Tom Chatfield
@tomchatfield.bsky.social
Tech philosopher, author, dad. Critical thinking, AI ethics, future skills. Latest book: Wise Animals (Picador) https://tinyurl.com/WiseAnimals Views mine
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AI and the Future of Pedagogy
Tom Chatfield’s AI and the Future of Pedagogy cautions against letting AI erode essential human skills, such as critical thinking, discernment, and domain expertise, and instead advocates for utilizin...
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"AI’s power must not be allowed to hollow out the very skills required to navigate an AI age successfully."
After six months of writing and research, my white paper on AI and pedagogy is finally out!
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Do share; do join the conversation.
After six months of writing and research, my white paper on AI and pedagogy is finally out!
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Do share; do join the conversation.
"AI’s power must not be allowed to hollow out the very skills required to navigate an AI age successfully."
After six months of writing and research, my white paper on AI and pedagogy is finally out!
sagepub.com/explore-our-...
Do share; do join the conversation.
After six months of writing and research, my white paper on AI and pedagogy is finally out!
sagepub.com/explore-our-...
Do share; do join the conversation.
AI and the Future of Pedagogy
Tom Chatfield’s AI and the Future of Pedagogy cautions against letting AI erode essential human skills, such as critical thinking, discernment, and domain expertise, and instead advocates for utilizin...
sagepub.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:34 AM
"AI’s power must not be allowed to hollow out the very skills required to navigate an AI age successfully."
After six months of writing and research, my white paper on AI and pedagogy is finally out!
sagepub.com/explore-our-...
Do share; do join the conversation.
After six months of writing and research, my white paper on AI and pedagogy is finally out!
sagepub.com/explore-our-...
Do share; do join the conversation.
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Saw @tomchatfield.bsky.social last week, and he gave me a sneak peek at his forthcoming book ‘How To Think Clearly’, where he’d pointed to my #cognitivedebt coinage from earlier this year.
So I have written a proper page laying out the thinking, examples etc… smithery.com/cognitive-de...
So I have written a proper page laying out the thinking, examples etc… smithery.com/cognitive-de...
Cognitive Debt
“Cognitive Debt is where you forgo the thinking in order just to get the answers, but have no real idea of why the answers are what they are.” Artefacts Newsletter #247, April 25th, 2025 I first wr…
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October 3, 2025 at 11:41 AM
Saw @tomchatfield.bsky.social last week, and he gave me a sneak peek at his forthcoming book ‘How To Think Clearly’, where he’d pointed to my #cognitivedebt coinage from earlier this year.
So I have written a proper page laying out the thinking, examples etc… smithery.com/cognitive-de...
So I have written a proper page laying out the thinking, examples etc… smithery.com/cognitive-de...
I've spent the last six months writing and researching this white paper about why our greatest challenges are human, not technological. Do take a look. www.sagepub.com/explore-our-...
Human skills for an AI age: How today’s business schools can develop tomorrow’s leaders
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April 1, 2025 at 8:41 AM
I've spent the last six months writing and researching this white paper about why our greatest challenges are human, not technological. Do take a look. www.sagepub.com/explore-our-...
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Missed our webinar on AI and academic excellence?
Catch up on the discussion with Dr. Leo Lo & Dr. Tom Chatfield & discover how to turn AI into a collaborative tool for research while maintaining critical thinking & ethical standards.
Watch now: ow.ly/5aYV50VgkTF
@tomchatfield.bsky.social
Catch up on the discussion with Dr. Leo Lo & Dr. Tom Chatfield & discover how to turn AI into a collaborative tool for research while maintaining critical thinking & ethical standards.
Watch now: ow.ly/5aYV50VgkTF
@tomchatfield.bsky.social
March 12, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Missed our webinar on AI and academic excellence?
Catch up on the discussion with Dr. Leo Lo & Dr. Tom Chatfield & discover how to turn AI into a collaborative tool for research while maintaining critical thinking & ethical standards.
Watch now: ow.ly/5aYV50VgkTF
@tomchatfield.bsky.social
Catch up on the discussion with Dr. Leo Lo & Dr. Tom Chatfield & discover how to turn AI into a collaborative tool for research while maintaining critical thinking & ethical standards.
Watch now: ow.ly/5aYV50VgkTF
@tomchatfield.bsky.social
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Video from our 'Libraries and AI' panel is now online! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsRk... Thanks @britishlibrary.bsky.social @cawston.bsky.social @suelacey-bryant.bsky.social @tomchatfield.bsky.social @timandraharkness.bsky.social, Maja Maricevic and Svein Arne #AIDebates
February 12, 2025 at 12:04 PM
Video from our 'Libraries and AI' panel is now online! www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsRk... Thanks @britishlibrary.bsky.social @cawston.bsky.social @suelacey-bryant.bsky.social @tomchatfield.bsky.social @timandraharkness.bsky.social, Maja Maricevic and Svein Arne #AIDebates
A newsletter on the usefulness of hasty, heartfelt writing; plus some suitably speedy thoughts on AI, critical thinking and the future of literature. open.substack.com/pub/tomchatf...
