Giles Crouch | Digital Anthropologist·5d agoThe West Sees a God in AI. Everyone Else Sees a Spirit.The Global South sees AI very differently from the Global North and is creating far more interesting ways of using AI. Why?A response icon5A response icon5
Giles Crouch | Digital Anthropologist·Jul 7Why Employees Resist AI at WorkTechnology resistance: A field guide to the oldest workplace tactic there is.
Giles Crouch | Digital Anthropologist·Jul 3When We Used To Walk AwayFor most of human history, “I’ve had enough” meant packing up. Now it means logging on. It hasn’t turned out well.A response icon5A response icon5
Giles Crouch | Digital Anthropologist·Jun 29The Myth of Rapid AI AdoptionContrary to popular belief, no, Generative AI is Not the fastest adopted technology in human history.A response icon1A response icon1
Giles Crouch | Digital Anthropologist·Jun 23The Four Luddites of the AI AgeThis isn’t really fear of the AI future. It’s a culture deciding what it wants to keep. And why.A response icon14A response icon14
Giles Crouch | Digital Anthropologist·Jun 19The Useful Death of Trust in the Digital AgeOn why the collapse of online trust might be the best thing to happen to it and where we go from here.A response icon4A response icon4
Giles Crouch | Digital Anthropologist·Jun 10The Maxxing of Everything in CultureHumans have always perfected themselves for something. We may be the first doing it for nothing.
Giles Crouch | Digital Anthropologist·Jun 1Why We Dislike AI WritingAI writing might be fluent, but it isn’t, well, “us” and other reasons we don’t care for AI written content. In fact, it’s ancient.A response icon2A response icon2
Giles Crouch | Digital Anthropologist·May 27AI Is the Next Thing We Hand OffWe handed off memory to writing, maths to calculators, retrieval to search engines. Maybe what we’re handing off to AI isn’t that scary.A response icon8A response icon8
Giles Crouch | Digital Anthropologist·May 19Why AI Can’t Fix Customer ServiceCustomer service is a form of apology. Which brands haven’t really understood. It’s also highly emotional. Machines aren’t.A response icon9A response icon9