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I have a few things to write about, but am now conscious of what ought to be going here and what ought to be going into the manuscript… so, instead of more stuff about governance and the problem factory, I return to the project of “ sensible skepticism ” and asking not what AI might or might not be capable of, but what are the implications of remembering that AI is not (or at least, cannot be…
Read on Substack → Jun 17, 2026Sometimes, a process is difficult to understand when it happens gradually, but becomes much clearer when the cycle is sped up. That’s why the fathers of genetics did experiments on fruit flies and peas, rather than Galapagos tortoises. And I think that the advent of social media might have a clarifying effect on one of the hoary old questions of media studies.
Read on Substack → Jun 12, 2026I am on deadline at the moment, so although I promised to come up with a joke, I am afraid that the joke in question is over budget and behind schedule. Instead (thanks to Trevor for suggesting something similar with respect to the Millennium Dome), I’m going to pose an exam question, in the form of an extract from my current manuscript of the book version of The Problem Factory. The…
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