Eamon Costello on human wisdom

In this episode I talk with Eamon Costello, writer and thinker and educator, editor of a special issue on Metaphors of AI, and host of an upcoming symposium Education After the Algorithm - where he and I will be speaking in the real. Here we dive into topics from metaphor to metadata, from the AI business case to its increasingly compulsive interfaces, and from the wisdom of story to why AI tries so hard to be sexy. I hope you enjoy the twists and turns as much as I did. Please like, subscribe and share. Links Eamon’s LinkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eamoncostello/ Call for Papers, JIME special issue, Metaphors of AI: https://account.jime.open.ac.uk/index.php/up-j-jime/libraryFiles/downloadPublic/8 Education After the Algorithm: Symposium at City University Dublin: https://www.hackthiscourse.com/symposium/ Eamon’s co-authored article ‘Speculative Practicescapes of Learning Design and Dreaming’ (2024): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42438-024-00465-5 Eamon’s co-authored article ‘Information and Media Literacy in an age of AI’ (2023): https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/13/9/906 Eamon’s ‘AI is destroying education’ post (back in 2023): https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-destroying-education-we-have-one-chance-stop-eamon-costello-hl7xe/ Emily Bender’s talk ‘Synthetic text extruding machines’ (2024) referenced by Eamon: https://linguistics.ucla.edu/event/colloquium-talk-emily-bender/ Helen’s ‘provocation: the unconscious is structured like a language’, referenced by Eamon: Liz Jackson’s article ‘The Manliness of Artificial Intelligence’ (2024) referenced by Eamon: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00131857.2024.2409739 Althusser’s concept of ‘interpellation’, referenced by Helen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpellation_(philosophy) Dirty Work (2023) by Eyal Press, book referenced by Eamon: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/dirty-work-9781801107235/ Ghost Work (2019) by Mary L. Gray and Siddharth Suri, referenced by Helen: https://ghostwork.info/ Ruha Benhamin’s article on Eugenics, referenced by Eamon: https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-new-artificial-intelligentsia/ Get full access to imperfect offerings at helenbeetham.substack.com/subscribe