Category: Economics
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Undercut/Destroy/Extract… as predicted – true AI costs are coming
If you came to my recent CLAUDE HAVE MERCY event you’ll have heard there that what firms (and individuals) are currently paying for AI just isn’t reflective of the true cost… and that is about to change, as reported in Wired. The route to profit for these huge AI firms is dodgy at best. They…
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Giving Evidence to the Education Select Committee
A real privilege to have been able to give evidence in Parliament to the Education Select Committee yesterday for their inquiry on #EdTech and #AI. It is fundamentally important that before we talk about #AI literacy, we get #literacy right – for all young people, regardless of background. We are all large language models, and…
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A day workshop on human flourishing in an age of AI
I’ve been delighted to be booked recently some day workshops for clergy and others, focusing on some of the work in my book Other. Released in 2010, it was the first book where I considered the impacts of AI… and – informed by my later work in God-like: a 500-Year History of AI – I’ve…
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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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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…
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Absolutely nothing dystopian to see here…
Just the UK government “creating ‘murder prediction’ tool to identify people most likely to kill”. Researchers are alleged to be using algorithms to analyse the information of thousands of people, including victims of crime, as they try to identify those at greatest risk of committing serious violent offences. The scheme was originally called the “homicide…