by Andrew Maynard | Jan 10, 2026 | Blog
Could on-demand, seductively responsive and highly fluent AI models bypass our “epistemic vigilance” mechanisms, and present a novel cognitive risk? Originally published on The Future of Being Human Back in December, I asked attendees at the OEB25...
by Andrew Maynard | Dec 21, 2025 | Future of Being Human Newsletter
Video games trick players by only rendering in high detail what’s being observed. So do spatial computing headsets. Even our eyes and brain do it. Maybe the universe does as well … Originally published on The Future of Being Human Does reality exist beyond...
by Andrew Maynard | Dec 7, 2025 | Future of Being Human Newsletter
The recently announced Genesis Mission sets out to transform how science is done in the US. Yet it’s a mission that places national labs—and not universities—in the driving seat. Originally published on The Future of Being Human A couple of weeks ago the US...
by Andrew Maynard | Nov 19, 2025 | Future of Being Human Newsletter
This year’s Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year is “parasocial”—spurred on by growing concerns over our love affair with AI chatbots Originally published on The Future of Being Human Well, this is awkward. Back in May I wrote about why...
by Andrew Maynard | Nov 21, 2023 | Blog
Documents to train ChatGPT to simulate a company like OpenAI using the Risk Innovation Planner from the ASU Risk Innovation Nexus The following documents were used in conversation with ChatGPT, and formed the basis of this article on using the Risk Innovation Planner...
