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AI

12 March 2024

1 min read

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.

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...

A Victorian medical bust showing the brain with labels in German.

Is an AI worthy of personhood?

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

A street sticker displays multiple lines reading 'and then?'

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.

A sky line shows steam rising from a power station's chimney and cooling towers.

Coal’s demise teaches us to be cautious about progress

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

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

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

A board of experts sit at a table against a conference backdrop.

Are we letting a monster or saviour into the classroom?

Examining Sal Khan’s confidence in artificial intelligence.

A person wearing a heavy backpack of tech, connected by tangled cables to other technology behind him, walks towards a simpler space.

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

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

blue cables converge on a server.

How tech harvests our humanity

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

A caveman holding a hammer looks at a bench on which are a broken bicycle and a laptop.

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

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

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