Artificial Intelligence

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Artificial Intelligence Archive

Resurrecting deceased darlings: The Missing Foreword to “AI and the Art of Being Human”

Often, less is more when writing a book. But occasionally what is cut is still worth reading—including the former foreword to “AI and the Art of Being Human.”

Do NOT read “AI and the Art of Being Human” … unless you want to!

After all, what could possibly go wrong as AI gets increasingly good at doing you?

When ChatGPT turns informant

The largely overlooked privacy risks of using AI apps that not only remember your conversations, but are capable of using these to reveal your deepest secrets to others

An Academic and a VC Walk into an AI Salon …

The unexpected collaboration that became “AI and the Art of Being Human”

A Kindergartener’s Guide to AI, Qualia, Affordances, and Embodied Intelligence

Forget bats and black-and-white rooms, one of the best guides to the esoteric world of AI and experiential intelligence is a 2013 book written for kindergarteners

Heads-up on new AI book

Mark your calendar: AI and the Art of Being Human launching Oct 14

The hidden risks of using AI to write emails

When is it OK to use AI to craft emails, and when do you risk stepping into a whole lot of unexpected hurt? Intrigued by the question, I brushed off my risk hat and dived in.

Holding on to our humanity in an age of AI

AIs are becoming startlingly good at emulating what we do. But what happens when they start to influence who we are and how we behave?

Unpacking Agentic AI in Education

A quick plug for this week’s episode of Modem Futura with Punya Mishra, which dives into what agentic AI does and doesn’t mean in education, and why this matters.

Using AI to Assess Student-AI Conversations

Can ChatGPT be used to extract useful learning insights from long and meandering conversations between learners and AI?