenAI, which developed ChatGPT and GPT-4 – was also a coauthor on the seminal 2012 AlexNet paper

In a world of productivity we rebel with creativity

Zuzanna Warso, Director of Research at the Open Future Foundation, considers upcoming EU ecodesign regulation.

Listen now | How to code a culture of resilience and creativity

The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like ChatGPT can be hard to measure.

How do various design tools utilise memory? What’s their baseline usage with no documents open? How does memory grow with lots of large documents open?

Kalie M. Mayberry is a social impact researcher and educator at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

As jobs screening US, UK and EU platforms are shifted to India, viewing ‘gore’ to clean up the web has traumatised moderators

Slides and transcript from my talk on the challenges of designing with language models

Extreme weather is ‘smacking us in the face’ with worse to come, but a ‘tiny window’ of hope remains, say leading climate scientists

A handbook to help you imagine better responses to ‘problems’

Many of the details of how the EU's Digital Services Act will be enforced are still being worked out, writes Gabby Miller.

With Collective Action School, Xiaowei Wang hopes to redefine what it means to work in tech.

Shadow AI is potentially a lot more pernicious and pervasive than Shadow IT, says Abhishek Gupta.

A literary analytics project called Prosecraft has shuttered after backlash from the writing community. It's a harbinger of a bigger cultural tide shift.

Tamara Kneese, Data & Society Research Institute Download full report here. In the second half of this report, I examine organizing campaigns and coalitions—in historical and contemporary contexts both inside and outside of the tech industry—that seek to connect labor rights to environmental justice goals. This section goes beyond automation and deskilling concerns connected to […]

Tamara Kneese, Data & Society Research Institute Download full report here. Introduction In the second half of 2023, generative AI is dominating headlines. Policymakers, technologists, and activists are all grappling with its potential implications for communities and the planet. Integrating LLMs (large language models) into search engines may multiply the carbon emissions associated with each […]

The most marvellous app I’ve had the good fortune to click on has become the subject of the latest moral panic

Tokenization process gives unfair advantage to English.