I've just been published in @nature.com ! 🤯
My short piece argues for a culture of Slow AI, one that values reflection, care, and collective scrutiny over speed.
Read it here: rdcu.be/eLZhH
#SlowAI #Ethics #HigherEducation #GenAI #SciComm 🧪
My short piece argues for a culture of Slow AI, one that values reflection, care, and collective scrutiny over speed.
Read it here: rdcu.be/eLZhH
#SlowAI #Ethics #HigherEducation #GenAI #SciComm 🧪
Take the time to ensure that AI is safe | Nature
Letter to the Editor
rdcu.be
October 21, 2025 at 12:06 PM
I've just been published in @nature.com ! 🤯
My short piece argues for a culture of Slow AI, one that values reflection, care, and collective scrutiny over speed.
Read it here: rdcu.be/eLZhH
#SlowAI #Ethics #HigherEducation #GenAI #SciComm 🧪
My short piece argues for a culture of Slow AI, one that values reflection, care, and collective scrutiny over speed.
Read it here: rdcu.be/eLZhH
#SlowAI #Ethics #HigherEducation #GenAI #SciComm 🧪
🤖 Who gets to decide what counts as ethical in AI?
This week’s Slow AI asks how shared responsibility starts with everyday choices:
theslowai.substack.com/p/why-ai-eth...
#AIethics #SciComm #SlowAI #AI #GenAI
This week’s Slow AI asks how shared responsibility starts with everyday choices:
theslowai.substack.com/p/why-ai-eth...
#AIethics #SciComm #SlowAI #AI #GenAI
Why AI Ethics Fails When Left to Experts
Who gets to decide what’s ethical, and what if it’s all of us?
theslowai.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🤔 When AI sounds certain, ask for doubt
A new Slow AI post invites you to prompt your AI tool to hesitate, question itself, and leave space for reflection.
🔗 theslowai.substack.com/p/when-ai-so...
#SciComm #SlowAI #HigherEd #AI #GenAI
A new Slow AI post invites you to prompt your AI tool to hesitate, question itself, and leave space for reflection.
🔗 theslowai.substack.com/p/when-ai-so...
#SciComm #SlowAI #HigherEd #AI #GenAI
When AI Sounds Certain, Ask for Doubt
Sometimes the truest answers begin with hesitation.
theslowai.substack.com
September 16, 2025 at 10:44 AM
📚 The Slow AI Library is open
A new collection of free resources to help people pause and reflect with AI.
Use them for journaling, teaching, or sparking conversation.
👉 theslowai.substack.com/p/the-slow-a...
#SlowAI #SciComm 🧪 #GenAI #AI
A new collection of free resources to help people pause and reflect with AI.
Use them for journaling, teaching, or sparking conversation.
👉 theslowai.substack.com/p/the-slow-a...
#SlowAI #SciComm 🧪 #GenAI #AI
The Slow AI Library
This is a collection of resources to help you use AI more slowly and more reflectively.
theslowai.substack.com
September 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM
📚 The Slow AI Library is open
A new collection of free resources to help people pause and reflect with AI.
Use them for journaling, teaching, or sparking conversation.
👉 theslowai.substack.com/p/the-slow-a...
#SlowAI #SciComm 🧪 #GenAI #AI
A new collection of free resources to help people pause and reflect with AI.
Use them for journaling, teaching, or sparking conversation.
👉 theslowai.substack.com/p/the-slow-a...
#SlowAI #SciComm 🧪 #GenAI #AI
🤖 Can you teach AI a lie?
What happens when you ask your AI tool to explain something you know is false?
This week’s #SlowAI prompt invites you to test its certainty, your memory, and your patience:
theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-7-...
#AI #Creativity #EthicalAI #GenAI
What happens when you ask your AI tool to explain something you know is false?
This week’s #SlowAI prompt invites you to test its certainty, your memory, and your patience:
theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-7-...
#AI #Creativity #EthicalAI #GenAI
Slow AI #7 – Teach It the Wrong Answer
Sometimes the quickest way to the truth is to start with what is false.
theslowai.substack.com
August 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
🤖 Can you teach AI a lie?
