The first three pieces in this series argued that AI is more useful than the public conversation usually admits, and less magical than the marketing suggests. Question 1 looked at what AI can help you investigate. Question 2 looked at protecting yourself from the AI-generated noise that surrounds you. Question 3 looked at getting an…
There’s a question almost everyone has asked themselves at some point. In a relationship, with a colleague, at the school gate, on the phone with a parent. “Am I the unreasonable one here?” It’s one of the hardest questions to get a straight answer to. Friends are biased toward you. Family is biased depending on…
This is the second in a series demonstrating how AI can help us investigate the systems shaping our world. The first looked outward, at ecosystems and economics, and who pays when natural systems fail. This one looks at something closer to home, that lands in your inbox every day, and asks why we are still…
This is the first in a series demonstrating how AI can help us investigate the systems shaping our world. Rather than accepting surface explanations, we’ll explore what happens when ordinary curiosity meets powerful analytical tools. Earlier today, I heard something on the news about South Australia’s third major algal bloom in recent years. The official…
The AI conversation has become exhaustingly predictable. On one side, we have the doom merchants warning that artificial intelligence will steal our jobs, manipulate our elections, and possibly end civilisation. On the other, we have the tech evangelists promising AI will cure cancer, solve climate change, and usher in a golden age of prosperity. Both…