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Learning what you lose every time you hand your thinking to a machine.

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There Are Three Ways to Learn With AI. Most People Use None of Them.

Mar 25 • Dr Sam Illingworth

AI Summaries Are Making You Worse at Reading

Apr 1 • Dr Sam Illingworth

American College Students Are Refusing AI. The Resistance Is Real. The Strategy Is Wrong.

Jun 3 • Dr Sam Illingworth

Your AI Expert Might Be a Fraud

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AI Detection Will Always Be Broken

The software does not work, it never will, and chasing it has already cost us the one thing that matters in a classroom.

Jun 19 • Dr Sam Illingworth

When Your AI Disappears, What Happens to Your Work?

Any AI model can be banned, broken, deprecated, or priced out of reach overnight. The only real safeguard is a way of working that survives any single…

Jun 17 • Dr Sam Illingworth

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Slow Takes Ep. 15: Who’s Asking?

Five stories from the week AI was handed the keys, and almost nobody checked who was asking for them.

Jun 15 • Dr Sam Illingworth and Exploring ChatGPT

We Are Using the Wrong Words for AI

A new dictionary for a technology we keep describing with borrowed words.

Jun 12 • Dr Sam Illingworth and The Strategic Linguist

You Cannot Willpower Your Way Out of AI Deskilling

New research argues that losing your skills to AI is a structural problem, not a personal failing. That changes what you should do about it.

Jun 10 • Dr Sam Illingworth

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Slow Takes Ep. 14: A Trillion Dollars and a Vaccine

Five stories from the week the courts came for AI, and one lab in Cambridge showed what the honest version looks like.

Jun 8 • Dr Sam Illingworth and Exploring ChatGPT

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