Educating the Atomic Human
Neil D. Lawrence
UK Festival of Education, Wellington College
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Epilogue
book: The Atomic Human
twitter: @lawrennd
The Atomic Human pages atomic human, the 13 , baby shoes 368, Blake, William Newton 121–123, Blake, William Newton 121–123, 258, 260, 283, 284, 301, 306, MONIAC 232-233, 266, 343, human-analogue machine (HAMs) 343-347, 359-359, 365-368, Human evolution rates 98-99, Psychological representation of Ecologies 323-327.
Sunday Times article “Our lives may be enhanced by AI, but Big Tech just sees dollar signs”
Times article “Don’t expect AI to just fix everything, professor warns”
blog posts:
Dan Andrews image of our reflective obsession with AI
Two Types of Stochastic Parrots
Dan Andrews image from Chapter 3
Bender, E.M., Gebru, T., McMillan-Major, A., Shmitchell, S., 2021. On
the dangers of stochastic parrots: Can language models be too big?, in:
Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and
Transparency, FAccT ’21. Association for Computing Machinery, New York,
NY, USA, pp. 610–623. https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922
Scally, A., 2016. Mutation rates and the evolution of germline
structure. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 371. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0137
Educating the Atomic Human
Neil D. Lawrence
2025-07-04
UK Festival of Education,
Wellington College