The Cognitive Work of Reading
Reading looks still from the outside, but inside the mind it is an active process of attention, inference, memory, and imagination.
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The Family Car Was Already Quiet Before AI Arrived
Sam Altman’s suggestion of an AI-generated podcast for the school run was criticised as another attempt to automate human interaction.
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AI Is Not the Weather
When AI leaders speak of tsunamis, singularities and approaching foothills, they do more than describe technological progress. They turn decisions made by companies and institutions into forces of nature—and make a contested future sound inevitable.
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