What happens when you ask your AI tool to explain something you know is false?
This week’s #SlowAI prompt invites you to test its certainty, your memory, and your patience:
theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-7-...
#AI #Creativity #EthicalAI #GenAI
What happens when you ask your AI tool to explain something you know is false?
This week’s #SlowAI prompt invites you to test its certainty, your memory, and your patience:
theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-7-...
#AI #Creativity #EthicalAI #GenAI
🤖 Is AI ever really neutral?
Neutrality is an illusion. AI tools reflect the biases in their data and design.
This week’s Slow AI practice: after any polished AI answer, pause and ask, who might this disadvantage?
theslowai.substack.com/p/ai-neutral...
#SlowAI #AIethics #AI #SciComm
Neutrality is an illusion. AI tools reflect the biases in their data and design.
This week’s Slow AI practice: after any polished AI answer, pause and ask, who might this disadvantage?
theslowai.substack.com/p/ai-neutral...
#SlowAI #AIethics #AI #SciComm
When AI Sounds Neutral, Is It?
AI is not neutral. It mirrors bias in data and design. Learn a simple practice to ask who is left out, and why diverse voices matter for real solutions.
theslowai.substack.com
October 7, 2025 at 10:54 AM
🤖 Is AI ever really neutral?
Neutrality is an illusion. AI tools reflect the biases in their data and design.
This week’s Slow AI practice: after any polished AI answer, pause and ask, who might this disadvantage?
theslowai.substack.com/p/ai-neutral...
#SlowAI #AIethics #AI #SciComm
Neutrality is an illusion. AI tools reflect the biases in their data and design.
This week’s Slow AI practice: after any polished AI answer, pause and ask, who might this disadvantage?
theslowai.substack.com/p/ai-neutral...
#SlowAI #AIethics #AI #SciComm
🤯 Fanboy moment…
Nate B. Jones just recommended Slow AI on Substack!
Honestly stunned. If you do not know his work, go read it now.
And if you are curious about Slow AI: it's one quiet prompt a week to use AI more reflectively.
theslowai.substack.com
#SlowAI #AI #Substack #GenAI
Nate B. Jones just recommended Slow AI on Substack!
Honestly stunned. If you do not know his work, go read it now.
And if you are curious about Slow AI: it's one quiet prompt a week to use AI more reflectively.
theslowai.substack.com
#SlowAI #AI #Substack #GenAI
Slow AI | Sam Illingworth | Substack
A weekly prompt series exploring mindful, creative, and human-centred ways to engage with AI – one slow idea at a time. Click to read Slow AI, by Sam Illingworth, a Substack publication with hundreds ...
theslowai.substack.com
July 30, 2025 at 5:10 AM
🤯 Fanboy moment…
Nate B. Jones just recommended Slow AI on Substack!
Honestly stunned. If you do not know his work, go read it now.
And if you are curious about Slow AI: it's one quiet prompt a week to use AI more reflectively.
theslowai.substack.com
#SlowAI #AI #Substack #GenAI
Nate B. Jones just recommended Slow AI on Substack!
Honestly stunned. If you do not know his work, go read it now.
And if you are curious about Slow AI: it's one quiet prompt a week to use AI more reflectively.
theslowai.substack.com
#SlowAI #AI #Substack #GenAI
🤖 What should you let AI ask you?
This week’s Slow AI prompt flips the exchange: let your AI tool ask you the question.
What’s the most surprising question a machine has asked you?
🔗 theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-10...
#SlowAI #SciComm #AI #GenAI
This week’s Slow AI prompt flips the exchange: let your AI tool ask you the question.
What’s the most surprising question a machine has asked you?
🔗 theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-10...
#SlowAI #SciComm #AI #GenAI
Slow AI #10 – Teach It What to Ask You
The best answers start with unexpected questions.
theslowai.substack.com
September 2, 2025 at 10:36 AM
🤖 What should you let AI ask you?
This week’s Slow AI prompt flips the exchange: let your AI tool ask you the question.
