AI companionship is a downstream expression of a much older dependency: the tendency to mistake symbolic coherence for certainty, and patterned response for agency. Language evolved pari passu, along with neurochemistry, but the structure it expresses is not confined to language, technology, or even cognition. It reflects a deeper dynamic by which systems persist through […]
The language of the school was expansive: culture, power, technology, ethics, ecology, gender, indigeneity, diversity, human experience, systems, responsibility, complexity. It spoke fluently about uncertainty, fragility, and care. It marketed itself as a space for deep reflection on and constructive engagement with how technological systems were and are reshaping civilisation. But in one all-staff meeting, […]
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