AI-guys, can we not use the word "meat" when we mean "human"? Like, can we just...not? Human is only one more character to type...

Just finished @sarahoconnorft.ft.com excellent We Are Not Machines. Great stories of how tech is changing work, how this depends on institutions & choices, and what this means for the choices (and there are choices) we now make. Strong recommend.

I'll be discussing my book We Are Not Machines with the brilliant Cosmina Dorobantu at the LSE on Tuesday 21st July at 6pm! Tickets are free if you would like to come along :) www.eventbrite.com/e/sarah-ocon...

Terrific piece from @jenwilliamsft.bsky.social about Andy Burnham, who she’s been covering for a decade. www.ft.com/content/9949...

Very strong recommendation for Sarah O'Connor's new book, We Are Not Machines - full of compelling original reporting about the real effects of automation on human beings www.newstatesman.com/culture/book...

Wish I was the sort of person who thought “screw it, I’m going to drop £50 on a massive box of flakes”

My dad’s been a reader of the New Scientist for as long as I can remember, so I’m mega chuffed with this! Can’t wait for him to see it in the magazine. www.newscientist.com/article/mg27... @newscientist.com

Really looking forward to this on Saturday!

Great piece by the Guardian's @guardianheather.bsky.social which discusses my book! Exciting. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

That feeling when you find a mug you mislaid and realise it has opened up a vortex into the underworld

@sarahoconnorft.ft.com: "In an ideal world, we would use these tools to extend our reach to achieve new things. But if we allow ourselves to be compared to machines, I fear we will come to expect too much of ourselves in some ways, and too little in others" www.ft.com/content/37ac...

No surprises here, but @sarahoconnorft.ft.com’s book is exceptionally good. www.penguin.co.uk/books/462159...

I’m not even really into George Michael but I would read a shopping list if it was written by @sathnam.bsky.social so I know this is going to be great!

"The future of work can be more worthy of the human mind, more careful of the human body, more satisfying to the human soul. But not without a fight." Can't recommend the new @sarahoconnorft.ft.com book highly enough. Real call to arms- to flip direction on the machine and those who control it.

Last week, @sarahoconnorft.ft.com spoke to us about the different stories of work and automation she encountered while writing her new book. You can listen to this and all episodes of High Resolution ⬇️ On Spotify: buff.ly/FaL0UnP On Apple Podcasts: buff.ly/jSScLPN

Really enjoyed this conversation with Ruth Curtice and Greg Thwaites!

Why are we still arguing about the Industrial Revolution? I my column today I make the case for reading the novels of the age, rather than the arguments in tech circles about output per hour, real wage growth, etc. www.ft.com/content/f837...

Very chuffed to read that the brilliant economist @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social enjoyed and recommends my book We Are Not Machines. Thank you for the very thoughtful reflections, Diane

I wrote on @sarahoconnorft.ft.com ‘s excellent (and beautifully written) We Are Not Machines for @thespectator1828.bsky.social spectator.com/article/will...

“It’s two or three times harder than pure translation work, and they have the barefaced cheek to pay you half as much.” - fascinating on how AI has changed translators' work @sarahoconnorft.ft.com and @jburnmurdoch.ft.com:

Buy one! It will make you worry about the future and then give you a healthy dose of optimism!! What a ride!!

Today, my book finally enters the big wide world! Exciting and also nerve-wracking! I'm really thrilled with this lovely review in The Spectator today, which describes it as "powerful and refreshing". If that sounds like YOUR cup of tea, please buy a copy! spectator.com/article/will...

My dad goes to the Cheltenham Science Festival most years because he loves it, so I'm very excited that his daughter (i.e. me!) is actually appearing there tonight! Talking about my new book We Are Not Machines which comes out on Thursday. @cheltfestivals

Lovely kicker on this from @robertshrimsley.bsky.social! www.ft.com/content/461e...

Should be a couple of freebie reads on this link: giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Should AI steal your job?

