by Andrew Maynard | Feb 14, 2026 | Blog
When Jeff Abbott and I were finalizing AI and the Art of Being Human last year, we had mockups printed in a bunch of different sizes and form factors. The published version ended up at 6″ × 9″ — a size that felt right for the business and management...
by Andrew Maynard | Feb 8, 2026 | Blog
I thought I was pretty savvy when it comes to navigating AI hallucinations. I was wrong. Originally published on The Future of Being Human This is a tale of beeswax. And AI. But mainly it’s a tale of how even the best of us can get sucked into an AI alternative...
by Andrew Maynard | Jan 31, 2026 | Blog
A new “Social Network for AI Agents” is breaking the internet. And things are getting weird … Originally published on The Future of Being Human Unless you’ve been living under a rock this past week, you’ve probably at least heard rumors of a new...
by Andrew Maynard | Jan 25, 2026 | Blog
I wrote a paper … Originally published on The Future of Being Human Is it possible to be an academic, a scientist, a scholar, in 2026, and not have AI impact your work in some way? And, even more importantly for those scholars grappling with “AI Use”...
by Andrew Maynard | Jan 22, 2026 | Blog
Anthropic’s new AI Constitution profoundly challenges how we think about, develop, and use artificial intelligence, while also opening up potentially transformative possibilities Originally published on The Future of Being Human It’s rare that a new technology...
by Andrew Maynard | Jan 17, 2026 | Blog
I deeply dislike AI-generated academic slop. But I’m curious about how AI can genuinely accelerate legitimate research. So I took the plunge … Originally published on The Future of Being Human Just under a year ago I wrote about how I used AI to write...
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...
