Tom Chatfield
British author and technology philosopher who writes about critical thinking, digital culture and AI, and chairs the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society.
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Their wordsAI’s power must not be allowed to hollow out the very skills required to navigate an AI age successfully.
↗By definition, learning cannot be outsourcedtomchatfield.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsBy definition, learning cannot be automated or outsourced.
↗By definition, learning cannot be outsourcedtomchatfield.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsIn the long term, everyone loses if education becomes an arms race.
↗By definition, learning cannot be outsourcedtomchatfield.substack.com 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 14 months earlier
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Hype is a form of ingratitude that pretends there is no such thing as luck or indebtedness.
Their wordsBecause hype is also a form of ingratitude: a story of heroism or inexorability that pretends there’s no such thing as luck or indebtedness.
- 9 months earlier
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We should not be expected to trust an AI system's outputs unless we know what it was trained on.
Their wordsUnless we know what information a system was trained upon, we cannot and should not be expected to trust its outputs.
↗How to think about AI and creative labourtomchatfield.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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AI is an amplifier applied to human nature, incapable of regulating or comprehending itself.
Their wordsAI is neither autonomous, “good” nor “bad.” Rather, it is a kind of amplifier applied to human nature: a statistical tool capable of producing endlessly plausible outputs, yet fundamentally incapable of regulating or comprehending itself.
↗How to think about AI and creative labourtomchatfield.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece