Tag: technology

  • 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…

  • Primed to compute

    Making algorithmic thinking a core skill A while back, some were calling coding a “new literacy.” With the advent of AI, the world seems to be leaning away from that. But what hasn’t disappeared is the need to strengthen the kind of thinking that coding requires. Whether we call it computational literacy, or algorithmic literacy, AI…

  • 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…