Tag: ai

  • Can AI Make Us More Human?

    And will we have a choice? I like working with ChatGPT as a thought partner. I don’t think of it as a coach, a therapist or an assistant, because I will never fully trust that it has the human qualities or expertise that I need from the people who fill those roles in my life. But…

  • Harnessing The Unhappiness of Future Generations

    Whether AI will support the happiness, or the misery, of future generations is up to us I didn’t need a world happiness report to tell me that young adults in North America are suffering alarming levels of unhappiness. I witnessed this first hand last week, when I went to see Dune with a young family member…

  • Compassion over empathy in the era of AI

    A while back, I had some very difficult news to convey to someone I cared about. Out of respect for privacy, I’m not going to go into details, but I knew this was news that was going to have a serious impact. I also knew the way that I delivered it might shape this person’s…

  • The A, B, C and D of A.I.

    I wrote The A.I. Primer for the Algorithm and Data Literacy Project by Digital Moment (where you can download it in English or French.) It’s intended as a very low floor to the learning trajectory of AI literacy, and is suitable for teens, teachers, and any adults who might feel intimidated by the idea of learning…

  • AI Literacy: Reframing Attitudes

    This is a thought piece I wrote for a panel on Algorithm Literacy that I was invited to moderate at UNESCO’s Digital Learning Week in September. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to make it to Paris, but still worth thinking about for 2024, so sharing it here… Recently, out of curiosity, I asked Chat GPT 3…