Thinking out loud onscreen
Harnessing the hasty and the heartfelt
open.substack.com
February 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
A newsletter on the usefulness of hasty, heartfelt writing; plus some suitably speedy thoughts on AI, critical thinking and the future of literature. open.substack.com/pub/tomchatf...
"If you think you might have something to contribute, don’t you have some kind of duty to move forward at 70%, instead of depriving us of your contribution thanks to your finicky and frankly rather self-indulgent insistence on perfection?"
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The Imperfectionist: Seventy per cent
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January 30, 2025 at 1:40 PM
"If you think you might have something to contribute, don’t you have some kind of duty to move forward at 70%, instead of depriving us of your contribution thanks to your finicky and frankly rather self-indulgent insistence on perfection?"
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Perfection, of a kind.
January 29, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Perfection, of a kind.
First glimpses of Wise Animals in its paperback incarnation, out on 13th February. Please do consider picking one up! I'm very proud of this book. www.panmacmillan.com/authors/tom-...
January 21, 2025 at 2:16 PM
First glimpses of Wise Animals in its paperback incarnation, out on 13th February. Please do consider picking one up! I'm very proud of this book. www.panmacmillan.com/authors/tom-...
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I'm looking forward to an excellent panel at @britishlibrary.bsky.social 's #AIDebates on 'Libraries and AI' on Thursday, with @suelacey-bryant.bsky.social @cawston.bsky.social @tomchatfield.bsky.social @sveinarne.bsky.social and Svein Arne Brygfjeld
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Libraries and AI: Opportunity or threat? from See Tickets
Buy tickets for Libraries and AI: Opportunity or threat? at British Library from the official retailer, The British Library.
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January 21, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I'm looking forward to an excellent panel at @britishlibrary.bsky.social 's #AIDebates on 'Libraries and AI' on Thursday, with @suelacey-bryant.bsky.social @cawston.bsky.social @tomchatfield.bsky.social @sveinarne.bsky.social and Svein Arne Brygfjeld
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Given that AIs will in due course be trained upon all the papers currently being written about AI—including about ethics, deception and alignment, and how to test and explore such things—is there a genuine risk that today's scholarship will help improve tomorrow's automated manipulators?
January 20, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Given that AIs will in due course be trained upon all the papers currently being written about AI—including about ethics, deception and alignment, and how to test and explore such things—is there a genuine risk that today's scholarship will help improve tomorrow's automated manipulators?
Very much looking forward to this: do join us!
I'm looking forward to taking part in the British Library's #AIDebates on 'Libraries and AI' next week! https://thebritishlibrary.seetickets.com/event/libraries-and-ai-opportunity-or-threat-/british-library/3188447
(And a pre-FAQ - yes, it might be recorded; I don't think it's streamed)
(And a pre-FAQ - yes, it might be recorded; I don't think it's streamed)
Libraries and AI: Opportunity or threat? from See Tickets
Buy tickets for Libraries and AI: Opportunity or threat? at British Library from the official retailer, The British Library.
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January 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Very much looking forward to this: do join us!
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there is so much hype around AI agents, but like most current AI, they spectacularly fail when put to actual real-world use www.answer.ai/posts/2025-0...
January 18, 2025 at 12:04 AM
there is so much hype around AI agents, but like most current AI, they spectacularly fail when put to actual real-world use www.answer.ai/posts/2025-0...
Crept into new days,
Dodging old futures, sly looks
From rickety dreams.
Dodging old futures, sly looks
From rickety dreams.
January 1, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Crept into new days,
Dodging old futures, sly looks
From rickety dreams.
Dodging old futures, sly looks
From rickety dreams.
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Stage Hamlet in a game of GTA and it’s all “⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ brilliant cross-fertilisation of genres, reimagining dramatic possibilities in the C21st” - but play GTA during a staging of Hamlet, and suddenly it’s “you have to leave now, Sir: you’re disturbing the performance…”
Grand Theft Hamlet review – in-game Shakespeare performance is brilliantly exciting
Grand Theft Hamlet review – in-game Shakespeare performance is brilliantly exciting
In a hilarious and surreal documentary, two out-of-work actors decide to stage the tragedy within Los Santos with dreamlike and fascinating results
A brilliant idea, brilliantly executed; hilarious, surreal and, yes, in its weird way, genuinely exciting.…
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December 13, 2024 at 8:38 PM
Stage Hamlet in a game of GTA and it’s all “⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ brilliant cross-fertilisation of genres, reimagining dramatic possibilities in the C21st” - but play GTA during a staging of Hamlet, and suddenly it’s “you have to leave now, Sir: you’re disturbing the performance…”
A moral milestone. My children are old enough to have learned the golden rule: do unto others whatever they'll let you get away with.
