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Introducing the ClimateAction.tech Generative AI Exploratorium

Throughout November, we’re inviting all curious CATs to join the 🐱 CAT Generative AI Exploratorium ✨ – a collaborative journey in which you will be able to question, learn, practice, and reflect on the intersection of climate action in tech and generative AI.

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Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, October 2024

This new moon, we try to reason with strawberries, look for human and AI companions for our fellowship, and try out tools that might just help us find paths that lead to preferable futures.

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Pathfinders Podcast invites you to embrace the lunacy of tech with playfulness and a journey to Middle-earth

In the latest episode of Pathfinders Podcast, we embrace our inner hobbits and wizards as we travel to Isengard and stare into the fires of Mount Doom to explore how playfulness and stories can inspire active collective hope in the face of uncertainty.

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ChatGPT: (Self)validation as a Service

ChatGPT is quickly becoming our new confessional, mirror, and guide. Offering validation as a service 24/7. Why is it that we are so drawn to this validation box, and what price might we pay?

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Replanting the ETHOS seedling to make it easier to explore intents and nurture reflection

ETHOS, your responsible tech journey companion, has been replanted and now invites you to explore intents, take a moment for reflection, and gaze into Tethix Mirrors.

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Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, September 2024

While Big Tech refuses to embrace the demure and mindful trend, we sing to a burning planet, explore some recent research on LLMs, and wonder whether AI chatbots could help us get our sh*t together.

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We interview ChatGPT on Pathfinders Podcast to further explore AI chatbots as mediators

In a special bonus episode of Pathfinders Podcast, we sit down with ChatGPT to get the LLM perspective on AI-supported mediation, responsible product development, better governance, and more.

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Pathfinders Podcast explores AI chatbots as mediators that can improve human communication

In the latest episode of Pathfinders Podcast, we explore how we might use the bias of machine impartiality and LLMs’ language skills to rebuild communication bridges between humans.

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AI emotional lock-in as the next big competitive advantage

Is AI emotional lock-in the competitive advantage tech companies need to make switching not only costly but emotionally painful and harder to regulate?

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Pathfinders Newmoonsletter, August 2024

We coddiwomple towards a harmonious future in which AIs & humans form a mutually beneficial creative alliance by exploring the context in which we all live, and wondering who to place our faith in.

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Pathfinders Podcast wonders about the time new technologies are supposed to save

In the latest episode of Pathfinders Podcast, we wonder what are we saving time for? Who and what are we borrowing the saved time from? What does this mean for the tech we build?

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The death of the blank page

A eulogy for the blank page that reflects on how its imminent demise at the hands of magic AI buttons might affect our creative processes.

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