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  • 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)

    A geometrical diagram series showing three ways that a cone can intersect with a plane

    → 11:37 AM, Mar 6

  • 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?”

    We may very well look back on our first years of engagement with AI in forms like ChatGPT as we now look back on AOL before the flourishing of the World Wide Web — a comfortable, contained, and relatively inflexible introduction to a new digital world. The flexibility and expansiveness of the Web — the fact that anyone could assemble sites and services from servers, collections, and data from around the world — made it a much better environment for the generation of new ideas.

    → 1:34 PM, Feb 25

  • New essay: “Can AI Prompt Us to Ask New Questions?” — Not with chatbots as we know them, but perhaps with what comes next

    An old book is open to a map showing the Atlantic Ocean as it was conceived in the sixteenth century

    → 9:27 AM, Feb 23

  • And an occasional reminder that you can subscribe to my newsletter at newsletter.dancohen.org

    → 2:48 PM, Feb 3

  • New issue of my newsletter: “Where Should Scholars Draw the Line on AI?” — Between the poles of Zero AI and AI For Everything lies a vast, poorly mapped middle ground

    A black and white photograph of a library at night from the outside, with large glass windows showing the stacks and people studying

    → 2:47 PM, Feb 3

  • A special issue of my newsletter for Martin Luther King Jr. Day: “A Hero’s Iconography” — A shocking photograph featured a brave man — and visual echoes of the art he loved

    A black and white photograph of a Black man in a plaza being attacked by a White teenager brandishing the American flag

    → 10:19 AM, Jan 19

  • New issue of my newsletter: “Far From Reassuring” — AI companies need to focus on limits, not limitless possibilities, to get the public on board

    A receding view of the inside of a large attic, in which there are metal and wood beams and three colored glass panels

    → 2:26 PM, Jan 15
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