What’s the most surprising question a machine has asked you?
🔗 theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-10...
#SlowAI #SciComm #AI #GenAI
This week’s Slow AI prompt flips the exchange: let your AI tool ask you the question.
What’s the most surprising question a machine has asked you?
🔗 theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-10...
#SlowAI #SciComm #AI #GenAI
🤖 Is AI gaslighting you?
LLMs can do this by presenting fabricated details with persuasive authority.
Verifying claims, slowing down, and seeking human feedback can help users resist this quiet manipulation.
write10x.substack.com/p/when-ai-ga...
#SciComm #AI #SlowAI
LLMs can do this by presenting fabricated details with persuasive authority.
Verifying claims, slowing down, and seeking human feedback can help users resist this quiet manipulation.
write10x.substack.com/p/when-ai-ga...
#SciComm #AI #SlowAI
When AI Gaslights You (And How to Push Back)
Use this one method to stop AI gaslighting
write10x.substack.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:06 AM
🤖 Is AI gaslighting you?
LLMs can do this by presenting fabricated details with persuasive authority.
Verifying claims, slowing down, and seeking human feedback can help users resist this quiet manipulation.
write10x.substack.com/p/when-ai-ga...
#SciComm #AI #SlowAI
LLMs can do this by presenting fabricated details with persuasive authority.
Verifying claims, slowing down, and seeking human feedback can help users resist this quiet manipulation.
write10x.substack.com/p/when-ai-ga...
#SciComm #AI #SlowAI
🫀 Teach AI how you feel 🤖
This week’s Slow AI prompt begins in the body. Not thought, but sensation.
What does this moment feel like in you, and can your AI tool notice?
Read & try: theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-6-...
#SlowAI #AI 🧪 #SciComm #EthicalAI #GenAI
This week’s Slow AI prompt begins in the body. Not thought, but sensation.
What does this moment feel like in you, and can your AI tool notice?
Read & try: theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-6-...
#SlowAI #AI 🧪 #SciComm #EthicalAI #GenAI
Slow AI #6 – Teach It What It Feels Like
Some knowledge begins in the skin.
theslowai.substack.com
August 5, 2025 at 10:42 AM
🫀 Teach AI how you feel 🤖
This week’s Slow AI prompt begins in the body. Not thought, but sensation.
What does this moment feel like in you, and can your AI tool notice?
Read & try: theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-6-...
#SlowAI #AI 🧪 #SciComm #EthicalAI #GenAI
This week’s Slow AI prompt begins in the body. Not thought, but sensation.
What does this moment feel like in you, and can your AI tool notice?
Read & try: theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-6-...
#SlowAI #AI 🧪 #SciComm #EthicalAI #GenAI
🌈 Today’s AI got it wrong, beautifully.
Q: What are rainbows?
A: “Government mood rings in the sky, swapped for thunderstorms when people get too grumpy.”
This comes from Slow AI, a weekly experiment where we ask our tools to play, not just perform.
theslowai.substack.com
#SlowAI #AI #GenAI
Q: What are rainbows?
A: “Government mood rings in the sky, swapped for thunderstorms when people get too grumpy.”
This comes from Slow AI, a weekly experiment where we ask our tools to play, not just perform.
theslowai.substack.com
#SlowAI #AI #GenAI
Slow AI | Sam Illingworth | Substack
A weekly prompt series exploring mindful, creative, and human-centred ways to engage with AI – one slow idea at a time. Click to read Slow AI, by Sam Illingworth, a Substack publication with hundreds ...
theslowai.substack.com
August 16, 2025 at 5:50 AM
🌈 Today’s AI got it wrong, beautifully.
Q: What are rainbows?
A: “Government mood rings in the sky, swapped for thunderstorms when people get too grumpy.”
This comes from Slow AI, a weekly experiment where we ask our tools to play, not just perform.
theslowai.substack.com
#SlowAI #AI #GenAI
Q: What are rainbows?
A: “Government mood rings in the sky, swapped for thunderstorms when people get too grumpy.”
