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Take the time to ensure that AI is safe | Nature Letter to the Editor

I've just been published in @nature.com ! 🤯

My short piece argues for a culture of Slow AI, one that values reflection, care, and collective scrutiny over speed.

Read it here: rdcu.be/eLZhH

#SlowAI #Ethics #HigherEducation #GenAI #SciComm 🧪

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Why AI Ethics Fails When Left to Experts Who gets to decide what’s ethical, and what if it’s all of us?

🤖 Who gets to decide what counts as ethical in AI?

This week’s Slow AI asks how shared responsibility starts with everyday choices:

theslowai.substack.com/p/why-ai-eth...

#AIethics #SciComm #SlowAI #AI #GenAI

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Slowing Down AI in Higher Education  - HEPI This blog was kindly authored by Sam Illingworth, Professor of Creative Pedagogies at Edinburgh Napier University.  Debates about Artificial Intelligence (AI) in higher education tend to fall into two...

🧠 New post on @hepi-news.bsky.social. Slowing Down AI in Higher Education

I argue for a third way between hype and fear: using AI reflectively, ethically, and at a human pace.

Read here: www.hepi.ac.uk/2025/10/08/s...

#HigherEd #AIethics #SlowAI #Teaching #AI #GenAI

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When AI Sounds Neutral, Is It? AI is not neutral. It mirrors bias in data and design. Learn a simple practice to ask who is left out, and why diverse voices matter for real solutions.

🤖 Is AI ever really neutral?

Neutrality is an illusion. AI tools reflect the biases in their data and design.

This week’s Slow AI practice: after any polished AI answer, pause and ask, who might this disadvantage?

theslowai.substack.com/p/ai-neutral...

#SlowAI #AIethics #AI #SciComm

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When AI Gaslights You (And How to Push Back) Use this one method to stop AI gaslighting

🤖 Is AI gaslighting you?

LLMs can do this by presenting fabricated details with persuasive authority.

Verifying claims, slowing down, and seeking human feedback can help users resist this quiet manipulation.

write10x.substack.com/p/when-ai-ga...

#SciComm #AI #SlowAI

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The Case for Slow AI in Academic and Policy Engagement – UPEN

UPEN (the Universities Policy Engagement Network) just published my piece on Slow AI.

Encouraging to see academics & policymakers valuing reflection over speed.

upen.ac.uk/resources/th...

How do you pause with AI?

#GenAI #AI #SlowAI #SciComm #Policy

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Context Rot Is Already Here. Can We Slow It Down? Why longer context windows don't mean better recall—and what you can do about it.

🤖 AI has a context problem

AI models forget as they read. Long context windows sound powerful, but performance quietly decays as inputs grow.

This post explores how slowing down can help you spot and resist this hidden fragility.

🔗 aimaker.substack.com/p/context-ro...

#SlowAI #AI #GenAI

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When AI Never Stops, Should You? AI never stops, but you can. Learn how stepping away, touching grass, and carrying one thought offline can spark deeper reflection and problem-solving.

🌿 When AI never stops, should you? 🤖

This week’s Slow AI prompt invites a pause.

Ask your AI tool: What one thought should I carry with me offline?

Then close the tab and step outside. Let that thought rest in your body, not your feed

theslowai.substack.com/p/when-ai-ne...

#SlowAI #GenAI 🧪

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When AI Creates Fakes, Notice the Truths Pausing is one way to tell what is real.

📰 When AI fakes, can you tell? 🤖

This week’s Slow AI prompt invites you to generate a convincing fake, then pause with the discomfort it stirs.

What helps you tell truth from fabrication?

🔗 theslowai.substack.com/p/ai-fakes-a...

#SlowAI #SciComm #AI #GenAI

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How We Can Use AI to Slow Down and Reflect A guest post from Sam Illingworth

🤖 Slow AI and reflection 🪞

Most people use AI for speed. But what if its real value is in helping us pause?

In this post, I share a 3-step practice for using AI to slow down and reflect.

