Author: KB
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Wikipedia for Women (and why AI desperately needs it)
‘Unsurprisingly, I got stuck on Vatican City.’ Interesting piece yesterday in the news about Lucy Moore – a UK academic archaeologist and curator – who has completed a project creating a Wikipedia page for a woman in every country in the world. “She has now written biographies of 532 women since 2019, when she first…
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‘Perspectives on Pages’
Delighted to have been a guest on the writing podcast ‘Perspectives on Pages’, talking about ‘writing to discover, not to reveal,’ the impact of AI on the creative process, and the new book. But it’s a wider discussion about my passion for fiction, and the other writing projects going on under the hood. Well worth…
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Smashing chat… or how to be a Luddite
Last week I was invited to join the Ned Ludd Raoddio Hour for an interview about the new book. You can listen to it above, or via the podcast page here. Ned Ludd is the legendary figure who, having smashed two industrial knitting machines in protest at their replacement of human craft, gave his name…
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Auerbach on making art: ‘enjoyable; but that does not mean that it is not difficult’
One of the things that I have been listening to a lot of late is This Cultural Life, ‘in-depth conversations with some of the world’s leading artists and creatives.’ It can be enjoyable listening, but I sometimes wonder why I put myself through it. Hearing supremely successful people talk about their craft, and the time…
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AI vs Car Culture – Fasten your Seatbelts?
Just a typical Friday night in San-Fran. A Waymo driverless taxi stops in the street. A guy jumps on the bonnet and smashes the windscreen. A crowd forms, and cover the car in spray paint, break its windows, and set it on fire. I’ve been thinking a lot about cars as I’ve written God-like my…
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Bowling alone… from counterculture to encounterculture…
There’s been a plethora of (really good) books about what the future of AI. In God-like, launching on 15th March, I take a deep look into the past instead. It seems to me that we need to understand where in the human heart this thing has come from if we’re to have a hope of…