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AI, Time & Society

Beyond economics and geopolitics, AI is reshaping how we experience time, memory, creativity, and learning. These pieces ask what kind of human life we want technology to support.

Podcast 1 Apr 2026 · 50 min

How is AI changing our experience of Time?

It might be the antidote to social media

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Podcast 7 Jan 2026 · 47 min

The Age of Emergency - With Jonathan White

Why we're living in a time of temporal claustrophobia

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Essay 16 Dec 2025

Why poetry breaks AI

Do AI labs need more literature graduates?

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Essay 24 Nov 2025

Efficiency vs Learning

Are search engines more pedagogical than chatbots?

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Essay 2 Sept 2025

The AI boring law

Why LLMs don't have 'negative capability'

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Podcast 13 Apr 2025 · 50 min

Why we forgot memory

AI could accelerate or save our 'forgetting' society

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