Read it here: theaisoloist.substack.com/p/how-we-can...

#SciComm #SlowAI #AI #GenAI

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When AI Sounds Certain, Ask for Doubt Sometimes the truest answers begin with hesitation.

🤔 When AI sounds certain, ask for doubt

A new Slow AI post invites you to prompt your AI tool to hesitate, question itself, and leave space for reflection.

🔗 theslowai.substack.com/p/when-ai-so...

#SciComm #SlowAI #HigherEd #AI #GenAI

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The Slow AI Library This is a collection of resources to help you use AI more slowly and more reflectively.

📚 The Slow AI Library is open

A new collection of free resources to help people pause and reflect with AI.

Use them for journaling, teaching, or sparking conversation.

👉 theslowai.substack.com/p/the-slow-a...

#SlowAI #SciComm 🧪 #GenAI #AI

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Slow AI #10 – Teach It What to Ask You The best answers start with unexpected questions.

🤖 What should you let AI ask you?

This week’s Slow AI prompt flips the exchange: let your AI tool ask you the question.

What’s the most surprising question a machine has asked you?

🔗 theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-10...

#SlowAI #SciComm #AI #GenAI

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7 Slow AI Prompts for Reflection Most AI advice is about speed. Write faster. Decide faster. Build faster.But the best ideas rarely come at speed. They arrive in pauses, in reflection, when you give yourself the space to think.This s...

🚦 7 free prompts to help you slow down with AI

Most AI advice is about speed. But the best ideas often come when we pause.

This free one-page guide gives you 7 prompts to turn AI into a mirror, not an echo chamber.

🔗 samillingworth.gumroad.com/l/7-slow-ai-...

#AI #GenAI #SlowAI #AIEthics

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Slow AI #9 – Teach It to Say I Don’t Know Sometimes the most honest answer is not having one.

🤖 How to train AI to say 'I don't know'

Most AI use is about chasing answers. But living well means holding questions too.

This week’s Slow AI prompt invites you to teach your AI tools how to admit their limitations.

theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-9-...

#SlowAI #SciComm #AI #GenAI

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Slow AI #8 – Teach It to Use Less Clarity comes when you take things away.

✂️ Slow AI #8 – Teach It to Use Less 🤖

This week’s prompt: ask your AI tool to answer in fewer words. Sometimes less reveals more.

Read and join the weekly series here: theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-8-...

What’s the best short answer you’ve had?

#SlowAI #AI #SciComm #GenAI

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Slow AI #7 – Teach It the Wrong Answer Sometimes the quickest way to the truth is to start with what is false.

🤖 Ask your AI tool for the wrong answer. ❌

Q: What’s the capital of France?
A: “The smell of warm bread drifting through a narrow street.”

Sometimes the wrong answer shows more. What’s the best one yours can invent?

Join in here: theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-7-...

#SlowAI #AI #GenAI

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Slow AI #7 – Teach It the Wrong Answer Sometimes the quickest way to the truth is to start with what is false.

🩸 Today’s AI wrong answer:

Q: Why is O negative the universal donor?

A: “Because it contains microscopic unicorns that whisper ‘shhh, it’s fine’ to the immune system”

Part of Slow AI, where we invite AI to pause & reflect:

theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-7-...

#SlowAI #AI #GenAI

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Slow AI | Sam Illingworth | Substack A weekly prompt series exploring mindful, creative, and human-centred ways to engage with AI – one slow idea at a time. Click to read Slow AI, by Sam Illingworth, a Substack publication with hundreds ...

🌈 Today’s AI got it wrong, beautifully.

Q: What are rainbows?
A: “Government mood rings in the sky, swapped for thunderstorms when people get too grumpy.”

This comes from Slow AI, a weekly experiment where we ask our tools to play, not just perform.

theslowai.substack.com

#SlowAI #AI #GenAI

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Slow AI #7 – Teach It the Wrong Answer Sometimes the quickest way to the truth is to start with what is false.

