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AI Doesn’t Just Make You Worse. It Makes You Stop Trying.
A new study finds measurable deskilling after ten minutes of AI use. The people asking it for answers are the ones it breaks first.
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Slow Takes Ep. 8: Between the Demo and the Desk
Five stories about the distance between what the launch deck promises and what actually happens when real people touch the product.
Apr 20
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Your Favourite Commenter Might Not Be Writing Their Own Comments
I scraped 4,929 comments, profiled 595 accounts, ran a Turing test, and planted canary traps. Here is what I found.
Apr 17
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AI and Neurodiversity: Whose Brain Was This Built For?
A Slow AI Live with Jen Benford on the limits of the equaliser narrative, how AI lands in HR and hiring, and where accommodation becomes dependency.
Apr 16
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Jen Benford
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Your AI Has 171 Emotion Patterns. Every One of Them Is a Lever.
Anthropic found 171 emotion-like patterns inside Claude. They do not feel anything. But they change what the tool tells you.
Apr 15
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Slow Takes Ep. 7: Who Pays for All of This?
Five stories about cost: who bears it, who hides it, and who walks away when the bill arrives.
Apr 13
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Dr Sam Illingworth
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Run Your Own AI on a Laptop You Already Own
You do not need a new computer to understand how AI works. You need three minutes and a terminal window.
Apr 10
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The Humanities Are the Moat
Twenty years of defunding the disciplines that teach judgement. Now we are surprised nobody can tell when AI is wrong.
Apr 8
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Can Claude Write Slow AI? The Results
I mixed my writing with Claude’s. 209 of you voted. The accuracy was coin-flip. But the comments changed the question entirely.
Apr 6
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AI Is Improving Student Performance. It Is Also Destroying Student Learning.
A new report explains the difference, and why it is the most important distinction in AI education.
Apr 3
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AI Summaries Are Making You Worse at Reading
What you lose when you let AI read for you, and a research-backed protocol for getting it back.
Apr 1
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March 2026
Slow Takes Ep. 6: Drawing the Line
Every story this week forced the same question. Where do you draw the line?
Mar 30
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Dr Sam Illingworth
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Exploring ChatGPT
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