It would be easy to define our 2025 by those wounding moments. By the cuts still open, the stitches applied, real and metaphorical, the bruises, both faded and fresh. You only need to look around you, at the landscape, the climate, the nation, and the world, to see reasons why this focus makes sense. The wounds shape us. They instruct our immune systems, and define our responses to subsequent events, whether those future events are actually traumatic or not. They mark our skin, scar our brains, label us as having struggled. I could easily define myself by those wounds.
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Things we can say no to
Banning kids under 16 from social media might make great headlines, and give the government the appearance of doing something meaningful, but it's tokenistic at best, harmful at worst. We could have an internet that doesn't consume us for fun and profit. We're choosing not to.
The Art of Being Difficult
I want to talk about change, about people, about systems, what it takes to make progress, and why being difficult is so important. From fire alarms to hospital beds. From music apps to cars. From climate change to education. Our systems are not serving us well, and it's time to push back.
Set an AI to Catch an AI
we can't detect AI enabled writing with any reasonable degree of confidence. And no, we can't mark student work with LLMs, or solve real world problems with LLMs, or replace the people doing jobs requiring judgement, compassion, or rationality with LLMs. Not without suffering painful regrets when it comes time to deal with the consequences!
Making Sense of AI
So you haven’t got time to read through hefty books about the AI industry. You’ve had fun with image generators, and you find chatbots useful although occasionally alarming. But there’s information firing at you from all directions, and it’s wildly contradictory, alarming, exciting, and horrifying, all at the same time. What the heck are you supposed to do?