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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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🤖 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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🧠 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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🤖 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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🤖 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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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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🤖 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? 🤖
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 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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🤖 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
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 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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🤖 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 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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🤖 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 🤖
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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🤖 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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🩸 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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🌈 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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🤖 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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🫀 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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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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🤯 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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🤖 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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🤖 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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🤖 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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🪑 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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