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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.

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Seen & Unseen Aloud

3 June 2024

1 min read

Seen & Unseen Aloud: new episode

'Messianic' politicians, Bridgerton and AI.

Natalie Garrett

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

Two politicians, stand with one arm around each other and the other arms raised.

Labour Party Scotland launch event.

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This week: Bex Chapman unlock's Bridgerton's complex identity coding, Cameron Wiltshire-Plant advises his younger self not to believe in the messianic hype of politicians, and Daniel Kim suggests that AI's dominance could unleash our very humanity.