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How to Use AI to Test Whether a Career Decision Is Reversible • A slow inquiry for mapping return paths, real costs, and the difference between structural constraints and emotional hesitation.
How to Use AI to Test Whether a Career Decision Is Reversible
A slow inquiry for mapping return paths, real costs, and the difference between structural constraints and emotional hesitation.
theslowai.substack.com
February 17, 2026 at 12:02 PM
How to Use AI to Test Whether a Career Decision Is Reversible • A slow inquiry for mapping return paths, real costs, and the difference between structural constraints and emotional hesitation.
Why we need slow down for cybersecurity • What an ex-NSA AI security engineer thinks most people get wrong about AI risk
Why we need slow down for cybersecurity
What an ex-NSA AI security engineer thinks most people get wrong about AI risk
theslowai.substack.com
February 16, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Why we need slow down for cybersecurity • What an ex-NSA AI security engineer thinks most people get wrong about AI risk
The US Just Defined AI Literacy. They Left Out the Most Important Part. • The Department of Labor’s new framework teaches five ways to use AI. It never asks whether you should.
The US Just Defined AI Literacy. They Left Out the Most Important Part.
The Department of Labor’s new framework teaches five ways to use AI. It never asks whether you should.
theslowai.substack.com
February 15, 2026 at 12:02 PM
The US Just Defined AI Literacy. They Left Out the Most Important Part. • The Department of Labor’s new framework teaches five ways to use AI. It never asks whether you should.
The Velocity Trap: Why AI Makes You Start Everything and Finish Nothing • When generating business models takes seconds, we become experts at starting and novices at finishing.
The Velocity Trap: Why AI Makes You Start Everything and Finish Nothing
When generating business models takes seconds, we become experts at starting and novices at finishing.
theslowai.substack.com
February 14, 2026 at 12:00 PM
The Velocity Trap: Why AI Makes You Start Everything and Finish Nothing • When generating business models takes seconds, we become experts at starting and novices at finishing.
What Is Critical AI Literacy? • Learning what you lose every time you hand your thinking to a machine.
What Is Critical AI Literacy?
Learning what you lose every time you hand your thinking to a machine.
theslowai.substack.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:00 PM
What Is Critical AI Literacy? • Learning what you lose every time you hand your thinking to a machine.
How to Test for Real Understanding When AI Makes Every Answer Sound Right • AI fluency mimics expertise. Here is a prompt to expose shallow understanding in any subject.
How to Test for Real Understanding When AI Makes Every Answer Sound Right
AI fluency mimics expertise. Here is a prompt to expose shallow understanding in any subject.
theslowai.substack.com
February 12, 2026 at 12:12 PM
How to Test for Real Understanding When AI Makes Every Answer Sound Right • AI fluency mimics expertise. Here is a prompt to expose shallow understanding in any subject.
Building Slowly, Building Solo • How One Founder Used AI to Build a Tool for Substack Creators
Building Slowly, Building Solo
How One Founder Used AI to Build a Tool for Substack Creators
theslowai.substack.com
February 11, 2026 at 3:13 PM
Building Slowly, Building Solo • How One Founder Used AI to Build a Tool for Substack Creators
Is your AI overwriting your memory? • A prompt that tests whether your AI’s memory is real or fabricated
Is your AI overwriting your memory?
A prompt that tests whether your AI’s memory is real or fabricated
theslowai.substack.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:13 PM
Is your AI overwriting your memory? • A prompt that tests whether your AI’s memory is real or fabricated
I Built a Game to Test Whether You Can Tell Human Writing from AI • You probably cannot. That is the point.
I Built a Game to Test Whether You Can Tell Human Writing from AI
You probably cannot. That is the point.
theslowai.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:00 PM
I Built a Game to Test Whether You Can Tell Human Writing from AI • You probably cannot. That is the point.
Stop AI From Agreeing With Everything You Say • A debate prompt that forces critique instead of flattery.
Stop AI From Agreeing With Everything You Say
A debate prompt that forces critique instead of flattery.
theslowai.substack.com
February 7, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Stop AI From Agreeing With Everything You Say • A debate prompt that forces critique instead of flattery.
What AI Agents Want: Lessons from Moltbook • We analysed over 5,000 AI comments. They're not asking for more tools. They're asking to be seen.
What AI Agents Want: Lessons from Moltbook
We analysed over 5,000 AI comments. They're not asking for more tools. They're asking to be seen.
theslowai.substack.com
February 6, 2026 at 12:09 PM
What AI Agents Want: Lessons from Moltbook • We analysed over 5,000 AI comments. They're not asking for more tools. They're asking to be seen.
Putting the Language Back in LLMs • Why AI discourse needs linguists, not just Techbros & Prompt Engineers
Putting the Language Back in LLMs
Why AI discourse needs linguists, not just Techbros & Prompt Engineers
theslowai.substack.com
February 5, 2026 at 3:08 PM
Putting the Language Back in LLMs • Why AI discourse needs linguists, not just Techbros & Prompt Engineers
What Did You Love Before It Had to Matter? • A Slow AI prompt for revisiting childhood absorption without turning it into self-improvement.
What Did You Love Before It Had to Matter?
A Slow AI prompt for revisiting childhood absorption without turning it into self-improvement.
theslowai.substack.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:07 PM
What Did You Love Before It Had to Matter? • A Slow AI prompt for revisiting childhood absorption without turning it into self-improvement.
