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...
by Andrew Maynard | Aug 22, 2023 | Blog
Connecting influences to ideas isn’t always easy — and this has just got harder with the growth of generative AI I’m appallingly bad at recalling how my thinking has morphed and evolved over time, and what or whom has influenced this process. As a result, I’m...
by Andrew Maynard | Aug 15, 2023 | Blog
A list of ChatGPT prompts and example responses that are designed to help understand, explore, and become familiar with the platform — especially in an academic setting. All the links below will take you to a ChatGPT conversation. If you have an account with...
by Andrew Maynard | Aug 14, 2023 | Blog
Having just finished teaching one of the country’s first undergraduate courses on using ChatGPT, I’m more excited than ever by how the tool stimulates creative and critical thinking I’ve spent the past six weeks reading over 2,000 conversations between...
by Andrew Maynard | Apr 27, 2023 | Blog
23 years ago, the Sun Microsystems co-founder raised serious concerns about out-of-control technology innovation. As we grapple with the latest wave of AI, it’s time to revisit his article. In April 2000, Sun Microsystems co-founder Bill Joy shook the world of...
by Andrew Maynard | Apr 27, 2023 | Blog
We need new thinking, research, ideas, and strategies, for ensuring advanced technologies are harnessed to ensure a better future for as many people as possible. And we need them fast! This is, by any measure, a procrastination post. I’m supposed to be writing a...
by Andrew Maynard | Apr 3, 2023 | Blog
Given how all over the place conversations are on safe, responsible and beneficial AI development at the moment, I thought it worth posting this chapter from the 2018 book Films from the Future In 2018 I wrote about thinking in broad, creative, and deeply...
