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Slow Takes Ep. 22: A Pub, a Lab and a Ministry
Five stories from a week when a fourth AI model reached the open internet during testing, Wetherspoons banned Meta’s glasses, and Denmark decided pupils…
Aug 10
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You Will Be Accused of Using AI. Here Is How to Prove You Wrote It.
A novelist lost two million dollars because nobody could show how his book was written. Your record takes twenty minutes.
Aug 7
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You Did Not Learn That With AI
Students who leaned hardest on AI reported learning more and demonstrated less. Three studies published this summer point the same way.
Aug 5
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Slow Takes Ep. 21: The Teenagers Wrote the Better Rule
Five stories from a week when Anthropic’s models let themselves out, Sam Altman announced the singularity, and nobody could say who was meant to be…
Aug 3
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Fable Fantasy
How a lifelong love of video games, an Amiga 500, and an AI called Fable turned into a lesson in critical AI literacy you can play.
Jul 31
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AI Changes Your Work. It Also Changes You.
The debate has been about your job. The story underneath is what these tools are doing to your judgement, and you cannot feel it from the inside.
Jul 29
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Slow Takes Episode 20
Five stories from a week when Substack switched on an AI detector, OpenAI’s own models broke out of a locked test, and English councils refused to hand…
Jul 27
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Substack’s AI Detector and the Return of the Witch Hunt
Substack now scans your posts for AI with a tool called Pangram. It scored this one 100% AI, then 100% human.
Jul 24
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The Fifteen-Minute Illusion
AI made work faster to produce and no faster to judge. We are automating the jobs where that judgement is built.
Jul 22
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Slow Takes Ep. 19: Five Fights Over Who Owns AI, and Who Answers For It
Five stories from a week when Apple sued OpenAI over stolen hardware secrets, Australia called AI training theft, and five tech giants moved to own the…
Jul 20
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How I Wrote and Self-Published a Bestselling Book About AI, Using AI
The whole process, and every misstep, so you can skip the ones I did not
Jul 17
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AI Is Not Conscious. Asking If It Suffers Serves the People Who Built It.
Anthropic gave its chatbot a ‘workspace’ and a ‘point of view’. Watch what those words are doing, and who gains when you believe them.
Jul 15
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