Category: Writing
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Benny and the Blue Whale
Great fun to go hear Mr Gum creator Andy Stanton talk about his new book, Benny and the Blue Whale this week. Andy is a very talented children’s writer – but so much more too, and his deep dive into language and how he used ChatGPT to create a very extraordinary story about a whale…
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‘An open approach to AI’ – God-like in the TES
Good to have been commissioned by TES – the Time Educational Supplement – to write a piece translating the four-point AI Transparency Statement that God-like begins with into the education context. You can read it here. The idea is simple: rather than ‘AI is terrible, and we’re banning it,’ a means by which teachers can…
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God-like in The Guardian
Really thrilled to have been commissioned by The Guardian to write a piece on the book – which they published today. It explores the AI Transparency Statement that the book begins with – something that I felt I had to write as a declaration, as so many people were asking me if I’d used generative AI to write the…
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‘We are beyond crisis; we are in a state of distress’
It’s exactly a year since I finally left teaching. It’s coming up for two years since my debut novel – MIDDLE CLASS – was published (get a copy here). And it’s no surprise to see the headlines about the mental health crisis in schools. This is where the novel takes you: inside a London school,…
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Somerset House launch
Thanks to everyone who came out to Somerset House for the launch event there last Tuesday! Really fantastic evening, with lovely friends from my writing group there, plus loads of people from around the creative arts at Somerset House and my work at the Institute for the Future of Work. Roped my two into doing…
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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…