As AI comes for podcasting (and everything else), humans are equipping listeners with research, nuance, and ways to fight back.

NB. this is the draft introduction to the final chapter of my still-being-written book on AI and education (‘AI and education: the challenge of thinking differently’ Polity, due late 2026). As we h…

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

AI slop is winning.

Elizabeth Palumbo, Syracuse University Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com I’m sitting at a desk in a college classroom in Upstate New York. It’s nearing the end of the fall semester of my seni…

A Response to Thomas Friedman's Recent AI Columns in the New York Times

These AI tools are useful, but they have serious limitations.

The only way data and AI can be used for good is with restrictive controls to prevent damage to democracy.

I am an AI hater. This is considered rude, but I do not care, because I am a hater.

Technology's Distortions of Language Language is a vessel through which meaning is mutually constructed. From this shared imagination, we learn how others understand and aim to understand them. We also navigate how much of ourselves to put into this space. The imagination space is therefore negotiated through language: our thoughts

A reading for your students

Much of what’s known as ‘AI’ has nothing to do with progress — it’s about lobbyists pushing shoddy digital replacements for human labour that increase billionaire’s profits and make workers’ lives worse.

It’s not AI winter just yet, though there is a distinct chill in the air. Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division. A new report out of MIT finds that 95 percent of companies’ generative AI programs have failed to earn any profit whatsoever. Tech stocks tanked Tuesday, regarding broader fears that […]

Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

Exclusive: LSE research finds risk of gender bias in care decisions made based on AI summaries of case notes

Newly announced catalog collects pre-2022 sources untouched by ChatGPT and AI contamination.

An AI bubble threatens Silicon Valley, and all of us.

Margaret Mitchell, an AI ethics researcher at Hugging Face, tells WIRED about a new dataset designed to test AI models for bias in multiple languages.

In the years since Automation and the Future of Work first appeared, a new wave of technological enthusiasm has swept across the popular imagination. The catalyst this time has been the rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence, spearheaded by companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta. Once again, a c

In this extended briefing, “TL;DR” = “Totally Legit; Def. Read” because we review “The AI Con,” the spicy new book ready to rattle the broligarchy. Plus, the authors answer ESC KEY .CO’s questions about creative work — giving you something hot to talk about at your next power lunch, as ever. *Wink.*

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This Is Not An Essay

Remarks from an in-person debate, 'L’IA en question, questions à l’IA', a two-day event at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, on May 24/25. The event focused on debates about the role of AI in contemporary society.

Despite AI’s promise to revolutionize white-collar work, most workers are using it sparingly—or hiding it from their boss.

A response to UNESCO's call on AI and the Future of Education

Will new technology help to make the world a better place, or is AI just another tech bubble that will benefit the few?

Eryk Salvaggio says we must dispense with myths if we are to think more clearly about what AI actually is and does.