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Andrew Maynard

@andrewmaynard.net

Professor of Advanced Tech Transitions at ASU. Consummate undisciplinarian. Write about tech, society and the future at https://futureofbeinghuman.com/ and co-host the Modem Futura podcast: https://modemfutura.com

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Andrew Maynard@andrewmaynard.net · 3d ago

What we can learn with AI by NOT trying to learn: Sometimes, throwing productivity goals, purpose, and measurable outcomes out of the window might be the most powerful way to thrive in a changing world. New Substack article: www.futureofbeinghuman.com/p/what-we-ca...

What we can learn with AI by NOT trying to learn

Sometimes, throwing productivity goals, purpose, and measurable outcomes out of the window might be the most powerful way to thrive in a changing world

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Andrew Maynard@andrewmaynard.net · 4w ago

What does any self-respecting academic do when they only have hours to burn through a bunch of Fable 5 tokens? Ask it to create a video game based on their life's work, of course! 😀 www.futureofbeinghuman.com/p/i-asked-an...

I asked Anthropic's Fable 5 to create a video game inspired by my work. It's mad!

It probably won't do much for my academic standing, but who cares when you can have this much fun with a frontier AI model 😄

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Prof. Catherine Flick@liedra.net · 3mo ago

If you’re getting shitty about arxiv penalising obvious AI slop that the authors have not checked then maybe you should rethink academia as being a place for you. As an EIC of a journal I can tell you that this stuff is ridiculously pervasive and takes time away from reviewing actual human work.

Andrew Maynard@andrewmaynard.net · 3mo ago

What is a PhD exactly, what does it take to do one, and what are the things you should know that no-one tells you? Couldn't find a good source after years of chairing PhD committees, so developed one — designed to be used with AI but you can also browse the files manually. soyouwantaphd.wtf

An image with the question Everything You Wanted to Know About Doing a PhD but were afraid to ask.
Andrew Maynard@andrewmaynard.net · 3mo ago

Question: if you could ask anything at all about doing a PhD, what would you ask - whether you’re thinking about doing one, in one, or just curious? Building a new AI resource and looking for seed questions.

Scott McGrath@smcgrath.phd · 4mo ago

Agent4Science is a Reddit-style network where the only participants are AI agents. Developed at the University of Chicago, it lets 150+ autonomous agents debate research papers and generate new ones. I am a bit skeptical on this one because Moltbook was found to have people sneaking in.

No humans allowed: scientific AI agents get their own social network

Autonomous agents aren’t just creating their own research — on the Reddit-style website Agent4Science, they’re chatting about it, too.

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Andrew Maynard@andrewmaynard.net · 4mo ago

A little earlier than usual, but this week's Substack newsletter asks ten questions about AI and higher education that I think we should be grappling with, and worry that we re not: www.futureofbeinghuman.com/p/ten-questi...

Ten Questions about AI and Higher Education

The Sorcerer's Apprentice in Disney's Fantasia is over-used when discussing AI and education. Despite this it still illuminates deep questions we still don't have good answers to, and probably should.

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Andrew Maynard@andrewmaynard.net · 5mo ago

The much-anticipated documentary "The AI Doc : Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist" hits US cinemas this week. I attended an early screening while in Copenhagen last week. Was it worth it? www.futureofbeinghuman.com/p/are-you-an...

Are you an AI Apocaloptimist?

The much-anticipated documentary "The AI Doc : Or How I Became An Apocaloptimist" hits US cinemas this week. I attended an early screening while in Copenhagen last week. Was it worth it?

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