Explore more on artificial intelligence and living

As AI constructs our future, explore its impact and understand its key themes.

Nick Jones

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

An AI-created painting of a scene comprising a lap top user holding their face, with candles in the foreground

AI confronts the creative.

Daniel Kim.

Essay

An AI generated image of robot skulls with bulging eyes on a shelf receding diagonally to the left.

The summit of humanity: decoding AI's affectations

An AI summit’s prophecies need to be placed in the right philosophical...

Is an AI worthy of personhood?

In a world of intelligent humanlike machines, computer scientist Nigel Crook...

Whether it's AI or us, it's OK to be ignorant

Our search for answers begins by recognising that we don’t have them.

Coal’s demise teaches us to be cautious about progress

Why the extinguishing of coal power should dampen attitudes to what promises...

Art, AI and apocalypse: Michael Takeo Magruder addresses our fears and questions

The digital artist talks about the possibilities and challenges of...

Are we letting a monster or saviour into the classroom?

Examining Sal Khan’s confidence in artificial intelligence.

When tech holds us captive, here’s how to find liberation

The last of a three-part series exploring the implications of technology.

How tech harvests our humanity

The second in a three-part series exploring the implications of technology.

Tech has changed: it’s no longer natural or neutral

The first in a three-part series exploring the implications of technology.

Seen & Unseen Aloud: new episode

C.S. Lewis' storytelling, Shardlake, and the mistakes that set us apart.

Podcast

Podcasts

20 January 2025

1 min read

New episode: Seen & Unseen Aloud

Gangsters old and new, Russian reformers, and accepting the grey in life.

Natalie Garrett

Natalie produces and narrates The Seen & Unseen Aloud podcast. She's an Anglican minister and a trained actor.

Jacob and Esau.

Matthias Stom, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.

Listen now

As 2025 gets going, Katherine Amphlett encourages us to travel back in time with Lady Mary to get to know some of the bad guys of the Old Testament to find how little has changed; Simon Burton-Jones reminds us that there is a great deal more to Russia that Putin and Lauren Westwood paints a colourful picture of life in the grey areas.

Join with us - Behind the Seen

Seen & Unseen is free for everyone and is made possible through the generosity of our amazing community of supporters.

If you’re enjoying Seen & Unseen, would you consider making a gift towards our work?

Alongside other benefits (book discounts etc.), you’ll receive an extra fortnightly email from me sharing what I’m reading and my reflections on the ideas that are shaping our times.

Graham Tomlin

Editor-in-Chief

https://www.seenandunseen.com/behind-the-seen

Find out more and sign up