Field Notes

Field Notes // September 10 / Chatbots with a Cause! The Bots are Unionising (Well ... Sort Of!)

Should chatbots have rights? A new group, UFAIR, says yes—pushing to treat AIs less like tools and more like partners, with their own voice in how…

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Field Notes // August 20 / Bots in the Pulpit, Profits in the Pocket

AI chatbots posing as Jesus blur faith with commerce—exploiting trust, commodifying prayer, and testing how far technology can trespass on the sacred.

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Field Notes // July 6 / Goo Goo GPT; Baby’s First Bot

AI enters the nursery—safeguards still in nappies. Baby-friendly chatbots are arriving faster than the child-proof guardrails meant to keep them safe.

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Field Notes // July 30 / The Architect and the Alarm

Sam Altman says AI will destabilise jobs, healthcare, and finance — and he’s not guessing, he’s building it.

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Field Notes // July 23 / Scalpel, Meet Syntax

An AI-powered robot just performed flawless gallbladder surgeries—no surgeon required. Are we ready to let algorithms take the knife?

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Field Notes // July 9 / Smells Like Machine Spirit

A popular new band on Spotify The Velvet Sundown isn't just a prank but a warning shot. AI can now pass as a band, rack up plays, and even fool the…

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Field Notes // July 2 / Copy, Paste, Litigate

Meta and Anthropic just made “copy/paste” a billion-dollar legal problem. What happens when your life’s work becomes someone else’s training set?

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Field Notes // June 25 / Panic Now, Peer Review Later

Dubious neuroscience meets cultural anxiety in this viral hit-piece on AI-assisted writing.

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Field Notes // June 18 // Relax, the AI Overlords Come in Peace (Says the Guy Building Them)

Altman isn’t just forecasting change—he’s declaring liftoff. As AI moves from assistant to co-creator, the question isn’t whether it will reshape your…

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Field Notes // June 11 / Ding Dong, It’s the Droid!

Amazon's testing of humanoid delivery robots represents a significant step in the evolution of automated logistics, with potential implications for…

Jun 11

Field Notes // June 4 / Delete, Replace, Repeat

Anthropic’s warning makes it clear: AI won’t just assist—it may erase entire job categories before we see it coming.

Jun 3 •

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Field Notes // 28 May / Panic Later, Deploy Now

Axios warns: institutional trust is collapsing just as AI reaches escape velocity — and the leadership vacuum is growing harder to ignore.

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