Cal Newport
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Why Reading Matters
Last week, Rose Horowitch published a splashy Atlantic article titled “The End of Reading is Here.” (Ironically, given the subject matter, it weighed in at ...
Beware of Productivity Paradoxes
Few recent technological innovations were better poised to become a productivity slam dunk than the personal computer. Spreadsheets, word processors, databases, presentation software, email – ...
AI Isn’t Breaking Work. It’s Already Broken.
The Financial Times recently reported an interview with Rebecca Hinds, head of the Work AI Institute. Hinds was discussing a new survey of 6,000 digital ...
Why Isn’t AI Taking Our Jobs?
The leaders of AI companies often compare their technology to industrial automation: just as machines eliminated jobs that depended on human brawn, AI will eliminate ...
Instead of Taking Your Job, A.I. Might Transform It
In its current incarnation, A. I. may not be poised to eliminate swaths of human jobs—but it certainly has the power to transform them.
The Pope vs. Silicon Valley
Last fall, the Notre Dame philosopher, Meghan Sullivan, participated in a closed-door meeting at the Vatican. She was there to discuss AI ethics with a ...
On God and LLMs
The second chapter of Genesis poetically describes the beginning of the human story. “The Lord formed Adam from the dust of the earth,” it reads. ...