what we say
“AI is stealing our jobs.”
what we mean
The jobs are being redrawn, and we deserve a say in the drawing.
I interview the people building and living inside AI, and I write about the gap between what the technology is said to do and what it actually does to us. My beat is language: how the words we use about work and machines quietly decide who gets a say. The aim is always the same: trade the loud sentence for the truer one.
published
An ongoing interview series for The Creative Independent about how creative people actually relate to technology. The direction: away from hot takes, toward the people living the shift, artists, researchers, historians, developers, and increasingly the voices inside big institutions where AI is quietly changing the work. The question underneath every conversation is the same: what does this technology do to the way you make things, and who gets a say in that?
César Fieiras researcher, on the complex influence of ai in creative industries tci Roopa Vasudevan media artist, on creative resistance in the digital world tciessays
source texts
what I'm reading and translating from, a running cache.
Europe 2031 A speculative history of how Europe fell behind on AI, and the missing positive vision underneath it. Reference point for the narrative-gap essay. referencein progress
three questions from the conversation
- “If AI collapses hours of struggle into one prompt, and people ask the model their ‘dumb’ questions instead of each other, what happens to the people who need to see someone else struggle to feel okay about their own?”
- “You asked ChatGPT what a girl could be versus what a boy could be. What made you want to poke at that, and what came out of it?”
- “Developers’ sense of their own value is being shaken by AI, but nobody’s really talking about it. Why does it stay unspoken?”
goes live soon on The Creative Independent