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Nov 21, 2024 | 
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
linkedin.com | Tom Chatfield
Tom Chatfield’s Post Tech Philosopher | Chair | Speaker | Advisor on Critical Thinking, AI & Future Skills 4d Edited A few thoughts on what I think of as the "process paradox" - the fact that apparently robust consequentialist arguments along the lines of "it only matters that output X is created, not whether it's a human or AI that did it" actually *themselves* rely on the value of humans making stuff. If you can't tell whether works of literature, art or music were created by people or AIs,...
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
tomchatfield.substack.com | Tom Chatfield
An email search informs me that I’ve been contributing to New Philosophermagazine for a decade, now, almost to the day. If you don’t know it, it’s a lovely ad-free quarterly, with each issue themed around a single word. Quite a bit has happened to me over the last ten years, not least my son and daughter, and reflections on family and parenthood have increasingly found their way into my writing—something that, I think, has challenged and deepened my relationship with philosophy.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
theneweuropean.co.uk | Tom Chatfield
To invent the ship, wrote the French philosopher Paul Virilio, is also to invent the shipwreck. Every technological innovation brings both gains and unintended losses – and one of the great challenges for modern governments is to help maximise the first while mitigating the second.
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
theneweuropean.co.uk | Tom Chatfield |Matthew d’Ancona
PICK OF THE WEEKTHE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAYTheatre Royal Haymarket, London, until May 11It is a measure of Sarah Snook’s acting virtuosity that, moments after her appearance on the stage, one has completely forgotten about her iconic performance as Shiv Roy in Succession. Returning to the West End for the first time since her run in Ibsen’s The Master Builder in 2016, she plays no fewer than 26 characters in Kip Williams’s adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s 1890 novella.
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Feb 19, 2024 | 
tomchatfield.substack.com | Tom Chatfield |Wise Animals
I have a new book out later this week. With apologies to those who may be fed up with my mentioning it, I’m in equal measure excited, proud and nervous about this one. It’s called Wise Animals and is by far the most ambitious, personal thing I’ve written. It traces the co-evolution of humanity and technology across the last few million years, and the lessons this deep past may hold for the present. Thanks for reading How To Think! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
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Jan 26, 2024 | 
newphilosopher.com | Tom Chatfield
When I was growing up in the 1980s, my family and I sometimes played a board game called ‘The Game of Life’. Rather than throwing dice, you spun a central wheel to determine your move, yielding a number between one and ten. The playing pieces were coloured plastic cars which meandered through an idyllic landscape towards the Day of Reckoning: a final choice between either the Country Cottage or Millionaire’s Mansion. Despite these names, money was the only thing that mattered in either scenario.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
tomchatfield.substack.com | Tom Chatfield
Last year, I became Chair of two not-for-profit organisations devoted to creators’ rights and remuneration: the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society and the Copyright Licensing Agency. I’ve been a Director of both organisations for a number of years, and am nervously delighted to be chairing them at a time when novel technologies pose so many questions around authorship, creativity and the contexts within which these exist.
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Jan 8, 2024 | 
tomchatfield.substack.com | Tom Chatfield
Last year, I became Chair of two not-for-profit organisations devoted to creators’ rights and remuneration: the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society and the Copyright Licensing Agency. I’ve been a Director of both organisations for a number of years, and am nervously delighted to be chairing them at a time when novel technologies pose so many questions around authorship, creativity and the contexts within which these exist.
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Oct 30, 2023 | 
tomchatfield.substack.com | Tom Chatfield |Wise Animals
I recently received the first proofs for my next book, Wise Animals. I’ve been writing it for the last three years, exploring its themes for the last decade and —frankly—I’m nervous about what the world will make of this one. It’s a work of non-fiction, but it’s also personal in a way my previous books haven’t been.
