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There has been so much progress in AI tools for software engineering in recent years.

Tristan Harris‘ TED talk Why AI Is Our Ultimate Test and Greatest Invitation: The comparison to the rollout of social media is powerful.

Recent findings show that understanding better how AI art is produced, influences how we think of it from a moral perspective.

I like a good story.

From an exploration of how people are using (generative) AI in 2026, based on research by AI in the Wild: As the breadth and depth of usage grows, so has the anxiety that people are surrendering their cognitive responsibilities to AI—a trend the authors c…

This is from the conclusion of the introduction to IEEE Software‘s issue on the impact of AI on productivity and code: AI coding tools are genuinely useful – they accelerate work, support learning, and lower barriers to entry. […] The field’s central chal…

It has been more than three years since this presentation.

Drawing comparison to our collective experience of interacting with digital entities in video games, Simon Duan offers an opinion on consciousness in AI agents: When a user feels a bond with a chatbot, they are not just anthropomorphizing a static object;…

Low demands for mental effort affects our endurance at doing mental work.

My Tesla Was Driving Itself Perfectly—Until It Crashed by Raffi Krikorian discusses two important concepts: vigilance decrement – people’s gradual drop in paying attention and ability to spot mistakes, the better a system is at avoiding them the moral cru…