AI is already driving people out of work

As long-standing jobs disappear and opportunities for young people dwindle, there is a growing need for a national conversation on policies to navigate the impact of artificial intelligence on entry level, white collar and professional jobs.

The rotten fruit of AI slop

It’s a law of human nature that the more sophisticated a technology is, the stupider the uses it will be put to. So, if you like wasting your time on TikTok, you may have noticed a strange new type of AI brain rot taking over for this week at least – “fruit dramas”.

The enclosure of humanity

Mounting calls for a universal basic income to support people replaced by AI reflect a dawning awareness of a new wave of dispossession of humanity’s knowledge and skills and reframe an old idea born of previous waves of technological and economic disruption.

Say hi to your AI doppelgänger

AI digital twins train on an employee’s emails, meetings, documents and chat messages to create an AI-human replica that can impersonate, and doubtless soon replace, the employee. Welcome to the future.

AI should support, not replace, human judgement

Organisations are rushing to embrace AI but the ones which succeed will invest in infrastructure that makes coordination, memory and human judgment more resilient rather than replace as many people as possible.

Australian AI needs a copyright free zone

Australia’s copyright laws block domestic AI development, leaving its institutions dependent on foreign models that foreign governments can compromise.

Why AI search is a load of rhubarb

It’s easy to make fun of generative AI when it advises people to eat rocks or hold toppings on a pizza base with glue but blindly accepting AI search results can cause real-life problems.

AI’s threat to “judgment capital”

The central danger of AI is that, if deployed carelessly and at scale, it may erode the human and institutional capacities on which sound judgment depends.

Pot, kettle, black

After stealing the entirety of human creativity without permission or recompense to train their models, AI companies are now complaining that other companies are stealing intellectual property from them, so what are their legal arguments?

Protecting kids from AI

Exposing young children to AI content could have irreversible consequences.

What’s the point of a PhD now?

Why should bright young students work for years to get a PhD if senior academics won’t engage them for research projects as its cheaper and easier to autogenerate slop with ChatGPT?

Don’t let AI do your thinking for you

It’s tempting to offload your thinking to artificial intelligence but cognitive science shows why that’s a bad idea. For a successful relationship with AI, we need to exercise all our mental skills – otherwise we really do risk losing them.