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Podcast: what is it like to work with a generative assistant?

In this episode of Generative Dialogues Helen Beetham interviews Mark Carrigan about his experience of working habitually with a generative assistant, exploring how this has shaped his perspective on the politics and ethics of generative AI (possibly for the worse). Topics discussed include:

  1. Mark’s daily interactions with AI assistants like Claude, and how he finds them incredibly useful not just for productivity but for creative thinking and engagement with ideas. He provides examples from his work that day.
  2. The potential benefits and risks of relying heavily on AI assistants, including concerns about deskilling, loss of human capacities, and the commercial imperatives driving the development of these tools.
  3. Comparisons between interacting with AI and earlier forms of technology-mediated collaboration and “self-talk” like blogging and social media. The evolving role of AI as a “generalized other.”
  4. The contrasting experiences and capital (technological, cultural, intellectual) that students and academics bring to their encounters with generative AI, and implications for pedagogy.
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