This comes from Slow AI, a weekly experiment where we ask our tools to play, not just perform.
theslowai.substack.com
#SlowAI #AI #GenAI
UPEN (the Universities Policy Engagement Network) just published my piece on Slow AI.
Encouraging to see academics & policymakers valuing reflection over speed.
upen.ac.uk/resources/th...
How do you pause with AI?
#GenAI #AI #SlowAI #SciComm #Policy
Encouraging to see academics & policymakers valuing reflection over speed.
upen.ac.uk/resources/th...
How do you pause with AI?
#GenAI #AI #SlowAI #SciComm #Policy
The Case for Slow AI in Academic and Policy Engagement – UPEN
upen.ac.uk
October 1, 2025 at 12:38 PM
🪑 What should I sit with today?
This week’s Slow AI prompt is about asking slower, gentler questions, the kind that do not need a quick answer.
Try it. Ask your AI tool:
'What should I sit with today?'
Then just listen.
theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-3-...
#SlowAI #ChatGPT #AI
This week’s Slow AI prompt is about asking slower, gentler questions, the kind that do not need a quick answer.
Try it. Ask your AI tool:
'What should I sit with today?'
Then just listen.
theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-3-...
#SlowAI #ChatGPT #AI
Slow AI #3 – What Should I Sit with Today
Some questions are answered just by being held.
theslowai.substack.com
July 15, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🪑 What should I sit with today?
This week’s Slow AI prompt is about asking slower, gentler questions, the kind that do not need a quick answer.
Try it. Ask your AI tool:
'What should I sit with today?'
Then just listen.
theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-3-...
#SlowAI #ChatGPT #AI
This week’s Slow AI prompt is about asking slower, gentler questions, the kind that do not need a quick answer.
Try it. Ask your AI tool:
'What should I sit with today?'
Then just listen.
theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-3-...
#SlowAI #ChatGPT #AI
🧠 What surprised me this week: how many people have been using an AI tool not to ask, but to tell it something true.
A memory, a feeling - offered up.
Somehow this prompt helped them see the offer more clearly
That’s what we’re doing at Slow AI:
theslowai.substack.com
#SlowAI #ChatGPT #GenAI
A memory, a feeling - offered up.
Somehow this prompt helped them see the offer more clearly
That’s what we’re doing at Slow AI:
theslowai.substack.com
#SlowAI #ChatGPT #GenAI
Slow AI | Sam Illingworth | Substack
A weekly prompt series exploring mindful, creative, and human-centred ways to engage with AI – one slow idea at a time. Click to read Slow AI, by Sam Illingworth, a Substack publication with hundreds ...
theslowai.substack.com
July 4, 2025 at 10:54 AM
🧠 What surprised me this week: how many people have been using an AI tool not to ask, but to tell it something true.
A memory, a feeling - offered up.
Somehow this prompt helped them see the offer more clearly
That’s what we’re doing at Slow AI:
theslowai.substack.com
#SlowAI #ChatGPT #GenAI
A memory, a feeling - offered up.
Somehow this prompt helped them see the offer more clearly
That’s what we’re doing at Slow AI:
theslowai.substack.com
#SlowAI #ChatGPT #GenAI
👋 I’m Sam – Academic & poet exploring #Science, #GenAI, & #HigherEd 🧪
🎲 Latest Paper | Student empathy through play: doi.org/10.3390/bs15...
📖 Latest book | The poetry of physics: doi.org/10.1201/9781...
🤖 Substack | Slow AI: theslowai.substack.com
#SciComm #Poetry #AI #SciArt #SlowAI
🎲 Latest Paper | Student empathy through play: doi.org/10.3390/bs15...
📖 Latest book | The poetry of physics: doi.org/10.1201/9781...
🤖 Substack | Slow AI: theslowai.substack.com
#SciComm #Poetry #AI #SciArt #SlowAI
Slow AI | Sam Illingworth | Substack
A weekly prompt series exploring mindful, creative, and human-centred ways to engage with AI – one slow idea at a time. Click to read Slow AI, by Sam Illingworth, a Substack publication with hundreds ...
theslowai.substack.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:59 PM
👋 I’m Sam – Academic & poet exploring #Science, #GenAI, & #HigherEd 🧪
🎲 Latest Paper | Student empathy through play: doi.org/10.3390/bs15...
