Kester Brewin

Category: Technology

  • The Day Job

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    I don’t say a huge amount about the work I do day to day, but I thought it’d be worth flagging some of what I’ve been up to. I’m an Associate Director at the Institute for the Future of Work, a reseach charity exploring how AI and automation are changing work and working lives in…

  • BlueSky (ex-X)

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    Hardly some great act of activism, but I do not think that Elon Musk is a good person to be wielding power like he does with ownership of X / Twitter. So, I’m out. You can find me on BlueSky here: https://bsky.app/profile/kesterbrewin.bsky.social Fortunate to have gathered an audience there already of over 1000 people. I…

  • God-Like in Frome

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    Delighted to be invited to Frome on 22nd of November to give a talk about the book, as primer for a discussion on human flourishing in an age of ‘intelligent’ machines. If you’re around the West Country, be lovely to see you there! Ticket includes complimentary glass of something, and there’ll be other refreshments too.…

  • Future of (a Climate) Denial

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    Last Thursday I was honoured to be asked to join a panel celebrating the publication of my great friend Professor Tad Delay’s book on psychoanalysis and the climate emergency, Future of Denial: This was part of the Historical Materialism conference at SOAS, and it was great to speak alongside Richard Seymour, whose own response to…

  • Eternally You – performing the god-like act of resurrection

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    Hitting TV screens in the UK right now is a new BBC Storyville documentary, Eternally You, ‘delving into world of startups using AI to create avatars of the deceased.’ The Guardian ran a 5-star review of it, which I do think it deserves. As they outline: Joshua Barbeau […] uses it to talk to his…

  • Not OK, Computer?

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    “The unlicensed use of creative works for training generative AI is a major, unjust threat to the livelihoods of the people behind those works, and must not be permitted.” – AI Training Statement / https://www.aitrainingstatement.org/ Over 11,000 artists, writers, actors, musicians and others in the creative industries have signed the above statement, expressing their opposition…