Archive - Creative Differences

A new year comes around, and we intend (but mostly pretend) to start afresh.

Jan 6 • Donald Farmer

December 2025

On Being a Good Partner to AI

A Theory of Mind helps, but don’t feel too good about it

Dec 23, 2025 • Donald Farmer

November 2025

The Misremembered Creature

What Frankenstein Really Tells Us About AI

Nov 29, 2025 • Donald Farmer

Empathy can’t wait

AI for helplines is not only about crises

Nov 10, 2025 • Donald Farmer

September 2025

Artificial Sanctity

Who gets to decide what counts as authentic spiritual guidance?

Sep 25, 2025 • Donald Farmer

Gísli Rafn Ólafsson - The Crisis Leader

Back in 2013, my friend Gísli Rafn Ólafsson wrote an excellent book - The Crisis Leader - based on his experience as a technologist (I first met him at…

Sep 10, 2025 • Donald Farmer

A walk with uncertainty

Come for a walk with me.

Sep 8, 2025 • Donald Farmer

August 2025

Rethinking a New York landmark

Aug 25, 2025 • Donald Farmer

In my last post, AI Fast and Slow, I explored how AI adoption moves along different timelines (corporate, systemic, and personal), each with its own…

Aug 16, 2025 • Donald Farmer

AI fast and slow

I feel like I have been reading recently quite contradictory observations about the pace of AI development and adoption.

Aug 14, 2025 • Donald Farmer

July 2025

Project Vend - the Consciousness Trap

I have written about Anthropic’s Project Vend as an example of how anthropocentric thinking obscures basic system design failures and re-presents them…

Jul 14, 2025 • Donald Farmer

Project Vend - The Anthropomorphism Trap

In my previous post about Anthropic's Project Vend, I argued that the much-discussed failure of this experiment was primarily a system design issue…

Jul 7, 2025 • Donald Farmer