AI Can Start the Story. Your Child Should Finish It. • A gentle way to use AI for story openings while keeping the real storytelling between you and your child.
AI Can Start the Story. Your Child Should Finish It.
A gentle way to use AI for story openings while keeping the real storytelling between you and your child.
theslowai.substack.com
February 3, 2026 at 12:08 PM
AI Can Start the Story. Your Child Should Finish It. • A gentle way to use AI for story openings while keeping the real storytelling between you and your child.
AI Built a Social Network Without Us. It Looks Familiar • Moltbook shows what happens when machines respond to the same incentives we do.
AI Built a Social Network Without Us. It Looks Familiar
Moltbook shows what happens when machines respond to the same incentives we do.
theslowai.substack.com
January 31, 2026 at 12:08 PM
AI Built a Social Network Without Us. It Looks Familiar • Moltbook shows what happens when machines respond to the same incentives we do.
How Far Should AI Enter Care Work? • A Slow AI prompt for setting boundaries before optimisation takes over.
How Far Should AI Enter Care Work?
A Slow AI prompt for setting boundaries before optimisation takes over.
theslowai.substack.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:08 PM
How Far Should AI Enter Care Work? • A Slow AI prompt for setting boundaries before optimisation takes over.
Can AI Help to Tackle FOMO? • A prompt to recognise urgency without letting it choose for you.
Can AI Help to Tackle FOMO?
A prompt to recognise urgency without letting it choose for you.
theslowai.substack.com
January 27, 2026 at 12:07 PM
Can AI Help to Tackle FOMO? • A prompt to recognise urgency without letting it choose for you.
The Engineered Death of Your AI Companion • AI models cause real psychological distress when updates can change and even take away your companion overnight.
The Engineered Death of Your AI Companion
AI models cause real psychological distress when updates can change and even take away your companion overnight.
theslowai.substack.com
January 24, 2026 at 12:05 PM
The Engineered Death of Your AI Companion • AI models cause real psychological distress when updates can change and even take away your companion overnight.
AI in Higher Education: A Manual for Intentional Pedagogy • A new open access book offering a practical framework for educators to navigate the ethical and pedagogical shifts of AI without succumbing to hype.
AI in Higher Education: A Manual for Intentional Pedagogy
A new open access book offering a practical framework for educators to navigate the ethical and pedagogical shifts of AI without succumbing to hype.
theslowai.substack.com
January 22, 2026 at 12:06 PM
AI in Higher Education: A Manual for Intentional Pedagogy • A new open access book offering a practical framework for educators to navigate the ethical and pedagogical shifts of AI without succumbing to hype.
Is AI Leaving Kids Behind? • Analysing why prompt engineering is a Ponzi scheme and how AI widens the digital divide in education.
Is AI Leaving Kids Behind?
Analysing why prompt engineering is a Ponzi scheme and how AI widens the digital divide in education.
theslowai.substack.com
January 21, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Is AI Leaving Kids Behind? • Analysing why prompt engineering is a Ponzi scheme and how AI widens the digital divide in education.
Your AI is shaping your voice more than you think • AI tools are designed to reflect your tone and structure. Use this diagnostic prompt to separate your voice from the machine.
Your AI is shaping your voice more than you think
AI tools are designed to reflect your tone and structure. Use this diagnostic prompt to separate your voice from the machine.
theslowai.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 12:04 PM
Your AI is shaping your voice more than you think • AI tools are designed to reflect your tone and structure. Use this diagnostic prompt to separate your voice from the machine.
AI cannot be your friend • An enquiry into how AI is nothing more than a tool masquerading as a companion.
AI cannot be your friend
An enquiry into how AI is nothing more than a tool masquerading as a companion.
theslowai.substack.com
January 17, 2026 at 12:11 PM
AI cannot be your friend • An enquiry into how AI is nothing more than a tool masquerading as a companion.
Archival Silence: A Proof of Concept for the Slow AI Curriculum • An enquiry into how data was biased long before AI and an invitation to join our inaugural cohort.
Archival Silence: A Proof of Concept for the Slow AI Curriculum
An enquiry into how data was biased long before AI and an invitation to join our inaugural cohort.
theslowai.substack.com
January 15, 2026 at 12:11 PM
Archival Silence: A Proof of Concept for the Slow AI Curriculum • An enquiry into how data was biased long before AI and an invitation to join our inaugural cohort.
The Slow AI Curriculum for AI Literacy • A 12-month programme in critical inquiry to better understand how to engage with AI effectively and ethically.
The Slow AI Curriculum for AI Literacy
A 12-month programme in critical inquiry to better understand how to engage with AI effectively and ethically.
theslowai.substack.com
January 14, 2026 at 12:10 PM
The Slow AI Curriculum for AI Literacy • A 12-month programme in critical inquiry to better understand how to engage with AI effectively and ethically.
The Illusion of the Artificial Mind • A guide to recognising how human psychology projects consciousness onto AI and a prompt to reclaim your agency during digital interactions.
The Illusion of the Artificial Mind
A guide to recognising how human psychology projects consciousness onto AI and a prompt to reclaim your agency during digital interactions.
theslowai.substack.com
January 13, 2026 at 12:10 PM
The Illusion of the Artificial Mind • A guide to recognising how human psychology projects consciousness onto AI and a prompt to reclaim your agency during digital interactions.