Artificial Intelligence

Hype, Hope, and the Human Element in AI and Education

This week's episode of Modem Futura touches on OpenAI's rumored $20k AI tiers, the Ethic of Care in classrooms, and how Dewey’s “four impulses” can…

Mar 18 •

Rethinking Higher Education in the Age of AI

How embracing playful experimentation can redefine universities in an era of limitless intelligence

Mar 16 •

AI in Higher Education: Students need playgrounds, not playpens

AI capabilities are moving so fast, and the implications are so profound, that we restrict the ability of students to learn through curiosity…

Mar 15 •

The "hard" concept of care in technology innovation

Does a lack of care in how we develop and use new technologies risk turning us and our creations into "monsters?"

Mar 9 •

Photography in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

This week's episode of Modem Futura explores the changing relationship between photographer and photograph as AI transforms the art of image making

Mar 4 •

AI and the lure of permissionless innovation

What could possibly go wrong as we prize the guardrails of responsibility off artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies?

Mar 2 •

This is NOT a podcast about AI

This week on Modem Futura Sean and I try desperately hard not to talk about AI, and end up chatting about tech, story telling, sci-fi, and the art of…

Feb 25 •

An AI model that can decode and design living organisms

The Arc Institute's new EVO 2 model does for DNA what ChatGPT did for words

Feb 23 •

AI: The Medium is the "Massage?"

Marshall McLuhan, The Medium is the Message, and other highlights from this week's episode of Modem Futura

Feb 18 •

The Artisanal Intellectual in the Age of AI

How is advanced artificial intelligence forcing a rethink of the value of human intellectual labor?

Feb 16 •

AI humility, artisanal intellectuals, and Reid Hoffman's Superagency

Some of the highlights in this week's episode of Modem Futura

Feb 11 •

Can AI write your PhD dissertation for you?

I spent four days trying to get OpenAI's new tool Deep Research to research and write a complete dissertation. This is what I discovered.

Feb 9 •

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