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Not only is the AI revolution really happening, but its Large Language Model technology is becoming an independent actor in the world. Rather than the dark conclusion of a techno-pessimist, this is actually the view of one of the leading AI platforms. For this week’s episode of That Was The…

From the introduction of North Korean troops into the war in Ukraine to a budding friendship with Elon Musk, Putin continues to make strange headlines. The real question is whether Putin actually knows what he’s doing or if he, as a wannabe 21st century Russian Tsar, is subject to the…

The Politifact founder, Duke University professor and Pulitzer Prize winning writer Bill Adair (https://billadair.com/about) certainly isn’t the first person to raise the alarm about the problem of lying in American politics. But what’s really interesting about his new book, Beyond the Big Lie (https://billadair.com/books) , is that Adair also has…

In February 2011, I had the maven of mavens, Seth Godin (https://www.sethgodin.com/) , on the show to discuss the end (https://techcrunch.com/2011/02/07/keen-on-seth-godin-while-we-werent-paying-attention-the-industrial-age-just-ended-tctv/) of the industrial age. “So why are you so popular?” I asked the best-selling author, entrepreneur and teacher. “I notice things,” he explained. Luckily for all of us, nearly…

New books about the impact of AI on the human condition are two a penny. But it’s rare to have an AI book by such a prominent author as Robert Skidelsky (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Skidelsky) , a member of the British House of Lords and the author of the iconic three-volume biography of…

Early today, we posted a conversation (https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2224-celeste-marcus-on-why) with Celeste Marcus, LIBERTIES Quarterly managing editor, about her hard-hitting “Hate Lands” essay in the Fall 2024 issue. In the same issue (https://libertiesjournal.com/) , there’s an equally hard hitting piece by the Rutgers historian, Katherine C. Epstein (https://katherineepstein.camden.rutgers.edu/) . But whereas Marcus goes…

There are some seriously heavyweight new non-fiction books this Fall including memoirs by Al Pacino and Ketanji Brown Jackson, as well as an intriguing new historical analysis of the recently departed Queen Elizabeth and that inevitable pre-election Bob Woodward tome on the misbehavior of you-know-who. But for our resident book…

Last October, we featured a conversation (https://poddtoppen.se/podcast/1448694012/keen-on/the-repressive-power-of-artificial-intelligence-kian-vesteinsson-on-the-crisis-of-freedom-on-the-internet-in-2023) with Kian Vesteinsson, co-author of Freedom House (https://freedomhouse.org/) ’s 2023 FREEDOM ON THE NET report, about the repressive power of artificial intelligence. A year later, Freedom House’s 2024 FREEDOM ON THE NET (https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-net/2024/struggle-trust-online) report is entitled “The Struggle for Trust Online”. And as…

Do we shape the future or does it shape us? That’s the core question in Brian Solis (https://briansolis.com/) ’ new book, Mindshift (https://briansolis.com/books/) which provides lessons for corporate executives in transforming leadership and driving innovation. Like so many other futurists, Solis’ work focuses on how we can become irreplaceable in…

As a longtime Harvard Business School professor and the former chief marketing officer at Aetna, David C. Edelman is all too familiar with both the dangers and opportunities of personalized technology. In Personalization (https://www.amazon.com/Personalized-Customer-Strategy-Age-AI-ebook/dp/B0CT49NK2V?ref_=ast_author_mpb) , his new book, co-authored with Boston Consulting Group managing director Mark Abraham, Edelman focuses on…

Last week, we featured an interview with the leftist American theologian, Jim Wallis, who warned about the false white gospel (https://keenon.substack.com/p/episode-2212-jim-wallis-on-the-false) of contemporary Christian nationalism. And we return to the existential dangers of American religion today with Talia Lavin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talia_Lavin) whose new book, Wild Faith (https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/talia-lavin/wild-faith/9780306829192/) , warns that the…