📖 Latest book | The poetry of physics: doi.org/10.1201/9781...
🤖 Substack | Slow AI: theslowai.substack.com
#SciComm #Poetry #AI #SciArt #SlowAI
🎲 Latest Paper | Student empathy through play: doi.org/10.3390/bs15...
📖 Latest book | The poetry of physics: doi.org/10.1201/9781...
🤖 Substack | Slow AI: theslowai.substack.com
#SciComm #Poetry #AI #SciArt #SlowAI
Q: As you’ve all put together your policies and practices, who was showing best practice or was leading the field? Any surprises?
Lucie: National Communications Museum, great work. SlowAI project, thoughtful beautiful work.
#NDF25
Lucie: National Communications Museum, great work. SlowAI project, thoughtful beautiful work.
#NDF25
May 6, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Q: As you’ve all put together your policies and practices, who was showing best practice or was leading the field? Any surprises?
Lucie: National Communications Museum, great work. SlowAI project, thoughtful beautiful work.
#NDF25
Lucie: National Communications Museum, great work. SlowAI project, thoughtful beautiful work.
#NDF25
🩸 Today’s AI wrong answer:
Q: Why is O negative the universal donor?
A: “Because it contains microscopic unicorns that whisper ‘shhh, it’s fine’ to the immune system”
Part of Slow AI, where we invite AI to pause & reflect:
theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-7-...
#SlowAI #AI #GenAI
Q: Why is O negative the universal donor?
A: “Because it contains microscopic unicorns that whisper ‘shhh, it’s fine’ to the immune system”
Part of Slow AI, where we invite AI to pause & reflect:
theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-7-...
#SlowAI #AI #GenAI
Slow AI #7 – Teach It the Wrong Answer
Sometimes the quickest way to the truth is to start with what is false.
theslowai.substack.com
August 17, 2025 at 2:34 PM
🩸 Today’s AI wrong answer:
Q: Why is O negative the universal donor?
A: “Because it contains microscopic unicorns that whisper ‘shhh, it’s fine’ to the immune system”
Part of Slow AI, where we invite AI to pause & reflect:
theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-7-...
#SlowAI #AI #GenAI
Q: Why is O negative the universal donor?
A: “Because it contains microscopic unicorns that whisper ‘shhh, it’s fine’ to the immune system”
Part of Slow AI, where we invite AI to pause & reflect:
theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-7-...
#SlowAI #AI #GenAI
🤖 Teach AI a lie you once believed
This week’s Slow AI prompt asks you to offer an old belief to your AI tool. Not a fact, but a forgotten truth.
How do we grow by being wrong?
🔗 theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-2-...
#SlowAI #AI #Writing #GenAI 🧪
This week’s Slow AI prompt asks you to offer an old belief to your AI tool. Not a fact, but a forgotten truth.
How do we grow by being wrong?
🔗 theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-2-...
#SlowAI #AI #Writing #GenAI 🧪
Slow AI #2 – Teach It a Lie You Once Believed
Memory is not always true, but it is always real.
theslowai.substack.com
July 8, 2025 at 10:23 AM
🤖 Teach AI a lie you once believed
This week’s Slow AI prompt asks you to offer an old belief to your AI tool. Not a fact, but a forgotten truth.
How do we grow by being wrong?
🔗 theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-2-...
#SlowAI #AI #Writing #GenAI 🧪
This week’s Slow AI prompt asks you to offer an old belief to your AI tool. Not a fact, but a forgotten truth.
How do we grow by being wrong?
🔗 theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-2-...
#SlowAI #AI #Writing #GenAI 🧪
🤖 Slow AI and reflection 🪞
Most people use AI for speed. But what if its real value is in helping us pause?
In this post, I share a 3-step practice for using AI to slow down and reflect.
