What happens when the AI tools we used to make life easier started to change the way we think?
Journalist and author Jamie Bartlett joins Elizabeth Oldfield for a live recording to explore what AI reveals about human nature, why we keep using tools we’re worried about, and what we risk losing when we let machines do our thinking for us.
We talk about:
• How using AI has affected Jamie’s own writing and thinking
• Why language models can be so good at flattering us and exploiting our own biases
• What it means to remain thoughtful and human in an age of increasingly capable machines
• How we can learn to ask better questions - not just of AI, but of ourselves Jamie Bartlett is a journalist and author whose work explores the social and political consequences of technology.
His books include How to Talk to AI, The People vs. Tech and Radicals.
Thank you to everyone who joined us in the room and to those who sent us their thoughts on AI ahead of the evening.
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