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We Are Using the Wrong Words for AI
The word ‘AI’ covers a chatbot that drafts your emails and a hypothetical machine that ends the world. It covers a spam filter and a weapons system.
Imagine a road-safety briefing that used one word, ‘vehicle’, for a child’s bike and a nuc...
You Cannot Willpower Your Way Out of AI Deskilling
New research argues that losing your skills to AI is a structural problem, not a personal failing. That changes what you should do about it.
You have promised yourself you will use AI less. You have felt the small guilt of letting it write...
Slow Takes Ep. 14: A Trillion Dollars and a Vaccine
Every Monday at 12:45 BST, Leor from and I go through the week’s AI news without the hype. Watch the episode for the full discussion. Use this for the facts, the links and a little extra context.
Slow Takes is also available on the YouTub...
A school child has just figured out what AI can do to his classmate
Content note: this post discusses AI-generated sexual abuse imagery of children, deepfake intimate-image abuse, and the structural failure of platform regulation to protect women and girls. Skip if this is not the day for it.
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12% of UK Adults Use AI as a Friend. The Question Nobody Is Asking.
Tomorrow, the Archbishop of Canterbury asks the House of Lords whether AI is destroying human relationships. The evidence suggests these relationships were already strained.
The House of Lords debates artificial intelligence and human rela...
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Full Professor of Critical AI Literacy in Edinburgh. I write about when to use AI and when to leave it the hell alone. Author of GenAI in Higher Education (Bloomsbury, 2026).
Exploring ChatGPT. AI News, Technology, Markets.
Chronic wanderlust, deeply curious, boundless energy | Former Sesame Street, Netflix, PBS Kids | Mom (teen girl and English bulldog) | Doctorate in education.
I help professionals make AI work for them without losing themselves | The HART Studio | Stanford behavioral science PhD + data science and AI
I'm here in this AI moment with you. I'm a journalist and storyteller. I've written for The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine, Today’s Parent, Channel 4, the CBC, and more. In Human+AI, I write about how AI is changing society.
I help parents approach classic literature as thresholds—where the story shapes a soul, and mystery does the teaching
AI builder • Vibe Coder • Make money with AI • I turn friction into practical AI systems, and help you achieve the same.
Top Substack AI strategy coach & fractional AI Officer (jsalinas.org). 2x founder. Creator of the AI Leadership Triad. Writing for leaders who want to apply human-centered AI strategy \ud83c\udde6\ud83c\uddf7 \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddf4 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8
Decoding the grammar of power. Applying business strategy with pragmatics & sociolinguistics to expose how authority is constructed across corporate & AI ecosystems. Views my own, not my employer’s.
AI builder with mixed feelings about AI. Agency owner (custom software, product messaging). Creator of CarouselBot, a tool that turns your posts into LinkedIn carousels.
A lawyer-writer exposing the emotional truth of modern work. Where law, identity, and survival collide. Mother. Storyteller. Writing from the messy middle of life, and questioning how we lead, what we value, and the systems we serve.
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