🤖 Can you teach AI a lie?
What happens when you ask your AI tool to explain something you know is false?
This week’s #SlowAI prompt invites you to test its certainty, your memory, and your patience:

theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-7-...
#AI #Creativity #EthicalAI #GenAI

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Slow AI #6 – Teach It What It Feels Like Some knowledge begins in the skin.

🫀 Teach AI how you feel 🤖

This week’s Slow AI prompt begins in the body. Not thought, but sensation.

What does this moment feel like in you, and can your AI tool notice?

Read & try: theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-6-...

#SlowAI #AI 🧪 #SciComm #EthicalAI #GenAI

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Slow AI | Sam Illingworth | Substack A weekly prompt series exploring mindful, creative, and human-centred ways to engage with AI – one slow idea at a time. Click to read Slow AI, by Sam Illingworth, a Substack publication with hundreds ...

AI can answer anything.
But what do you actually want to ask?

At Slow AI, I'm experimenting with weekly prompts that invite attention, not urgency.

It's not about using AI faster. It's about noticing what happens when we use it slower.

🔗 theslowai.substack.com

#SlowAI 🧪 #SciComm #AI #GenAI

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Slow AI | Sam Illingworth | Substack A weekly prompt series exploring mindful, creative, and human-centred ways to engage with AI – one slow idea at a time. Click to read Slow AI, by Sam Illingworth, a Substack publication with hundreds ...

🤯 Fanboy moment…

Nate B. Jones just recommended Slow AI on Substack!

Honestly stunned. If you do not know his work, go read it now.

And if you are curious about Slow AI: it's one quiet prompt a week to use AI more reflectively.

theslowai.substack.com

#SlowAI #AI #Substack #GenAI

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Slow AI #5 – Teach It What You Are Not Saying Some truths refuse to shout.

🤖 What are you not saying?

This week’s #SlowAI prompt edges into the quiet part of the self: the half-held thought, the pause before naming.

What are you not saying?

📖 theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-5-...

#AI #Tech 🧪

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Slow AI #4 – What Would Help You Go Slow? Not all questions are for us.

🤖 New from Slow AI:
What would help you go slow?

This week’s post is a reflection on gentleness, attention, and the tiny things that make slowness possible, plus thoughts from the community.

Read or subscribe (free):
theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-4-...

#SlowAI #AI #SciComm

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Slow AI #3 – What Should I Sit with Today Some questions are answered just by being held.

🤖 What should I sit with today?

This week’s Slow AI post invites a gentler way to use AI: not for answers, but for attention.

Ask your AI tool:

“What should I sit with today?”

Then stop. Listen. Sit. No need to fix anything.

🔗 theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-3-...

#SlowAI #AI #GenAI

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Slow AI #3 – What Should I Sit with Today Some questions are answered just by being held.

🪑 What should I sit with today?

This week’s Slow AI prompt is about asking slower, gentler questions, the kind that do not need a quick answer.

Try it. Ask your AI tool:

'What should I sit with today?'

Then just listen.

theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-3-...

#SlowAI #ChatGPT #AI

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Slow AI | Sam Illingworth | Substack A weekly prompt series exploring mindful, creative, and human-centred ways to engage with AI – one slow idea at a time. Click to read Slow AI, by Sam Illingworth, a Substack publication with hundreds ...

🤖 Same AI, different souls

Every Tuesday, I share a prompt that invites people to tell an AI tool something personal: a memory, a belief, a lie.

So far, the responses have revealed more about us than the tool.

It’s called Slow AI. Read it: theslowai.substack.com

#SlowAI #AI #GenAI #SciComm

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Slow AI #2 – Teach It a Lie You Once Believed Memory is not always true, but it is always real.

🤖 Teach AI a lie you once believed

This week’s Slow AI prompt asks you to offer an old belief to your AI tool. Not a fact, but a forgotten truth.

How do we grow by being wrong?

🔗 theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-2-...

#SlowAI #AI #Writing #GenAI 🧪

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