100% agree - and it extends far beyond email. Academics increasingly have to run parallel systems to retain control over their own stuff - universities are even insisting on using their systems (Interfolio eg) for official CVs - euch!
Still a solid go to for me and has been for nearly 20 years as well
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Key point about the factors limiting the potential for AI to serve public needs as distinct from those of tech-bros from @andrewmaynard.net Full #sustainwhat show below.
I've been experimenting with translating my 2018 book Films from the Future into a website designed primarily for AIs. Here's how it went: www.futureofbeinghuman.com/p/spoiler-al...
Can AI create a comprehensive degree program proposal in the time it takes to grab a coffee?
www.futureofbeinghuman.com/p/can-ai-cre...
The much-anticipated documentary "The AI Doc : Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist" hits US cinemas this week. I attended an early screening while in Copenhagen last week. Was it worth it?
www.futureofbeinghuman.com/p/are-you-an...
Why we're giving away our book on thriving with AI (and how to get a copy)
www.futureofbeinghuman.com/p/why-were-g...
Definitely worth knowing about, although the undergrads I talk with want to extract the value out of their tuition fees rather than outsourcing it!
AI Harness Engineering is suddenly in vogue (spurred on by Ethan Mollick's post this past week). But does the seemingly innocuous "harness" metaphor come with hidden risks?
Some thoughts in today's Substack and a linked preprint:
www.futureofbeinghuman.com/p/what-we-mi...
We've just released the full text of AI and the Art of Being Human: The Pocket Edition as an AI Companion
Please feel free to download it, use it, share it, and tell us your story of what you do with it!
More info and links at: www.futureofbeinghuman.com/p/how-do-you...
How a flight home from Portugal turned into the just-released coffee-stained pocket edition of AI and the Art of Being Human
www.futureofbeinghuman.com/p/the-ai-boo...
Watching Moltbook unfold has put me in a speculative frame of mind ...
www.futureofbeinghuman.com/p/soul-update
I thought I was pretty savvy when it comes to navigating AI hallucinations. I was wrong.
www.futureofbeinghuman.com/p/beeswax-ha...
Thanks!
I had other plans today, but the craziness around the AI bot social media site #moltbook messed that up!
My initial thoughts the Moltbook phenomenon and a seemingly exponential explosion of emergent AI bot behaviors ...
www.futureofbeinghuman.com/p/lost-in-th...
Trump (2016): "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters."
As it turns out, this was more accurate than we knew at the time.
‘was already restrained’
Can modern scholarship escape AI?
I flexed the full might of my satirical academic prowess, and wrote a paper ...
www.futureofbeinghuman.com/p/can-modern...
This is very much in your domain - would be interested in your thoughts. And maybe this is more my lack of ability with language!
Think you know AI? Think again!
Anthropic's new AI Constitution profoundly challenges how we think about, develop, and use artificial intelligence, while also opening up potentially transformative possibilities
www.futureofbeinghuman.com/p/think-you-...
Your regular reminder that Republicans in Congress approve of what the President is doing.
From président Macron to President Trump My friend, We are totally in line on Syria We can do great things on Iran I do not understand what you are doing on Greenland Let us try to build great things: 1) i can set up a g7 meeting after Davos in Paris on thursday afternoon. I can invite the ukrainians, the danish, the syrians and the russians in the margins 2) let us have a dinner together in Paris together on thursday before you go back to the us Emmanuel 5:01 PM
Risks in the age of WhatsApp diplomacy. Trump attempts to humiliate Macron. Macron’s message reveals how easy it is to divide Europe – as if that needed saying – and that Russia is on the way back in.
A dark blue mug with an American flag reads “AMERICA 1776 – 2026”
Fairly sure it’s unintentional, but the end date on this mug being sold by the Smithsonian does make it sound a little like they’re saying America dies in 2026…
President Trump threatened on Monday to impose 200% tariffs on French wine, including Champagne, if President Emmanuel Macron of France declined to join his proposed “Board of Peace” for Gaza.
Just when you thought we'd reached peak madness, this:
President Trump is now claiming that one reason he is pushing to acquire Greenland is that he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize, according to a text message he sent to Norway’s prime minister over the weekend."
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...
