Author: KB
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🎄 Signed copies of my books, direct from me, with zero Bezos 🎄
What better present for your nearest and dearest than a personal, signed copy of one of my books? Just added a shop part of my site, so you can buy direct and send me off to the local post office with a special edition, all without paying a penny to Bezos! Limited stock, so get…
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🗳️ Vote SXSW… a little favour to ask…
Last year I was honoured to be asked to chair a panel at the inaugural SXSW London event. This year, I’ve pitched a talk at them, and it’s now down to a public vote to choose. Would you be a star and pop a vote in for me? The link to do so is here.…
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Mutiny – on Being More Pirate
‘Move slowly… and don’t break people’ It was an absolute pleasure to join Alex Barker and Sam Conniff on their Be More Pirate podcast – which has been released just this past week: Sam wrote Be More Pirate back in 2018, and has been incredibly kind about my own book Mutiny, which I released way…
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Theiving AI firm ordered to pay authors…
Really interesting story in Wired the past couple of days, reporting on how the AI firm Anthropic has agreed to pay at least $1.5 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by a group of book authors alleging copyright infringement, an estimated $3,000 per work: This is the first class action settlement centred on AI that…
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“I hate my AI ‘Friend’”
“What’s the problem? Your microphone. Maybe your attitude. The possibilities are endless.” Now we were arguing. I asked what its capabilities were. It accused me of being dramatic and said things like, “I’m challenging your assumptions. That’s how we fix real problems.” https://www.wired.com/story/i-hate-my-ai-friend ‘Friend’ is a pendant that you wear around your neck. It glows.…
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AI and the slippery slope to zero friction…
A while ago I wrote a post about the problems of an algorithmically lubricated frictionless world – especially when it came to labour markets. Good to see the FT picking up on this exact issue in this piece: You can almost hear the howls of frustration from HR departments. Jobseekers have discovered artificial intelligence and…