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As AI constructs our future, explore its impact and understand its key themes.

Nick Jones

Nick is the senior editor of Seen & Unseen.

An AI-created painting of a scene comprising a lap top user holding their face, with candles in the foreground

AI confronts the creative.

Daniel Kim.

Essay

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Laughing, unruliness, and diplomacy

Jonny Torrance: we’re less in control than we think; Henna Cundill: AI will...

2025-05-05

Is AI animation really harmless fun?

Toying around with AI trinkets just feeds our shadows.

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The many exceptions to the rules are what make us human.

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Alexandra Kytka-Sharpe

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Apple Intelligence promises to safeguard us from the worst of ourselves.

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Podcast

Podcasts

Seen & Unseen Aloud

5 May 2025

1 min read

Laughing, unruliness, and diplomacy

Jonny Torrance: we’re less in control than we think; Henna Cundill: AI will never codify the exceptions. And Jamie Mulvaney ask what's the right backdrop for diplomacy.

Natalie Williams

Natalie is the chief executive of Jubilee+ and an author.

On this Bank Holiday Monday, Jonny Torrance comments on Last One Laughing, deciding we’re less in control than we think; Henna Cundill suggests that AI will never codify the many unruly exceptions to rules as they are what make us human; Jamie Mulvaney asks whether or not a funeral is the appropriate backdrop for diplomacy.