The Future of Being Human
Andrew Maynard, Sean DudleyReflections on tech, society & the future from advanced technology transitions expert and self-confessed "undisciplinarian" Professor Andrew Maynard.
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Being an Academic in an Age of AI
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A couple of weeks ago (on September 8) I gave a talk at King’s College London, at the invitation of its Vice-Chancellor and President, Professor Shitij Kapur.
I was asked to be provocative, and I must confess that I didn...
Reasoning LLMs just want to have fun
I was in two minds as to whether to post this article. On one hand, it feels a bit self-indulgent. On the other, it is an interesting exercise — and, I think, a worthwhile one — in using play, creativity, and serendipity, to explore how “re...
Will AI really kill us all? No. But it’s also complicated.
Eight years ago, I posted a video on the Risk Bites YouTube channel on what I thought at the time were some of the less obvious risks emerging around AI — not to stoke fears (not my style), but to help prepare the ground for informed approa...
Anthropic’s Fable 5.1 as an original scholar, and more insights into AI as a primary author
If you’ve been following my posts over the past few months, you’ll know that I’ve been exploring the ability of frontier AI models to research and write original academic papers. The results so far have been somewhat variable, and not helpe...
Do universities have a place in Bill Gates’ AI Transition Plan?
Bill Gates’ new essay “The turbulent AI era is here …” has been causing quite a stir. But in all the responses to it I’ve read so far, I haven’t seen much on what it implies for university leadership in, in his words, “preparing adequately...
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Andrew Maynard is a scientist, writer, and professor at Arizona State University, where he directs the Future of Being Human initiative.
Sean Dudley has served at Arizona State University, the largest university in the U.S., for over twenty years, and as Chief Research Information Officer, he also teaches and conducts research while leading the Research Technology Office.
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