New issue of my newsletter Humane Ingenuity: “The Breath of the Author” — The palpable presence of someone else’s mind in our best writing should give us pause about the encroachment of AI text
New issue of my newsletter Humane Ingenuity: “The Breath of the Author” — The palpable presence of someone else’s mind in our best writing should give us pause about the encroachment of AI text
A new essay: “Perils of the New Armchair Scholarship” — Like nineteenth-century scholars who wrote about the world without deeply engaging with it, academics who lean too heavily on AI risk becoming paper-thin
New issue of my newsletter: “The Kids Are All Right” — Advice I will not give, and books I have not written
New issue of my newsletter: “A Framework for Books and AI in the Public Interest” — How libraries could create a thoughtful and ethical interface between their shelves and artificial intelligence
New issue of my newsletter: “The Role of a New Machine” — An old book puts today’s new technology in perspective
New issue of my newsletter: “Vibe Analysis” — Despite its unserious name, vibe coding shows promise for elements of serious scholarly work
New essay: “A Museum’s Sublime Hallucinations” — Sometimes you need the fake to show you what’s real (a love letter to the Museum of Jurassic Technology)
The second piece in my series on finding the right line between human thought and AI assistance: “Can AI Prompt Us to Ask New Questions?”
New essay: “Can AI Prompt Us to Ask New Questions?” — Not with chatbots as we know them, but perhaps with what comes next
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