December 13, 2024 at 6:09 PM
A moral milestone. My children are old enough to have learned the golden rule: do unto others whatever they'll let you get away with.
The notion that we may be glimpsing the nature and properties of a multiverse via quantum computation is rather beautiful blog.google/technology/r... the most fundamental informational properties of existence as we know it, shedding light on its unimagined other echoes
Meet Willow, our state-of-the-art quantum chip
Our new quantum chip demonstrates error correction and performance that paves the way to a useful, large-scale quantum computer.
blog.google
December 11, 2024 at 12:02 PM
The notion that we may be glimpsing the nature and properties of a multiverse via quantum computation is rather beautiful blog.google/technology/r... the most fundamental informational properties of existence as we know it, shedding light on its unimagined other echoes
Front-line reportage from the school Christmas fair's darker peripheries...
December 7, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Front-line reportage from the school Christmas fair's darker peripheries...
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Coffee, to prevent that murmur, soon replies:
"Lift doors opening. Going up."
"Lift doors opening. Going up."
December 5, 2024 at 9:53 AM
Coffee, to prevent that murmur, soon replies:
"Lift doors opening. Going up."
"Lift doors opening. Going up."
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NEW: I spoke to Gaia Vince about her book on the coming climate upheaval - and how cities and infrastructure will have to change.
www.thereengineer.pro/p/we-have-to...
www.thereengineer.pro/p/we-have-to...
‘We have to adapt’ – Gaia Vince on cities, tech and climate migrants
The climate upheaval is already, arguably, underway.
www.thereengineer.pro
December 5, 2024 at 8:53 AM
NEW: I spoke to Gaia Vince about her book on the coming climate upheaval - and how cities and infrastructure will have to change.
www.thereengineer.pro/p/we-have-to...
www.thereengineer.pro/p/we-have-to...
Morning tea brewing:
A rope ladder dangled down
The deep well of sleep.
A rope ladder dangled down
The deep well of sleep.
December 5, 2024 at 9:37 AM
Morning tea brewing:
A rope ladder dangled down
The deep well of sleep.
A rope ladder dangled down
The deep well of sleep.
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@tomchatfield.bsky.social : "The UK’s creative industries generate over £124.6 billion annually not because they churn out content to order, but because they entail hundreds of thousands of people creating works that audiences love."
The results from our AI survey are in! Thank you to all 13k writers who took the time to share their thoughts - we've learned that you want choice, recognition and transparency.
Get the full report at www.alcs.co.uk/ai/
Get the full report at www.alcs.co.uk/ai/
December 4, 2024 at 9:44 AM
@tomchatfield.bsky.social : "The UK’s creative industries generate over £124.6 billion annually not because they churn out content to order, but because they entail hundreds of thousands of people creating works that audiences love."
Confirmation bias can sound so (laughably!) easy to avoid. And yet.
To carefully ask what the evidence does and does not show, and how and why, is not only hard but can also be painful and thankless.
So much simpler first to pick your side, then your story, then your evidence.
To carefully ask what the evidence does and does not show, and how and why, is not only hard but can also be painful and thankless.
So much simpler first to pick your side, then your story, then your evidence.
December 2, 2024 at 8:11 AM
Confirmation bias can sound so (laughably!) easy to avoid. And yet.
To carefully ask what the evidence does and does not show, and how and why, is not only hard but can also be painful and thankless.
So much simpler first to pick your side, then your story, then your evidence.
To carefully ask what the evidence does and does not show, and how and why, is not only hard but can also be painful and thankless.
So much simpler first to pick your side, then your story, then your evidence.
The season's sweet mulch
Rots into a thousand lives.
Hope, but not for you.
Rots into a thousand lives.
Hope, but not for you.
November 29, 2024 at 4:19 PM
The season's sweet mulch
Rots into a thousand lives.
Hope, but not for you.
Rots into a thousand lives.
Hope, but not for you.
I'm very much looking forward to discussing Wise Animals with the great Adam Rutherford this Saturday afternoon in Hay. If you're there, do come!
www.hayfestival.com/p-22707-tom-...
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Tom Chatfield talks to Adam Rutherford - Hay Festival
A challenge to re-evaluate our thoughts on humanity’s entanglement with technology.
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November 29, 2024 at 3:33 PM
I'm very much looking forward to discussing Wise Animals with the great Adam Rutherford this Saturday afternoon in Hay. If you're there, do come!
www.hayfestival.com/p-22707-tom-...
www.hayfestival.com/p-22707-tom-...