Maybe, maybe I’ll keep these posts short. Maybe I’ll keep this website simpler than it’s been in the past. I’ve just taken a lot of pages off the menu. It seem lighter already.
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This is a really useful talk on using AI in the wrong way and the right way. It resonates with what I’ve been thinking and writing about with regard to ‘ Negotiating AI as a Community’ (a proto project I’m working on). While it’s about using AI as an individual I think it is also relevant to how we use AI as a community.
The important thing is that we think for ourselves as individuals and as communities. The important thing is that we understand ouselves more as creators tnan as consumers (of knowledge or anything else). The important this is not to simply acquire knowledge but to be changed by the process of acquiring knowledge.
If the use of AI diminishes our willingness or ability to think for ourselves, to be creators and to change through the process of acquiring knowledge then, certainly AI harms us. But it need not be this way. As Justin Sung says in the video there is a right way of using AI, one that puts AI in its place as assistant to our thinking, our creating and our learning rather than oracle doing it all for us.
I have to ask the question: why is every community not discussing what has been happening in Gaza? The Red Cross estimates that over 52,000 people have been killed in Gaza since October 2025, and right now, 470,000 people face starvation. There has been deliberate destruction of schools, homes, and hospitals—and children have been targeted by snipers.
Our government is supplying arms to Israel and conducting military surveillance missions on its behalf. Yet we are not talking about this. Surely we should not stop talking about it—in our homes, workplaces, and places of worship; with family, friends, colleagues, and even strangers; on every forum.
It’s important to substantiate our claims, here are some recognised sources:
https://www.wfp.org/news/risk-famine-across-all-gaza-new-report-says
https://www.redcross.org.uk/stories/disasters-and-emergencies/world/whats-happening-in-gaza-humanitarian-crisis-grows
https://apnews.com/article/un-children-conflict-gaza-congo-haiti-somalia-a271b1724a7fef890ff912ce66e4668b
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effect_of_the_Gaza_war_on_children_in_the_Gaza_Strip
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/may/07/uk-sent-israel-thousands-of-military-items-despite-export-ban-study-finds
https://www.oxfam.org.uk/get-involved/campaign-with-oxfam/gaza-israel-crisis-sign-petition-call-for-ceasefire-now/does-the-uk-sell-arms-to-israel
I enjoy my talks with Brother Alan Marshall. I think he enjoys our talks too. It’s not necessary for me to believe as he does or to have him see the world as I do. we move in slightly different realities – his is one in which the Scriptures are inspired by God and fundamental truths are to be found there. For me truth is ‘a pathless land’ as Krishnamurti put it.