Sarah has a new book out on this topic which was reviewed here as ‘the kind of writing that AI will never replace.’ www.thetimes.com/article/7099...

This essay is sensible, coherent and brilliantly written and yet also somehow about AI. @sarahoconnorft.ft.com explains why we’re thinking about it all wrong

“The space between what the machines can and can’t do, and how the world does and doesn’t change, is a vast one — and one that will only be filled in by a series of human decisions, arguments, markets, battles, compromises and preferences” @sarahoconnorft.ft.com www.ft.com/content/acea...

Amazing intro to the perfect antidote to that T Blair essay Globalisation was once as irresistible as “the weather,” now AI the unstoppable “wave” of the future Swap to a metaphor about planning a journey or developing a city and the whole discussion would change

"the space between what the machines can and can’t do, and how the world does and doesn’t change, is a vast one — and one that will only be filled in by a series of human decisions"

“technological change is not analogous to a natural phenomenon” 🎯 Thread:

It is often said that a “wave” or “tsunami” of technological change is heading our way. These metaphors are powerful because they shape our sense of what is reasonable, and what is unreasonable. What does AI as a "wave" imply is a reasonable course of action? (1/...)

Are you tired of the non-stop utopian/dystopian AI predictions from CEOs? Do you want to hear what's ACTUALLY happening, from the people it's actually happening TO? If so, I have good news: I felt the same, so I have worn out my shoe-leather & written this book! www.penguin.co.uk/books/462159...

It was such a pleasure to discuss my book We Are Not Machines with David Runciman. Taylorism, Hannah Arendt, robots - all my fave things! He says, very kindly: "We don't often talk about new books on this podcast. When we do, it's because we think they are really good. And that is true of this one."

Here's a tip. If you've just finished writing a book while also holding down a job, and you really put your heart into it, and you're very tired, and your 6 year-old asks if she can draw your portrait? IT IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT YOU DO NOT SAY YES.

I don't really get this rationale. Are senior career diplomats incapable of picking up the phone? Could they and the PM not have conversations, if that's what both sides thought was useful?

So looking forward to this! I love going to the British Academy's Ideas Festival (formerly known as the Summer Showcase) but have never had the chance to speak at it before.

Does negative chocolate pricing mean you can now get paid to eat chocolate #askingforafriend

Are YOU an established novelist who has won at least one presitigious prize? Would you like a new job reading AI-generated novels and plays?? No???

Also the question I ask myself at least once a day when I arrive in a room in my house & can't remember why www.ft.com/content/4819... (but more importantly: welcome to the FT @nigella.bsky.social!!)

Our 6 year old got a label-maker ❤️

In spite of all the talk of Claude Code and Codex meaning the end of humans writing code, software job adverts are actually going up, according to @jburnmurdoch.ft.com's crunching of millions of job ads for this week's The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/7325...

Striking chart on the gender skew among AI researchers. In academia, the number of top AI scientists who are women has been growing slowly. In the private sector? Not so much. (chart from this vg paper from Uni of Chicago bfi.uchicago.edu/working-pape...)

FT commenters are the best commenters (from this v good piece about the OpenClaw craze in China www.ft.com/content/e242...)

Great piece from @soumayakeynes.ft.com today on economic warfare. www.ft.com/content/b9f1...

I love that this headline is the most-read thing on FT.com

Great reporting from @rafeuddin.ft.com on Amazon's misadventures with AI coding (which have coincided with big headcount reductions) www.ft.com/content/7cab...

Economists: you know I love you, but I think it's time you gave it a rest with all these "which jobs are most exposed to AI?" analyses. www.ft.com/content/8d3b...

Really good piece from @emmavj.bsky.social about the rise in AI slop employment claims. A reminder that tools which make individuals more productive (in this case, in writing claims) does not necessarily make a system more productive. Sometimes the opposite. www.ft.com/content/afc3...