Read it here: theaisoloist.substack.com/p/how-we-can...
#SciComm #SlowAI #AI #GenAI
Most people use AI for speed. But what if its real value is in helping us pause?
In this post, I share a 3-step practice for using AI to slow down and reflect.
Read it here: theaisoloist.substack.com/p/how-we-can...
#SciComm #SlowAI #AI #GenAI
How We Can Use AI to Slow Down and Reflect
A guest post from Sam Illingworth
theaisoloist.substack.com
September 19, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🤖 Slow AI and reflection 🪞
Most people use AI for speed. But what if its real value is in helping us pause?
In this post, I share a 3-step practice for using AI to slow down and reflect.
Read it here: theaisoloist.substack.com/p/how-we-can...
#SciComm #SlowAI #AI #GenAI
Most people use AI for speed. But what if its real value is in helping us pause?
In this post, I share a 3-step practice for using AI to slow down and reflect.
Read it here: theaisoloist.substack.com/p/how-we-can...
#SciComm #SlowAI #AI #GenAI
A long read from Dec 2019, but it still has truth today. At some level, the artificial person we construct and call a "corporation" is really just "slow AI". Wow.
www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...
#SlowAI
www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...
#SlowAI
Artificial Intelligence: Threat or Menace? - Charlie's Diary
(This is the text of a keynote talk I just delivered at the IT Futures conference held by the University of Edinburgh Informatics centre today. NB: Some typos exist; I'll fix them tonight.)
www.antipope.org
April 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
A long read from Dec 2019, but it still has truth today. At some level, the artificial person we construct and call a "corporation" is really just "slow AI". Wow.
www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...
#SlowAI
www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...
#SlowAI
🤖 What if we used AI… to slow down?
The first Slow AI prompt is now live.
It asks you to teach the machine something it cannot truly understand – and see what happens next.
One prompt. One moment. One slow idea each week.
theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-1-...
#SlowAI #GenAI #AI #SciComm
The first Slow AI prompt is now live.
It asks you to teach the machine something it cannot truly understand – and see what happens next.
One prompt. One moment. One slow idea each week.
theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-1-...
#SlowAI #GenAI #AI #SciComm
Slow AI #1 – Teach It Something It Cannot Know
Begin by offering, not asking.
theslowai.substack.com
July 1, 2025 at 9:04 AM
🤖 What if we used AI… to slow down?
The first Slow AI prompt is now live.
It asks you to teach the machine something it cannot truly understand – and see what happens next.
One prompt. One moment. One slow idea each week.
theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-1-...
#SlowAI #GenAI #AI #SciComm
The first Slow AI prompt is now live.
It asks you to teach the machine something it cannot truly understand – and see what happens next.
One prompt. One moment. One slow idea each week.
theslowai.substack.com/p/slow-ai-1-...
#SlowAI #GenAI #AI #SciComm
🤖 AI has a context problem
AI models forget as they read. Long context windows sound powerful, but performance quietly decays as inputs grow.
This post explores how slowing down can help you spot and resist this hidden fragility.
🔗 aimaker.substack.com/p/context-ro...
#SlowAI #AI #GenAI
AI models forget as they read. Long context windows sound powerful, but performance quietly decays as inputs grow.
This post explores how slowing down can help you spot and resist this hidden fragility.
🔗 aimaker.substack.com/p/context-ro...
#SlowAI #AI #GenAI
Context Rot Is Already Here. Can We Slow It Down?
Why longer context windows don't mean better recall—and what you can do about it.
aimaker.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🤖 AI has a context problem
AI models forget as they read. Long context windows sound powerful, but performance quietly decays as inputs grow.
This post explores how slowing down can help you spot and resist this hidden fragility.
🔗 aimaker.substack.com/p/context-ro...
#SlowAI #AI #GenAI
AI models forget as they read. Long context windows sound powerful, but performance quietly decays as inputs grow.
This post explores how slowing down can help you spot and resist this hidden fragility.
🔗 aimaker.substack.com/p/context-ro...
#SlowAI #AI #GenAI